Milford chronicle., 1922-05-12

dissipated? Now, the unheeded Christ,
the spiritual idea of being, the Truth,
comes to such one in Christian Science.
He hears, and hears for the first time
with this new meaning, that God is the
only and all power; that God is all his
God; that God is Life,-his life; that God.
is Mind, Truth, Love, and that God, who
is all this, is all his God If he admits
this,-and slow or fast, if he ponders it.
he is bound to admit twill not every
thing that is right become more and
more possible to him, and will not every
thing that is wrong become less and less
dominant over him, and finally impos-
sible to him? Will he not at once be
better prepared for every demand upon
him, feel more safe, more efficient than
before? If he is fallen, will not this up
lift him; If he is sorrowful, will not this
comfort him; if he is discouraged, will
not this encourage him; if he is sick. dis
eased, will not this ease him until it
heals him; if he has been a failure, can
not he with this Christian, this right
idea of being rise to success? Let me
say that in thousands of instances all
this has been demonstrated. and examples
are not far to seek.
my own?
DEMONSTRATION
When Christian Science was first
brought to my attention we had just lost
our only child-under the care of the
best physicians obtainable-with malig-
nant diphtheria. In caring for the child,
my wife, who had been a semi-invalid
from early girlhood, contracted the dis
ease Her grief together with the after
results of the disease made her condi-
tion most precarious My mental state,
because of our loss and because of my
wife's i'll health. can be easily imagined.
In addition to this, I was suffering at the
time, and had been suffering for a num-
ber of years. from a very trying, painful.
and serious disease. How well prepared
was for the days obligations; what
safety did I feel in their performance;
what efficiency did possess? We were
dragging out a weary existence.
Coming home one day after about a
weeks absence, found my wife looking
quite cheerful. Some color had risen to
her cheek. She was looking as she had
not looked for years. What had caused
this change? Upon enquiry 1 found that
new acquaintance had loaned her a
book; that she had been reading the book
and that she attributed her improvement
to the ideas which her reading had given
her. What interested her, what benefited
her, always interested me. bought a
copy of the book. read it. argued about
it with our new acquaintance, tried to
explain my wife's improvement upon
other grounds. After about two weeks. 1
az
of the truth presented in that book, was
healed. The name of that book is Science
and Health with Key to the Scriptures.
Its writer is Mary Baker Eddy. The truth
that it presents is the truth of God of
mans relationship to God, and the truth
of universal being. This truth is not
theory, but a Science capable of being
practiced. -
What have just related occurred about
twenty-five years ago. Since then Chris
tian Science has done great deal more
for us, however. Throughout these years
it has kept us in perfect health. AS pub
lie practitioners of Christian Science for
some twenty years or over. it has enabled
us to respond to every legitimate demand
made upon us,-neither one of u.s. during
all these years, being in any way incapa-
citated by sickness of any kind. Were
this due to anything in ourselves. l
would not, could not, speak of it. 1t has
been wholly due to what Christian
Science,-of which we are such great ben
eficaries,-has taught us. Think of it,-a
woman who had not known well day
from early girlhood; man who for sev-
eral years had kept at work because OF
necessity and through sheer force of WILL
to be so completely restored that to re-
spond to every legitimate demand upon
them became a joy! But our case is not
exceptional; it is typical. The neighbors'
friends, relatives of many of you here.
can tell YOU their experiences with Chris
tian Science, and I am sure that you will
find those experiences quite similar to
ours. Neither should these experiences
seem strange after it has been indicated,
as it has, what God is, what man is, and
what mans relationship to God is. And
I am sure that it does not seem so
strange as it did that God should comfort
the sorrowing, make the weak strong,
heal the sick,-yes, raise the dying and
the dead. But perhaps it can be made
still palmer
HONESTY THE CHIEF REQUISITE.
You have all been taught to be truth
full and honest, am sure. If the tempta-
tion came to any of you to tell an un-
truth or to take something that does
not belong to you, this education, not
something inherent in your heads or
brains. would recall to you that you must
not do so. 1 remember that as very
little boy. whenever I touched anything
not mine, particularly at table, my mo-
ther very quietly said, "Heis!' meaning
that taking things not mine would burn
me. Throughout all the years that have
gone by. when about to touch things not
mine without permission, l have heard
that word. Is it my brain? No; 1t is IN
NV education We are the children, OF
our education; much of it, the most I'M
portant part of it. not obtained In the
schools. and it is our education that we
constantly express, live out.
Now. suppose that we learn here and
learn not only the letter, but become I'M
bued with the spirit of what has been
said. and so learn the truth that the kind
of God that has been indicated here is
the only God there is; that only he is
man,-meaning man or woman VINO is
like this God, the reflection or image ana
likeness of God; suppose, when we have
learned this even in the smallest degree
we always ask of this very primary edu-
cation. What belongs to us, any one OF
us. as the image and likeness OF GodE
Could not we thus get correct ansWersF
what for instance, belongs to the refec-
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