The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1922-05-15

being saved through the blood of
Christ. the lift OF Christ. Heaven
is natural and constant to God and
must be the same to man in hia
image. We need only gain that
likeness in ourselves in order to be
in heaven. Jesus said. THE King
dom of God cometh not with OBJ
servation: neither snail they say. |
Lo here, or. 10. therei for, behold,
the kingdom of God is within you"
Jesus knew that the Science of Life
will heal the sick and acted in ac-
cordance with that science. He
proved that the Science of Life nat
uarlly produces the phenomena of
Life, and that health is indisputably
one of the phenomena of Life.
Divine facts constituted his men
tally and made him the Christ, for
they had their being, and they still
have their being in God. 1t was
what Jesus knew that made him
different from all other human per-
sonalities, but he placed no restric-
llOIS QRC. lio GUS "a We
should not place ony IL we are his
followers. He was anxious that
should know and have the
power to prove the healing saving
Christ. This divine Christ, Truth.
is to be born within us. and there.
In the realm OF consciousness, or
thought. 1t is to carry On its re
dmptive mission according ito the
example of Christ Jesus.
Does this take away any of the
respect and reverence which nan
kind justly feels for him who spake
as never man spake? Was it not
on the contrary this constant de-
pendence upon Mind, God. that gave
him the title of Christ Jesus. and is
1t not a corresponding attitude on
our part that gives US the right to
be called Christians. and that. per-
sisted in, will make us better Chris
tians day by day? He declared that
life is not dependent upon matter,
but upon knowing. which is a char
acteristic of Mind, God. And this
is life eternal, that they might know
thee the only true God, and Jesus
Christ. whom thou has sent"
We have learned to recognize Life
eternal and we insist upon main
taing the fact in spite of all evil
dence to the contrary. We would
not be worthy of the name either
OF Christians in the ordinary sense,
much less of Christian Scientists, If
we failed to do so. for any theory
OF life contrary to -~ternality invol-
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posite of life.
If you desire to go a given point
you will follow the direction in
which that point lies. You will not
turn your back to that direction and
go in an opposite one. All the ways
that human ducation have devised
or theorized about in reference to
health and life are headed In the
wrong direction n lead away
from either or both. A healing
system is intended to produce
health. which In it's turn tends
toward life. How is 1t possible then
that a healing system be founded
upon the observations OF diseaseR
The opposite direction In this case
is the right direction. What is 1T
1t s the direction of reason, the
direction OF divine revelation. 1t
shows Enthusiastically that a creator
who is life never introduced any
death into His creation. and that
means, as we have already seen,
that He never conceived OF a des-
tructive element such as disease,
has never known 1t. does not know
il now. never will know 1t. what
does this mean to o and me? 1t
means that in proportion as we get
out of the old education and get
INTO the new, what we call our
minds and our lives will be entirely
different from what they have been.
Instead of having an ephemeral ex-
istence. without any certainty ex-
cept that of death, mankind Will
begin to show forth the divine ma
ture. and the divine nature lives
forever.
This science of living. this Science
of Life, was illustrated by Christ
Jesus. but as a science ii could not
be given to the world in his time.
IL has come in ours. Trink OF tnat'
Think of what IT means to have the
privilege of studying and demon
strating the Science of Life, q sci
ence for which the world had TO
wait. thousands of a before It's
mentality could lose enough dark
ness TO even perceive such a Science
i, Think what 1T means that a person
could have been awake enough. free
enough. clear enoug mentally.
spiritually. to discover such q
| Science as his the science or all
sciences. This Is exactly what Mary
Baker Eddy did. and she did some
thin smore than that; her discern
went extended to the facts OF being
,nd revealed them, but it also de-
scended to the present needs or
mankind and met them. she Sd"
that the o-mnipresence of God would
have TO be affirmed before 1T could
he realized and she also knew ano
taueh t that the rejection OF al
other seeming power would have
~ he persisted in before full PROOF
that good is all powerful n Lite
- Immortal could be obtained.
Mrs. Eddy's teachings constantly
admonish US not 70 claim lot our
calves or for our UNDERSTANDING
ANYTHING beyond what we a SUD
stantiate by actual proof mere
fore we. your friends. who have In.
Ted Won here to a lecture, anc
u.bo welcome you upon all occas-
tons when Christian Science is beine
correctly set forth. make no clam
to have attained the fullness OF TINS
science. We are trying to DC
worthy of this gift of God TO men
W. would be unworthy of 1t If we
ala no there and upon all other