Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures

For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this

mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and

shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those

things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have

whatsoever he saith. Therefore I say unto you, What things

soever ye desire when ye pray, believe that ye receive them,

and ye shall have them.

Your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask

Him. - CHRIST JESUS.

1:1 THE prayer that reforms the sinner and heals the

sick is an absolute faith that all things are

1:3 possible to God,- a spiritual understanding of Him,

an unselfed love. Regardless of what another may say

or think on this subject, I speak from experience.

1:6 Prayer, watching, and working, combined with self-im-

molation, are God's gracious means for accomplishing

whatever has been successfully done for the Christian-

1:9 ization and health of mankind.

Thoughts unspoken are not unknown to the divine

Mind. Desire is prayer; and no loss can occur from

1:12 trusting God with our desires, that they may be

moulded and exalted before they take form in words

and in deeds.

Right motives

2:1 What are the motives for prayer? Do we pray to

make ourselves better or to benefit those who hear us,

2:3 to enlighten the infinite or to be heard of

men? Are we benefited by praying? Yes,

the desire which goes forth hungering after righteous-

2:6 ness is blessed of our Father, and it does not return

unto us void.

Deity unchangeable

God is not moved by the breath of praise to do more

2:9 than He has already done, nor can the infinite do less

than bestow all good, since He is unchang-

ing wisdom and Love. We can do more for

2:12 ourselves by humble fervent petitions, but the All-lov-

ing does not grant them simply on the ground of lip-

service, for He already knows all.

2:15 Prayer cannot change the Science of being, but it

tends to bring us into harmony with it. Goodness at-

tains the demonstration of Truth. A request that

2:18 God will save us is not all that is required. The mere

habit of pleading with the divine Mind, as one pleads

with a human being, perpetuates the belief in God as

2:21 humanly circumscribed,- an error which impedes spirit-

ual growth.

God's standard

God is Love. Can we ask Him to be more? God is

2:24 intelligence. Can we inform the infinite Mind of any-

thing He does not already comprehend?

Do we expect to change perfection? Shall

2:27 we plead for more at the open fount, which is pour-

ing forth more than we accept? The unspoken desire

does bring us nearer the source of all existence and

2:30 blessedness.

Asking God to /be/ God is a vain repetition. God is

"the same yesterday, and to-day, and forever;" and

3:1 He who is immutably right will do right without being

reminded of His province. The wisdom of man is not

3:3 sufficient to warrant him in advising God.

The spiritual mathematics

Who would stand before a blackboard, and pray the

principle of mathematics to solve the problem? The

3:6 rule is already established, and it is our

task to work out the solution. Shall we

ask the divine Principle of all goodness to do His own

3:9 work? His work is done, and we have only to avail

ourselves of God's rule in order to receive His bless-

ing, which enables us to work out our own salvation.

3:12 The Divine Being must be reflected by man, - else

man is not the image and likeness of the patient,

tender, and true, the One "altogether lovely;" but to

3:15 understand God is the work of eternity, and demands

absolute consecration of thought, energy, and desire.

Prayerful ingratitude

How empty are our conceptions of Deity! We admit

3:18 theoretically that God is good, omnipotent, omni-

present, infinite, and then we try to give

information to this infinite Mind. We plead

3:21 for unmerited pardon and for a liberal outpouring of

benefactions. Are we really grateful for the good

already received? Then we shall avail ourselves of the

3:24 blessings we have, and thus be fitted to receive more.

Gratitude is much more than a verbal expression of

thanks. Action expresses more gratitude than speech.

3:27 If we are ungrateful for Life, Truth, and Love, and

yet return thanks to God for all blessings, we are in-

sincere and incur the sharp censure our Master pro-

3:30 nounces on hypocrites. In such a case, the only

acceptable prayer is to put the finger on the lips and

remember our blessings. While the heart is far from

4:1 divine Truth and Love, we cannot conceal the ingrati-

tude of barren lives.

Efficacious petitions

4:3 What we most need is the prayer of fervent desire

for growth in grace, expressed in patience, meekness,

love, and good deeds. To keep the com-

4:6 mandments of our Master and follow his

example, is our proper debt to him and the only

worthy evidence of our gratitude for all that he has

4:9 done. Outward worship is not of itself sufficient to

express loyal and heartfelt gratitude, since he has

said: "If ye love me, keep my commandments."

4:12 The habitual struggle to be always good is unceas-

ing prayer. Its motives are made manifest in the

blessings they bring,- blessings which, even if not

4:15 acknowledged in audible words, attest our worthiness

to be partakers of Love.

Watchfulness requisite

Simply asking that we may love God will never

4:18 make us love Him; but the longing to be better

and holier, expressed in daily watchful-

ness and in striving to assimilate more of

4:21 the divine character, will mould and fashion us

anew, until we awake in His likeness. We reach the

Science of Christianity through demonstration of the

4:24 divine nature; but in this wicked world goodness

will "be evil spoken of," and patience must bring

experience.

Veritable devotion

4:27 Audible prayer can never do the works of spiritual

understanding, which regenerates; but silent prayer,

watchfulness, and devout obedience enable

4:30 us to follow Jesus' example. Long prayers,

superstition, and creeds clip the strong pinions of love,

and clothe religion in human forms. Whatever mate-

5:1 rializes worship hinders man's spiritual growth and keeps

him from demonstrating his power over error.

Sorrow and reformation

5:3 Sorrow for wrong-doing is but one step towards reform

and the very easiest step. The next and great step re-

quired by wisdom is the test of our sincerity,

5:6 - namely, reformation. To this end we are

placed under the stress of circumstances. Temptation

bids us repeat the offence, and woe comes in return for

5:9 what is done. So it will ever be, till we learn that there

is no discount in the law of justice and that we must pay

"the uttermost farthing." The measure ye mete "shall

5:12 be measured to you again," and it will be full "and run-

ning over."

Saints and sinners get their full award, but not always

5:15 in this world. The followers of Christ drank his cup.

Ingratitude and persecution filled it to the brim; but God

pours the riches of His love into the understanding and

5:18 affections, giving us strength according to our day. Sin-

ners flourish "like a green bay tree;" but, looking farther,

the Psalmist could see their end, - the destruction of sin

5:21 through suffering.

Cancellation of human sin

Prayer is not to be used as a confessional to cancel sin.

Such an error would impede true religion. Sin is forgiven

5:24 only as it is destroyed by Christ, - Truth and

Life. If prayer nourishes the belief that sin is

cancelled, and that man is made better merely by praying,

5:27 prayer is an evil. He grows worse who continues in sin

because he fancies himself forgiven.

Diabolism destroyed

An apostle says that the Son of God [Christ] came to

5:30 "destroy the /works/ of the devil." We should

follow our divine Exemplar, and seek the de-

struction of all evil works, error and disease included.

6:1 We cannot escape the penalty due for sin. The Scrip-

tures say, that if we deny Christ, " he also will deny us."

Pardon and amendment

6:3 Divine Love corrects and governs man. Men may

pardon, but this divine Principle alone reforms the

sinner. God is not separate from the wis-

6:6 dom He bestows. The talents He gives we

must improve. Calling on Him to forgive our work

badly done or left undone, implies the vain supposition

6:9 that we have nothing to do but to ask pardon, and

that afterwards we shall be free to repeat the offence.

To cause suffering as the result of sin, is the means

6:12 of destroying sin. Every supposed pleasure in sin

will furnish more than its equivalent of pain, until be-

lief in material life and sin is destroyed. To reach

6:15 heaven, the harmony of being, we must understand

the divine Principle of being.

Mercy without partiality

"God is Love." More than this we cannot ask,

6:18 higher we cannot look, farther we cannot go. To

suppose that God forgives or punishes sin

according as His mercy is sought or un-

6:21 sought, is to misunderstand Love and to make prayer

the safety-valve for wrong-doing.

Divine severity

Jesus uncovered and rebuked sin before he cast it

6:24 out. Of a sick woman he said that Satan had bound

her, and to Peter he said, "Thou art an of-

fence unto me." He came teaching and

6:27 showing men how to destroy sin, sickness, and death.

He said of the fruitless tree, "[It] is hewn down."

It is believed by many that a certain magistrate,

6:30 who lived in the time of Jesus, left this record: "His

rebuke is fearful." The strong language of our Mas-

ter confirms this description.

7:1 The only civil sentence which he had for error was,

"Get thee behind me, Satan." Still stronger evidence

7:3 that Jesus' reproof was pointed and pungent is found

in his own words,- showing the necessity for such

forcible utterance, when he cast out devils and healed

7:6 the sick and sinning. The relinquishment of error de-

prives material sense of its false claims.

Audible praying

Audible prayer is impressive; it gives momentary

7:9 solemnity and elevation to thought. But does it pro-

duce any lasting benefit? Looking deeply

into these things, we find that "a zeal . . .

7:12 not according to knowledge" gives occasion for reac-

tion unfavorable to spiritual growth, sober resolve, and

wholesome perception of God's requirements. The mo-

7:15 tives for verbal prayer may embrace too much love of

applause to induce or encourage Christian sentiment.

