The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-06

thinking. Now thinking about thinking | is better than not thinking at all.
 ] If one is able to understand the divine mind through thoughts which reveal that mind, his thoughts are highly educationa and measureably redemptive They neces-
 sarily associate themselves with that di- vine Principle which St John so briefly and beautifully defines In the words God is Love" That healing should result from such improved mentality is inevitable Christian Scientists, however, look for still greater results through increased
 understanding, and they see more and more clearly that thought must not mere Iy define Mind, but reflect Mind in order that the perfect prayer which heals any and all diseases may be realized.
 TRUE PHILOSOPHY
 Thus we see that all that could mean
 happiness for the human race can and
 will be brought to pass through Christian
 Science. The true philosophy of living is not one which enables us stoicaily to
 bear our burdens and troubles. The gos-
 pei of Jesus is not to reconcile us to
 present afflictions, with a mere hope or
 future happiness. The real philosophy of
 true Christianity is to be found in that
 science which Mrs. Eddy has given to
 the world, and which provides not merely
 the ability to endure trouble but that
 nucn greater ana more eSStlltidi dpiiity
 to prevent and overcome it.
 The way involves prayer, but it is not
 mere asking something. In it's highest
 sense prayer is knowing the exact truth
 so clearly that the error, whether 1t be
 disease or sin, is not accepted even
 though it have the appearance of reality.
 and finding no support in ones belief,
 disappears. This kind of prayer is avail
 able only to those who think, and in
 I,i- 1A
 and more improved day by day and be- come more truly logical and more per- manently satisfying, it is essential that one should exercise the true thinking ca = pacity In all that he may be called upon to do This method, though it implies willingness, is not an effort of the hu- man will. On the contrary, it is much more spontaneous than any such effort can ever be-
 PRAYER
 Jesus said: "Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross and follow me- an admoni-
 ton which few have needed, and yet one which is essential in the demonstration of the science which he practiced. Real self-denial is wonderful thing won-
 derful indeed that it is little understood. That self-denial which does not even think of self or stop to consider sell long enough to De concerned WltH u, always accomplishes the greatest meas ure of intelligent thought and action Great geniuses have expressed it with out being conscious of it. While en- gagged upon some work of supreme importance to them, their own mate- rial existence was forgotten. Thought alone was in evidence; thought alone constituted the measure of their rev elation, the power of their discovery or the glory of their artistic concep- tion. This self-denial is characteristic of pure religion also, and of demon strable science always. In the eXclu- sive realm of thought or mind occurs that communion with God which heals the sick in Christian Science. There the ideas which reveal God connect man with eternality, enable him to put off mortality and put on immortality and awaken him to true being. in which he finds permanent satisfac- ton. Such ideas revealing God act like God, like good, like love, and they , do the work for man that a loving God, the God who is Love, would neces- sarily do, whatever might be the meas 1,ra of n, y,'s n ae6