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greed, personal aggrandizement and
fear. Each so-called carnal thought
exercises its control over mortals,
producing diseord and disease.
T! Truth arouses humanity to the
spiritual fact of scientific being, and
convinces the seeker for eternal Life
that discordant body and dis
cordant universe are the result of
dreams. hallucinations, creations Of
the so-calied carnal mind. Thus
Truth bids man take possession of
his birthright, his spiritual senses.
which give him dominion" over all
things, through the reflection Of
Truth and Love. Spirit. Mind, which
| dispels the mythical gods, that pre-
side over the shadow,-death.
| At his first appearing, Jesus the
Christ, the masculine representative
of the Fatherhood of God, was the
| best exponent of. Christian Mind
healing the world had ever known.
! He healed the sick, forgave the
penitent sinner, opened the eyes Of
the blind, turned sorrow into joy,
and taught his disciples to do the
same. Yet for all his loving minis
trations and good works, he re-
ceived the crown of thorns, the gall
and vinegar, and the cruel cruel
| flxion. Why had he none to defend
him but few disciples, who slum-
bered while he prayed. and who at
last left him to tread the winepress
alone? Why did not crowds fiji the
temple and synagogue when he
spoke, and rejoice his heart with a
recognition of the Truth, which sets
men free, and with loving apprecia-
tion of his unsettled efforts to bless
mankind? Why was he left to be
delivered up to the cruel material
lists and scourged? 1t was because
he testified against the carnal mind,
and possessed the spiritual power to
ovrcome its hallucinations of sin,
sorrow and death He knew that
the scribes and Pharisees were wor-
shippers of matter, and that they
perpetuated a material generation.
Their blindness to the spiritual facts
of being and spiritual generation
! hid from them their divine birth
right, or power to obtain harmony,
health, holiness and immortality.
| Dear reader, are you panied as
you recall the cruelty of the unbe-
lieving Jews toward your Saviour.
at his first appearing. who. today,
you acknowledge showed the world
the way to Life eternal. by his vic
tory over death and the grave? As
you recount his good works in heal
ing the sick and raising the dead,
do you understand why the mate
rialists rose IN arms against him?
AS you recall his sweat of agony in
] Gethsemane, as you follow him up
the hill of Calvary. where he en-
dured the tortures of the Inquisi-
ton. in his efforts to overcome the
belief in power opposed to eternal
Life and Love. can you believe that
the carnal mind holds within itself
such bitter hatred of Truths ex-
ponent of God and His ideal man?
Do you not feel that had you been
there, you would not have forsaken
your Saviour? It was indeed bat
tie royal between Christ and the
dragon. The evident self-annihila-
tion Of the dragon and his angels"
heralds the advent of the on-coming
Christ, at whose second and final
| appearing. humanity will unite in
the prayer, "Our Father which art
in heaven. Hallowed be Thy name.
Thy kingdom come. Thy will be
done in earth, as it is in heaven"
(Matthew vi, alO. THY Kingdom
Is come." e."-Mary Baker Eddy.
Christ said. Il go away. and come
again unto you" Oohn xiv, 2S). In
| this twentieth century, again the
| spirit of Truth-Christ, the divine
| idea-through the teachings of
Christian Science, appears to US.
Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer
and Founder of Christian Science,
| was inspired by God to search the
Scriptures that she might find eter-
! nal Life. The light of spiritual un-
derstanding revealed to her the
Science Of Christ Jesus power over
sin and death, and she gave to the
world the facts of scientific being
in the textbook of Christian Science,
Science and Health With Key to the
Scriptures, and her other writings,
and like Christ Jesus, she will DEM
.onstrate her teachings.
Christ Jesus was the masculine
representative Of the Fatherhood Of
God. In this age, Mary Baker Ed