Emotional utterances

Physical sensation, not Soul, produces material ec-

7:18 stasy and emotion. If spiritual sense always guided

men, there would grow out of ecstatic mo-

ments a higher experience and a better life

7:21 with more devout self-abnegation and purity. A self-

satisfied ventilation of fervent sentiments never makes

a Christian. God is not influenced by man. The "di-

7:24 vine ear" is not an auditory nerve. It is the all-hearing

and all-knowing Mind, to whom each need of man is

always known and by whom it will be supplied.

Danger from audible prayer

7:27 The danger from prayer is that it may lead us into temp-

tation. By it we may become involuntary hypocrites, ut-

tering desires which are not real and consoling

7:30 ourselves in the midst of sin with the recollection

that we have prayed over it or mean to ask for-

giveness at some later day. Hypocrisy is fatal to religion.

8:1 A wordy prayer may afford a quiet sense of self-

justification, though it makes the sinner a hypocrite.

8:3 We never need to despair of an honest heart; but

there is little hope for those who come only spasmodi-

cally face to face with their wickedness and then seek to

8:6 hide it. Their prayers are indexes which do not correspond

with their character. They hold secret fellowship with

sin, and such externals are spoken of by Jesus as "like

8:9 unto whited sepulchres . . . full . . . of all uncleanness."

Aspiration and love

If a man, though apparently fervent and prayerful,

is impure and therefore insincere, what must be the

8:12 comment upon him? If he reached the

loftiness of his prayer, there would be no

occasion for comment. If we feel the aspiration, hu-

8:15 mility, gratitude, and love which our words express,-

this God accepts; and it is wise not to try to deceive

ourselves or others, for "there is nothing covered that

8:18 shall not be revealed." Professions and audible pray-

ers are like charity in one respect,- they "cover the

multitude of sins." Praying for humility with what-

8:21 ever fervency of expression does not always mean a

desire for it. If we turn away from the poor, we are

not ready to receive the reward of Him who blesses

8:24 the poor. We confess to having a very wicked heart

and ask that it may be laid bare before us, but do

we not already know more of this heart than we are

8:27 willing to have our neighbor see?

Searching the heart

We should examine ourselves and learn what is the

affection and purpose of the heart, for in this way

8:30 only can we learn what we honestly are. If a

friend informs us of a fault, do we listen pa-

tiently to the rebuke and credit what is said? Do we not

9:1 rather give thanks that we are "not as other men"?

During many years the author has been most grateful

9:3 for merited rebuke. The wrong lies in unmerited cen-

sure,- in the falsehood which does no one any good.

Summit of aspiration

The test of all prayer lies in the answer to these

9:6 questions: Do we love our neighbor better because of

this asking? Do we pursue the old selfish-

ness, satisfied with having prayed for some-

9:9 thing better, though we give no evidence of the sin-

cerity of our requests by living consistently with our

prayer? If selfishness has given place to kindness,

9:12 we shall regard our neighbor unselfishly, and bless

them that curse us; but we shall never meet this great

duty simply by asking that it may be done. There is

9:15 a cross to be taken up before we can enjoy the fruition

of our hope and faith.

Practical religion

Dost thou "love the Lord thy God with all thy

9:18 heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind"?

This command includes much, even the sur-

render of all merely material sensation, affec-

9:21 tion, and worship. This is the El Dorado of Christianity.

It involves the Science of Life, and recognizes only the

divine control of Spirit, in which Soul is our master,

9:24 and material sense and human will have no place.

The chalice sacrificial

Are you willing to leave all for Christ, for Truth, and

so be counted among sinners? No! Do you really desire

9:27 to attain this point? No! Then why make long

prayers about it and ask to be Christians,

since you do not care to tread in the footsteps of our

9:30 dear Master? If unwilling to follow his example, why

pray with the lips that you may be partakers of his

nature? Consistent prayer is the desire to do right.

10:1 Prayer means that we desire to walk and will walk in

the light so far as we receive it, even though with bleed-

10:3 ing footsteps, and that waiting patiently on the Lord,

we will leave our real desires to be rewarded by Him.

The world must grow to the spiritual understanding

10:6 of prayer. If good enough to profit by Jesus' cup of

earthly sorrows, God will sustain us under these sor-

rows. Until we are thus divinely qualified and are

10:9 willing to drink his cup, millions of vain repetitions

will never pour into prayer the unction of Spirit in

demonstration of power and "with signs following."

10:12 Christian Science reveals a necessity for overcoming the

world, the flesh, and evil, and thus destroying all error.

Seeking is not sufficient. It is striving that enables

10:15 us to enter. Spiritual attainments open the door to a

higher understanding of the divine Life.

Perfunctory prayers

One of the forms of worship in Thibet is to carry a

10:18 praying-machine through the streets, and stop at the

doors to earn a penny by grinding out a

prayer. But the advance guard of progress has

10:21 paid for the privilege of prayer the price of persecution.

Asking amiss

Experience teaches us that we do not always receive

the blessings we ask for in prayer. There is some mis-

10:24 apprehension of the source and means of

all goodness and blessedness, or we should

certainly receive that for which we ask. The Scrip-

10:27 tures say: "Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask

amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts." That

which we desire and for which we ask, it is not always

10:30 best for us to receive. In this case infinite Love will

not grant the request. Do you ask wisdom to be mer-

ciful and not to punish sin? Then "ye ask amiss."

11:1 Without punishment, sin would multiply. Jesus' prayer,

"Forgive us our debts," specified also the terms of

11:3 forgiveness. When forgiving the adulterous woman he

said, "Go, and sin no more."

Remission of penalty

A magistrate sometimes remits the penalty, but this

11:6 may be no moral benefit to the criminal, and at best, it

only saves the criminal from one form of

punishment. The moral law, which has the

11:9 right to acquit or condemn, always demands restitu-

tion before mortals can "go up higher." Broken law

brings penalty in order to compel this progress.

Truth annihilates error

11:12 Mere legal pardon (and there is no other, for divine

Principle never pardons our sins or mistakes till they

are corrected) leaves the offender free to re-

11:15 peat the offence, if indeed, he has not already

suffered sufficiently from vice to make him turn from it

with loathing. Truth bestows no pardon upon error, but

11:18 wipes it out in the most effectual manner. Jesus suffered

for our sins, not to annul the divine sentence for an in-

dividual's sin, but because sin brings inevitable suffering.

Desire for holiness

11:21 Petitions bring to mortals only the results of mor-

tals' own faith. We know that a desire for holiness is

requisite in order to gain holiness; but if we

11:24 desire holiness above all else, we shall sac-

rifice everything for it. We must be willing to do this,

that we may walk securely in the only practical road

11:27 to holiness. Prayer cannot change the unalterable

Truth, nor can prayer alone give us an understanding

of Truth; but prayer, coupled with a fervent habitual

11:30 desire to know and do the will of God, will bring us

into all Truth. Such a desire has little need of audible

expression. It is best expressed in thought and in life.

Prayer for the sick

12:1 "The prayer of faith shall save the sick," says the

Scripture. What is this healing prayer? A mere re-

12:3 quest that God will heal the sick has no

power to gain more of the divine presence

than is always at hand. The beneficial effect of

12:6 such prayer for the sick is on the human mind, mak-

ing it act more powerfully on the body through a blind

faith in God. This, however, is one belief casting out

12:9 another, - a belief in the unknown casting out a belief

in sickness. It is neither Science nor Truth which

acts through blind belief, nor is it the human under-

12:12 standing of the divine healing Principle as manifested

in Jesus, whose humble prayers were deep and con-

scientious protests of Truth, - of man's likeness to

12:15 God and of man's unity with Truth and Love.

Prayer to a corporeal God affects the sick like a

drug, which has no efficacy of its own but borrows its

12:18 power from human faith and belief. The drug does

nothing, because it has no intelligence. It is a mortal

belief, not divine Principle or Love, which causes a

12:21 drug to be apparently either poisonous or sanative.

The common custom of praying for the recovery of the

sick finds help in blind belief, whereas help should come

12:24 from the enlightened understanding. Changes in belief

may go on indefinitely, but they are the merchandise of

human thought and not the outgrowth of divine Science.

Love impartial and universal

12:27 Does Deity interpose in behalf of one worshipper,

and not help another who offers the same measure of

prayer? If the sick recover because they

12:30 pray or are prayed for audibly, only peti-

tioners (/per se/ or by proxy) should get well. In divine

Science, where prayers are mental, /all/ may avail them-

13:1 selves of God as "a very present help in trouble."

Love is impartial and universal in its adaptation and

13:3 bestowals. It is the open fount which cries, "Ho,

every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters."

Public exaggerations

In public prayer we often go beyond our convictions,

13:6 beyond the honest standpoint of fervent desire. If we

are not secretly yearning and openly striv-

ing for the accomplishment of all we ask,

13:9 our prayers are "vain repetitions," such as the heathen

use. If our petitions are sincere, we labor for what we

ask; and our Father, who seeth in secret, will reward

13:12 us openly. Can the mere public expression of our de-

sires increase them? Do we gain the omnipotent ear

sooner by words than by thoughts? Even if prayer is

13:15 sincere, God knows our need before we tell Him or our

fellow-beings about it. If we cherish the desire hon-

estly and silently and humbly, God will bless it, and

13:18 we shall incur less risk of overwhelming our real

wishes with a torrent of words.

