The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-09

to be transported and cared for.
 Thus did his experience iefutl the despairing note of the PsalrlL,t about human fiailty, by his carry ing on this great task for forty years-until he had reached Six score, one hundred and twenty years of age. And what was n.s condition at the end ): ''.a. ti1lei The book of Deuteronomy says, His eye was not dim, nor his na tural force abated.
 Mrs. Eddy points out this fallaCy that God not only has sct a Init upon mans life, but enforces 1t. ohe shows us we have right 70 the attainment of a long, full life O service.
 God Not Governor by Time
 Existing in eternity. GoG IS nc older today that He w2o the day you were born. Then hcE cdn S1u His image and likeness-be a1ly older? You cannot. Age, then S self inflicted through wrol4g tllinE |. ing. We all are living right now Ill the very day in which God cre- ated man in His image, after His likeness
 Ms. Eddy gives examples in S. er.ce and Health of the recovery of youthful faculties or Of the long retention of them, demonstrating that vigor and vitality ave man. :: eternal birthright, If man will bat vigorously claim them. She wacHs against recording ages. C.e ca''s attention to the human tendency to measure and limit that which is beautiful and good inferentials ] pointing out the tende..Cy in the opposite direction to put no lint whatsoever upon that Wi.lch is evil aid ugly.
 Ind what does Mrs. EGdy give Us for reassurance against these wing guments? Listen! The rGaiaat sun of virtue and truth coeXists With being. Manhood is its eternal noon undimmed by declining sun" Coclenoe and Heath, p. 246J Mrs Eddy did much to prove this ;ri her own experience. Sine accom- plished so many highly important achievements :,l the Chrl5r. an Sci ence movement long after she had passed the three-score- re-and- ten lie of limitation. She was put to many tests which proved the kecnness and co4structiveness of her thinE ng aaG set at naught mortal minG efforts 10 limit or destroy her .Ifey ork.
 The Christian Science Monitor
 One of the outstanding tasks she completed in the course of this period was the founding and the launching of that great newspaper The Christian Science Mon,tol, the mission of which she described dS "to injure no man, but to bless al mankind" (The First Gnu. cn u1 Chr.st, Scientist, and Misc clancy, , 3o3). And how wonderfully the world is being blessed at thu tint by his ably edited newspaper, which made its appearance n 1908, whe. our beloved Leader, according to tht reckoning of this world, passed tht eighty anniversary of hsl human birth! We can learn to say with her, Let us then shape odl views of existence into lovelincss freshness, and continuity, rather than into age and blight" Science and Health, D. 245).
 And what about the sick? Have they also the right to look to God with joyous expectancy of the at- tainment of good-and good a-onc? The sinner has been taugho to 2c to God for healing, and he is as- sured by theology that he certainly will be healed. The sick, on the other hand, have been turned to material medicine rather ,nan to God. Mrs. Eddy, doing another ot her grand good turns for ilum.I- kind, has pointed out the fallacy oI this in no uncertain terms. Sl.e sayS, on page 143 of the textbook The sick are more deplora,4y los: than the s!rning, if the sick cannot rely on God for help and the sin ming can"
 In my first reading of the Chris tan Science textbook, this state lnent startled me, because I con- placently had accepted the general impression that the sick, a'uhougi' good and Christian, must rely up Il matreial means for healing, while the sinner, no matter how hardened had ready access to Spirit and spiri- tual means for his relief. I Was jolt ed out of this complacency by Mrs Eddys plain language.
 Unreality of Sickness
 When you go out with your camera, do you point the lens at unpleasant objects. or do you select scenes you wish to treasure? Has the film ill the calna any volce in the matter? Can it say. Oh, no cont want that thing pictu. e,l on me-? Of course not! Whatever is in front of the lens, when the shutter flickers open and shut, must be imprinted upon the film.
 Just so it IS with one CONSCIOUS ness and his body. Compare one : consciousness to the lens, and ms body to the film. When your con- sciousness is pointed at O. fills ( with wrong thoughts of any descrip- tion, can your body cry in alarm oh, no, I don't want that thing pictured on me-? Of course not Whatever of error is held in thought may be pictured on the body. unltsA corrective measures are taken. IAe body is just as helpless as the film
 You may ask, Does Mrs Eddy say anything like that in her Nri.- lngs?"
 Body Expresses Mortal Mind
 Oh, yes. She says: "A materia. body only expresses a material ana mortal mind. A mortal man pos sesses this body. and he mak.s it harmonious or diScordant according to the images of thought inpresse- upon it. You embrace your body ir jour thought, and you she lld d. lineate upon it thoughts of health not of sickness" (Science anc Health, p. 208)
 Jesus, thruogh his joyous confi- dence in the omnipotence. omnl- presence, and omniscience of Lud