The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-20

as much as Of yOre?' Answer: T did not seem to know universal love fof mankind until my healing in Christian Science" With that the midnight spec Ire vanished forever. Other trying prob- lems have arisen but they have been uniformly destroyed through the spiritual law of Christian Science. For this be. ginning of the destruction of death and the little understanding of life that has come to me, I am ever grateful to our Leader. Mary Baker Eddy is not tho savior of mankind, but she is leadin& us out of the wilderness of confusion back to that Savior
 WHY HALT YE?
 The regnant thought of those who ara suffering is not. How Can l learn more of God?" but, Where can find a path out of this wilderness of trou@ ble?" Jesus did not condemn such de- sires; He was compassionate; so alsd is Christian Science; it begins by rel lieving men and women. of their senss of human suffering. This initial help through Christian Science should be gratefully received and acknowledged He that is faithful over few things shall be made ruler over many things,
 There are multitudes of people who in times of great need have turned to Christian Science and found relief then. either afraid or ashamed to acknowledge the Truth openly, they continue to drift along under the influence of old theolodv and materia medica and find themselves making progress with perhaps dis cordant conditions recurring, Why halt ye in the valley of decision2 In Black4 stone is a saying that Mistress Cont ! mon Law brool;eth no bedfellow" It | is equally true of Christian Science- One cannot advance in Science and still hold to the old theology and material medicine. Christian Science is the truth Iah nd md naoT 1S Ia tn | solution of every problem. AS we study | it and are obedient to it our capacity for | receiving and understanding increases and the confusion of thought and ind firmity of body which have held us in 1 the wilderness of loneliness, doubt and darkness. gradually disappear and spr4 1 itua1 sense unfolds the great facts of i existence" C'Science and Health. pg4 i E97) To the Christian Science thought l God is a reality everywhere all tha ! time. No incident is too small to reveal l His presence. Permit me to give as | illustration. Late one afternoon as ' ! was leaving my hotel to keep a lecture liengagement in a New York suburb, l found there was not time for an evening l neal so on the way to the station [ purchased sandwich. eating it as pros 1 ceeded to the station. When the sand- wich was almost consumed, two friends i confronted me whom l had never seen
  stopped and looked up into my face: and the man stopped also. SupposinJ i the dog wanted the remaining morsel of sandwich I gladly offered it to him. Ha 1 did not take his eyes from my face, nov. 1 ing his nose over so that it touched thqs l bread but he would not take it into he4 mouth After a moment his companies spoke up and said He will not take l food from any hand but his master s~ l Under my breath I said: "Oh. I thank you and proceeding to the train I said to myself: When will learn to be as | obedient to my Master, Christ as that i dog is to bis master? If I would refuse | to take food from any hand but my Masters I would not be poisoned any more with sin and sickness" And se through the obedience of this humbyt 1 creature of our Fathers (for God rnadi the real dog) had learned little rno-S 1 about Truth and I had progressed a little 1 further out of the mortal mind wilderA ness into the Christian Science wilder. ness that is blossoming as the rose-and b.ossoming abundantly. You have lis@ | tened to a lecture on Christian SciencA | If your thought has been at all responA | sive you are now little more awake
 than before. You see something about
 l God a little more clearly than beeori ansl perhaps are experiencing Vn in4
 creased sense of peace and courage
 1 That means that some of your sick ana
 sinful and troubled thoughts have besp cast out and are replaced by the Christ
 the usht or Christian Science thought
 I This is the beginning of Healing. Bs
 | not disobedent to the heavenly visiont
 follow it. It will prove to be the pills1
 of cloud by day and the pillar of fSV
 l by night. leading from Egypt to tho
 gromised land.-Ady.