The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-02-14

writes In her message OF 1902,
obedience is the test of love,
Christian Scientists profess 20 love
good cause 40 to do, for all they
Rave received through Christian
Science was made possible through
Mrs. Eddy's untiring search for
truth. The test OF our love for Mrs,
Eddy is measured by our demon
stratlon OF her teachings and by our
obedience to her directions. Her
teaching In summed up In the text
book which has TO do, primarily.
with the inner spiritual life Of the
Scientist. Her directions are found
In The Manual OF The Mother
Church and are concerned with the
acts OF the Scientists In all their re-
lations to the Cause OF Christian
Science.
The laws framed by Mrs. Eddy for
the direction Of the activities OF The
Mother Church, and the government
OF It's members. as Scientists, were
written from broad, practical
standpoint. free from obscurity and
desisned for the protection Of the
Christian Science Movement, Not
only have We our Leaders written
laws; we also have her interpreta-
\
during her lifetime. IL VII always
be true that for the disobedient.
straying pilgrims, there Is an open
door for return. | repeat: The
betrayor OF Jesus need not have
committed suicide. The rcparable
past belonged to him. He might have
knelt at the foot OF the cross, n re-
deemed man. with peace In his
heart. For all sclf-willed. disobedi-
-. l.. Ia. 1lWasW IAN
each strayinR pilgrim must seek the
blotting out OF the past and the re-
newal Of opportunity. In the right
way.
The Allcgory
In that fascinating and edifying
allegory. found on page 323 OF Mis-
cellaneous Writings, Mira Eddy tells
how the divine Stranger came down
to earth and meeting a penitent one
said to him:
Wherefore camest thou hither7"
The penitent replied: ! came hlth-
er hoping that I might follow Thee
whithersoever Thou goest,' and the
stranger said: Make thine own
way; and IL thou strayest listen for
the mountain horn, and II will call
thee back to the path that goetn
upward" That Is the only way
whereby one who has strayed from
obedience may be led back to neace
and renewed opportunity. Listen
for the mountain horn" or. as Mrs.
Eddy puts II in another way:
shepherd. show me how 10 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;
] will follow and rejoice
All the rugged way"
tHymnal. page 23sD
He who Is obedient TO our Leader
Is obedient also to our Wayshower,
Jesus the Christ. In stern and un-
re emitting watch over himself, yield
ing loving service TO others, one
grows into the image OF Him Who
In the same, yesterday. today and
| forever: the old past loosens Its
grasp: the future ceases to threaten.
his heart leaps up with gratitude
and in the practical performance OF
everyday duties 1t becomes true 10
him that:
Earth breaks up, time drops away
In flows heaven with It's new day
| OF endless life."
Time. mortal mind and It's his
tory, the past with Its mistakes. re-
jected opportunities, sins and sick
nesses should all go-and go now
for they are unreal. All that Is
| good, true and beautiful is impcrish'
able. 1t has always belonged to us
| Only discord can be destroyed. Mrs
Eddy writes. on page $40 OF the text
| book:
Thought will finally be un-
derstood and seen IN all form.
substance, and color, but with
out material accompaniment"
The Way Back.
Christian Science teaches with
| logical spiritual exactness that II is
utterly impossible for any child OF
God TO be lost eternally: that peace
and harmony are inherent In tho
real man; that salvation from all
error belongs TO him all the time.
To know this salvation has been the
universal quest OF mankind and Its
realization is foreshadowed In the
| Old Testament wherein II is writ
ten, "The earth shall be filled with
the knowledge OF the glory OF the
Lord as the waters cover tho sea,
and in the New Testament by such
passages as, "The last enemy that
shall be destroyed Ia death" and,
"He must reign till He hath put a.!
enc mics under His feet"
Human language has endeavored
| to picture this state OF salvation In
lmany ways, and probably no picture
| Is more beautiful than that given In
the closing chapter OF the Revela-
| ton of st. John the Divine. wherein
the state OF salvation Is likened unto
a beautiful garden. Let us now for
convenience, do what Is perfectly
| legitimate, suppose salvation TO be
represented by a beautiful garden
which all men at some time desire
to enter, and which all men even
tually will enter. Let us say there
are two ways leading to this garden,
one over a corduroy road, the other
| by beautiful gravel walk. The
| corduroy road Is hard road 10
| travel. the gravel walk Is direct
and more beautiful way. The chill
dren OF Israel coming out OF four
hundred years bondage, In Egypt,
marched up to the border OF the
| Promised Land in the brief period OF
six days, on what may be called the
gravel walk, and they might then,
had 1t not been for their cowardli-
ness. crossed at once over Jordan
into tho propiEed land Relng dis