The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-04
Christian Science Methods Are Discussed By Boston
 Speaker h Address Here

me, and all that I have is thine."
 Although God is a respecter of
 spirituality, He is not a respecter
 of persons. The divine Mind has
 no human favorites. Principle re-
 gards one idea or reflection as
 highly as another. If some per-
 sons seme to be sharing more
 abundantly in good than others,
 this is not due to divine discrimi-
 nation, but to the activity in hu-
 man consciousness of divine law, a
 law which, Christian Science re-
 veals, is ever present and as avail-
 able to all as it is to one. But
 in order that divine law may be- come operative in our behalf we
 must be loving and meek. We must be joyfully expectant of good.
 We must lay claim l1umbly and im- portunately to all that is included
 in mans birthright now as the son of God, who gives us domin- ion, not over supposed persons, cir- cumstances, and things, but over a mortally mental sense of the uni verse, including man; for Mrs Eddy tells us on page S6 fo Science and Health that mortal mind sees what it believes as certainly as it
 believes what 1t sees. It feels.
 hears, and sees It's own thoughts" OVERCOMING LIMITATION Some time ago, for example, while motoring with a friend through Q public park in one of our large midwestern cities, I saw a beautiful polar bear going through & series of motions from which, learned, he never deviates. | Year in and year out, the bear takes three or four steps forward and, without turning, the same number backward, hundreds of times a day, with tedious regular ity. When asked for an explana- | tion, the keeper said that the | animal grew up in cage that per- mitted him to take only those few steps in either direction. Although
 he was then at liberty to roam where he would in a large, rugged outdoor inclosure, including pool of water only few feet away, the
 bear, in bondaget his own sense of limitation, believed still that he had room enough for these few steps only.
 Like the bear, are not most per-. sons in bondage. more or less, to the belief of limitation? Are not
 many of us saying to ourselves I that we are incapable of doing this, unworthy of aspiring to that, and too old to attempt the other? Christian Science, however, is showing mankind how to throw off | the small-cage habit. Instead of | telling us to bow submissively to | suggestions of limited health, limit ed happiness, limited opportunity, limited ability, limited income, and so forth, this Science encourages us to face fearlessly the foe call- ing itself limitation, in the assur- | ance that error is never real Of true, plead for recognition as it will. Though the sun seems to rise, it is the earth turning. Though the earth seems to be flat, we know it is round. Though, at the hori- zon, ships seem to disappera, they l continue on their way. Our great | need is to be awake spiritually to the unreality of all sense-testi-
 mony, its lying limitations, and
 hceerfully, confidently, expectant
 fix our gaze on spiritual reality, which is ever-present, unchange- able, unlimited good, and to which sin. disease, sorrow, poverty, fail- ure, discouragement, disaster, and death are unknown. And whatever is true about God must be equally true about Gods image and like ness man.
 LOVE IS LAW
 Let it be understood clearly, however, that the religion of Chris tian Science cannot be used for the primary purpose of promoting | ones material prosperity nor for any other narrow, selfish purpose. The religion of Christian Science can be used for ono purpose only, namely, for acquainting ones self and others with God, infinite good. Knowing, however, that God re- wards humanly those who make the pursuit of heavenly riches their chief aim in life, Jesus said, Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things Human necessitiesl shall be added unto you" Accordingly, it is not organization, financing, or patronage that is fundamentally im- portant to ones success in life, but loving, unselfish, spiritual recogni- | tion of mans unity with God and of Gods impartial, unchanging love for man. In the light of this divine law, we see that every child, man, and woman, as an idea of divine Principle, Mind, stands before the Almighty with an equal right not only to health and happiness. but to opportunity and achievement. It is our sacred privilege to demon- strate this spiritual fact. and Chris tian Science shows us how.
 The Scriptures exhort us to love our neighbor as ourselves. This means, of course, that we should | rejoice over the good that comes to others as whole-heartedly as we rejoice over the good that comes to us. It means that we should find our own health, happiness, and | success in the health, happiness, and success of others. Consequent- ly, the surest way to invite our own failure is to look for and count upon the failure of others; and, contrariwise, the surest way to suc- ceed ourselves is prayerfully to recognize our neighbours divine right to succeed, to encourage him | in his endeavors, and to rejoice with him when he does succeed. All tHlLSS WHdLSOcVeE yC WOULD that men should do to you, do ye | even so to them; for this Is the law and the prophets" When mum dane affairs are ordered in accord ance with the Golden Rule, the law of Love, the discord and strife so commonly associated with human relationships will cease. Then we shall see that success in business and other legitimate pursuits de- bends not upon human competition but upon neighborly, brotherly, Christian cooperation.
 It may not always be humanly possible for us to give money and other material things, but we can | always give an understanding smile. or an encouraging word, or helping hand. The world needs kindness more than 1t needs ma terial things, and every one of us has an abundance of 1t to give. By helping others we shall find that others. will help us. This is in- evitablc. because 1t is in accord with divine law.