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l#iS4#lfcwwl»^s®Swll ' ■ w m̂ iWHii hhMw EMilllW*llli| inm nw J u n e 20jj[22£is > tm w s m j M NEWS' 3 A Ipaurc on Chri«tl*n Scksnco w«» ..itvm i on Friday Evenlngrjrune in the H o llyW n Thoatxo by \VUliam E. Brown, C .S 3o und«r the auspJoc® of tbo local C to lst^n Science Society. * Mr« Annie B rondro tt' the F iret Reader in the Society, introduclntf tire Lecturer, said;--* In that wonderful book, the Bible, are to be found these -comfortinK words from Isaiah: "Ho, every one th a t thirsteth , conre ye to the waters, and he th a t hath iio money; com© ye, buy, and eat, yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.'? When, as a stranger in a sjranee country, without employment and « Jettink low, Christian Science S s nc-sciite^d to Irie. I delayed look- i t o it until a more "convement i X s o n " for at the time I Was look- hlS for a position. However, months went bv and still I was unsuccessful. A,niin tiie Christian Science Textbook, h .... . TTo'nIfk with Kev to the • Eatitled Christian Science; The Science and Art of Spiritual Living Hon. William E. Brown,^C.S.B., p f Los Angeles, California, Member of the Board of Lectureship of The Mother Church, The F irst Church of Christ, Scientist, of Boston, Massachusetts. of the Scriptures as follows. Said the practitioner; "You are familiar with the saying of the Master as to eternal life, 'And this is life eternal, that they nuKht know thee 't From this it is clour that eternal life is embodied in a knowledge of Cod. Therefore the alMiuportiint question is, Who is to know Cod ? Tho answer Is to bo found in Jeremiah 81:84, 'For they shall all know me, from tho least of them 'unto the greatest.' So this disposes of your ■ lin* and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker M dy was.M 11... nwsrl fVim f.imfo l S to mo', and ucceiitotl it BS B little chlldi The opening sentence 'YTo* those leaning on the Bustoining infinite, today is big with blessings,'; gave me hope, and as I read on I knew I had found the 'fruth. In two' days I was led to a splendid position where I was very happy.. ., ■■■ The Lecturer apoke substantially as follows: A celebrated painter who was dis­ cussing and analyzing, many phases of art finally exclaimed, "After all is said and done, the highest arb is the art of living." How true is this! and how well it comprehends , the" art of CHrlstiairScience=^the-'art'of:spiritual' living. failing.to understand.the real import of the apostles' admonition to "work out your own salvation," believes that salvation is vicarious, dependent upon the sacrifice of another, th a t is, of Christ Jesus,--upon the literal shed­ ding of Wood. This reminds mo , of a religious controversy in which the fol­ lowing question was asked, "Do you think that, God, whom the Bible de­ scribes as Love, after creating man in His, own image and likeness pro­ ceeded to bestow upon him an inclin­ ation to sin, surrounding him with hypnotizing temptations, and so a r­ ranged cause and effect tha t when he obeyed his Cod-given inclination to sin he was to be punished by disease and death?" The speaker con tinu^ by asking another question: "And do you realize that this is, in substance, the foundation of many of the religi­ ous beliefs of mankind?" ^ to preserve a scientific, positive sense of unity with your divine source, and daily demonstrate this.^ Then you will find th a t one is as important a factor as duodecilllons in being and doing right, and thus- demonstrating deific Principle."' Then w....................will follow the re­ sults of the divine activity so beauti­ fully described in one of our, Leader's poems (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 398), Instances of tho heating and re­ deeming power of Spirit abound In tlm Bible, but the ones just cited are suf-. fleiont to illustrate the vital tru th i desire to impress upon you: namely, that it is possible for an indlvIduHl possessed of spiritual understanding to triumph over all mortal discord, in­ entire trouble. Hero Is the dclinite lUomise that all are to know Cod, and Mince such knowledge means eternal life, then all are finally to exr presM IhiH life." eluding ieath; that stich triumph may ■■ ■'*...... --- 1-- "A rt and Science, all unwoary, Lighting up this mortal dream." In the Century Dictionary a rt is de­ fined as "The employment of given means to effect a purpose," andegain, "The more complete the .scientific basis of an a rt the more perfect the art." '•H' In Christian Science we have pre­ sented to us a perfect Science; hence we have perfect art. Of this,-M ary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Foun­ der of Christian Science, w rites in her textbook, "Science and.:H ealth with -Keytorthe-Scriptures"~(p."507 )7""ThiS' divine Principle of all expresses Scii.; ence and a rt Ciroughqut His creation;" and again (Miscellaneous Writings, p., 