Corporeal ignorance

If we pray to God as a corporeal person, this will

13:21 prevent us from relinquishing the human doubts and

fears which attend such a belief, and so we

cannot grasp the wonders wrought by infi-

13:24 nite, incorporeal Love, to whom all things are possible.

Because of human ignorance of the divine Principle,

Love, the Father of all is represented as a corporeal

13:27 creator; hence men recognize themselves as merely

physical, and are ignorant of man as God's image or re-

flection and of man's eternal incorporeal existence. The

13:30 world of error is ignorant of the world of Truth, - blind

to the reality of man's existence, - for the world of sen-

sation is not cognizant of life in Soul, not in body.

Bodily presence

14:1 If we are sensibly with the body and regard omnipo-

tence as a corporeal, material person, whose ear we

14:3 would gain, we are not "absent from the

body" and "present with the Lord" in the

demonstration of Spirit. We cannot "serve two mas-

14:6 ters." To be "present with the Lord" is to have, not

mere emotional ecstasy or faith, but the actual demon-

stration and understanding of Life as revealed in

14:9 Christian Science. To be "with the Lord" is to be in

obedience to the law of God, to be absolutely governed

by divine Love,- by Spirit, not by matter.

Spiritualized consciousness

14:12 Become conscious for a single moment that Life and

intelligence are purely spiritual, - neither in nor of

matter, - and the body will then utter no

14:15 complaints. If suffering from a belief in

sickness, you will find yourself suddenly well. Sorrow

is turned into joy when the body is controlled by spir-

14:18 itual Life, Truth, and Love. Hence the hope of the

promise Jesus bestows: "He that believeth on me,

the works that I do shall he do also; . . . because I

14:21 go unto my Father," - [because the Ego is absent from

the body, and present with Truth and Love.] The

Lord's Prayer is the prayer of Soul, not of material

14:24 sense.

Entirely separate from the belief and dream of mate-

rial living, is the Life divine, revealing spiritual under-

14:27 standing and the consciousness of man's dominion

over the whole earth. This understanding casts out

error and heals the sick, and with it you can speak

14:30 "as one having authority."

"When thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and,

when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father

15:1 which is in secret; and thy Father, which seeth in

secret, shall reward thee openly."

Spiritual sanctuary

15:3 So spake Jesus. The closet typifies the sanctuary of

Spirit, the door of which shuts out sinful sense but

lets in Truth, Life, and Love. Closed to

15:6 error, it is open to Truth, and /vice versa/.

The Father in secret is unseen to the physical senses,

but He knows all things and rewards according to

15:9 motives, not according to speech. To enter into the

heart of prayer, the door of the erring senses must be

closed. Lips must be mute and materialism silent,

15:12 that man may have audience with Spirit, the divine

Principle, Love, which destroys all error.

Effectual invocation

In order to pray aright, we must enter into the

15:15 closet and shut the door. We must close the lips and

silence the material senses. In the quiet

sanctuary of earnest longings, we must

15:18 deny sin and plead God's allness. We must resolve to

take up the cross, and go forth with honest hearts to

work and watch for wisdom, Truth, and Love. We

15:21 must "pray without ceasing." Such prayer is an-

swered, in so far as we put our desires into practice.

The Master's injunction is, that we pray in secret and

15:24 let our lives attest our sincerity.

Trustworthy beneficence

Christians rejoice in secret beauty and bounty, hidden

from the world, but known to God. Self-forgetfulness,

15:27 purity, and affection are constant prayers.

Practice not profession, understanding not

belief, gain the ear and right hand of omnipotence and

15:30 they assuredly call down infinite blessings. Trustworthi-

ness is the foundation of enlightened faith. Without a

fitness for holiness, we cannot receive holiness.

Loftiest adoration

16:1 A great sacrifice of material things must precede this

advanced spiritual understanding. The highest prayer

16:3 is not one of faith merely; it is demonstra-

tion. Such prayer heals sickness, and must

destroy sin and death. It distinguishes between Truth

16:6 that is sinless and the falsity of sinful sense.

The prayer of Jesus Christ

Our Master taught his disciples one brief prayer,

which we name after him the Lord's Prayer. Our Mas-

16:9 ter said, "After this manner therefore pray

ye," and then he gave that prayer which

covers all human needs. There is indeed some doubt

16:12 among Bible scholars, whether the last line is not an

addition to the prayer by a later copyist; but this does

not affect the meaning of the prayer itself.

16:15 In the phrase, "Deliver us from evil," the original

properly reads, "Deliver us from the evil one." This

reading strengthens our scientific apprehension of the peti-

16:18 tion, for Christian Science teaches us that "the evil one," or

one evil, is but another name for the first lie and all liars.

Only as we rise above all material sensuousness and

16:21 sin, can we reach the heaven-born aspiration and spir-

itual consciousness, which is indicated in the Lord's

Prayer and which instantaneously heals the sick.

16:24 Here let me give what I understand to be the spir-

itual sense of the Lord's Prayer:

Our Father which art in heaven,

16:27 /Our Father-Mother God, all-harmonious/,

Hallowed be Thy name.

/Adorable One./

16:30 Thy kingdom come.

/Thy kingdom is come; Thou art ever-present./

17:1 Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. /Enable us to know,- as in heaven, so on earth,- God is 17:3 omnipotent, supreme/.

Give us this day our daily bread;

/Give us grace for to-day; feed the famished affections;/

17:6 And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.

/And Love is reflected in love;/

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from

17:9 evil;

/And God leadeth us not into temptation, but delivereth

us from sin, disease, and death./

17:12 For Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the

glory, forever.

/For God is infinite, all-power, all Life, Truth, Love, over

all, and All./

And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the

affections and lusts. - PAUL.

For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel.

- PAUL.

For I say unto you, I will not drink of the fruit of the vine,

until the kingdom of God shall come. - JESUS.

Divine oneness

18:1 ATONEMENT is the exemplification of man's unity

with God, whereby man reflects divine Truth, Life,

18:3 and Love. Jesus of Nazareth taught and demonstrated

man's oneness with the Father, and for this we owe him

endless homage. His mission was both in-

18:6 dividual and collective. He did life's work

aright not only in justice to himself, but in mercy to

mortals,- to show them how to do theirs, but not to do

18:9 it for them nor to relieve them of a single responsibility.

Jesus acted boldly, against the accredited evidence of the

senses, against Pharisaical creeds and practices, and he

18:12 refuted all opponents with his healing power.

Human reconciliation

The atonement of Christ reconciles man to God, not

God to man; for the divine Principle of Christ is God,

18:15 and how can God propitiate Himself? Christ

is Truth, which reaches no higher than itself.

The fountain can rise no higher than its source. Christ,

18:18 Truth, could conciliate no nature above his own, derived

19:1 from the eternal Love. It was therefore Christ's purpose

to reconcile man to God, not God to man. Love and

19:3 Truth are not at war with God's image and likeness.

Man cannot exceed divine Love, and so atone for him-

self. Even Christ cannot reconcile Truth to error, for

19:6 Truth and error are irreconcilable. Jesus aided in recon-

ciling man to God by giving man a truer sense of Love,

the divine Principle of Jesus' teachings, and this truer

19:9 sense of Love redeems man from the law of matter,

sin, and death by the law of Spirit,- the law of divine

Love.

19:12 The Master forbore not to speak the whole truth, de-

claring precisely what would destroy sickness, sin, and

death, although his teaching set households at variance,

19:15 and brought to material beliefs not peace, but a

sword.

Efficacious repentance

Every pang of repentance and suffering, every effort

19:18 for reform, every good thought and deed, will help us to

understand Jesus' atonement for sin and aid

its efficacy; but if the sinner continues to pray

19:21 and repent, sin and be sorry, he has little part in the atone-

ment,- in the /at-one-ment/ with God,- for he lacks the

practical repentance, which reforms the heart and enables

19:24 man to do the will of wisdom. Those who cannot dem-

onstrate, at least in part, the divine Principle of the teach-

ings and practice of our Master have no part in God. If

19:27 living in disobedience to Him, we ought to feel no secur-

ity, although God is good.

Jesus' sinless career

Jesus urged the commandment, "Thou shalt have no

19:30 other gods before me," which may be ren-

dered: Thou shalt have no belief of Life as

mortal; thou shalt not know evil, for there is one Life,-

20:1 even God, good. He rendered "unto Caesar the things

which are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are

20:3 God's." He at last paid no homage to forms of doctrine

or to theories of man, but acted and spake as he was moved,

not by spirits but by Spirit.

20:6 To the ritualistic priest and hypocritical Pharisee

Jesus said, "The publicans and the harlots go into the

kingdom of God before you." Jesus' history made a

20:9 new calendar, which we call the Christian era; but he

established no ritualistic worship. He knew that men

can be baptized, partake of the Eucharist, support the

20:12 clergy, observe the Sabbath, make long prayers, and yet

be sensual and sinful.

Perfect example

Jesus bore our infirmities; he knew the error of mortal

20:15 belief, and "with his stripes [the rejection of error] we are

healed." "Despised and rejected of men,"

returning blessing for cursing, he taught mor-

20:18 tals the opposite of themselves, even the nature of God;

and when error felt the power of Truth, the scourge and

the cross awaited the great Teacher. Yet he swerved not,

20:21 well knowing that to obey the divine order and trust God,

saves retracing and traversing anew the path from sin to

holiness.

