Montana labor news., 1944-02-24
Science Lecture Delivered by Herbert W. Beck, c. S. B.

called attention to a high hill behind
the town from which a white flag was
flown by day and a light was shown by
night to guide the fishermen home.
Then the girl was told that there was
no large rock or stone in the hill, Just
little pebbles or grain Of sand. And con-
tinuing, the aunt said: Let your life
be so full of little acts Of kindness that
in time your life will lift itself as a hill
to guide men home to their God" And
so the child, grown to womanhood, had
so lived that her deeds of l~oving-kind-
ness had greatly helped her fellow man.
Does not this true story illustrate the
beauty and power of daily demonstra-
tons of the nature of man as the child
of God? The demonstration of the
omnipotence and activity of good leads
us to the heights of grandeur, the vision
of loveliness. In so living men will be
led to look beyond our little acts of kind
ness to the great Giver of all good.
Rightful Scientific Living
Christian Science teaches us to be we'll
balanced Christians; enables us TO un-
derstand and hold our vision of Gods
allness and of mans perfection. On
the mountaintop of Inspiration we see
the vision of the %omnipotence of good,
but we grow the crops of demonstration
in the valleys. The Master had his
glorious experience on the Mount of
TRANSPORTATION, but the sick were wait
ing and were healed after he had de-
scended from the mountain. we progress
step by step, demonstration by demon
stration. This is not done by having
our heads in roseate clouds, dreaming
of the alness of good, but with feet we'll
planted on the ground of endeavor. Our
religion makes us first healthy, normal
individuals, full Of compassion and good
works; it enables us to be good neigh
bors, good citizens, to be successful in
rightful undertakings, before we attain
the full realization Of the kingdom of
heaven within.
The inhabitants of the world have
tried for centuries to be Christians with
out having an understanding of divine
Science to support their efforts. On the
other hand, there should not be the
endeayor to be scientific without being
Christian. We need to be christianity
scientific, as we'll as scientifically Chris
ton. Christianity and true Science can
never be separated, for they are iden-
teal.
Good is always giving spiritual ideas
to man, while evil claims to present its
%allurements for our recognition. Which
is worthy of acceptance? The first
always blesses us with good; the second
causes us to experience sin, sickness, and
death. In the silent cinema we are first
placed in almost total darkness before
the picture is projected upon the silver
screen. The picture is made Of lights
and shadows; there is no reality to it,
no man, woman, child, or building-just
lights and shadows. Yet we are uplifted
or debased; we laugh or we weep over
the sense of reality that we put into
those lights and shadows. Consequently
we must observe carefully the lights and
shadows which mortal mind would pro
jeet upon the screen of u conscious
ness, reject the false, and let our living
reflect Gods glory.
We express wisdom if We look for and
expect the presence OF good. One Of
the first Christian Science lecturers ap-
pointed by Mrs, Eddy was at one time
being commiserated by a student who
claimed to know all about the evil which
the other had to meet in his pioneer
lecture work-the hatred of Truth, the
malice, the envy that attended his eff
forts. The lecturer stopped the person
by saying, yes, I have a great deal to
meet; 1 have to meet Almighty God
every moment And because of this
manner of knowing, he was a valiant
soldier of Christ. We too must meet
good every moment.
There is no law Of punishment to be
inflicted upon one when he accepts or
speaks the truth to another. There is
only one true law-the law of good. We
were not punished when we learned the
simple rules of arithmetic or when we
spoke Of or put those rules to use. We
need not be superstitious about evil and
give it power, for power belongs to God
alone. Mortal mind would condemn US
to evil, to sin, to disease, to all types
of distress, but there is no law Of con-
domination, for God, the only creator,
never made such a law; evil because Of
it's inherent nature condemns itself to
failure, to destruction.
Disobedience to divine law is sin and
always brings its own punishment; while
obedience to divine law brings peace, Joy,
and well-being. Much evil is presented
to mankind in the name of good, which,
if INDUCED, turns upon its victim. Sin
is accepted only because Of its false
promises, and one must be alert to evil,
and its claims should be vigorously ex-
posed and destroyed. Today, not to-
morrow, is the time to destroy the mes
merism of these false promises and cast
them from us as having no attraction.