375), "The truest a r t of Christian Science is to be a Christian Scientist; and it demands more than a Raphael to delineate t h i s a rt." Perhaps some may attem pt to show that the ability to "sin did not come from God, but if we believe th a t sin is.a: reality and th a t God ,is the ©Wy cause and creator. He must be the author of all that really exists. Here we have a. problem, namely, to account for the existence bf evil pr m atter in the face of the spiritual fact of an • omnipresent God or infinite Spirit. Broadly speaking, mankind has con­ structed many theories, in the attem pt to explain this inebrisisteht' arid illog­ ical. situation. In writing of these theories Mrs. Eddy states (Science and Health, p "U 9 ): "They either pre­ suppose thei' sdlf-evolution and self- government of m atter, or else they assume tha t m atter is the product of Spirit. To seize the first horn of this dilemma and consider m atter as a power in and of itselipj is to Ipave the ' creator out of His own universe; while to grasp the other horn; of the dilem­ ma and regard God as the creator of m atter, is not only to niake Him re- sponsible for all disasters, physical ^ and m oral,-but-to-announce -^Hjm-as- V their.-v:source,.,^.thereby.^ making m in - guilty of maintaining perpetual mis- "rule in the form and under the name of natural law." The i n d i v i d u a l demonstration, stressed by Christian Scjenco, not only leaves one free to begin his demon­ stration whenever he so desires, but also frees him from the blighting sense of discouragement, both from hih own and from what may be termed general human belief. In other words, one does not have to wait for muss conditions t e improve nor a final day of judgment. Ho realizes as he dem­ onstrates the propositions of Christi­ an Science th a t ,"one with God is h m ajority." By this method hot only are the individual's conditions im­ proved, but world conditions as woll< Every time a truth is declared and every time Some mortal discord is overcome through the realization of tru th the general human conscious­ ness is, in that measure, being im- "provednand"pdrified.~Indeed ■ i t 'is'only- by such methbd that world salvation is to be effected. I t is manifest that since nations are but aggregations of individuals, in the degree the indivr idual is redeemed nations are redeem­ ed. i t is evident that when individuals refuse to quarrel there can be no national quarreling. occur a t any time or place and under any and all conditions. Of this, Pbul writes, "Now Is the day of salvation. This method of solving human prob­ lems is not new. I t Is as ancient as the "Ancient, of days," and was avail­ able to mortals long bofoteitho advent of Christ JoBUB. I t has well been said that Christianity, although estabuHh- ed b.v-Jesus, is not true because , Jesus taught it, but rather th a t he taught it because it is true. ThoMt' illustrations servo to show the importance of undursianding the iScriptures in tlieir spiritual sense, and this understanding is one of tho great blessings which Christian Sci­ ence bestows upon a race in bondage to false theologv, , MAN In 'contemplating the demonstra­ tions made possible through an under­ standing' of CJiristiun Science,' tho student will do!well to hear in mind that two things are impeiatlvely re­ quired. Ho must understand both tho Science and a rt of Christian Science; that is, Ho'must acquire a spiritual understanding of the Science of being and then master the a r t of bringing into human experience the spiritual qualities inherent in this being. In other words, he must alcquiro both the spirit and the letter. Tlu» iiuesUinvH which have arisen in tlie humu'n mind concerning man--as to who ho is, what ho Iŝ whonco- His origin, whence his dostination, and wh.v ho exists, have puzzled the most profound thinkers of the ages. It remained for Mary Buk(,*r Eddy to give the world-satisfying answers to all (luerlos of this nature. As a, basic statenient, Christian Science declares that man made in the imago ami like­ ness of God is spiritual, not material; individual, but not personal. The analysis of tho word "norson" as ap­ plied to human beings Is illuminating • • ' llr Delayed demonstrations may be caused by toying to solve human problems through an intellectual per- ' ................. . ' ' pla - When it is realized^ that world sal­ vation waits upon individual salvation the importance of the (Christian. Sci­ ence teaching is recognized. ■: A slow way,--rsome 'may say,---and this is relatively so; yet when one considers_ "It IS the only way, it gives one a fee l-, ing of gratitude that even th is ' seem-' ingly slow way has been discovered and given to the world- by Christian- Science. ' It may be said that all human activ­ ity has for its final goal' improved living. Even the criminal mistakenly -beielves that his unlawful acts will -"^fin^-him ^dpplU e^Sffd:^^ But as one surveys the, experience of mortals since the. dawn of history,.one realizes that all m a te r ia lp la n s , whether individual or collective, have failed in their purpose to confer last- ' ing" happiness"' upon ~mankirid."' The reason for such failure is because these plans have not been based ppon true science or true a rt, _ Revelation,' reason, and logic estabr lish the-fact that there could not be "two opposing basic , powers in the runiverse, and they also testify to the spiritual fact that there is but one primal cause--divine Principle, God, from whom all things proceed. Reason .andJogic..