The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-11-04

! mortal man ana iudteIidl WIN 800
we prove the supremacy Of Spirit
Mans Oneness with God the Ultimate
of Christian Science.
Christian Science heals the sick ;
| there is no doubt about that. lie
would be a reckless critic indeed, who,
at the present time, would deny that
| Christian Science does heal the sick.
But the healing of physical ills is not
the ultimate Of Christian Silence.
Christian Science goes to the bottom
OF the human mentality, uncovers the
latent errors OF the human mind and
destroys them, and arouses men to
claim their divine heritage as sons OF
God. Christian Science arouses men
| to sees that man lives. because God
| lives for mans life is derived from
God. A Christian Scientist sees that
! his real business is to know and to
glorify God. The healing of sickness
and sin is only the preliminary step
| by< which man sees that his real
duty, his ideal, is to understand God
and to live according to bis eternal
| laws. The writer of Eceleslastes
| summed up the matter when he SAID,
Fear God, and keep His command.
ments: for this is the whole duty OF
man. A mans regeneration has mere
| ly commenced when he is healed Of
physical ills by Christian Science. Per-
J haps tlimly at first, but nevertheless
surely, he begins to see a perfect mod
| Ella vision of God who is Spirit, LIE,
Love. and man and the universe spir-
itual and eternal. He begins to see a
perfcct ideal of manhood based upon
| mans eternal sonship with God. He
notes how lamentably inadequate were
his former habits and ideals and he
| finds that transformation OF thought
must take place If he is ever to at
tain this perfect model. This perfec-
\ ton of God il. tba model all great spir-
| itual thinkers have seen. Moses saw
it on Sinai, Christ Jesus on the noun
tain of TRANSPORTATION, the apostle
John on the Isle OF Patmos. And so
| the man begins to undergo that change
Of thought described in the Bible by
various terms: conversion" ''regener-
ation,s renewing of the mind, born
Of the Spirit reconciliation with
Cod He begins to measure himself
by the model of perfect God and per-
feet man and to grow to that perfec-
| tion of thought which the Psalmist
saw when he said, II shall be satisfied,
when i awake with thy likeness.
This process of regeneration re-
ouires work. We do not jump from
matter to Spirit at single bound,
but when d man begins work on the
basis of the allness and perfection OF
Spirit. he is on the right road. As he
works and prays, striving TO be led
of the divine Mind which knows all
| things, the path of spiritual light soon
err or later shines straight and clear
/ before him. When his thought IS II
lumined by spirituality, it viii exter.
nalize in improved surroundings II
he has been under the bondage OF sick
ness. he viii, begin to express health;
il he has been limited by poverty, he
will begin to prove that with the di-
vine Mind supply and demand are al
ways equal; if he has been filled with
fear, he will begin to lay hold of peace
and confidence, and in place of the con-
slant fear that death is inevitable, he
will grasp the fact that Life is eter-
nal. These are the results of working
rightly, of exalting Spirit and refus-
ing the claims of the physical senses.
a man has made notable advance
when he has learned TO work rightly.
BLESSED is he who has found his
! work." said Carlyle, '.let him ask no
other blessedness." Christ Jesus was
worker. He glorifed Spirit and re-
pudiated the false conceptions of the
material senses. He said Il must work
the works of him that sent me-
The Work of Christ Jesus.
Down through the centuries of Bible
history, patriarch and prophet gave 70
the world the truth about God and
man as revealed TO them. But they
did not receive the full revelation of
truth They had the spirit, II not the
fullness Of the letter. They foretold
a future revelation of truth which
should como with the Messiah, Shiloh,
Christ. Jesus of Nazareth brought TO
men the revelation Of the Fatherhood
of God and the brotherhood Of man.
He taught and demonstrated the gos-
pei of love. He taught that the whole
duty Of man is to love God supremely,
and his neighbor as himself. The con-
sciousness Of Christ Jesus so perfect
ly reflected God that no suggestions
Of sin or mortality could enter. In
the presence of his unparalleled knowl-
edge OF Coo, sin, disease and death
fled as darkness fees. before the light.
He knew that the men and women who
hung upon his words, the words
of him who spake as never man
spake, were not sick, SHINING and
diving mortAs; he saw them to
be the children Of Love, the per-
| feet handiwork of God, and be-
cause he saw them as they really were,
he loved them with divine compass
sion, and because he loved them, he
healed Them We are told in Matthew
that he Healed all manner of disease.
Christ Jesus never conceded that there
was any such thing as an incurable
disease. He knew that disease was a
part OF the sum total Of human error
and that the Irresistible power Of d.
vine Love was able TO destroy II. Dis
eases of whatsoever nature were all
contrary to the divine purpose and he
destroyed them all equally. The mod
ern classifest ion o. diseases as func-
tional. nervous and organic he disre-
garded entirely He proved this for
Others by healing the sick and raising
the dead. And Their he proved it by
the supreme test of destroying death
for himself. He allowed his enemies
20 o+fen,nf A. destroy his body in order