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daily living are taking the more direct 6
and pleasant path. through Science. to-
ward the garden Of salvation, which s
those who see some of the Truth ana I
are diso0edient 10 il are walking In the ,
path OF suffering ana following the ;
same course that led the children Of
Israel fer forty years, through the I
wilderness. on page 16T of Science Z
and Health with Key to the Scrip
lures" Mrs. Eddy writes: "Our pro-
p0rtionate admission of the claims of
good or Of evil determines the har-
mony of our eXistence,-o health,
our longevity. and our Christianity
Christian Science is exact. We may
trust it absolutely. If today we add
1 one per cent to our stock of love and
obedience we shall experience SO much
/ the less suffering and so much the
more joy. Always as we add to our
stock of love and obedience we are
/ thereby forsaking the corduroy road
and gaining the gravel walk. Or as
Mrs Eddy so beautifully teaches, we
are approaching and entering the Won
derful garden Of Salvation through .
Science instead Of through suffering;
the wilderness gradually blossoms as /
the rose, and blossoms abundantly. |
This gravel walk is that "spOntaneity /
of thought and idea; the vestibule in
which a material sense of things dis
appears and spiritual sense unfolds
the great facts of existence CScience
and Health" page 597)
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. 1t leads TO
, hero worship of the baser sort; it is
of the EARTH earthly. Those who are
acknowledged to have striking per-
sonalties 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 WI
y y liam Hamilton speaks Of it as the
- Sign of u feeble mind l would
u, rather say it produces a feeble mind;
u for many otherwise noble men and
Il women have been drawn into this
wilderness of drought and serpents,
Il through admiring or fearing and fol-
lowing personality The basic law for
l. the guidance of Christian Scientists
l. in this matter, is found on Page 40 of
the Manual of The Mother Church,
by Mary Baker Eddy: 'Nethr AMI
mostly nor mere personal attachment
should impel the motives or acts of
the members of The Mother Church.
'e In Science, divine Love alone gov
g erns man." Perhaps Mrs. Eddy has
Sc stressed none Of her teachings more
: emphatically than when she warns
l. against following personality. Per-
aonalty is material and temporal;
Us individuality is spiritual and eternal.
< Personality vaunteth itself, is pulfed
'e up, behaveth itself unseemly seeketh
C. always its own, is easily provoked
in thnketh evil. individuality "Vaun-
r teth not itself, it not puffed up, doth
Sc not behave itself unseemly, seeketh
Sc not her own, it not easily provoked
IS, thinketh no evil" TO admire ex-
m ccssivcly personality ends in disas-
i ter. TO love individuality means life
t. ana peace. The reflection Of Cod
to good, in men and women contitutes
l. their individuality. Such mon and
IN women we love and in loving them we
in love God. What we Christian scien-
A. lists love in Mary Baker ESddy is hei
individuality, she manifested so much
ID good Increasingly she stroVe to take
in1 her personality away from thought
ne The greatest reformation ever know
d, in the realm Of teaching was begun
is when Mrs. Eddy eliminated the per
IL sonal preacher, and instituted the Bi'
~ BILE and Science and Health with Key
s. to the Scriptures as the only preach
IN ers in the Christian Science congrega
Il. tions. Every Christian Scientist know
IS that Mrs, Eddys teaching leads from
m personality to the Christ Truth; ant
an that is the reason why we all love he
Oh and are safe in SO loving.
al DEATH
al | am going to discuss here briefl'
be a phase of error which is the creates
~ impostor of the whole brood of evils
os 1t claims to hold all men in fata
4. grip from which there is no escape
49,. Mortal mind names this imposto
=, death. and while men flee from it am
~ seok to avoid it, yet they are apt t.
admit and declare that finally the,
must submit and that death become
~ the master of Life and the master o
Q man. This is the supreme lie; be
- cause it is the greatest pretensiol
~ that evil ever made. For after al
y, death is nothing but a shadow. Th
~, Psalmist calls it the shadow of death
~ that it, the shadow, the shade, tn
supposition, that is called death. Tha
-, it is only a shadow is proved by tn
." :, words of Christ Jesus: "Fle that be
nv licveth in me, though he were dead
81 yet shall he live; and whosoever liv
Wy eth and believeth in me shall neVe
U'V Idie"-shall never see death. Whe
ne man awakens one hundred per cen
les to spiritual truth he can no NOR
pass through the experience calle
10 dying than could God. To this won
III derful fact St. Paul alludes in FirS
ire Corinthians wherein he writes, Wv
III shall not all sleep''--the literal trans
on lation of which is I'VE shall not a
ne die" Now Christian Science teaehe
'u- that man has the right to be immun
NJ from this physical episode calle
i'' death The first effect Of Christia
oN Science treatment or enlightenmer
at is to begin to destroy fear in huma
len thought. As the Christian Scienc
us Truth unfolds to one he thinks NOR
ms and more about Life and less an
ne less about death. That is, death
nc .aNtu.s goily i'm his consciousness Ia
NY us here employ a simple illustration
lde Grant for the sake of brevity thc
me there are five so-called causes, an