Milford chronicle., 1961-04-21

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Christian Science textbook. There
are twenty-six subjects for these
Bible Lessons, each subject being
used twice a year. Each lesson is
prepared from a fresh, vital
viewpoint. One is not repeti-
ton of another, in spite OF the
fact that the subjects are re-
peated.
The Sunday church service in
cludes this Lesson-Sermon read
by two Readers appointed, or
elected, for a limited term, from
the church membership. Students
of Christian Science faithfully
study the Lesson-Sermon, finding
that it gives them their daily
bread, that is, the daily bread OF
spiritual enlightenment. Does
this mean that students study the
Lesson-Sermon for themselves,
then go to church and hear the
same one read from the desk as
the Sunday church service? Yes,
Christian Scientists do just that,
and there is a good reason for 1t.
Think for a moment of a very
simple illustration. Suppose that
many people, each bearing a
lighted lamp, were to enter, one
by one, into a dark auditorium.
The first one 70 enter would
brighten the auditorium a little.
The second one to enter would
double the illumination. Then as
three, four, five, and finally all
the lamps were giving their ef-
fulgence, would not everyone
present see his surroundings
Illuminated by the light of all
the lamps instead of by just the
one he carried in? In the same
way the accumulated spiritual
enlightenment at the Sunday
service resulting from the de-
voted study of the Bible Lesson
during the preceding days blesses
each one present, providing a
mental atmosphere of spiritual
illumination, clarity, peace, and
a holy sense of Gods presence
that is productive of healing and
regeneration.
A young man whose hands
were covered with unSightly
warts started to attend services
in a Church of Christ, Scientist.
Although he had not begun the
study of Christian Science, yet
after attending the services for
only a few weeks he found one
day that his hands were COM
pletely free of the affiiction and
have been ever since. AS result
of this healing he became an
earnest student of Christian Sci
ence.
Little wonder that Mrs. Eddy
thought of the Church of Christ,
Scientist, as a healing church.
She saw the need of mankind for
spiritual enlightenment and pro-
vided, under Gods direction,
many avenues and instrument
talities for disseminating the
truth. She founded weekly and
monthly periodicals, which have
interesting and constructive ar
ticles on Christian Science, to-
gether with carefully verified tes-
timonies of healing. She founded
an international daily newspaper,
The Christian Science Monitor,
whose high standard of journal
ism is bringing elevated concepts,
a higher sense of truth, to all who
read it. 1t is aiding its readers to
think more constructively and
spiritually, thereby bettering
health and morals today.
God and Man
From Science and Health (p.
465) we learn that God is in
corporeal, divine, supreme, inf
mite Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle,
Life, Truth, Love-" All of these
terms are either used in the Bible
as names for God or are neces-
sarily implied. One may ask, "Is
Principle used in the Bible as a
term for God?" No. not the word
Principle itself, which was intro
duced by Mrs. Eddy, but its true
meaning is used in the Bible as
name for Deity. A dictionary
defines principle" in part as "a
source or origin" Could we find
better word than Principle to
explain God as the source or
origin of the universe, as the
Lawgiver who maintains His in
finite creation in perfection,
beauty, grandeur, and order? The
other synonyms used by Mrs.
Eddy present God to mankind
through such qualities as intelli-
gence, true substance, holiness,
continuity. reality, love, mani
tested in the fatherly and moth
erly affection which protects and
blesSes all.
Every man serves the concept
of Deity which he entertains.
Some would dispute this state
ment, saying that they are athe-
lists and have no concept of God
at all; but this is not true. God
means good, and everyone fol-
lows and obeys what in his heart
he considers good for himself. He
may not worship the true good
ness that is God; in fact, he may
even follow a course of evil, be-
lieving that it viii bring him
what is advantageous. One bows
down to what he believes will
bring him what he wants or will
give him what he needs, and this
is the deity or sense of good he
worships, and to which he at
tributes power.
A true knowledge of God as
the source or origin of the spir-
itual universe and spiritual man
is true religion. What could be
more truly scientific or give one
a more exact concept of reality
than an understanding of God,
| the source of all being? True re-
| ligion and Science are insepa-
rable, and deductions which are
not in accord with both are
neither true religion nor true
1 Coiavnca True Science must rec