The Delta independent., 1922-11-03


full things to bring out the realization
of Truth.
Just want to tell you one thing
that came under my notice. A little
girl seven years of age had gone out
to play with another little girl. She
came in in about half an hour with
face which showed conclusively that
she was not very happy. Her mother
asked her what was the trouble. The
little girl just shut her lips together
and went right to her own room, sat
down and played with her own
things She had been in. there about
twenty minutes when she came out
with her eyes wide open and said.
"Why, mother, what do you think?
l almost forgot that we are both Gods
children" Then she went back to
play with her companion again.
You see, she had analyzed Truth
without human or personal distinction,
and when she had done that, Truth ap-
pealed to her as belonging to every
one in exactly the same quantity and
quality that it belonged to any one,
therefore she recognized that what she
had been doing was to limit Truth in
seeing only herself as Gods child. 1t
then occurred to her if one Of them
was Gods child they both were. and
as soon as she saw this the disturb
ance was healed, the anger and re-
sentiment disappeared. her thought
had been cleansed and purified, and
with the simplicity of child she said
so frankly and went back to her play
mate.
Now that ought to teach us how we
may use the truth of being to bring
about a cessation of discord and dis
sension, and to establish a universal
brotherhood of man wherein there
shall be no distinction, no line of
separation, no difference of any kind.
but we shall all be working for the
universal good. That is the mission
of Christian Science in this world.
The only way the Christian mission
can possibly be accomplished is by
the spreading of the truth about God.
about Jesus the Christ, about man and
the universe, so that the whole world
shall understand and comprehend the
infinite God and the infinite capacity
and ability of His children to go to
Him in any of their misunderstood
ings, whether these are called want
or woe, sin or sickness, and find for
every one the help which the Bible
teaches us God has for us.
The Coming Of christIon
Science.
One Of the questions that has been
asked very often is why we should
assume that this revelation had come
through a woman Of whom no one had
ever heard up to that time, rather than
through some of the men or women
who had consecrated years of their
lives to the study of the Bible. Well
tion. Only God can answer that. But
we can say as did Christ Jesus: 81
thank thee, o Father, Lord of heaven
and earth, because thou hast hid these
things from the wise and prident, and
hast revealed them unto babes" Mrs.
Eddy assuredly conformed to what a
babe means in her loyalty to the teach
ings of the Bible, in taking them as
being absolutely true.
When other children were hearing
| the little fairy stories and things of
| that sort to which we all have loved
| to listen, Mrs. Eddy was hearing from
her mother the history of things re-
corded in the Bible, the stories of
true events. Her mother did not tell
her about what this or that one said;
she was constantly telling her stories
OF their works, and what the Word OF
God accomplished. SO that Mrs. Eddy
was familiar when a young girl with
| all the activities recorded in the Bible
to her they were not mere historic ac
counts or events, they were real, liv
ing, actual facts, the proofs of Gods
allness She chung to them as she grew
up; then when she had reached ma
turity she met with an accident which
the doctors said would result fatally
All OF her friends accepted and be
lieved this. and her minister stopped
to pray with her in the morning, be
lieving as they all did, that she would
not be on earth to be prayed. with al
the termination of the morning serv
ice. After he had done his kindly
loving work for her, she asked those
with whom she was staying to give
her her Bible and to leave her alone
with God. They did as she requested
and when the minister stopped agair
later to see II he could be of any as
sistance, Mrs. Eddy herself opened
the door to him. and stood before him
for the first time since her girlhood
perfectly well. normal and natural ir
every particular.
The Bible tells liz of many happen