The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-20
PERSONALITY AND
 INDIVIDUALITY

Who has not heard the phrase, strik- ing personality? In the sense in which it is generally understood, personality is a deadly bane. It leads to hero worship of the baser sort; it is of the earth. earthly. Those who are knowledged to have striking per sonalities are the same who dominate over other men and women either through wealth, position. voice, eye, feature, attire or some other physical manifestation. Such submission is nothing less than slavery Sir William Hamilton speaks of it as the sign of feeble mind" I would rather say it produces a feeble mind: for many otherwise noble men and women have been drawn into this wilderness of drought and serpents. through admir- ing or fearing and following personali- ty. The basic law for the guidance of Christian Scientists In this matter, is found on Page 40 of the Manual Of The Mother Church, by Mary Baker Eddy; Neither animosity nor mere personal attachment should impel the motives or acts of the members of The Mother Church. In Science, di- vine Love alone governs man." Per haps Mrs. Eddy has stressed none of her teachings more emphatically than when she warns against following per sonality. Personality is material and
 
 eternal. Personality vaunteth itself. is puffel up. behaveth itself un- seemly. seeketh always it's own. is easily provoked. thinketh evil. In- dividuality ''vaunteth not itself. is not puffed up, doth not behave itself un- seemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil" To admire excessively, personality ends in disaster. To love individuality means life and peace. The reflec- tion of God, good. in men and women constitutes their individuality, Such men and women we love and in loving them we love God. What we Christian Scientists love in Mary Baker Eddy is her Individuality, she manifested so much of good Increasingly she strove to take her personality away from thought. The greatest reformation ever known in the realm of teaching was begun when Mrs. Eddy eliminated the personal preacher and instituted the Bible and Science and Health With Key to the Scriptures" as the only preachers in the Christian Science congregations. Every Christian Scient- ist knows that Mrs. Eddy's teaching leads from personality to the Christ Truth; and that is the reason why We all love her and are safe in so lov. ing.
 DEATH
 I am going to discuss here briefly a phase of error which is the gseatast impostor of the whole brood of evils. It claims to hold men in fatal grip from which there is no escape. Mortal mind names this impostor death. and while men flee from it and seek to avoid it, yet they are apt to admit nd declare that finally they must i,ubmit and that death becomes the master of Life and the master of man. This IS the supreme lie; because it is the great est pretention that evil ever made. For err all death is nothing but a sha1- i ow. The Psalmlst calls It the shadow ] of death. that is, the shadow, the shade. l the supposition, that is called death. That it is only shadow is proved by the words of Christ Jesus: He that believeth in me, though he were dead, Iyet shall he live; and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die"- shall never see death. When -1an awakens one hundred per cent to sp.r- l itual truth he can no more pass through the experience called dying than could God To this wonderful fact | St. Paul alludes in First Corinthians wherein he writes. I've shall not all lsleep"-the literal translation of which | is i've shall not all die." Now Chris tian Science teaches that man has Inc