Imperial Valley press., 1922-11-27
Hard To Figure Leaders; Race Is Very Close

ed Christ Jesus came to him not in the
realm of matter tbut of understand
ing, and gave him dominion. That is
where all true power comes to man.
That is where all true education fits us
for life and equips us with courage aud
wisdom TO meet the difficulties of hn-
man existence, including disease. How
necessary it is for us to awaken to the
full value of true thoughts and pure
education, which constitute real being!
What would man be without the power
to think? Salvation is the main OBJ
iect, it is even the object of all educa-
tion, although that object is not men
toned in the curricula of school snd
colleges. We are all seeking salvation,
consciously or unconsciOusly, for we are
all striving for satisfaction. Every
body wants heaven, though many aP-
pear to he searching for it III strange
ways, for heaven is nothing more nor
less than permanent happiness, salts
faction.
Mrs. Eddy writes on page $50 OF
''Seience and Health with Key to the
Scrintures, "Heaven represents har-
| mony, and divine science interprets the
| Principle of heavenly harmony. Also
| in the same work on page 14l: LIN
healing the sick and SHINING, Jesus
elaborated the fact that the healing
| effect followed the understanding or
the divine Principle and of the Christi
| like spirit which governed the corpor-
cal Jesus. For this Principle there is
no dynasty, no ecclesiastical monopoly.
Its only crowned head is immortal SOW
| eregnty. Its only priest is the spirit
ualized man. 1t follows that we must
think our way into heaven, and moth
ing can deprive us of or excuse us from
that exalting and redemptive necessity.
This is being saved through the blood
of Christ, the life of Christ. Heaven
is natural and constant to God and
must be the same to man in His image.
We have learned to recognize Life
eternal, and we insist upon maintain
ing the fact in spite of all evidence to
the constrary. 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 50, for
any theory of life contrary to eternal
ity involves death, which is the exact
opposite of life.
Life Illustrated by Jesus
This Science of Living, this Science
of Life, was illustrated by Christ
| Jesus; but as a science it could not be
, given to the world in his time for the
| world could not receive it. Jesus said,
81 have yet many things to say unto
you, but we cannot bear them now.
Now this Science has come. You have
the privilege of living in the most
: scientific age of the world, an age in
which the science of life has been dis
covered and given to mankind. Con-
: | slider the fact and realize its meaning,
! Think what it means that person
. could have been awake enough, free
! enough, clear enough mentally, spiritu-
ally, to discover such a science as this,
, the Science Of all sciences. This is ex-
! actly what Mary Baker Eddy did, and
q she did something more than that; her
, liscernment ascended to the facts of
! being and realized them, but it also
, descended to the present needs of man.
, kind and met them. She saw that the
omnipresenee of God would have to be
, | affirmed before it could be realized
and she also knew and taught that the
rejection of all other seeming power
would have to- be persisted in before
d, full proof that good is all powerful and
! Life is immortal could be obtained.
Proof Necessary
Mrs. Eddy 3 teachings constantly ad-
monsh us not to claim for ourselves
: or for our understanding anything be-
. yond what we can snbstantiate by act
nal proof. Therefore we, your friends,
. who have invited you here to q lecture,
and who welcome you upon all occa-
sions when Christian Science is being
correctly set forth, make no claim to
> have attained the fullness of this
: Science. We are trying to be worthy
9 of this gift Of God to men. We would
be unworthy of it if we did not here
n and upon all other proper occasions ex-
o press our gratitude, love, and reverence
. | for the discoverer and founder Of Chris
! tian Science, Mary Baker Eddy. She
/ established the cause of Christian
Science on the enduring foundation OF
3 Christ healing, where it stands, and Will
4 continue to stand, living and an ever
rising monument to career of achieve
ment absolutely unique in history.
God is Life, and perpetuates His own
: creation. Jesus said, ''The words that
. speak unto you, they are spirit, and
a they are life.' Mrs. Eddy says in
, fseience and Health Up. 9s6), "God' =
thoughts are perfect and eternal, are
substance and Iife.' We have been
considering those thoughts here. They
! are easy to understand when sought in
, sincerity, because they are more natur-
al to US than other thoughts, nearer to
. our real being than any other thoughts
, could be.
The Original Revelation
The Bible is the original revelation
of the immortal relationship of God
: and man. Christian Science makes this
relationship understood, and in doing
, this it removes condemnation and es-
tablishes redemption in its stead. IL
shows beyond all doubt that the only
] final or possible sequence to mistake
is loving and complete correction.
| We are in new era. We have EN-
erged from the so-called science of mat
: ter and entered upon the real Science,
! the Science of Mind, When all tho
bravery Of the race is enlisted in this
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