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OF materiality and It's fears? Fear Is
the one great enemy Of mankind, and
fear is due 10 darkness, the opacity
OF materially Christian Science.
"the light that shineth IN darkness,
and tho darkness comprehended II
not" the Truth that all shall ulti-
mately know, has come 20 liberate
mankind from this monster. by lib
Grating them from all that causes
fear, r,-selfism OF every kind.
Fear! The cause OF all our Ills,
say you?
Let us see. Let us take the very
first trouble which was enumerated.
I--reBtlessneSs, a very common
trouble. Is one ever restless be-
cause Of confidence? Confidence
means assurance, not fear. Hurry.
extortion, these do not look at all
related; yet they are cut from the
same piece OF cloth. Is not the one
due TO fear OF loss and the other to
the fear OF not having sufficiency?
Pride, is not that the fear OF failure
TO be esteemed? And how does any
one who is afraid feel good or bad,
diseased OF at ease? The hurrying,
bustling, worrying Individuals II
not a common saying that he will
worry himself sick, worry himself
into the grave? Did any OF you ever
know a frightened man to succeed In
a game OF any kind, in business. OF
In life? And the debauchee, the
one that makes his life gala day
at others and his own expense, does
not he always fear that his enjoy
meDt will be his ultimate undoing?
Yes. but, here some one may say,
how about the innocent, the good
people. the religious people, how
about them?
/ Are not they afraid? Has not
their education from early infancy
been TO fear, to fear everything in
the world, above II and beneath I'll
Have not all been taught to fear al
kinds OF weather, hot, cold. wet, dry;
to fear the results OF missing a mea
or two. and to fear everything they
eat as possibly harmful; to fear in
oculation by germs. and to fear no
to be inoculated with them; to b,
afraid because OF what they have
inherited, and because OF what the!
have not inherited? And with al
the love and respect that we hav'
for all people. have not PRACTICAL.
, all been taught to fear not only 70
everything In this life, but for tn
hereafter, not only for their bodie
J but for their Immortal souls" a
/ we'll? Take good. sainted mother
/ who has been taught that God viii
> damn those who do not believe a
she has learned to believe: let tn
son or daughter Of this mother turi
: from that particular belief.-not .
r waywardness. but TO Christian SCI
Q ence, let us say, and be healed by II
[ Is not that good, sanity mother. 1
4 many, many instances. tormente
v with misgiving, foreboding, feal
about that sons or daughters soul
|. Let me say that in my practice
q have known many, Just such case
: Are there no others afraid OF whf
r the world may think? The so-calle
= human mind or consciousness.
best, Is but a mass OF misgiving. {
l. miserable fears. and of their 10
T. ments: fears and torments which II
n right, the ist-consciousness. heal
/, How. say you? BY thinking: rigl
e thinking. spiritual thinking. Chri
Is tianly scientific thinking. Christia
1. Science thinking.
ls Mind and Its Product
q Mind alone can think. BY ne
q fectly logical process Christian Sc
" ence has shown that God is Mind.
!" this is true. then ''it must follow /;
:" the night the day" that there is on
10 one real Mird. inst as there is on
m one real God, and that one infinit,
/" that every true. good. beautifr
l. pure. loving, healthy, norm
le thought. feeling. action, and effe
es must be the emanation. the produ
ID OF this Mind. These right, pure, hol
10 uplifting. healthy thoughts come
each and every one OF us, al
prompt. impel, COMPEL all of us.
al some degree at least, to confor
~ with them in action. to exteruali
s them. Every projected thought
r, Mind. every created thing appea
le speaks to us. unfolds itself to
d. until we understand dts nature. pr
is pose; know that God indeed ma
NV all. and that all is as God made
at very good. To do this is to- love a,
he not to fear. To do this Is to co
o. ceive Gods concepts. to percei
1o them. to know something OF VIII
n God knows. II Is the unfoldmel
,ll the revelation of Gods ideas, t
ze discovery OF the meaning OF Go,
rs hieroglvphs. II is to cry out wi
is the poet.
al an o world as God has made 1t! all
va beauty
Gu And knowing this is love, and 10
20 Is duty,
nu What further can be sought for
,,a' declared?
in To know that God, good. is
re only Mind, Spirit, Life, Princip
ID, Truth, or reality, Is to know Il
m. God Is the one and only Ego, or Sc
= of ALL 1t is to claim no separi
ar, selfhood. 1t is to 'let that mind
ks in you, which was also in Chi
Jesus" to be the male and fem
St of Gods creating. It is to lei
ng what Christian Science alone teacl
lu- us.-to be the reflection Of Mind,
i'd; Love, and so to be man. Is this
its sirable? Yes. Is 1t possible? "W
nd God all things are possible" Has
Sc; laver heen done? Yes. by him "