The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-06

surably enrich each others mean ing. Christian Science reveals God as Principle, instinct with all the gentleness and tenderness of Love, and as Love endowed with all the changeless certainty of Principle. How transcendent of all human limitations in its power to bless and save is that union of absolute Prin- ciple and all-inclusive Love which Christian Scientists acknowledge as God!
 God and Man
 In her writings Mrs. Eddy uses seven synonyms for God, and in or der to summarize what is meant when we say that God is ever present I will repeat them. They are Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, Life. Truth, Love" (Science and Health p. 465).
 It is upon the basis of Gods in- finity that Christian Science denies the reality of matter. of evil, and of all the troubles and turmoil of mor- tai existence-of sin, sorrow, pain, disease. Since God is infinite, then whatever seems to exist but is not the manifestation of Spirit, of Life, of Love, can only have the insub- stantial nature of a false belief. l remember once standing upon the wide expanse of sandy shore at low tide and seeing in the distance what appeared to be waves tossing and breaking. knew the district well, and I knew that there was no water where the ewaves seemed to be. The appearance of waves was a mirage-a seeming, not reality. If had walked to the spot where the waves seemed to be I should have found only waste of wet sand. Of just such a nature as those appar- ent breakers is all the storm tossed sea of mortal experience; however true 1t seems, it is insubstantial and unreal. It is proved to be so as we learn through Christian Science the fundamental truth that God is AL mall.
 There is point which should be touched upon here. The Bible de- clares that man is made in Gods image and likeness. The material man whom we see all around US, the man with whom mortals identify themselves. is obviously not the image and likeness of God, of infi- nite Life and Love. A study of Christian Science leads us to revise our notions about man, about our selves, and about our fellows, and to realize that the material concept about man, in common with other errors, is part of the false belief that God is less than infinite, and that something can exist which is unlike and separate from Him.
 What then must we understand man in reality, to be? Christian Sci ence teaches us that God is Mind. Mind is reflected or expressed in idea, and that reflection of Mind. of God, is man in his true being. Man." Mrs. Eddy writes in Science and Health (p. 475), lis idea, the image, of Love; he is not physique" Mind uneXpressed, that is, without idea, is unthinkable, as unthinkable as father without child. God can never be without His expression man; and therefore where God is and that is everyWhere-there man is also, man made in the spiritual image and likeness of God. An un- derstanding of the truth about man enables us to reject the material false belief about man, and to real lze that just where that false belief, with all it's pitiful mixture of good and evil, it's efforts and failures, seems to be there in reality is the perfect expression of omnipresent Mind.
 The Discoverer and Founder of
 Christian Science and Her Work It was revelation of Gods pres- eLae and power which first led to the discovery of Christian Science by Mary Baker Eddy in the year 1866. Recovery from serious injuries, the result of an accident, recovery which followed her reading in the Bible of the story of the healing of the man sick of the palsy, convinced Mrs. Eddy that the divine Principle which underlay the healing and sav- ing ministry of Christ Jesus is avail able and operative today. Spiritual law. not chance, explained Mrs. Eddy's restoration to health. With a deep desire to help humanity, Mrs. Eddy determined to search the Scriptures until she found the sci cntific laws of healing which were demonstrated by Jesus, and by his | followers for three centuries after his ascension. For three years she studied the Bible, until she was able to discern the Science which ex- plains the Masters life and work. She submitted her discoveries to rigorous practical tests, and con- firmed the truth of those discover les by the healing of sickness in many and varied forms. Thus she assured herself that she had found the Science of changeless divine Principle; and speaking of that Principle in Science and Health (p. l0D she says that 1t points to the revelation of Immanuel God with us,'-the sovereign presence, delivering the children of men from every Ill that fle0 Is hen to-" The healing of tke sick and the reformation of the sinner through Christian Science substan- tiates that statement.
 Having discovered the truths of Christian Science and elucidated them in the Christian Science text book, Mrs. Eddy perceived the ne- cessity for some form of organiza- ton to protect her teaching from adulteration and to disseminate it. Just as Mrs. Eddy was alone re- sponsiblc for the discovery of Chris tian Science, so 1t was she who or ganized The Mother Church, The First Church Of Christ ScieStist, in Boston, Massachusetts. which now has branches all over the world.
 One of the effective methods de-