Milford chronicle., 1956-01-13

g our Father and our Mother, our
Minister and the great Physician:
He is mans only real relative on
earth and in heaven"
Everyone is then in reality pri-
marily and eternally related to
God. Man is Gods effect, the for
ever object Of Gods loving care.
One result Of Gods love is that It
causes all of His children to be
forever happily, understandingly,
lovingly related. All go to make
up Gods manifestation, or crea-
ton, and so all must be harmoni-
ously related because there is
unity and harmony in Gods king
dom. Regardless of the distorted
misconception of creation which
materiality presents, this ever re-
mains the unalterable fact-the
Fatherhood of God expressed in
the brotherhood Of man.
Jesus saw clearly the fact as TO
true relationship, that it is not
something man can make and un-
make but a spiritual fact to be
discovered and demonstrated. Said
he, ''Whosoever shall do the viii
of my Father which is in heaven,
the same is my brother, and sister,
and mother" Matt 12:5O). Mans
basic relationship is to God, who
causes him to be happily related to
his brother.
A woman afflicted with a malig-
nant disease was healed when she
gained some realization of the true
s1rsAs
to exist between all of His chil-
dren. She saw that it was her duty
to God to love her husband as a
child of God, instead of hating hina
as an irascible human companion.
Where the material senses say
there is an unlovable mortal, Spir-
itual sense can discover our broth
er's real being, the lovable witness
Of the one God. Thus step by step
we reject and blot out of our con-
sciousness the pictures of mortal
ity's lie, including the claim that
mortal mind has made us and in
harmoniously related us, and we
displace this lie with the already
existing fact that our one real rela-
tive is God, who naturally relates
US one to another, not after the
manner of mortal minds ordering.
but after the wise and loving way
of Gods appointing.
Business Problem Solved
The grower Of a large quantity
of food product, which had been
contracted for by a cannery, was
suddenly informed that after a GER
tain date the cannery would not
take any more Of his seasons crop.
The situation was desperate. The
crop was a perishable me, and no
other buyer for it could be quickly
found, as the date set by the can
merry was in the immediate future.
The grower and his wife were ear
nest students of Christian Science.
They refused to become panicky,
turned away from the human pic
ture to the basic relationship Of
/ God and His family of rightly re-
lated individualities.
They had the assistance Of a
Christian Science practitioner. The
next day after the emergency arose
and after the grower and his wife
had come to feel that God Yves on
the field working in the conscious
ness of all concerned to bring to
light the way of Loves appointing,
the grower felt it right to call the
executive in charge of the can
merry. He was greeted very cour-
teously. When he brought up the
/ question Of the balance of the crop,
which the day before the execu-
tive had said he had orders from
his superiors in a distant city not
i to accept, he now said, Yesterday
could not accept any more Of
/ your crop, but today things have
changed, and we shall now be glad
to accept it. The Christian Scien-
lists had not prayed for this to be
the outcome. They had rather re-
allied what is spiritually true in
regard to relationship; had seen
that all individual manifestations
of Life, God, are controlled only
| by the Principle that is God and
that this Mind, Principle, naturally
/ impelS each ali to think and
act toward his brother with con-
Sideration, justice, and good will;
that no selfshness or i'll will can
compel any of the Fathers family
to think or act toward another ex-
cept as God impels him to think
and act, for the Mind that is Love
ever is working in one and all TO
| produce those decisions and judg-
mentS which will bless one and all,
and so glorify the one Father, God.
Their prayerful work was effec-
tive. What threatened to cause the
grower heavy loss was corrected,
and those in a position to help
were glad to express the Golden
Rule, "All things whatsoever Ye
would that men should do to you,
l do ye even 81 to them" Matt. 7:l2).
Freedom from all forms of evil
is salvation, liberation from mate-
rial bondage. Jesus proved each
Individual has il within his power
to discover and to demonstrate
through true prayer ard right liV-
ing mans full measure of sonsldip
with his God. His freedom depends
not on what any mortals think. Il
depends solely on his willingness
humbly and consistently to use the
talents divine Mind has given to
him, the ability prayerfully to real
ize the spiritual and eternal sense
of life and man, perfect and har-
moniOus as its cause, and the sur
rendering up, here a little and
there a little, of that fieeting, fad
ing sense Of life and man which is
the roor opposite of divine reality.
John assures us that now are we
the Sons Of God" Il John 3:2). Was
he right? Or was he wrong II
right, is it not rather foolish for as
to dillydally in the waste places Of
material futilitv when our spirit