The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1922-09-20
JOHN C. L4THROP- ! 1
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!, and. DEATH to which we are captives ?
Il Whence came the belief that you
couldn't float But when you find your
self Quietly floating down the stream,
Il gazing happily up into the peaceful
blue sky, You never ask yourself what
4 has become of that bslief. 1t will never
4 trouble you, again, and you know il, for
lit has vanished. into that Imaginary
realm Of ignorance and illusion to join
Its. comrades;-all those other false be-
| liefs, beliefs IN something unlike Spirit,
God .p s~~ .-s
| "A lie Is defined as n deception. -Iesns
healed the sick by knowing they were
! deceived by false beliefs, that they
were captives of darkened thought or
false sense. and he set the captives
free physically by his single thinking,
that is, his right thinking about God and
man.. Jesus spiritual right thoughts re-
| Elected the Christ, Truth, which the
eaptiye felt mentally, and thus was
| freed from the Influence of the evil and
sick beliefs which, were affecting him
physically
| Thomas A. Edison SAYS: ITO start
thought going is the highest mission OF
mankind" Start thought going, liberateI
mans true individuality, and the rules
Of right thinking viii soon be revealed
to him. These rules, and the divine
Principle. OF these rules have been dis
covered in Christian Science, and are
available for all mankind to under:
stand and to utilize.
The act OF using this divine Principle
and these rules discloses the true mean.
ing of prayer. In fact, thinking by dis
vine Principle and rule, and thinking |
blindly. recording to material belief,
constitutes the exact difference betweenl
right prayer and wrong prayer, the diff
ference between the prayer that avails,
and the prayer that gropes in the dark |
and fails, between the prayer that heals
the sick az well as the sinner, and the |
prayer that limits Gods power, and |
doubts His willingness to destroy all
kinds of error Most people believe that
prayer to God is good thinking, Why
not extend the good thinking, instead
of limiting il or stopping it altogethers
Extending it,is exactly what Christian
Science does. Extend Il to the point Of
deciding that your thoughts shall no
longer be governed by the false belief
that life, substance and intelligence are
in matter, with its sickness, sin and
death Extend it to decide that your
thoughts shall be governed by the one
Mind that was in Christ Jesusy by Life,
Truth and Love, the divine Principle OF
mans being, and when your thoughts
are thus governed, you lind that then
you are really praying, for right
thoughts governed thus viii reflect the
Truth that heals the eiek.
Spiritual understanding is more than
human knowledge. Human knowledge
comprises the things within the limits
OF the five material senses. Christian
Science reveals mans true sense to be a
Of infinite Spirit and its
infinite ideas-a consciousness OF the
of evil and the material
senses. This CONSCIOUSNESS is spiritual
which casts out error
and heals the sick Thus Christian Sci
ence has opened the way to eternal
harmony and happiness by supplying
with spiritual understanding,
and therein lies its supreme and prac-
tical excellence as the Comforter lead
ing into all Truth. = "a " -
When Jesus said to his disciples: Il
have yet many things TO say unto you
put We cannot bear them now" John
xvi: l2l, undoubtedly he meant that
hey lacked spiritual understanding.
The many things he referred TO were
Many things about God, and many
,hings about evil and sin. IL has taken
centuries Of human trial and experience
o lift faith above a pers 1nal and blind
rust in God to understand Him ss
life. Truth and Love. az the one and
,nly !. Mind, as the divine Principle
Il being, as omnipotent and omnipres-
mt In fact, in no other way can God
,e known as omnipresent AMI omnip-
tent. It. has. taken centuries to un-
Iersfand God as the one initiate Spirit /
md to realize the sequence of this fact.
hat man must be spiritual and not ma
erial
Most mortals arc limitei in all their
rays. They have a limited sense Of
Ieaith. Of strength. Of life, Of supply
nd Of love Their happiness and ioy
ense Of God, Of Christ, of man and Of
eaven. Fear accompanies this limited
ense, for limitation and fear are CON-
anions. and are the logical effects Of
limsfed material consciousness. Deny
ne the reality 81 matter. dropping the
Material personal sense Of God and
lsiming the aliness Of Spirit. the spir
iual sense Of Him az infinite Life.
ruth and Love gradually dawns upon
he thought. and q new outlook. new ,
xisfence unfolds to the awakening
bought !
A Christian Scientist : learning how
, work. how 70 loose himself from sin.
sw q awaken from mcsmerism, how
] tsnIsh fear. % conquer disease anal