Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-04-04

test of love- Christian Scientists pro-
| fess to love Mary Baker Eddy, and they
| have good cause so to do, for all they
have received through Christian Science
1 was made possible through Mrs. Eddy's
untiring search for truth. The test OF
our love for Mrs. Eddy is measured By
our demonstration of her teachings and
! by our obedience to her directions. Her
| teaching is summed up in the textbook
which has to do, primarily, with the in
ner spiritual life of the Scientist. Her
directions are found in the Manual of
| The Mother Church and are concerned
with the acts of Christian Scientists in all
! their relations to the Cause Of Christian
| Science.
LAWS WRITTEN
HELD PRACTICAL,
THE laws framed by Mrs Eddy for
! the direction of the activities of The
Mother Church, and the government of
/ its members, as Scientists were written
from broad, practical standpoint. They
are free from obscurity and ambiguity
and are designed for the protection Of
I the Christian Science Movement. Not
only have we our leaders written laws
we also have her Interpretation and appli-
! cation of those laws during her life time.
| If this should seem too bold a declaration,
let me read Mrs. Eddy's statement on
page 14S of Miscellaneous Writings, as
we'll as on page Of the Manual. There
Mrs. Eddy writes: The rules and by
ten at different dates, and as the occa-
sion required. They sprang
! from Necessity. from the i'm
mediate demand for them 1t truthfully
| follows that Mrs. Eddy did not write
! troubles only. The trouble was already
at the door and she wrote and applied
that particular provision of the Manual
at once. Therefore, there Is no ObsCurity
or ambiguity about the Manual. 1t will
always be true that for the disobedient,
straying pilgrim, there is an open door
for return. l repeat: The betrayer OF
! Jesus need not have committed suicide
! The reparable past belonged to him. He
might have knelt at the foot of the
cross, a redeemed man, with peace IN his
heart. For all lf-willed, disobedient
students there IS a healing, but each
strRylng pilgrim must seek the blotting
out Of the past and the renewal of op-
portunity in the right way.
I'm that fascinating and edfying allie
! laneOus Writings, Mrs. Eddy tells how
the divine Stranger came down to earth
and meeting a penitent one said TO him
! w therefore, earnest thou hitherF The
penitent replied: I came hither hoping
| that l might follow Thee whithersoever
Thou goest,' aud the Stranger said A:
Make thine own way; and II thou stray
est listen for the mountain horn, and il
will call thee back to the path that goeth
| upward That Is the only way whereby
one who has strayed from obedience may
be led back to peace and renewed Oppor-
| tunlty. Listen for the mountain horn,
| or as Mrs Eddy puts 1t IN another way
Shepherd show me how to go
Ger the hillside steep,
How to gather. how to SOW,
How to feed Thy sheep;
will listen for Thy voice,
! Lest my footsteps stray;
l will follow and rejoice
All the rugged way
(HymnaI page 1851
HE who Is obedient TO our Leader IS
obedient also to our Wayshower, Jesus
/ the Christ. In stern and unremltting
watch over himself, yielding loving serv-
les to others one grows into the image
of Him who is the same, yesterday, today
and forever The old past loOsens Its
grip the future ceases to threaten; the
heart leaps up with gratitude, and In the
practical performance Of everyday duties
/ IL becomes true that:
Earth breaks up. time drops away,
In flows heaven with its new day Of
endless life
Time, mortal mind and its history,
the past with its mistakes, rejected OPP
portunties. sins and sickness should all
go-and 20 now, for they are unreal. All
that IS good, true and beautiful is i'm
perishable. 1t has always belonged to
us. Only discord can be destroyed.
1 IMPOSSIBLE TO
BE LOST FOREVER.
Christian Science teaches with logical
and spiritual exactness that II is utterly
/ impossible for any child Of God to be lost
eternnlly. that peace and harmony are in
herent in the real man. that salvation
from all error belongs to him all the
I time. To know this salvation has been
the universal quest OF mankind and it's
realization is foreshadowed in the Old
Testament wherein Il Is written, The
earth shall be filed with the knowledge
Of the glory OF the Lord as the waters
cover the sea- and in the New Tesla
ment by such passages as, The last en-
envy that shall be destroyed Is death,