The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-26
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 Mankind is constantly seeking some form of Independence. Youth looks toward maturity in the hope of being freed from the limitations of inexperience. Age paradoxically sighs for the return of the lighter burdens of younger years. And who has not prayed to be free from the blithing influences of poverty, accident, sickness, sin, disease, and death2 Indeed, through all phases of material existence the struggle continues for independence from the Inachinations of evil and It's counterpart, matter.
 "Our reliance upon material things must be transferred to 8 per- ception of and dependence on spiritual things. For spirit to be supreme in demonstration, 1t must be supreme in our directions, and we must be clad with divine power" (Retrospection and Introspection, D. 28). In this statement Mary Baker Eddy, the discoverer and founder of Christian science, points human thought toward dependence on and love of God, good. Success fully to depend upon the things of SQlIlG ueC6SSlL&teS itISb ttlS RSA WIZ tion of spiritual values. For spirit to be supreme in our lives there must be standardization of our thinking. Honesty, unselfishness, and purity-in fact, all the founda- tional qualities of goodness are required if the hope of complete independence of things material is to be realized.
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 The search for freedom extends likewise into the body polite of the nations. Continued unrest ip in- ternational relationships shows that, even though the light of spirit ual truth has long shone clearly, the darkness of material thinking has not comprehended it. In the Christian Science textbook, "Sci- ence and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mrs Eddy says (p 106): Like our nation, Christian science has its declaration of independence. God has endowed men with inalien- able rights, among which are self, government, reason, and consci- ence. Man is properly self-govern- ed only when he is guided rightly and governed by his Maker, divine Truth and Love-" Here Is the prec- ious open secret of independence and freedom for all men and na- tions. The basis of mans endow- ment being the inalienable right of "self-government, reason, and conscience" it is evident that fail- ure to be independent of the re- strictions and limitations of tenn poral life is caused by lack of understanding and reflection or these divine attributes. One whose conscience is not awakened obvi- ously is minus the powers of both right reasoning and self-govern- ment.
 Must Know God
 In seeking to gain true govern ment in all phases of human ex- perience, must we not have an earnest desire to know God, good, to understand the divine law of love which eternally governs all? Even the lowest order of human thought holds a spark of good which may be made the starting point of spir- itual development; and from small beginnings the sturdy seedlings of truth are sure to appear. The genuine reaching out for good in Christian science includes a turn- ing to the Bible and the Christian Science textbook as the certain means of obtaining the needed protection and nourishment for the newborn idea; and it will be found that in this spiritual process the powers of reason are definitely awakened. Tn the advancing and enlightening reiinquishment of de- pendence on matter, error. or evil. and the establishment of depend- ence on God, the teachings of Christian science will be found truly indispensable. And Peter in his first epistle writes, If any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth." Ability to demonstrate the supremacy of spirit in our motives and acts to exchange the wrong concept for the right or spiritual idea, regard less of how elementary the need or how humble the beginning.
 Harmony Sought
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