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

right to be immune from this physical episode called death. The first effect of Christian Science treatment or en- liglhtenment is to begin to destroy fear ir human thought. As the Christian Science Truth unfolds to one he Uni nks
 more and more about Life and less and less about death That is, death is ly- ing daily in his consciousness. Let us here employ simple illustration. ir mt for the sake of brevity that there are five so-called causes, any one of which may produce death. Let us say !h ese causes are, tuberculosis, anger, liver trouble. drunkenness and cancer. Sup> pose now, as often happens, that man lis healed of tuberculosis that means that one of the five causes of death IS destroyed in other words, that twenty per cent of death is dead. Then let nim be healed of the vicious habit of anger and another of the so-called causes is eliminated. That means that forty per cent of death is destroyed. This pro> gressive destruction of death is what lis taking place in the consciousness If each active, loving Christian Scientist; and on this plane of existence he may destroy so much of the death thought that if the change called death coes come he may have scarce any fear at 1 all Tn connection with it and it may be 1 as painless an operation as the laying 1 off of a worn-out garment.
 l Who shall say how much of the 1eath | thought was destroyed by the genrle and loving Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, before she passed on? [? | The testimony of those who long Were | closely associated with her shows to what remarkable degree in the case of Mrs. Eddy Mind had dominated, de, stroyed matter, so that with her, as in the case of St. Stephen. Spirit broke 1 through the veil of flesh. proving the lnothingness of death and the allnass ef Life. sAl
 THE WHEELING CAUSE
 i l would feel that I had neglected a
 privilege and duty were to close this 1 lecture without some alusion to my own physical healing and to my mental re- lease from the old theology, that is. the
 beginning of my release from the mortal
 mind wilderness. In 1872 I became a
 member of an orthodox church. The six
 years following were passed in preparing for the ministry. Beginning in 1877 and for thirty-four years thereafter preached and ministered in that church. standing sincerely and Loyalty by it's doc Urine, discipline and worship. As a clergyman I was bitterly and unreason- ably opposed to Christian Science and frequently denounced both Christian Science and Mary Baker Eddy publicly and privately During the three years
 prior to 1911 I suffered increasingly from indigestion, liver trouble and as diag- nosed by one physiican chronic consti- patton. A so-called nervous breakdown ensued and an horrible, never absent fear came on which filled my thought with distressing pictures day and night At that time, being in Oxford, England was led to receive treatment in Chris tian Science, which resulted in instanta- neous physical healing, and what proved a still greater relief. the destruction of
 the beliefs in old theology. Through the Truth of Christian Science I was, in on moment. transformed from the poignant sense of fear and pain to state of re- lief and peace. There was only one thing could do and that was to follow the 1 light which came to me as I sat in dark ness and in the shadow of death. A few weeks before I was to take final leave 1 of the church and the loving people to whom had ministered for eleven years l I was suddenly awakened at midnight, | out of sound sleep and in the darkness seemed to see an interrogation pom. a mile high and it said to me- WI has | if it is all mistake. and you awake 10 1 find you are giving up your long mn istry, your ample salary. your cnuicn and your loving people For someenias III 5 ,, | that proves itself to be le! NY heart was so full of love and gratituoe | for my healing that I was not taken un. aware instantly said to that mionisnt spectre: T will answer you by appiyins Jesus rule, By their fruits ye shall 1, know thern'" Then I said to myself | Do you love God as much as in other
 days?' Answer: There is no compari- i son. Question: Do you love mankind