Behest of the cross

20:24 Material belief is slow to acknowledge what the

spiritual fact implies. The truth is the centre of all

religion. It commands sure entrance into

20:27 the realm of Love. St. Paul wrote, "Let us

lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so

easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that

20:30 is set before us;" that is, let us put aside material self

and sense, and seek the divine Principle and Science of

all healing.

Moral victory

21:1 If Truth is overcoming error in your daily walk and

conversation, you can finally say, "I have fought a

21:3 good fight . . . I have kept the faith," be-

cause you are a better man. This is having

our part in the at-one-ment with Truth and Love.

21:6 Christians do not continue to labor and pray, expecting

because of another's goodness, suffering, and triumph,

that they shall reach his harmony and reward.

21:9 If the disciple is advancing spiritually, he is striv-

ing to enter in. He constantly turns away from ma-

terial sense, and looks towards the imperishable things

21:12 of Spirit. If honest, he will be in earnest from the

start, and gain a little each day in the right direction,

till at last he finishes his course with joy.

Inharmonious travellers

21:15 If my friends are going to Europe, while I am /en

route/ for California, we are not journeying together.

We have separate time-tables to consult,

21:18 different routes to pursue. Our paths have

diverged at the very outset, and we have little oppor-

tunity to help each other. On the contrary, if my

21:21 friends pursue my course, we have the same railroad

guides, and our mutual interests are identical; or, if I

take up their line of travel, they help me on, and our

21:24 companionship may continue.

Zigzag course

Being in sympathy with matter, the worldly man is at

the beck and call of error, and will be attracted thither-

21:27 ward. He is like a traveller going westward

for a pleasure-trip. The company is alluring

and the pleasures exciting. After following the sun for

21:30 six days, he turns east on the seventh, satisfied if he can

only imagine himself drifting in the right direction. By-

and-by, ashamed of his zigzag course, he would borrow

22:1 the passport of some wiser pilgrim, thinking with the aid

of this to find and follow the right road.

Moral retrogression

22:3 Vibrating like a pendulum between sin and the hope

of forgiveness,- selfishness and sensuality causing con-

stant retrogression,- our moral progress will

22:6 be slow. Waking to Christ's demand, mortals

experience suffering. This causes them, even as drown-

ing men, to make vigorous efforts to save themselves; and

22:9 through Christ's precious love these efforts are crowned

with success.

Wait for reward

"Work out your own salvation," is the demand of

22:12 Life and Love, for to this end God worketh with you.

"Occupy till I come!" Wait for your re-

ward, and "be not weary in well doing." If

22:15 your endeavors are beset by fearful odds, and you receive

no present reward, go not back to error, nor become a

sluggard in the race.

22:18 When the smoke of battle clears away, you will dis-

cern the good you have done, and receive according to

your deserving. Love is not hasty to deliver us from

22:21 temptation, for Love means that we shall be tried and

purified.

Deliverance not vicarious

Final deliverance from error, whereby we rejoice in

22:24 immortality, boundless freedom, and sinless sense, is not

reached through paths of flowers nor by pinning

one's faith without works to another's vicarious

22:27 effort. Whosoever believeth that wrath is righteous or

that divinity is appeased by human suffering, does not

understand God.

Justice and substitution

22:30 Justice requires reformation of the sinner. Mercy

cancels the debt only when justice approves. Revenge

is inadmissible. Wrath which is only appeased is not

23:1 destroyed, but partially indulged. Wisdom and Love

may require many sacrifices of self to save us from sin.

23:3 One sacrifice, however great, is insufficient to

pay the debt of sin. The atonement requires

constant self-immolation on the sinner's part. That

23:6 God's wrath should be vented upon His beloved Son, is

divinely unnatural. Such a theory is man-made. The

atonement is a hard problem in theology, but its scien-

23:9 tific explanation is, that suffering is an error of sinful sense

which Truth destroys, and that eventually both sin and suf-

fering will fall at the feet of everlasting Love.

Doctrines and faith

23:12 Rabbinical lore said: "He that taketh one doctrine,

firm in faith, has the Holy Ghost dwelling in him."

This preaching receives a strong rebuke in

23:15 the Scripture, "Faith without works is dead."

Faith, if it be mere belief, is as a pendulum swinging be-

tween nothing and something, having no fixity. Faith,

23:18 advanced to spiritual understanding, is the evidence gained

from Spirit, which rebukes sin of every kind and estab-

lishes the claims of God.

Self-reliance and confidence

23:21 In Hebrew, Greek, Latin, and English, /faith/ and the

words corresponding thereto have these two defini-

tions, /trustfulness/ and /trustworthiness/. One

23:24 kind of faith trusts one's welfare to others.

Another kind of faith understands divine Love and how

to work out one's "own salvation, with fear and trem-

23:27 bling." "Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief!"

expresses the helplessness of a blind faith; whereas the

injunction, "Believe . . . and thou shalt be saved!"

23:30 demands self-reliant trustworthiness, which includes spir-

itual understanding and confides all to God.

The Hebrew verb /to believe/ means also /to be firm/ or

24:1 /to be constant/. This certainly applies to Truth and Love

understood and practised. Firmness in error will never

24:3 save from sin, disease, and death.

Life's healing currents

Acquaintance with the original texts, and willingness

to give up human beliefs (established by hierarchies, and

24:6 instigated sometimes by the worst passions of

men), open the way for Christian Science to be

understood, and make the Bible the chart of life, where

24:9 the buoys and healing currents of Truth are pointed

out.

Radical changes

He to whom "the arm of the Lord" is revealed will

24:12 believe our report, and rise into newness of life with re-

generation. This is having part in the atone-

ment; this is the understanding, in which

24:15 Jesus suffered and triumphed. The time is not distant

when the ordinary theological views of atonement will

undergo a great change, - a change as radical as that

24:18 which has come over popular opinions in regard to pre-

destination and future punishment.

Purpose of crucifixion

Does erudite theology regard the crucifixion of Jesus

24:21 chiefly as providing a ready pardon for all sinners who

ask for it and are willing to be forgiven?

Does spiritualism find Jesus' death necessary

24:24 only for the presentation, after death, of the material

Jesus, as a proof that spirits can return to earth? Then

we must differ from them both.

24:27 The efficacy of the crucifixion lay in the practical af-

fection and goodness it demonstrated for mankind. The

truth had been lived among men; but until they saw that

24:30 it enabled their Master to triumph over the grave, his own

disciples could not admit such an event to be possible.

After the resurrection, even the unbelieving Thomas was

25:1 forced to acknowledge how complete was the great proof of

Truth and Love.

True flesh and blood

25:3 The spiritual essence of blood is sacrifice. The effi-

cacy of Jesus' spiritual offering is infinitely greater than

can be expressed by our sense of human

25:6 blood. The material blood of Jesus was no

more efficacious to cleanse from sin when it was shed

upon "the accursed tree," than when it was flowing in

25:9 his veins as he went daily about his Father's business.

His true flesh and blood were his Life; and they truly eat

his flesh and drink his blood, who partake of that divine

25:12 Life.

Effective triumph

Jesus taught the way of Life by demonstration, that

we may understand how this divine Principle heals

25:15 the sick, casts out error, and triumphs over

death. Jesus presented the ideal of God better

than could any man whose origin was less spiritual. By

25:18 his obedience to God, he demonstrated more spiritu-

ally than all others the Principle of being. Hence the

force of his admonition, "If ye love me, keep my com-

25:21 mandments."

Though demonstrating his control over sin and disease,

the great Teacher by no means relieved others from giving

25:24 the requisite proofs of their own piety. He worked for

their guidance, that they might demonstrate this power as

he did and understand its divine Principle. Implicit faith

25:27 in the Teacher and all the emotional love we can bestow

on him, will never alone make us imitators of him. We

must go and do likewise, else we are not improving the

25:30 great blessings which our Master worked and suffered to

bestow upon us. The divinity of the Christ was made

manifest in the humanity of Jesus.

Individual experience

26:1 While we adore Jesus, and the heart overflows with

gratitude for what he did for mortals, - treading alone

26:3 his loving pathway up to the throne of

glory, in speechless agony exploring the way

for us, - yet Jesus spares us not one individual expe-

26:6 rience, if we follow his commands faithfully; and all

have the cup of sorrowful effort to drink in proportion

to their demonstration of his love, till all are redeemed

26:9 through divine Love.

Christ's demonstration

The Christ was the Spirit which Jesus implied in his

own statements: "I am the way, the truth, and the life;"

26:12 "I and my Father are one." This Christ,

or divinity of the man Jesus, was his divine

nature, the godliness which animated him. Divine Truth,

26:15 Life, and Love gave Jesus authority over sin, sickness,

and death. His mission was to reveal the Science of

celestial being, to prove what God is and what He does

26:18 for man.

Proof in practice

A musician demonstrates the beauty of the music he

teaches in order to show the learner the way by prac-

26:21 tice as well as precept. Jesus' teaching and

practice of Truth involved such a sacrifice

as makes us admit its Principle to be Love. This was

26:24 the precious import of our Master's sinless career and

of his demonstration of power over death. He proved

by his deeds that Christian Science destroys sickness, sin,

26:27 and death.

Our Master taught no mere theory, doctrine, or belief.