^l^P_t§siifx^t2. J l e ^ ^ ^ F T fif ic ip le 7"to be"inJinite-and-eter- nal, must be harmonious. I t is self- evident that discordant things are self-destructive, hence not eternal. The major- reason fo r the failure of mortal plans is i te r a n c e dlf 'the nature of God and man. Because of this ignorance these plans are not formulated upon.the recognition tha t the art of living is an individual m at­ ter, instead of a collective endeavor. This vital tru th is well illustrated in the reply of a well-known clergy­ man, who, with a number of others, was asked the question, "If Jesus were with us today, w hat remedy would he offer for our presenb-dlay problems?" The clergymaif referred to said, in substance, "I t would be difficult to say p s t what the Master would offer; but of this we may be -sure, his remedy would not be political in its nature, because he always dealt directly with the individual." When it is clearly seen that there is but one primal, eternal, Harmonious ftc'ause, the conclusion, is inevitable, namely, that all which* proceeds from this one primal cause must be like its cause, eternal and harmonious.^ So . here we have our true Science of being > which, in .the language of Mrs. Eddy (Science and Health, p . : 290), is "the - everlasting I AM, the Being who was and is and shall be, whom nothing can , When one -looks out over world con­ ditions as they exist today, obviously individual delinquencies, many times multiplied, are primarily the cause of present-day troubles. In speaking of the ever-increasing mass of legisla­ tive enactments designed to establish n_JunaLhai3MonjpjtiO©lAtiQP s,L^ ̂ failure to accomplish the desired re ­ sult, someone has said: "We have tried many kind of rules without suc­ cess.- Suppose wb try the Golden Rule." Again, when someone was asked- the - question, --"Do-ryou-,think_ that Christianity has proved a fail­ u re?" the answer came, "No on© knows; it has never been tried." But, thank God, with ' the discovery of Christian Science it is being, and has been tried for over half a centuiy with results which prove th a t .it has reinstated primitive Christianity, with its healing and regenerating works. ception of Christian Science in place of a rounded sense of demonstration, which always includes spiritual think­ ing and living. Of this our , Lead Cl*' writes (Science and Health, p. 4): "The longing to be b&tter and holier, expressed in daily watchfulness and in striving to assimulate m ore. of the divine character, will mould and fashion us anew, until we awake in His likeness. We roach the-' Science -of--Christianity--through--demonstra-- tipn., pf the divipe nature." Leto me repeat the last sehteriiiee,. for it is ' a vital point in expressing th e , a rt of , dhristian Science: ' "Wjb reach the Science of Christianity through dem­ onstration of the divine nature." and helpful. The woixl comoB ovighial ly from the Latin "norHona," moan­ ing "a mask," and Is dofined thus: "A 'person' Is one who imporBonatOH a chai'actor." Tho word "maak" ex­ actly conveys the point 1 desire to make clear to you. Mortal person­ ality is tho mask hiding the true indiv­ iduality of man. Soon after I iier- -coived-thiB"intGresting-faetr"I"hadoc-- cusioii to observe u group of people assembled from various walks of life. The thought of musks recurred to mo, and 1 realized that the various phases of mortality presented wore but masks. There was tho mask of youth, of middle age, of decrepitude, of sad­ ness, illness, and worry. I t was very helpful to know that the masks con­ fronting me wore but the seeming ex- ternalization of tho various states of; .consciousness of those wearing them; that these-masks could bo changed us the wearers manifested changes in consciousness when, purified and recti­ fied by Christian Scjenco teaching. THE BIBLE I t is important to bear in mind a t all times that Mrs. Edd'>̂ discovered fhe 'Science of Christianity through a spiritual understanding of the Scrip- trtares-,=i»nd--he=iwho"av-eul<^gMn=:*:t A careful study of the teachings of Jesus shows th a t he taught the fund­ amental truths of being and~ahowed that they must be practiced, applied, and lived by the individual. Christian bcience is in line w ith the Master's teaching in revealing the truths of being and in showing th a t these must be demonstrated by the