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personalt y but a principle. What SHE
means is that God is not a person as
we understand personality Our idea OF
personality is a spirit encased in the
limitations of flesh and blood and time
and sense. Mrs. Eddy's idea of God is
an infinite individuality whose influence
! Is subtle, l-pervasiye and omnipres
tent; an eternal and ever living lntelli
gence as near and as close a. the
atmosphere and as boundless as the
limtless regions and reaches of uniyer
sal thought.
Mrs. Eddy has her own peculiar
idea about prayer. She says; God is
not influenced by man What does
she mean? She means that we are
living in universe which is governed
by law The secret of every blessing
! is in obedience to the law Get the
conditions right and you will get the
blessing. The old saints Of ancient
times used to "agonizc' in prayer,
but the secret of power is not agony
but harmony Get right with God.
The author of Science and Health
has her own way of saying things.
She filings out a great truth a whole
truth, or a half truth in a gritty pun
gent sentence and leaves it with
you to tn nix out She has as
much right t o do this as had
Solomon, when he wrote his Pro
verbs, or Emerson in producing his
Essays | suppose that If there is
anything that man has a right to do,
it is his lyle God is all and all is
God who could read that sentence
without stopping to think? Science
and Health is a book OF great thought
but not book of great thoughts
well thought out. The literature OF
Christ an is not yet complete. Other
writer's will be raised up, and a new
era in devotional literature will be
achieved.
Christian Science, taken as whole,
lands for the statement OF truth in It's
most positive form There is no such
thing as hate, hate is an absolute
absence OF love There is no such
thing as ignorance ignorance is an
entire absence of knowledge There is
no such thing as sim sin is woeful
absence of righteousness. There is no
such thing as ugliness ugl ness is the
forlorn absence of beauty. There is no
such thing a. sickness; sickness is
the depressing absence of health, There
ib no such tung as disease; disease Is
the absence of the principle OF life.
I AAfhat, lpYnphnIy nGlroI 10 lhAnil y
lup amid the Swiss mountains, the
question How is your constitution ,?
he answered: 4 never knew that / had
/ a constitution He had such a bliss
lful superabupdance of health that he
was unconscious of possessing that
particular phys cal luxury The man
! who has good digestion" scarcely
knows it 1t is the man who Is suffer.
ling from indigestion who is pain
fully aware Of the fact But we are
wandering from the green fields OF
( knowledge In it's most positive form.
/ In ali her writings Mrs Eddy deals
with the individual soul. and that
from the spiritual side OF things;
+igaeriag Everything else And this is
her main thought the real man
Which Is the secret spiritual, invisible
conscious ana subconscious essence
iof human personality, is as truly OF
/ God and like God and identical with
God as a rain drop is like the ocean.
You can pour an ocean into rain drop
or you can expand ra n drop into an
ocean The rain drop. though kissed
by the sun. was born in the ocean and
It has in it ocean qualities and the
pc sibility of ocean capacity. The