It was the divine Principle of all real being which he

26:30 taught and practised. His proof of Christianity was no

form or system of religion and worship, but Christian

Science, working out the harmony of Life and Love.

27:1 Jesus sent a message to John the Baptist, which was in-

tended to prove beyond a question that the Christ had

27:3 come: "Go your way, and tell John what things ye have

seen and heard; how that the blind see, the lame walk,

the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised,

27:6 to the poor the gospel is preached." In other words:

Tell John what the demonstration of divine power is,

and he will at once perceive that God is the power in

27:9 the Messianic work.

Living temple

That Life is God, Jesus proved by his reappearance

after the crucifixion in strict accordance with his scien-

27:12 tific statement: "Destroy this temple [body],

and in three days I [Spirit] will raise it up."

It is as if he had said: The I - the Life, substance,

27:15 and intelligence of the universe - is not in matter to

be destroyed.

Jesus' parables explain Life as never mingling with

27:18 sin and death. He laid the axe of Science at the root

of material knowledge, that it might be ready to cut

down the false doctrine of pantheism, - that God, or

27:21 Life, is in or of matter.

Recreant disciples

Jesus sent forth seventy students at one time, but only

eleven left a desirable historic record. Tradition credits

27:24 him with two or three hundred other disciples

who have left no name. "Many are called,

but few are chosen." They fell away from grace because

27:27 they never truly understood their Master's instruction.

Why do those who profess to follow Christ reject the

essential religion he came to establish? Jesus' persecu-

27:30 tors made their strongest attack upon this very point.

They endeavored to hold him at the mercy of matter and

to kill him according to certain assumed material laws.

Help and hindrance

28:1 The Pharisees claimed to know and to teach the di-

vine will, but they only hindered the success of Jesus'

28:3 mission. Even many of his students stood

in his way. If the Master had not taken a

student and taught the unseen verities of God, he would

28:6 not have been crucified. The determination to hold Spirit

in the grasp of matter is the persecutor of Truth and

Love.

28:9 While respecting all that is good in the Church or out

of it, one's consecration to Christ is more on the ground

of demonstration than of profession. In conscience, we

28:12 cannot hold to beliefs outgrown; and by understanding

more of the divine Principle of the deathless Christ, we

are enabled to heal the sick and to triumph over sin.

Misleading conceptions

28:15 Neither the origin, the character, nor the work of

Jesus was generally understood. Not a single compo-

nent part of his nature did the material

28:18 world measure aright. Even his righteous-

less and purity did not hinder men from saying: He

is a glutton and a friend of the impure, and Beelzebub is

28:21 his patron.

Persecution prolonged

Remember, thou Christian martyr, it is enough if

thou art found worthy to unloose the sandals of thy

28:24 Master's feet! To suppose that persecution

for righteousness' sake belongs to the past,

and that Christianity to-day is at peace with the world

28:27 because it is honored by sects and societies, is to mis-

take the very nature of religion. Error repeats itself.

The trials encountered by prophet, disciple, and apostle,

28:30 "of whom the world was not worthy," await, in some

form, every pioneer of truth.

Christian warfare

There is too much animal courage in society and not

29:1 sufficient moral courage. Christians must take up arms

against error at home and abroad. They must grapple

29:3 with sin in themselves and in others, and

continue this warfare until they have finished

their course. If they keep the faith, they will have the

29:6 crown of rejoicing.

Christian experience teaches faith in the right and dis-

belief in the wrong. It bids us work the more earnestly

29:9 in times of persecution, because then our labor is more

needed. Great is the reward of self-sacrifice, though we

may never receive it in this world.

The Fatherhood of God

29:12 There is a tradition that Publius Lentulus wrote to

the authorities at Rome: "The disciples of Jesus be-

lieve him the Son of God." Those instructed

29:15 in Christian Science have reached the glori-

ous perception that God is the only author of man.

The Virgin-mother conceived this idea of God, and

29:18 gave to her ideal the name of Jesus - that is, Joshua,

or Saviour.

Spiritual conception

The illumination of Mary's spiritual sense put to

29:21 silence material law and its order of generation, and

brought forth her child by the revelation of

Truth, demonstrating God as the Father of

29:24 men. The Holy Ghost, or divine Spirit, overshadowed

the pure sense of the Virgin-mother with the full recog-

nition that being is Spirit. The Christ dwelt forever

29:27 an idea in the bosom of God, the divine Principle of the

man Jesus, and woman perceived this spiritual idea,

though at first faintly developed.

29:30 Man as the offspring of God, as the idea of Spirit,

is the immortal evidence that Spirit is harmonious and

man eternal. Jesus was the offspring of Mary's self-

30:1 conscious communion with God. Hence he could give

a more spiritual idea of life than other men, and could

30:3 demonstrate the Science of Love - his Father or divine

Principle.

Jesus the way-shower

Born of a woman, Jesus' advent in the flesh partook

30:6 partly of Mary's earthly condition, although he was en-

dowed with the Christ, the divine Spirit, with-

out measure. This accounts for his struggles

30:9 in Gethsemane and on Calvary, and this enabled him to

be the mediator, or /way-shower/, between God and men.

Had his origin and birth been wholly apart from mortal

30:12 usage, Jesus would not have been appreciable to mortal

mind as "the way."

Rabbi and priest taught the Mosaic law, which said:

30:15 "An eye for an eye," and "Whoso sheddeth man's blood,

by man shall his blood be shed." Not so did Jesus, the

new executor for God, present the divine law of Love,

30:18 which blesses even those that curse it.

Rebukes helpful

As the individual ideal of Truth, Christ Jesus came to

rebuke rabbinical error and all sin, sickness, and death,-

30:21 to point out the way of Truth and Life. This

ideal was demonstrated throughout the whole

earthly career of Jesus, showing the difference between

30:24 the offspring of Soul and of material sense, of Truth and

of error.

If we have triumphed sufficiently over the errors of

30:27 material sense to allow Soul to hold the control, we

shall loathe sin and rebuke it under every mask. Only

in this way can we bless our enemies, though they

30:30 may not so construe our words. We cannot choose for

ourselves, but must work out our salvation in the way

Jesus taught. In meekness and might, he was found

31:1 preaching the gospel to the poor. Pride and fear are unfit

to bear the standard of Truth, and God will never place

31:3 it in such hands.

Fleshly ties temporal

Jesus acknowledged no ties of the flesh. He said: "Call

no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father,

31:6 which is in heaven." Again he asked: "Who

is my mother, and who are my brethren," im-

plying that it is they who do the will of his Father. We

31:9 have no record of his calling any man by the name of

/father/. He recognized Spirit, God, as the only creator, and

therefore as the Father of all.

Healing primary

31:12 First in the list of Christian duties, he taught his fol-

lowers the healing power of Truth and Love. He attached

no importance to dead ceremonies. It is the

31:15 living Christ, the practical Truth, which makes

Jesus "the resurrection and the life" to all who follow him

in deed. Obeying his precious precepts, - following his

31:18 demonstration so far as we apprehend it, - we drink of

his cup, partake of his bread, are baptized with his pu-

rity; and at last we shall rest, sit down with him, in a full

31:21 understanding of the divine Principle which triumphs

over death. For what says Paul? "As often as ye eat

this bread, and drink this cup, ye do show the Lord's

31:24 death till he come."

Painful prospect

Referring to the materiality of the age, Jesus said:

"The hour cometh, and now is, when the true wor-

31:27 shippers shall worship the Father in spirit

and in truth." Again, foreseeing the perse-

cution which would attend the Science of Spirit, Jesus

31:30 said: "They shall put you out of the synagogues; yea,

the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think

that he doeth God service; and these things will they

32:1 do unto you, because they have not known the Father

nor me."

Sacred sacrament

32:3 In ancient Rome a soldier was required to swear

allegiance to his general. The Latin word for this oath

was /sacramentum/, and our English word

32:6 /sacrament/ is derived from it. Among the

Jews it was an ancient custom for the master of a

feast to pass each guest a cup of wine. But the

32:9 Eucharist does not commemorate a Roman soldier's

oath, nor was the wine, used on convivial occasions and

in Jewish rites, the cup of our Lord. The cup shows

32:12 forth his bitter experience, - the cup which he prayed

might pass from him, though he bowed in holy submis-

sion to the divine decree.

32:15 "As they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed

it and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said,

Take, eat; this is my body. And he took the cup, and

32:18 gave thanks, and gave it to them saying, Drink ye all

of it."

Spiritual refreshment

The true sense is spiritually lost, if the sacrament is

32:21 confined to the use of bread and wine. The disciples

had eaten, yet Jesus prayed and gave them

bread. This would have been foolish in a

32:24 literal sense; but in its spiritual signification, it was nat-

ural and beautiful. Jesus prayed; he withdrew from the

material senses to refresh his heart with brighter, with

32:27 spiritual views.

Jesus' sad repast

The Passover, which Jesus ate with his disciples in

the month Nisan on the night before his crucifixion,

32:30 was a mournful occasion, a sad supper taken

at the close of day, in the twilight of a

glorious career with shadows fast falling around; and

33:1 this supper closed forever Jesus' ritualism or concessions

to matter.

