The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-08

senses can testify 10 enduring har- mcny. 1t naturally follows that they cannot be the cause or channel through which harmony is to be attained. The fact remains none the less a fact, that there exists in every person a funda- mental desire to gain harmony ard good.
 In the early years of our western land, when there still remained what was known as the prairie country, travellers were at times treated to an unusual and interesting sight. Ere quently one might see acres and acres of fertile land from which sprang luxuriant growth of golden sunflowe CTS. The traveller accustomed to finding "sermons in stones" might have noticed
 that these sunflowers stood always with their faces toward the sun. In the morning their faces were upraised
 to the rising sun then. turning slow
 ly during the day. evening found them with their faces toward the west still
 facing the sun. It might have been that heavy black storm clouds hung over the face of the sun. yet the flow CTS always stood with their faces
 turned in the direction of the light
 In after years, when the beneficent tea chings of Christian Science began to unfold the eternal realities of be-
 
 lrstration of how mankind have al- ways stood with their faces turned to- ward God whether they have known it or not--thus evincing an underlying Fundamental desire for harmony and goodness. Because of A lack of edu- ca tion or instruction in pure Christi
 anity, the human or mortal mind has accepted its own misconceptions of God it's own ministerpretationso of man, and it's own misstatements of Spirit or Substance as real. Out of the abysmal depths of this unreality has arisen a
 mist or thick black cloud of false , knowledge.
 Thus mankind have found themselves the innocent victims of a misconceiycd existence, expressing itself in sin sick ness. sorrow, and death. It is the mis- sicn and province of Christian Science
 to clear away and to destroy these l m isconceptions concerning God, these n isinterpretations relating to man, and ! tnese misstatements about Substance, l together with the sin, sickness. sorrow. 1 death and destruction which follow in the wake of this misconceived exist
 ence. It is the further happy mission l and prominence of Christian Science 1 to restore to mankind the true reflec- 1 tion or image and likeness of God. and | the true understanding of the nature
 and character nf Careation
 THE HERALD
 Tn the marvellous revelation to John on the Island of Patmos, recorded So clearly in the Apocalypse the Christ, 1 Truth is represented as saying: Be 1 hold I stand at the door, and knock 1 if any man hear my voice, and open 1 the door I will come in to him, and 1 vIll sup with him. and he with me-" | TT view of the continued attitude of I rra nkind with their faces toward God, 1 in view of the continual reaching out /, toward the light of the Christ -tru h, 1 # is not surprising that in the ful- 1 fillment of the purnose of infinite Mind. the dawn of that day should break which had apreared to prophets 1 O. old as a possibility of the future. l IT is not surprising nor strange. then. l hat there should De found in the Pre- face of Science and Health with Key | tG the Scriptures tD. viD. which is 1 he textbook of Christian Science. writ 1 een by Mary Baker Eddy, the voice of l T herald crying: '"The time for think 1 nrs has come Truth. independent of doctrines and time -honored systems, knocl1s at the portal of humanity. Con- | tertment with the past and the cold lconventionality of materialism are l crumbling away. Ignorance of Go1 | ia no longer the stepping stone to faith, The only guarantee of obedience Is a 1 liEHl OI i1iIl HUH lO
 krow alright is life eternal" On page 4st of this same textbook the following definition of God appears: God is 1 iEcorporeal, divine. supreme, infinite l Mind. Spirit. Soul. Principle Life,
 Truth Love" This definition of God | is exact, scientific. Christian. and is in accord with the definitions of God 1 found thronghout the Scriptures
 SCIENTIFIC BASES
 I (NoI ho ,1a~
 k Spirit. Life. Truth, Love, an impor- tsnt inquiry presents itself: How will that person who is holding in con- sciousness a humanly personal or ccrporeal sense of God be able to rec 1 ognize and avail himself of the power ard presence of God, the one Causa- 1 tiCn, in any and all emergencies and needs? Is it possible for such a person l to enjoy the presence and power of God without being able to recognize
 and identify the nature or character | ot true Causation, or God? Since, how = ever. a false sense of God must sooner or later be exchanged for a true idea 1 of God in exactly the same manner | that the false sense of all things must be exchanged sooner or later for their l true sense--as in the passing away of ''the first heaven and the first earth I-why should not that person who is l holding a false concept of God begin | immediately here and now to gain a 1 true understanding of the nature or l character of Causation, or God? Nc ! commandment of God in the Decalogue | of Moses says, Thou shalt not know | and no commandment in the decalogue Of Mind declares, Thou shalt not un- derstand On the contrary, that first great commandment enunciated by Moses and later emphasized by Jesus dc clares specifically: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul, and with al
 thy mind" and surely it is the prov irce of Mind to know. Indeed. it is difficult to see how 1t would be pos
 sible for one to love and to obey God without being able to identify the na ture or character of Deity
 It is admitted without any argu- ment that a person who is holding ir co nsciousness a false sense of the re- lation of numbers--a false sense that l two and two make five--will immedi- ately run into difficulty and discord as a result of such false sense. It is alsl recognized that this discord and distress will continue just so long as the false 1 sense remained with the individual. The
 only way that such a person can effect ually escape the discords in question
 we uld be by gaining true understanding of the relation of numbers. or from the science of numbers. It is not. how ever, so readily recognized nor ad- mi.ted outside of Christian Science that a person who is holding false
 sense of God. that is, a false sense oi