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likeness, dwelling in peace and har. mony. In the second chapter of Genesis. it is said: There went up a mist from the earth This mist marked the beginning of the groan- ing creation.
 Christian Science is the realm of definite knowledge. Ecclesiastical theology is the realm of indefinite belief. Now, as we have indicated, both in the Jewish and Christian churches, theology gradually came to teach that God is a mysterious Per son. remaining unrevealed to a large extent and incapable of being known clearly by men until after death The Bible passage which says: Clouds indeed and darkness are round about Him." was taken to mean that God wraps Himself in an impenetra ble cloak. All these texts in the Bible which seem to indicate that God cannot be clearly known and that He is shrouded in clouds and darkness, deserve special attention: for in a sense they all are true, by which it is meant that God is indeed behind a veil; but that curtain of cloud and darkness is not made by God, rather is it the result of mortal mind ignorance and sinful thought In other words, the mist that seems to separate man from God rises from the earth It is not a curtain let down from heaven.
 Now to the sick and sinful and troubled, breeding over the thought of an unknowable God, Christian Sci ence comes and says Your sores and sicknesses and sins and broken hearts may be healed here and now The veil which seems to shut one from God may be destroyed through the aid of healing, coming directly through Christian Science treatment or through the reading of it's text book, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures The only Com forter in the universe is God, and Jesus Christ said: This is life eternal, that they might Know Thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom Thou has sent
 Personality and Individuality
 Who has not heard the phrase. striking personality? In the sense in which it is generally understood, per sonality is a deadly bane. It leads to hero worship of the baser sort; it is of the earth, earthy. Those who are acknowledged to have striking personalities are the same who dom mate over other men and women either through wealth position, voice, eye, feature, attire or some other physical manifestation. Such submission is nothing less than slav- cry. Sir William Hamilton speaks of it as the "sign of a feeble mind" would rather say it produces feeble mind; for many otherwise noble men and women have been drawn into this wilderness of drought and serpents, through admiring or fearing and following personality. 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 impe the motives or acts of the members of The Mother Church. In Science, divine Love alone governs man. Perhaps Mrs. Eddy has stressed none of her teachings more emphatically than when she warns against following personality. Per sonality is material and temporal: individuality is spiritual and eternal. i Personality vaunteth itself is puffed up, behaveth itself unseemly, seeketh always it's own, is easily provoked. thinketh evil. Individuality "Vaun teth not itself, is not puffed up, doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked. thinketh no evil" To admire ex- cesSvely, personality ends in disas- ter. To love individuality means life and peace. The reflection 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 good. Increasingly she strove to take her personality away from thought The greatest refor nation 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 Scrip lures" as the only preachers in the Christian Science congregations. Every Christian Scientist knows that Mrs Eddy's teaching leads from per sonality to the Christ Truth; and that is the reason why we all love her and are safe in so loving.
 The ImpelIlne Cause
 I would feel that 1 had neglected privilege and duty were l to close this lecture without some allu- sion to my own physical healing and to my mental release from the old theology, that is. the beginning of my release from the mortal mind wilderness. Tn 1872 I became a mem. Der of an orthodox church The six