Evening star., 1924-03-30

Love will finally provide spiritual anthem
for America, whose flag is the Stars and
Stripes, not the "Star-Spanged Banner" and
may the love, peace and Joy, which this an
them shall convey from the Father of all men,
extend throughout tho nations, and establish
universal brotherhood, or divine democracy,
under God and one law. All Will then
unite in paeans of praise to the God of Life
and Love. Nation shall not lift up sword
against nation, neither shall they learn war
any more" isaiah H., ~
parents that the Holy Bible is the Word of
God. When l read the Scriptures, there
seemed to be an influence pervading them,
which held me to faith in their teaching, but
God, my Father, as my help in time of trouble.
Yet there was never doubt, but that the
Bible Gods Word.
The mission of Christ, in healing the sick,
feeding the multitude, raising the dead, cast
ing out devils (evil thoughts), and preaching
the Gospel, strongly appealed to me, and con-
vinced me that the Master understood his
relation to God, Spirit, the source of his being,
bestowed, and which no other person earth
had discerned; and that later, Christ Jesus
demonstrated this power in his victory over
the malice of his enemies,-the Adam-belief,
or anti Christ. Faith held me to blind wor-
ship of Christ's Christianity, and l strove
earnestly to obey the law of righteousness.
But spiritual understanding was lacking, until
my attention was called to the spiritual in
Bible,-as found in Science and Health with
Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy.
The phrase, "Key to the Scriptures" aroused
me to ponder, What is the function of key?
Is it not to unlock receptacle, where treas
ureS have been hidden from view? This
key" was offered as means to unlock the
hidden treasures of truth, which are contained
in the Scriptures, and have been hidden for
centuries, relied by the material sense of
scholastic theologians, whose study of the
letter which kills, has missed the spirit of
Truth, which giveth life.
In 1884 | sought Mary Baker Eddy, the
author of this book Science and HEALTH and
began my investigation of the Science of be-
ing. AS / continued to use this key" under
the guidance of my Leader and Teacher,
Mary Baker Eddy, my spiritual senses were
treasure after treasure, until, to my faith,
added understanding of the spiritual interpre
tation of that which prophets had proclaimed,
throughout the ages, and which Christ Jesus
had demonstrated,-nam the power of
spiritual thought-force, or the Christ-mind,
over evil, Adamtc thoughts, the potency of
love over hate and fear, of life over the claim
of death.
When my great Leader and Teacher,
Mary Baker Eddy, sent me to New York City
38 years ago "to establish the Christianity of
Christian Science" my only reliance was the
Bible, with Mrs. Eddy's book, Science and
Health aOith Key to the Scriptures, and this
"Key" has continued to open the way to an
understanding of the allness of Life and Love
and the nothingness and unreality of matter.
During II consecutive years, in the pulpit
of my church, First Church Of Christ, Sci
enlist, New York City, 1 proved before the
world, my willingness to suffer with Christ
that might reign with him." for scholastic
theologians utterly ignored my teaching and
ny continued struggle for Christ's Chris
tianity, or the qualities of the Mind of Christ
l am living witness to the power Of love
over hate, envy, Jealousy, ingratitude, the po-
tency of good over evil thoughts and acts. l
have continued to cross swords with these
mental elements, which are embodied in SEEM
ing fleshly personalities; and every victory of
love over revenge, malice, and envy,-the ele
ments which put Joseph in the pit and which
hung Jesus on the cross,--every effort to de-
stroy my divine individuality, was met during
Spirit, and with the understanding also"
gained through knowledge of the "Key to the
Scriptures" Science and Health, al am per-
suaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels,
nor principallties, nor powers, nor things pres
ent, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth,
nor any other creature" shall be able to sepa-
rate me "from the love of God, which is in
Christ Jesus our Lord" (Romans viii, 3Sl