The Topeka state journal., 1922-03-06
WORLD EXPERIENCING REVIVAL
Public Expression Abounds With
Spiritual Needs. SAYS DIR. Tut.


''The world today is experiencing a
revival of interest in the things of the
Spirit. Public expression abounds
with references to the spiritual needs
/ of humanity. Materialism, even in its
-refinements, has failed to satisfy hu-
| man aspiration. Everywhere men are
turning from matter to Spirit, in
| stinctively confident that, under di-
vine direction, STANDARDIZATION of life
will meet human need today and will
| justify the longing and the hope for a
| spiritual tomorrow. This sp1ritualiza-
\ ton of thought and life is the peculiar
| work Cf Christian Science in human
consciousness" said DIR. John NJ. Tut
in an address Sunday afternoon at the
Grand theater.
Il am sure that those of you who
have observed Christian Science enter
the life of a friend or acquaintance,
and there can be few, if any, who have
not been witness to such a miracle
will testify to a deep, fundamental
change which has come over that in
dividual; you will testify. moreover,
that the change is decidedly for the
better. Whereas, perchance, he was
Ill, he has become we'll; wherein ne
was a bad citizen he has become a
better one: for want, he has acquired
supply abundant for his needs; instead
of gloom, he has come to radiate
cheer; once dependent and fearful, ne
has become sufficient for his respon-
sib1lities and bold to meet them. What
has happened to that man? He is
being leavenedi His thought, and
hence his life, are becoming spiritual
lied. He is beginning to behold the
vision of man untranm meled by matter
and is coming into his rightfulz sense
of dominion over all. He continues
in the world, tho no longer OF it, yet
tenderly responsive to its needs ana
lust as he himself is being leaVened
he communicates the ferment to his
environment to the betterment Of all
with whom and with which ne
comes in contact.
The purified state of consciousness
is the kingdom of heaven on earth 1or
which Jesus prayed and taught all
Christians to pray. How much of this
kingdom of harmony can one expert
ence here and now? Just the degree
of his leavening, just the measure OF
his spiritua1ized thought. Before one
can so to heaven, heaven must come
to him on earth. That is the import
of Mrs. Eddy's great discovery. Chris
tan Science was Gods response to
her uplifted heart, the reward of her
unsettled devotion. 1t came freeing
her from the limitations of a frail
body. opening the way to a. long de-
Iayed life work, and setting her eager
feet upon the path of nearly a half
century of loving service. To her the
spiritual leaven came, as thru her
seIIIess ministry it has come to count
-
present in human consciousness. COM
ing now as was promised aforetime,
to preach deliverance TO the captives
(of sense) and recovering of sight to
the blind to set at liberty them that
are bruised (Science and Health,
preface.)
whenever see a life besmirched,
degraded, besotted with sense graft
fication. 1 try to think of the sweet-
ness and cleanness and wholesomeness|
of that life when Christian Science
shall have done its work therein. when
the leaven of Love shall have de-
stroyed lust and hate and fear, when
the 1eaven of Truth shall have eradi-
Gated the mass of error. when the
leaven of Spirit shall have changed
the belief of material consciousness to
the spiritual understanding of life in
God. when the leaven of Principle
shall have taught lawless human
sense that obedience to divine law is
true lihertN.''