Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-09-11

and heal its wounds. The world is
full of un1oved and unloving people,
| men and women upon whom the blight
| of false belief has fallen. Environ
ment, fear. childhood devoid of love
and joy, perhaps the affective beliefs
of ancestry, all untrue and not or
dained of God-these conditions have
hardened and steeled their hearts, so
that Love may not come in. To such
as these comes the joyous truth that
God is the only Father-Mother OF man
God who loves His own, cherishing,
protecting, and sutaining them. Chris
tian Science shows us that as we learn
to reflect the Father-Mother Love, ln7
finite gentleness, goodness, and tender
ness, these qualities of thought be-
come active in our lives. Resentment,
self-pity and cruelty fade away, the
scars disappear and the real man ap
pears, happy, joyous. and free as Cod
made him.
professor in a middle western college
was visiting state agricultural school
In showing him around the institution
the superintendent led him up to the
stall of an enormous black bull. The
bull looked dangerous and the profess
sor drew back, but the superintendent
said. Don't be afraid, go right up and
put your hand on him. He won't hurt
you, he is perfectly gentle Reassured
my friend placed his hand on the ami
NAL. AS he did so, the superintendent
said, do you notice anything unusual
about that bull?" My friend, not being
very well informed about the sub
ject, said he did not. Well said the
superintendent, that animals hide is
as soft and silky as sealskin. When he
came to us he was wild, untamed
hing, ugly and ferocious, with hair
hard and bristling. Love changed all
that, for | want to tell you that I
ave found ih my experience. with ami
ment their hide and fur soften and
respond at once to the mental cOndi-
tion of those who care for them"
What a lesson for us-the operation
81 practical, available Love! By con-
slant reflection and manifestation of
love in daily contact with our fellow
fhn h0r nd hroscS+ fnrsinr of
many an unhappy man or woman may
be softened, his whole disposition al
tered, and in it's place will appear the
real man, Gods loving child
Have you ever seen a group of chill
dren playing with what are known as
false faces? They come running to-
wards you with these distorted masks
some of them animal in aspect and
all very ugly, and try to brighten you.
What do you do? You smile and go
on undisturbed, because you know
that behind the mask is the sweet
happy face of child. The world is
full Of children wearing false faces,
evil masks of hate, envy, and revenge
They would brighten us, make us an
CRY or disturbed, but the understand
ing of man in Christian Science shows
us how to look behind the mask this
false face, and see Gods perfect child
the son of God 1t was Jesus percep-
tion OF the real man as the image of
Love that enabled him to see through
the mask of hate. revenge, and bigotry
and say, even of those who were cruel
flying him, Father, forgive them; for
they know not what they do
The understanding that God is inf
mite, omnipresent Love is an ever-avail
able help. 1t is the peace, be still
to error of every kind. In the Bible
we read how the men of God, those
who were turning to God, were guided
and protected by the angels. What
were these angels? Christian Science
shows us that the angels of His pre-
sence are not spiritualized human be-
ings with wings, but pure holy
IuOuSnL0 SCiAilIlS HUH 0OU W HAL. IL
is related in the book of Kings that
Elijah, the prophet of the Lord, pur-
sued by Jezebel and the worshipers
of Baal, fled into the wilderness. Tired
and discouraged, he sat down under
juniper tree, and as he lay and slept,
behold an angel touched him and told
him to arise and eat. And when he
looked there was food and water at
hand Lying down again to sleep, the
angel touched him second time, and
he again was fed and sustained, so
that he travelled many days in strength
coming at last to cave. And there,
the Scriptures say, "the Lord passed
by, and a great and strong wind rent
the mountains, and brake in pieces
the rocks before the Lord; but the
Lord was not in the wind: and after
the wind an earthquake; but the Lord
was not in the earthquake: and after
the earthquake fire; but the Lord
was not in the fire: and after the
fire a still small voice''-the voice of
God, of Love, which speaks to every
man in pure divine ideas, thoughts
which deliver us from fear and the be.
lief that evil is real or has power.
These are the angels of our deliver