The Winslow mail., 1925-01-23

place to which God had not called her She
btion was to fulfill her divine commission. To
that end, she sacrificed her earthly all and
gained Christ and Christian Science Mrs. Eddy
aehghted to do what was hers to do. She loved
humanity. She was single of purpose. She
obeyed the heavenly vision.
OF this great teacher and Leader, Of this
daughter OF David history must write: She
stricken was a gentle, tender hearted woman.
humanity considered, Mrs. Eddy was intensely
human, but her selfess devotion to God and to
man gave a spiritual radiance to her humanity
Those to whom she has brought the healing
and saving Christ could never doubt that her
mission was divine, and those who knew her
could say: .My heavenly Father will never
leave me comfortless, in the amplitude of His
ioVe; coming nearer in my need, more tenderly
to save and bless" (Miscenaneous Writings,
p. 249).
THE CHURCH EVANGELICAL
Notwithstanding Mrs. Eddy's expressed love
for the church, her revelation of Truth was re.
Jected by professed Christians. Whereupon she
sought divine guidance that the gospel of the
Kngdom might not again be lost to humanity.
mus she was led to establish a church based
upon pure idealsm and yet practically adapted
to the needs Of humanity.
1t was inevitable that Mrs. Eddy should
found The First Church of Christ, Scientist,
and call it "The Mother Church, Did the
mother church originate thus in Boston? No,
it originated in Jerusalem. In it's pristine
purity it was strictly. spiritual; It denied mat,
ter and exalted Spirit It did many wonderful
works Of healing and saving. The mother
church in Jerusalem did the work of evangelism
and made it full proof of its ministry. And
then matter laid siege to the Organization. and
the mother church seemed to go out in the
tragedy OF spiritual decadence. In all the
long night of materialism that followed, there
remained one bright spot. The star of Beth
lehem still shone through the blackness Cen.
turles came and went, and then, because a lone
woman saw the star, The Mother Church re,
hos karu--
Bethlehem is the star of Boston, (Miscellane-
Gus Writings, p. 320). The founding of The
Mother Church in Boston was the supreme
achievement Of evangelism. 1t revived primi-
tive Christianity and has placed it upon en-
during foundations, against which no assaults
car, can ever prevail There is nothing within nor
is nothing within the organization itself that
sustalns and propels it, but, rich in divine pur-
pose, upheld by divine care, The Mother Church
is the gift OF God to humanity.
:, OF The First Church of Christ, Scientist,
Mrs. Eddy has written that she was not aware,
when through divine direction she instituted its
government and provided for its branches, that
she was SO closely paralleling the original
these these lines In book published by Benjamin
Wills Newton: "'The church at Jerusalem.
like a sun, in the centre of it's system, had
other churches, like many planets revolving
around it. 1t was strictly mother and a
ruling church, (Miscellany, D. 13). And so
The Mother Church in Boston, one with it's ,
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a permanent dispensation. The nature Of Chris
tian Science is to multiply itself. The purely
spiritual Church of Christ. Scientist, must sE in
her can prosper. God shall have her foes in
derision. Well may this Church evangelical,
this Church universal, sing with the psalmist,
for God is in the midst OF her; she shall NOT
be moved"
THE EvANGELIZED SELF
''The human self must be evangelical" (sci-
Health. n
Eddy. Out of a higher, clearer order of
thinking must come better, cleaner order of
l1Vlng. God is not revealed to Internationally.
minded. little girl l love had gone down to
the shadow with disease that strikes terror to
the hearts OF parents, and had come up out Of
the valley In triumph, through the ministrations
of Christian Science Throughout the testing
OF her faith, she had never faltered. Her stead.
fast trust in Gods power and it's availability
covery;, friend, meeting the child, was struck
with the resemblance to her mother and so
remarked The mother said: ''She is gen
upon the friend asked, "Jean, whom do you
want to look like?" Her beaming face was
glorified she replied: 'T want to look like
God, and though l don't now some day shall ,,
No man may say what little Jean beheld there
in the valley alone with God, but remembering
Jesus words as to children, that "in heaven
their angels do always behold the face of nv
Father which is in heaven" can we doubt her
communion with Cod the ecstasy of the
angelic vision of that which "doth not yet ap-
pear" herself, the image of divine Love?
This is the truth which Christian Scientists
have learned, and which separates their thinking
hom all other thinking. The spiritual ulti-
mate is the ever-present now. There is no
past, no future, in Gods kingdom. Even the
present is not time-it is the presence Of God
Our Leader has said: Emerge gently from
matter into Spirit" (Science and Health, D.
495): - How long are we going to emphasize
often do we hear the apologetic 80 long as
in the flesh" $50 long as we are NOR
taP'! you take the side of error, you
thereby concede to error all the power and re-
ality it can ever have. David cursed his enc
mics, his erroneous concepts. With David, count
that to be your enemy which would obstruct
your vision OF the man God made you to be. A
little Christian Scientist, ladde wiser than
his years, admonished his father one morning:
Dad, remember to-day whose you are"
Oh, my friend, you face the problems of
life, remember always whose man you are. So
will your workaday world be glorified. Turn on
the lie that would make you mortal discord-
81 am the child of God. l am not in the flesh, |
but in the Spirit" Do not permit matter to be
real to you. Accept Spirit and your own spr-
ituality to be the reality the present fact about
you and about all that really exists In this
endeavor Christian Scientists egotistical?
They are not But they do think well OF the
God made, and their highest ambition is
to be that man, to express the divine image
and likeness.
Remember to-day whose you are Garry
the inspiration wherever you go. No human
pfOpleul Gan "lCuStdHu lLe meaning anu
saving grace of it. Is there discouragement2
There comes end to errors night. The re- |
sersal and rejection of error reveals Truths
presence. Joy cometh with the mornings light
Is hope deferred? Remember every step in
Christian Science is a forward step Unsettled
labor is achievement, right endeavor is victory
{, too, have unfinished business. But there are
crop failures in Gods husbandry. The fields |
already and always white to harvest, and
toll is triumph. Work and pray and trust God
while you work and pray. You have the truth |
and that must always be the helper the com
forter
Remember to-day whose man you are! Dis
heartened toiler, despairing sufferer, surfeited
transgressor, all who labor under errors thraI
take heart of grace. Always the great Evange |
is standing at the door of each individual con |
sciousness, standing and knocking. You have
but to turn from the clamor and glamour of
materiaism to hear that Voice. Open the door
OF your consciousness, my friend, and the 7,
alization OF the truth of your spiritual perfec
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