individual., I desire that you clearly recognize "this loundataon stone of. Christian Science, as it will enable you to understand the wonderful demonstrations wdiich fre ­ quently rescue individuals when the consensus of human, opinion-has indi-PQTArl VIA w ... erase." This discovery of the tru th of being constitutes the fundamentakdlscovery of Mary Baker Eddy, arid?distinguish- - es her from all other religious teach- Ters except Christ Jesus. Mrs. Eddy's ' discovery of the facts tha t God is " infinite Mind, and that the universe as ■ an expression of "this Mind, is forever harmonious, is . of course, wholly a t . variance with the false testimony of the material senses. After her discov­ ery she'immediately began the hercu- ' lean task of making simple and prac­ ticable this revelation, so tha t mortals could utilize her discovery in destroy­ ing the discordant testimony of the ' material senses. Her method has made ' - possible the practice of Christian. Sci­ ence, the living of its revealed truths; in other words, the a rt of spiritual . living. Through spiritual understanding of the tru th underlying the declaration th a t "one with God is a majority," individuals have been enabled to solve problems which, to the senses, seem unsolvable. The Bible contairis many such instances: The Shuriammite woman, when death seemed to claim her child, with sublime faith turned to the man of God for help, and was enabled, with , spiritually inspired calmness, to answer Gehazi, servant of the prophet, "I t is -well with the child." This state of receptivity, to ­ gether with the spiritual confidence of the prophet, resulted in the restora­ tion of the child. demonstration made' by the ttebrew captives in the fiery furnace!" S? .<'0™Plete was th^ir : tru s t in God -Chat they-w ere protected from the n ^ e s and, as i t is re n te d of them, governors, and "captains, lung's counsellors, being together, saw these mem the -fire had no s h S an hair of their head *either.„ Jwere-- - th e ir -coats- ^nnetwe there ' is ind icaW the t p i c h i e ^ i f f e r e n c e s between of Christian Sciente.and of scholastic theologyrH ie latter, ..... ■!-. .... ... The student of Christian Science, being equipped with an understanding : of-the only true Science, proceed^! to : demonstrate, or prove, this Science; ' this he does by displacing the discord- " "ant beliefs of the. senses with the spifitual facts of being. The work is pu^^y individual, and the realization " of this brings great comfort" and .bless­ ings to mortals.-v'Through the teach- I ing of Christian Science an individual realizes that, like the high priest of to ld , he is free to enter the Holy of '■'Holies, the inner sanctuary, where the spiritual facts of being are discerned' in their fullness. I t m atters not what the nature of the prbblem is which may confront an individual--^whether M t be personal, local, national-or-inter- -= national; pTiysibal, mental, moral,, or financial; the remedy is always the --same, and the ability and privilege to solve such problems exist here and now. Of this practice, or a r t of Oiris-" tian Science, Mrs. Eddy writes (Pulpit and Press, p. 4), "You have simply A most helpful, encouraging, and portentous event is the demonstration of Enoch in overcoming death. The complete story of cause and effect is graphically set forth in Hebrews (11 : 5): "By faith Enoch was trans­ lated tha t he should not see death; and "was not found, because God had translated him: fo r before his ?trans- lation he had this testimony, th a t he pleased God." Please note th a t this translation was the reward of faith. This word "faith," in its, highest signification, is indicated in Hebrews (11: 1): "Faith is, the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of ■things not seen," and is even more graphically set forth in the Twentieth Century New Testament' as follows; "Faith is the realization of things hoped for--the proof of things not seen." 4 . • :Sv demonstrable knowledge of this Sci­ ence m ust acq[uire the same spiritual understanding of Scriptural teaching. As one acquires the ability to inter­ pret the Scriptures spiritually, one is --increasingly' convinced of, -and con- . stantly^marvelsiat, the harmony and consistency of Scriptural teaching,, as ' .uncovered by Mrs. Eddy's discovery. Here it will be helpfuL.tb know th a t the original Scrip'tures Were writtep without punctuation or versification, and that when translators and various writers began'.to punctuate and fonur ulate verses, incorrect use of these frequently obscured the spiritual ■meaning. To illustrate: take the story of the man born blind, whom Jesus healed. From the punotuaied reading as given in John 9: 3, 4, the inference might be gained that the man was born blind in order that Jesus m ight have an opportunity of healing him; ' which view is -of- course absolutely contrary to the fact recorded in Genesis 1: 31, "And