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

| causation so revolutionary to tho ma- terial sense of things--is absolute and radical, but it comes as Jesus it's dem onstrator said he came, not to destroy one jot or little of the law but to fu- fill that law in love
 Our present sense of individual ca pacity and power, of the mea uing of health and happiness, of life and love- our present sense of country and of our love and devotion to it,-all this may he poor and meager. and yet Christian Science, this right idea, comes not to cestroy it but to uplift to purify. to enlarge and deepen our knowledge of its source, and to exalt and beautify our expression of it. It comes to make us happy and well, joyous, honest lov- ing and lovable. intelligent and beau tiful; no good gift is denied to us as Gods children.
 The great mission of Christian Science is to teach us to think accu- rately, independently, spontaneously and to reason honestly from the stand noint of understanding of true eausa- ton. This ability to think clearly and correctly, which is ours as God given capacity. enables us to understand the law of divine Principle and so to detect which are contrary to divine Prin- ciple; it also arms us with power to dispose of such phe- nomena in proportion to our under standing of their ephemeral and unreal character. Now disease is one of these
 phenomena which lays great claims rpon our daily experience and holds jthe human race in bondage, and ]
 know that I am right in saying the health will never be gained nor will 1 it ever be maintained by any system | that fails to eradicate disease. It is unquestionably tru. that the vary foundation of all discordant human conditions lies in a mistaken sense l of the source of life itself. Jesus meant | this when he said 'It is the spirit that l0uickeneth the flesh profiteth noth- ! ing" and today, In the accurate and | systematic teaching of our Christian Science textbook, we have the explana- | tion of the rule Jesus laid down and the necessary guidance for its proper application to our every need.
 | Back of all manifestation of evil 1 lies the false supposition of an evil in l telligence, of mind opposed to God, ! and this false supposition, utterly un- , true and inactive as it really is. is l still the only source for that which ! seems to be malicious, destructive, hateful and hating, and from this sup 1 posititious source spring all the prin- | cipalities and powers to materiahsm,-- l the tyranny and domination of sensual and selfish aims and purposes. l urge upon you the persistent refutation of this calumny of error from the stand l noint cf the utter falsitv of it's origin.- l from the standpoint of the absolute. scientific knowledge of Life. Tn this process of acknowledging Truth and denying and correcting error we dis
 cover that knowing of the truth which | is tc mako. us free. and through this educational process which Christian l Science demands we are led to reject promptly and positively the sugges- tions of disease, of poverty and sin and 1 fear of death. We accomplish this
 work not by begging a personal God
 to do us an unmerited favor. and cer- | tainly not by formula or the mechani-, | cal repetition of statements in fine l phrases. even though those statements l in themselves be true; no. not in this way, hut by the willingness to submit | our false sense of personal good to the will Of .Tntelligence.-hH humble, l loving heartfelt prayer Jesus once
 said. If two of you shah agree on earth as touching any thing that they l shall ask. it shall be done for them of 1 my Father which is in heaven Matt.
 lS:1s; but how sadly has his mean l ing been perverted when it is possible l for men to believe that there is virtue
 in the concerted repetition of certain
 phras at given hours, or that the so
 1 called concentration of thought ani
 desire can he used to brinA-to pass re-
 suits in accord with limited. selfish, | human purposes Much that Is purely
 mesmeric in it's character has been I called prayer. and today one of the greatest reasons for gratitude to the
 clear teaching of Mrs. Eddy is the en- ilightenment on this very subject- The