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

science and helthe to his people Quc IL 76-77 Wycliffe). l am quoting this from the Wycliffe translation. that first Eng fish version which, as one writer says, we owe ito faith that the Bible is a book of emancipation for the mind" (Mc- Afee--The Greatest English Classic, D.. 12).
 Mrs. Eddy named her book through in spiration. It is an interesting fact that she was not familiar with this phrase science and helthe" in the quaint and exact English of Wycliffe, and did not be- come acquainted With it until some six months after she had made her choice of title. Comparing this translation, 'to show science and helthe to his people with the corresponding expression in our King James Version, ito give knowledge of salvation unto his people," we be- come conscious of the intimate relation ship in meaning between health" and salvation"
 The Bible is not one book, but many books,--vertably collection of the mas terpieces of mighty literature; the out pouring of the heart and soul of a great people, who. in spite of their lack of per ception and through all their wander ngs in the maze of mortality and ma teral belief, still. l.clung more closely than any other people to the idea of one God. one universe, ever present and ever po- tent Mind. Moses their great leader, saw this so clearly that he tabulated the law and furnished the foundation for all modern law. and he caught beautiful though fleeting views of a more spr- itual sense of Life and Love. Centuries later in fulfllment of prophecy and rev. elation came Jesus that marvellous genius who understood. and demonstrated the truth of being as no one else has yet done--Jesus, the loving Way-shower to humanity. to you and to me-who, by the meekness and might of his transcendent life, earned and won the unique distinc- ton of the title Jesus, the Christ Jesus the God-crowned or the divinely royal man." as Mrs. Eddy says Science and Health, p. MS).
 Now the Bible is valuable to us only in proportion to our recognition of the right
 idea of God The Bible was written through inspiration, reflection of inteili- gence it can only be understood through inspiration, that same reflection, of in telligence The Bible is not only his tory of ages of human experience, of q people but it is a record and prophecy of the experience of each individual hu- man consciousness in it's putting off or the old man and it's putting on of "the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness" tEphes-
 ans 4:2A. It is, indeed. in this aspect that it is most valuable to you and to me
 The merely mortal and material concSpt of the Bible can do nothing to uphrt ana heal mankind but even a glimpse Of the spiritual meaning of single passage, such as the First Comma fnent, can and does illumine human experience with ce' lestial light and begins at once to de- stroy the darkness of sin and sickness. II
 it were possible to have every copy or the Bible wiped out of existence, there would still eventually be rewritten the substance of it's message, for It IS the outcome of experience. the epitome CT the human struggle to find and follow Truth; it is the record of the demonstra- tion of Love. Christian Science destroys cant and superstition and esta blishes the divine inspiration of Holy Writ through absolute demonstration of it's truth.
 l am shocked sometimes to realize how careless we stll are of this priceless treasure Do we. who know we love the Bible, read it with even the same atten- tion and interest that we would ~slve 10 modern history? Take, for instance. the book of Deuteronomy, the ,orations an songs of Moses. his farewell to his people ! Israeli sit down quietly and read it from cover to cover at one sitting and then seek the opportunity to reread it De- fore the first fiIe impress of it's wonder and vigor is dulled. Holding in thought constantly, as you should now be doing, this fundamental right idea of good KS the only source or origin of life and ac- tion, you cannot fail to be inspired to the point of understanding the treasures of spiritual counsel and comfort which Moses shared with the children of Israel then and which we. as children of Israel (as the offspring of Spiritl share today. Today, as in all the Ages of history, the