The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-06

ucate us out of our petty, limited and selfiish sense of life: to free us from
 fear of sickness and accident, poverty
 and misfortune: it emptied our well-fil.ed
 medicine chest of all it's drugs and tonics
 and plasters; it began to make us hap D.
 per and healthier and more active and
 useful; it healed our sicknesses: in fine
 It worked revolution in our daily liv-
 ing, and the truth that we were learning
 spread from us to others and began to work the same miracle in other lives During all the years that have elapsed
 slnce then, Christian Science has been our only physician. and the Christian Science textbook has been our daily guide and counsellor. And I rejoice to be able to
 truthfuly declare to you, as one proof of the inspired character of Science and Health, that this great work of. Mary Baker Eddy is to me today, after these many years of reading and study, more profoundly interesting and helpful than ever before, and that it constantly re- VealS new beauties and new treasures of meaning. When the lawyer from among the group of Pharisees and Sadducees, marking back to the rnaterialistic and mistaken sense | of Judaism, asked Jesus (Matt. p :36- io,. Master. which is the great command ! ment of the law?" our Master replied, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all tHN heart, ana With all thy soul ana with all thy mind. This is the first and
 great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neigh bour as myself On these two command ments hang all the law and the prophets" :" This is profound and entirely
 metaphysical teaching; a setting forth in concise and direct fashion of the fact | underlying all manifestation of life; a presentation of the truth about God and tha ok taI, J.,
 mental knowledge upon which, as Jesus l says so tersely, hang, all the law and the prophets
 | I accept whole heartedly the definition of God which Mrs. Eddy gives in Science and Health (p 46o) in the chapter Re equalization" l also accept unreservedly her statement on the same page that these seven terms which she uses to define God, Mind Spirit. Soul. Principle, Life. Truth Love-" are synonymous; that is, that they so literally and absolutely mean the same thing that they are to be used the one in the place of the other. In order to have any adequate comprehen- sion of this, you must remember that Mrs. Eddy does not use these words in the ordinarily accepted superficial sense, but that their basic meaning has been ascertained and understood and is here presented. As one begins to us these terms interchangeably, it gradually dawns upon his thought that each of them con- veys to him, in some degree, the meaning associated with the others, and yet that all are necessary to gain broad and vital knowledge of the creative power, complete understanding of the pro 1 found significance of the word God. ] When the individual accepts this detini- | ton of God as a basis of thought tand this is the real key to the Scriptures I tol to Ina xIst1 sr hand then there follows logically and inevitably a correct idea of the uni verse, including man, as the creation of Coda universe and a man expressing the power and might. the beauty aad grandeur. of an infinite intelligence which 1 is good.
 1 The great French lexicographer, La rousse defines metaphysics as knowi- edge of first causes and of hrst prin- ciples" (connaissance des causes. nre- mieres ct des premers principes), and in 1 this sense Christian Science is exact, ac- curate demonstrable metaphysics. Mrs Eddy gave it's keynote when she wrote, l Spiritual causation is the one quesleh | to be considered" Science and Health. F. | l7o. Christian Science Is the supreme an ! swer to the uttered and unuttered dueS- i tioning of all time, which questioning ! Pilate voiced when he cried, What is | truth?"
 l Mrs. Eddy gained her knowledge o' l Principle directly from the Bible. and when, through reason and revelation cor roborated by exact and scientific demon- stration or proof she had established her discovery of the system which she called Christian Science. she wrote hei great textbook. It. may be said of her as Zacharias said of his son John: Thou shalt go hefore the face of the Lorde; for 10 make ready his weyes for to show