Milford chronicle., 1958-01-17

God saw everything InaI he ndO
made and He pronounced all that
He had made "very good" Chris
tian Science teaches US that God
was completely satisfied with
what He had created. Mrs. Eddy
writes (Science and Health, p.
519), Deity was satisfied with
His work" Then she poses the
question: How could He be
otherwise, since the spiritual
creation was the outgrowth. the
emanation. of His infinite self
containment and immortal wis
dom?"
The truth is that God, good,
made everything that was made.
God, being Mind, must express
Himself. In Science and Health
we read (p. 310), God is His own
infinite Mind, and expresses ALL"
Since Mind expresses all, man is
the expression of God and SO ex-
lists in Mind alone as its spiritual
idea. Then man can only expert
ence the harmony, joy, peace,
and security that is conferred by
divine Mind.
Christian Science teaches us to
firmly claim our position of do
minion as stated in Genesis
(1:26): "And God said, Let us
make man in our image, after
our likeness: and let them have
dominion" AS we Steadfastly
claim the eternal fact of mans
dominion, we must just as firmly
accept, and understand, the
dominant position of supremacy
which God already has given His
children. This dominant position
of supremacy is proved in indi-
vidual experience when we un-
derstand that God is Love, Life,
Mind, and claim that man is His
image and likeness.
Through this understanding,
each of us can wipe out of our
experience the hate, prejudice,
and resentment and other false
beliefs which are holding the
world in bondage. Only as these
beliefs are destroyed and har-
mony experienced individually,
can peace and security be estab-
lished in the world.
Mary Baker Eddy
If you were given some Won
derful gift that brought you a
peace and security you had never
before experienced, wouldn't you
have unbounded gratitude for the
giver?
Many thousands feel gratitude
for the Discoverer and Founder
of Christian Science, Mary Baker
Eddy, for she has given tc the
world the "Key to the Scrip
lures" in the textbook, Science
and Health" This book illumines
the pages of the Bible and brings
out their spiritual significance.
In the year 1866, Mrs. Eddy fell
on an icy street in Lynn, Massa-
chusetts, and was so badly in
jured that she was not. expected
to live. From her early years she
had been an earnest student of
the Bible. 1t was natural for her,
in this extremity, to turn to her
Bible for comfort. She opened to
the chapter in Matthew (9:2)
that gives an account of Jesus
healing of the palSied man. AS
she read, her thought was so en-
lightened that she saw this heal
ing as a natural result of the
application of a rule of Principle,
God. She realized, as she never
had before, that Life in and of
Spirit is. the only reality of ex-
istence.
She arose from her bed, dressed
herself, and went into the parlor,
where her friends and the min
lister were awaiting her death.
They were astonished to find her
greatly improved, and she tells
us that after that she experienced
better health than before the fall
on the ice.
From that day on, Mrs. Eddy
searched the Bible with the sole
purpose of discovering the rules
by which Christ Jesus did his
marvellous healing work. She
says in her autobiography that
the Bible was her only textbook.
Holy Bible
To many millions of people
throughout the centuries, the
Bible has been the most i'm
portant book ever written. 1t re-
cords the history of a people in
their search for God. It points
the way to the salvation which
includes freedom from all that
human experience,
and conveys to its readers the
spiritual comfort and assurance
of good for which humanity longs.
The books comprising the
Bible were written over a period
of more than thousand years by
numerous authors. Yet, the Bible
a unity throughout its
entire length. Most of the books
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called Palestine, which is about
the size of New Hampshire. Yet
the influence of the ideas con-
tanned in the Bible has gone far
beyond the borders of that coun-
try to the remotest bounds of the
earth, and this influence is stead
lily growing.
The Old Testament records
many healings of sin and of sick
ness brought about through the
understanding of the Messiah or
Christ, Gods spiritual, eternal
nature.
The New Testament includes
record of the life and teachings
of Christ Jesus, whose words and
works have changed human
thought to a greater degree than
has any other individual who has
lived on this planet. The New
Testament is full of accounts of
healings of sin and sickness by
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