Heavenly supplies

33:3 His followers, sorrowful and silent, anticipating the hour

of their Master's betrayal, partook of the heavenly manna,

which of old had fed in the wilderness the

33:6 persecuted followers of Truth. Their bread

indeed came down from heaven. It was the great truth

of spiritual being, healing the sick and casting out error.

33:9 Their Master had explained it all before, and now this

bread was feeding and sustaining them. They had borne

this bread from house to house, /breaking/ (explaining) it to

33:12 others, and now it comforted themselves.

For this truth of spiritual being, their Master was about

to suffer violence and drain to the dregs his cup of sorrow.

33:15 He must leave them. With the great glory of an everlast-

ing victory overshadowing him, he gave thanks and said,

"Drink ye all of it."

The holy struggle

33:18 When the human element in him struggled with the

divine, our great Teacher said: "Not my will, but

Thine, be done!"- that is, Let not the flesh,

33:21 but the Spirit, be represented in me. This

is the new understanding of spiritual Love. It gives all

for Christ, or Truth. It blesses its enemies, heals the

33:24 sick, casts out error, raises the dead from trespasses

and sins, and preaches the gospel to the poor, the meek

in heart.

Incisive questions

33:27 Christians, are you drinking his cup? Have you

shared the blood of the New Covenant, the persecutions

which attend a new and higher understand-

33:30 ing of God? If not, can you then say that

you have commemorated Jesus in his cup? Are all

who eat bread and drink wine in memory of Jesus willing

34:1 truly to drink his cup, take his cross, and leave all for

the Christ-principle? Then why ascribe this inspira-

34:3 tion to a dead rite, instead of showing, by casting out

error and making the body "holy, acceptable unto God,"

that Truth has come to the understanding? If Christ,

34:6 Truth, has come to us in demonstration, no other com-

memoration is requisite, for demonstration is Immanuel,

or /God with us/; and if a friend be with us, why need we

34:9 memorials of that friend?

Millennial glory

If all who ever partook of the sacrament had really

commemorated the sufferings of Jesus and drunk of

34:12 his cup, they would have revolutionized the

world. If all who seek his commemoration

through material symbols will take up the cross, heal

34:15 the sick, cast out evils, and preach Christ, or Truth,

to the poor, - the receptive thought, - they will bring

in the millennium.

Fellowship with Christ

34:18 Through all the disciples experienced, they became more

spiritual and understood better what the Master had

taught. His resurrection was also their resur-

34:21 rection. It helped them to raise themselves and

others from spiritual dulness and blind belief in God into

the perception of infinite possibilities. They needed this

34:24 quickening, for soon their dear Master would rise again

in the spiritual realm of reality, and ascend far above

their apprehension. As the reward for his faithfulness,

34:27 he would disappear to material sense in that change which

has since been called the ascension.

The last breakfast

What a contrast between our Lord's last supper and

34:30 his last spiritual breakfast with his disciples

in the bright morning hours at the joyful

meeting on the shore of the Galilean Sea! His gloom

35:1 had passed into glory, and His disciples' grief into repent-

ance, - hearts chastened and pride rebuked. Convinced

35:3 of the fruitlessness of their toil in the dark and wakened

by their Master's voice, they changed their methods, turned

away from material things, and cast their net on the right

35:6 side. Discerning Christ, Truth, anew on the shore of

time, they were enabled to rise somewhat from mortal

sensuousness, or the burial of mind in matter, into new-

35:9 ness of life as Spirit.

This spiritual meeting with our Lord in the dawn of a

new light is the morning meal which Christian Scientists

35:12 commemorate. They bow before Christ, Truth, to re-

ceive more of his reappearing and silently to commune

with the divine Principle, Love. They celebrate their

35:15 Lord's victory over death, his probation in the flesh

after death, its exemplification of human probation, and

his spiritual and final ascension above matter, or the flesh,

35:18 when he rose out of material sight.

Spiritual Eucharist

Our baptism is a purification from all error. Our

church is built on the divine Principle, Love. We can

35:21 unite with this church only as we are new-

born of Spirit, as we reach the Life which

is Truth and the Truth which is Life by bringing forth

35:24 the fruits of Love, - casting out error and healing the

sick. Our Eucharist is spiritual communion with the one

God. Our bread, "which cometh down from heaven,"

35:27 is Truth. Our cup is the cross. Our wine the inspira-

tion of Love, the draught our Master drank and com-

mended to his followers.

Final purpose

35:30 The design of Love is to reform the sinner. If the

sinner's punishment here has been insufficient to re-

form him, the good man's heaven would be a hell to

36:1 the sinner. They, who know not purity and affection by

experience, can never find bliss in the blessed company of

36:3 Truth and Love simply through translation

into another sphere. Divine Science reveals

the necessity of sufficient suffering, either before or after

36:6 death, to quench the love of sin. To remit the penalty

due for sin, would be for Truth to pardon error. Escape

from punishment is not in accordance with God's govern-

36:9 ment, since justice is the handmaid of mercy.

Jesus endured the shame, that he might pour his

dear-bought bounty into barren lives. What was his

36:12 earthly reward? He was forsaken by all save John,

the beloved disciple, and a few women who bowed in

silent woe beneath the shadow of his cross. The earthly

36:15 price of spirituality in a material age and the great moral

distance between Christianity and sensualism preclude

Christian Science from finding favor with the worldly-

36:18 minded.

Righteous retribution

A selfish and limited mind may be unjust, but the un-

limited and divine Mind is the immortal law of justice as

36:21 well as of mercy. It is quite as impossible for

sinners to receive their full punishment this

side of the grave as for this world to bestow on the right-

36:24 eous their full reward. It is useless to suppose that the

wicked can gloat over their offences to the last moment

and then be suddenly pardoned and pushed into heaven,

36:27 or that the hand of Love is satisfied with giving us only

toil, sacrifice, cross-bearing, multiplied trials, and mock-

ery of our motives in return for our efforts at well doing.

Vicarious suffering

36:30 Religious history repeats itself in the suf-

fering of the just for the unjust. Can God

therefore overlook the law of righteousness which de-

37:1 stroys the belief called sin? Does not Science show that

sin brings suffering as much to-day as yesterday? They

37:3 who sin must suffer. "With what measure ye mete, it

shall be measured to you again."

Martyrs inevitable

History is full of records of suffering. "The blood of

37:6 the martyrs is the seed of the Church." Mortals try in

vain to slay Truth with the steel or the stake,

but error falls only before the sword of Spirit.

37:9 Martyrs are the human links which connect one stage with

another in the history of religion. They are earth's lumi-

naries, which serve to cleanse and rarefy the atmosphere of

37:12 material sense and to permeate humanity with purer ideals.

Consciousness of right-doing brings its own reward; but

not amid the smoke of battle is merit seen and appreciated

37:15 by lookers-on.

Complete emulation

When will Jesus' professed followers learn to emulate

him in /all/ his ways and to imitate his mighty works?

37:18 Those who procured the martyrdom of that

righteous man would gladly have turned his

sacred career into a mutilated doctrinal platform. May

37:21 the Christians of to-day take up the more practical im-

port of that career! It is possible, - yea, it is the duty

and privilege of every child, man, and woman, - to follow

37:24 in some degree the example of the Master by the demon-

stration of Truth and Life, of health and holiness. Chris-

tians claim to be his followers, but do they follow him in

37:27 the way that he commanded? Hear these imperative com-

mands: "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father

which is in heaven is perfect!" "Go ye into all the world,

37:30 and preach the gospel to every creature!" "/Heal the

sick/!"

Jesus' teaching belittled

Why has this Christian demand so little inspiration

38:1 to stir mankind to Christian effort? Because men are

assured that this command was intended only for a par-

38:3 ticular period and for a select number of fol-

lowers. This teaching is even more pernicious

than the old doctrine of foreordination, - the election of a

38:6 few to be saved, while the rest are damned; and so it will

be considered, when the lethargy of mortals, produced

by man-made doctrines, is broken by the demands of

38:9 divine Science.

Jesus said: "These signs shall follow them that be-

lieve; . . . they shall lay hands on the sick, and they

38:12 shall recover." Who believes him? He was addressing

his disciples, yet he did not say, " These signs shall follow

/you/," but /them/- "them that believe" in all time to come.

38:15 Here the word /hands/ is used metaphorically, as in the text,

"The right hand of the Lord is exalted." It expresses

spiritual power; otherwise the healing could not have

38:18 been done spiritually. At another time Jesus prayed, not

for the twelve only, but for as many as should believe

"through their word."

Material pleasures

38:21 Jesus experienced few of the pleasures of the physical

senses, but his sufferings were the fruits of other peo-

ple's sins, not of his own. The eternal Christ,

38:24 his spiritual selfhood, never suffered. Jesus

mapped out the path for others. He unveiled the Christ,

the spiritual idea of divine Love. To those buried in the

38:27 belief of sin and self, living only for pleasure or the grati-

fication of the senses, he said in substance: Having eyes

ye see not, and having ears ye hear not; lest ye should un-

38:30 derstand and be converted, and I might heal you. He

taught that the material senses shut out Truth and its

healing power.

