River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1916-03-23
Lectures About
Christian Science
BY Or. Francis j. FIuno. C. S. D.

| Will never take away one single
thing that you hold dear, without
returning more than il took away,
and that which you love better; will
never tear one altar down without
building another upon its ruins, far
better and more enduring.
So, while it repudiates and des-
troys altogether that heavenly
place, that is not place, bat is on
ly a mortal belief, yet it gives you a
heaven, heaven that is near at
hand; a heaven that is all around,
if we but lift our eyes, whose doors
are never closed.
Whose gates are opened wide,
And all who will may enter, and no
one is denied.
No need of moon or stars by night,
or sun to shine by day,
1t is the New Jerusalem, that will
not pass away
The heaven that Christian Sci
ence gives is present reality; it is
the reigning and ruling of divine
Science, the government of the laws
of God, good, where wrong is never
known.
THAT heaven is here and now; in
it no sickness or sorrow, pain or
death, matter or morality can be
found.
To enter it you must see through
the veil of the false, mortal or ma.
terial sense testimony, into the
spiritual embodiment of divine be-
ing, in the understanding of God
and the Christ. His truly and only
begotten Son, our Redeemer.
1t is waiting for everyone, and
sooner or later everyone must enter
it's sacred precincts, and none can
stay away.
For Love is stronger than all
things else, and will bring you at
last, by ways that you know not of,
however long you tarry, and how
ever far you roam.
Christian Science has come to
the world; dawning, as necessarily
it must, upon material age.
1T is the light in the darkness,
and the darkness of finite sense and
of error is slow to give way before
the light of divine Truth, that must
eventually dispell and eliminate for
ever all that will not bear the test
of the refining fire of the great sci.
entific fact of being.
1T is fastening that glorious day
the millennium, when man shall
love his neighbor as himself
christian Science is not one of
the many ways of healing the sick,
but it is the only correct way be-
cause it is Gods way. 1t is the way
that Truth has Of destroying error;
not by any physical means (Which
is only exchanging one error for
another), but to correct the wrong,
by the right understanding of the
Science of Life.
1t turns the searchlight on ami
nal magnetism, mesmerism, hypno-
tism or mental suggestion, and
shows them to be dealing entirely
with the mortal or finite mind, SO
called, which is but the negative of
the divine Mind, or Mind of God;
and has no more existence, COM
pared with the divine Mind, than
darkness has, compared with light.
It turns the X-ray of scientific
understanding on the so-called ma
terial universe, and shows it to be
no more the true universe than the
problem on the board is the true
problem in the Science of numbers.
But, since this false universe is to
be, and is being corrected by the
truth of being; hence. it does not
grow less real, but more real; not
less beautiful but more beautiful;
not less healthful, but more health
full; not less honest and upright.
but more honest and upright.
For the falsities of material be-
ing are fading away, and the truth
of Being is coming to light.
When God is seen with man to
dwell,
Then all creation makes anew
1t makes better men and better
women; better neighbors and better
friends; better husbands and wives;
better fathers and mothers, sons
and daughters, sisters and broth