God saw every thing tha t he had made, and, behold, it was very good." However, through an illumination of the spiritual facts . revealed in the Bible, which Christian Science brings, it is recognized th a t the man was not bom blind in order tha t the works of God should be mani­ fest in him, but that Jesus was about to heal him, and in this healing would be manifested the works of God; •Again, take the familiar Scriptural declaration given in Matthew 7:14: jThis process is clearly outlined by Mrs. Eddy, who \vritos (Science and Health, p. 248), "Immortal Mind feeds the body with supernal freshness and fairness, supplying it with beautiful images of thought and destroying the woe's of 'sense which, .eachf-day brings to a nearer tomb." The reaL man, then, is the expression of the divine character," and his reason for existing is to express God, As ̂to his origin, ,.._Christian--t^Srionce- r̂teaeHeH ĵHa=!fehatehe coexists .with "God, dwelling forever an idea in infinite Mind, without be­ ginning or end. The highest goal of human endeavor is to acquire an und­ erstanding of spiritual existence, or, as PauLpu.ts .it,_"_Then_shall „L_ know even as also I am known;" in other words, as God knows me. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE PRACTICE If the question were asked, JVouId it be a desirable thing to hayb sin, disease, fear, hate, and death disap­ pear from human experience ? the unanimous answer is, It'wbuld. "S tra it is the gate, and narrow is the l i e h h ..................................way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it." From th is reading it might be inferred that all were not to find the way of life; but the Rotherham translation puts an en­ tirely different construction on th is verse, where he says, "And few there be who are finding it." In other words/ mortals were.finding the "strait ga te" slowly. Would it be "a desirable thing if mortals cpuld learn how to avoid the experiences called sorrow, grief, and disappointment? The answer is; It would. Would it be a desirable thing to banish forever all failure, loss, dis­ couragement, and povetty? The ans­ wer is, I t would. If it were possible to submit these questiohs to a world- . wide referendum, the answer would be returned in letters of eager response, higher than the heavens, I t would. Accompanying this world response would be the all-importaht question! .How? The Science of the "how" is simple, logical, and demostrable. To acquire its a rt, the a rt of becoming a Christian Scientist, is simple, and available to all who are sufficiently in earnest to meet its requirements. Let me give you an inkling of how'the Science of Christianity operates in overcoming all that is unlike God. I t is the mission of Christian Science to answer this question, "How?" Through a spiritual Understanding of the Bible, and the proof that it answers it correctly is shown in <the lives of those who have been rescued from all manner of earthly troubles, and who are gaining in ever-increas­ ing degree the a r t of spiritual living. I want to call your special attention -to - th e - i;eason„ given 4>y Paul for- rEnoch's translation, "F o r before his translation he had this testimony, th a t he p isse d God.", It' is recorded th a t Enoch was three hundred and sjxty- five years old a t the tim e of tran s la - ' tion; so the belief of old age. did not interfere with his deiuonstaration. In this connection, I recall the ex­ perience of a patient who had turned : to Christian Science for help. Among his troubles was a belief that he was,* spiritually lost. Through a miscon­ ception of the verse just quoted in regard to "few there be" who find =-th© -way-of- life,~he -had -become- ob­ sessed with the idea that in some way ■he had neglected his opportunity and therefore had lost salvation. ̂ ̂ T^ (Christian Bcience " practitioner, , to ', whom he appealed for help, immi^i- ately freed him from his obsession by giving him a scientific understanding ■■ ' - i ' r ' " 'I i " j { 3. ̂ *'(• 3 ' ^ 1 ^ ________________________ I Mrs. Eddy has said that "the start- ing-point of divinco Science is that God, Spiirit, is All-in-all, and that thefe is no, other, might nor Mind,J-- th a t God is Love, and therefore He is divine Principle" (Science and H<^lth, p. 275).> This premise is demonstrably trae , and is proved by every healing. . JB„ Christian.LScienee..Butoit,. will_ be.- necessary to concede this premiise in order to have opportunity to pfove its correctness. I t will be compartively simple and easy to make the conces- sion a t this hour, for the teaching of leading natural scientists is now agreeing with Mrs. Eddy that the universe is mental; that is, the natur- 7 <'S j 1 , L 4 f \ . ' i t- i ' ' f ^ f ■ , 1 A' 1 4 ',i|% - IT* ' i ' ^1 ' ̂ \ A r "i! > '»,>'■ ' ' i Kfj * * ■ I ' l • ■ ■ ■■.........■V'-V 'k, 3 ':A. Iv. ■ ... -{I K F > 'v: t id! .v ji ' ' ̂ -f L i ' i ISiP! - ' l' '*r J