Mockery of truth

39:1 Meekly our Master met the mockery of his unrecog-

nized grandeur. Such indignities as he received, his fol-

39:3 lowers will endure until Christianity's last

triumph. He won eternal honors. He over-

came the world, the flesh, and all error, thus proving

39:6 their nothingness. He wrought a full salvation from sin,

sickness, and death. We need "Christ, and him cruci-

fied." We must have trials and self-denials, as well as

39:9 joys and victories, until all error is destroyed.

A belief suicidal

The educated belief that Soul is in the body causes

mortals to regard death as a friend, as a stepping-stone

39:12 out of mortality into immortality and bliss.

The Bible calls death an enemy, and Jesus

overcame death and the grave instead of yielding to them.

39:15 He was "the way." To him, therefore, death was not

the threshold over which he must pass into living

glory.

Present salvation

39:18 "/Now/," cried the apostle, "is the accepted time; be-

hold, /now/ is the day of salvation," - meaning, not that

now men must prepare for a future-world salva-

39:21 tion, or safety, but that now is the time in which

to experience that salvation in spirit and in life. Now is

the time for so-called material pains and material pleas-

39:24 ures to pass away, for both are unreal, because impossible

in Science. To break this earthly spell, mortals must get

the true idea and divine Principle of all that really exists

39:27 and governs the universe harmoniously. This thought is

apprehended slowly, and the interval before its attain-

ment is attended with doubts and defeats as well as

39:30 triumphs.

Sin and penalty

Who will stop the practice of sin so long as he believes

in the pleasures of sin? When mortals once admit that

40:1 evil confers no pleasure, they turn from it. Remove error

from thought, and it will not appear in effect. The ad-

40:3 vanced thinker and devout Christian, perceiv-

ing the scope and tendency of Christian healing

and its Science, will support them. Another will say:

40:6 "Go thy way for this time; when I have a convenient

season I will call for thee."

Divine Science adjusts the balance as Jesus adjusted

40:9 it. Science removes the penalty only by first removing

the sin which incurs the penalty. This is my sense of

divine pardon, which I understand to mean God's method

40:12 of destroying sin. If the saying is true, "While there's

life there's hope," its opposite is also true, While there's

sin there's doom. Another's suffering cannot lessen our

40:15 own liability. Did the martyrdom of Savonarola make

the crimes of his implacable enemies less criminal?

Suffering inevitable

Was it just for Jesus to suffer? No; but it was

40:18 inevitable, for not otherwise could he show us the way

and the power of Truth. If a career so great

and good as that of Jesus could not avert a

40:21 felon's fate, lesser apostles of Truth may endure human

brutality without murmuring, rejoicing to enter into

fellowship with him through the triumphal arch of

40:24 Truth and Love.

Service and worship

Our heavenly Father, divine Love, demands that all

men should follow the example of our Master and his

40:27 apostles and not merely worship his personal-

ity. It is sad that the phrase /divine service/

has come so generally to mean public worship instead of

40:30 daily deeds.

Within the veil

The nature of Christianity is peaceful and blessed,

but in order to enter into the kingdom, the anchor of

41:1 hope must be cast beyond the veil of matter into the

Shekinah into which Jesus has passed before us; and

41:3 this advance beyond matter must come

through the joys and triumphs of the right-

eous as well as through their sorrows and afflictions.

41:6 Like our Master, we must depart from material sense

into the spiritual sense of being.

The thorns and flowers

The God-inspired walk calmly on though it be with

41:9 bleeding footprints, and in the hereafter they will reap

what they now sow. The pampered hypo-

crite may have a flowery pathway here, but

41:12 he cannot forever break the Golden Rule and escape the

penalty due.

Healing early lost

The proofs of Truth, Life, and Love, which Jesus gave

41:15 by casting out error and healing the sick, completed his

earthly mission; but in the Christian Church

this demonstration of healing was early lost,

41:18 about three centuries after the crucifixion. No ancient

school of philosophy, /materia medica/, or scholastic theol-

ogy ever taught or demonstrated the divine healing of

41:21 absolute Science.

Immortal achieval

Jesus foresaw the reception Christian Science would have

before it was understood, but this foreknowledge hindered

41:24 him not. He fulfilled his God-mission, and

then sat down at the right hand of the Father.

Persecuted from city to city, his apostles still went about

41:27 doing good deeds, for which they were maligned and

stoned. The truth taught by Jesus, the elders scoffed at.

Why? Because it demanded more than they were willing

41:30 to practise. It was enough for them to believe in a national

Deity; but that belief, from their time to ours, has never

made a disciple who could cast out evils and heal the sick.

42:1 Jesus' life proved, divinely and scientifically, that God

is Love, whereas priest and rabbi affirmed God to be a

42:3 mighty potentate, who loves and hates. The Jewish the-

ology gave no hint of the unchanging love of God.

A belief in death

The universal belief in death is of no advantage. It

42:6 cannot make Life or Truth apparent. Death

will be found at length to be a mortal dream,

which comes in darkness and disappears with the light.

Cruel desertion

42:9 The "man of sorrows" was in no peril from salary or

popularity. Though entitled to the homage of the world

and endorsed pre-eminently by the approval

42:12 of God, his brief triumphal entry into Jerusa-

lem was followed by the desertion of all save a few friends,

who sadly followed him to the foot of the cross.

Death outdone

42:15 The resurrection of the great demonstrator of God's

power was the proof of his final triumph over body

and matter, and gave full evidence of divine

42:18 Science, - evidence so important to mortals.

The belief that man has existence or mind separate from

God is a dying error. This error Jesus met with divine

42:21 Science and proved its nothingness. Because of the won-

drous glory which God bestowed on His anointed, temp-

tation, sin, sickness, and death had no terror for Jesus.

42:24 Let men think they had killed the body! Afterwards he

would show it to them unchanged. This demonstrates

that in Christian Science the true man is governed by

42:27 God - by good, not evil - and is therefore not a mortal

but an immortal. Jesus had taught his disciples the

Science of this proof. He was here to enable them to

42:30 test his still uncomprehended saying, "He that believ-

eth on me, the works that I do shall he do also." They

must understand more fully his Life-principle by casting

43:1 out error, healing the sick, and raising the dead, even as

they did understand it after his bodily departure.

Pentecost repeated

43:3 The magnitude of Jesus' work, his material disappear-

ance before their eyes and his reappearance, all enabled

the disciples to understand what Jesus had

43:6 said. Heretofore they had only believed;

now they understood. The advent of this understanding

is what is meant by the descent of the Holy Ghost, - that

43:9 influx of divine Science which so illuminated the Pentecos-

tal Day and is now repeating its ancient history.

Convincing evidence

Jesus' last proof was the highest, the most convincing,

43:12 the most profitable to his students. The malignity of

brutal persecutors, the treason and suicide of

his betrayer, were overruled by divine Love to

43:15 the glorification of the man and of the true idea of God,

which Jesus' persecutors had mocked and tried to slay.

The final demonstration of the truth which Jesus taught,

43:18 and for which he was crucified, opened a new era for the

world. Those who slew him to stay his influence perpetu-

ated and extended it.

Divine victory

43:21 Jesus rose higher in demonstration because of the cup

of bitterness he drank. Human law had condemned

him, but he was demonstrating divine Science.

43:24 Out of reach of the barbarity of his enemies,

he was acting under spiritual law in defiance of mat-

ter and mortality, and that spiritual law sustained him.

43:27 The divine must overcome the human at every point.

The Science Jesus taught and lived must triumph over

all material beliefs about life, substance, and intelli-

43:30 gence, and the multitudinous errors growing from such

beliefs.

Love must triumph over hate. Truth and Life must

44:1 seal the victory over error and death, before the thorns

can be laid aside for a crown, the benediction follow,

44:3 "Well done, good and faithful servant," and the suprem-

acy of Spirit be demonstrated.

Jesus in the tomb

The lonely precincts of the tomb gave Jesus a refuge

44:6 from his foes, a place in which to solve the great

problem of being. His three days' work in

the sepulchre set the seal of eternity on time.

44:9 He proved Life to be deathless and Love to be the mas-

ter of hate. He met and mastered on the basis of Chris-

tian Science, the power of Mind over matter, all the claims

44:12 of medicine, surgery, and hygiene.

He took no drugs to allay inflammation. He did not

depend upon food or pure air to resuscitate wasted

44:15 energies. He did not require the skill of a surgeon to

heal the torn palms and bind up the wounded side and

lacerated feet, that he might use those hands to remove

44:18 the napkin and winding-sheet, and that he might employ

his feet as before.

The deific naturalism

Could it be called supernatural for the God of nature

44:21 to sustain Jesus in his proof of man's truly derived power?

It was a method of surgery beyond material

art, but it was not a supernatural act. On

44:24 the contrary, it was a divinely natural act, whereby divinity

brought to humanity the understanding of the Christ-

healing and revealed a method infinitely above that of

44:27 human invention.

Obstacles overcome

His disciples believed Jesus to be dead while he was

hidden in the sepulchre, whereas he was alive, demon-

44:30 strating within the narrow tomb the power

of Spirit to overrule mortal, material sense.

There were rock-ribbed walls in the way, and a great

45:1 stone must be rolled from the cave's mouth; but Jesus

vanquished every material obstacle, overcame every law

45:3 of matter, and stepped forth from his gloomy resting-place,

crowned with the glory of a sublime success, an everlasting

victory.

Victory over the grave

45:6 Our Master fully and finally demonstrated divine Sci-

ence in his victory over death and the grave. Jesus'

deed was for the enlightenment of men and

45:9 for the salvation of the whole world from sin,

sickness, and death. Paul writes: "For if, when we were

enemies, we were reconciled to God by the [seeming] death

45:12 of His Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved

by his life." Three days after his bodily burial he talked

with his disciples. The persecutors had failed to hide im-

45:15 mortal Truth and Love in a sepulchre.

The stone rolled away

Glory be to God, and peace to the struggling hearts!

Christ hath rolled away the stone from the door of hu-

45:18 man hope and faith, and through the reve-

lation and demonstration of life in God, hath

elevated them to possible at-one-ment with the spiritual

45:21 idea of man and his divine Principle, Love.

After the resurrection

They who earliest saw Jesus after the resurrection

and beheld the final proof of all that he had taught,

45:24 misconstrued that event. Even his disciples

at first called him a spirit, ghost, or spectre,

for they believed his body to be dead. His reply was:

45:27 "Spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have."

The reappearing of Jesus was not the return of a spirit.

He presented the same body that he had before his cru-

45:30 cifixion, and so glorified the supremacy of Mind over

matter.

Jesus' students, not sufficiently advanced fully to un-

46:1 derstand their Master's triumph, did not perform many

wonderful works, until they saw him after his crucifixion

46:3 and learned that he had not died. This convinced them

of the truthfulness of all that he had taught.

Spiritual interpretation

In the walk to Emmaus, Jesus was known to his friends

46:6 by the words, which made their hearts burn within them,

and by the breaking of bread. The divine

Spirit, which identified Jesus thus centuries

46:9 ago, has spoken through the inspired Word and will speak

through it in every age and clime. It is revealed to the

receptive heart, and is again seen casting out evil and

46:12 healing the sick.

Corporeality and Spirit

The Master said plainly that physique was not Spirit,

and after his resurrection he proved to the physical senses

46:15 that his body was not changed until he himself

ascended, - or, in other words, rose even

higher in the understanding of Spirit, God. To convince

46:18 Thomas of this, Jesus caused him to examine the nail-

prints and the spear-wound.

Spiritual ascension

Jesus' unchanged physical condition after what seemed

46:21 to be death was followed by his exaltation above all ma-

terial conditions; and this exaltation explained

his ascension, and revealed unmistakably a

46:24 probationary and progressive state beyond the grave.

Jesus was "the way;" that is, he marked the way for

all men. In his final demonstration, called the ascen-

46:27 sion, which closed the earthly record of Jesus, he rose

above the physical knowledge of his disciples, and the

material senses saw him no more.

Pentecostal power

46:30 His students then received the Holy Ghost. By this is

meant, that by all they had witnessed and suffered, they

were roused to an enlarged understanding of divine Sci-

47:1 ence, even to the spiritual interpretation and discernment

of Jesus' teachings and demonstrations, which gave them

47:3 a faint conception of the Life which is God.

They no longer measured man by material

sense. After gaining the true idea of their glorified Master,

47:6 they became better healers, leaning no longer on matter,

but on the divine Principle of their work. The influx of

light was sudden. It was sometimes an overwhelming

47:9 power as on the Day of Pentecost.

The traitor's conspiracy

Judas conspired against Jesus. The world's ingratitude

and hatred towards that just man effected his betrayal.

47:12 The traitor's price was thirty pieces of silver

and the smiles of the Pharisees. He chose his

time, when the people were in doubt concerning Jesus'

47:15 teachings.

A period was approaching which would reveal the in-

finite distance between Judas and his Master. Judas

47:18 Iscariot knew this. He knew that the great goodness of

that Master placed a gulf between Jesus and his betrayer,

and this spiritual distance inflamed Judas' envy. The

47:21 greed for gold strengthened his ingratitude, and for a time

quieted his remorse. He knew that the world generally

loves a lie better than Truth; and so he plotted the be-

47:24 trayal of Jesus in order to raise himself in popular esti-

mation. His dark plot fell to the ground, and the

traitor fell with it.

47:27 The disciples' desertion of their Master in his last

earthly struggle was punished; each one came to a vio-

lent death except St. John, of whose death we have no

47:30 record.

Gethsemane glorified

During his night of gloom and glory in the garden,

Jesus realized the utter error of a belief in any possi-

48:1 ble material intelligence. The pangs of neglect and the

staves of bigoted ignorance smote him sorely. His stu-

48:3 dents slept. He said unto them: "Could Ye

not watch with me one hour?" Could they

not watch with him who, waiting and struggling in voice-

48:6 less agony, held uncomplaining guard over a world?

There was no response to that human yearning, and so

Jesus turned forever away from earth to heaven, from

48:9 sense to Soul.

Remembering the sweat of agony which fell in holy

benediction on the grass of Gethsemane, shall the hum-

48:12 blest or mightiest disciple murmur when he drinks from the

same cup, and think, or even wish, to escape the exalt-

ing ordeal of sin's revenge on its destroyer? Truth and

48:15 Love bestow few palms until the consummation of a

life-work.

Defensive weapons

Judas had the world's weapons. Jesus had not one

48:18 of them, and chose not the world's means of defence.

"He opened not his mouth." The great dem-

onstrator of Truth and Love was silent before

48:21 envy and hate. Peter would have smitten the enemies of

his Master, but Jesus forbade him, thus rebuking re-

sentment or animal courage. He said: "Put up thy

48:24 sword."

Pilate's question

Pale in the presence of his own momentous question,

"What is Truth," Pilate was drawn into acquiescence

48:27 with the demands of Jesus' enemies. Pilate

was ignorant of the consequences of his awful

decision against human rights and divine Love, knowing

48:30 not that he was hastening the final demonstration of what

life is and of what the true knowledge of God can do for

man.

49:1 The women at the cross could have answered Pilate's

question. They knew what had inspired their devotion,

49:3 winged their faith, opened the eyes of their understand-

ing, healed the sick, cast out evil, and caused the disciples

to say to their Master: "Even the devils are subject

49:6 unto us through thy name."

Students' ingratitude

Where were the seventy whom Jesus sent forth? Were

all conspirators save eleven? Had they forgotten the

49:9 great exponent of God? Had they so soon lost

sight of his mighty works, his toils, privations,

sacrifices, his divine patience, sublime courage, and unre-

49:12 quited affection? O, why did they not gratify his last

human yearning with one sign of fidelity?

Heaven's sentinel

The meek demonstrator of good, the highest instruc-

49:15 tor and friend of man, met his earthly fate alone with

God. No human eye was there to pity, no

arm to save. Forsaken by all whom he had

49:18 blessed, this faithful sentinel of God at the highest

post of power, charged with the grandest trust of

heaven, was ready to be transformed by the renewing

49:21 of the infinite Spirit. He was to prove that the Christ

is not subject to material conditions, but is above the

reach of human wrath, and is able, through Truth,

49:24 Life, and Love, to triumph over sin, sickness, death, and

the grave.

Cruel contumely

The priests and rabbis, before whom he had meekly

49:27 walked, and those to whom he had given the highest

proofs of divine power, mocked him on the

cross, saying derisively, "He saved others;

49:30 himself he cannot save." These scoffers, who turned

"aside the right of a man before the face of the Most

High," esteemed Jesus as "stricken, smitten of God."

50:1 "He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep

before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth."

50:3 "Who shall declare his generation?" Who shall decide

what truth and love are?

A cry of despair

The last supreme moment of mockery, desertion, tor-

50:6 ture, added to an overwhelming sense of the magnitude

of his work, wrung from Jesus' lips the awful

cry, "My God, why hast Thou forsaken me?"

50:9 This despairing appeal, if made to a human parent, would

impugn the justice and love of a father who could with-

hold a clear token of his presence to sustain and bless so

50:12 faithful a son. The appeal of Jesus was made both to

his divine Principle, the God who is Love, and to himself,

Love's pure idea. Had Life, Truth, and Love forsaken

50:15 him in his highest demonstration? This was a startling

question. No! They must abide in him and he in them,

or that hour would be shorn of its mighty blessing for the

50:18 human race.

Divine Science misunderstood

If his full recognition of eternal Life had for a mo-

ment given way before the evidence of the bodily senses,

50:21 what would his accusers have said? Even

what they did say, - that Jesus' teachings

were false, and that all evidence of their cor-

50:24 rectness was destroyed by his death. But this saying

could not make it so.

The real pillory

The burden of that hour was terrible beyond human

50:27 conception. The distrust of mortal minds, disbelieving

the purpose of his mission, was a million

times sharper than the thorns which pierced

50:30 his flesh. The real cross, which Jesus bore up the hill

of grief, was the world's hatred of Truth and Love. Not

the spear nor the material cross wrung from his faithful

51:1 lips the plaintive cry, "/Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?/" It

was the possible loss of something more important than

51:3 human life which moved him, - the possible misappre-

hension of the sublimest influence of his career. This

dread added the drop of gall to his cup.

Life-power indestructible

51:6 Jesus could have withdrawn himself from his enemies.

He had power to lay down a human sense of life for his

spiritual identity in the likeness of the divine;

51:9 but he allowed men to attempt the destruc-

tion of the mortal body in order that he might furnish

the proof of immortal life. Nothing could kill this Life

51:12 of man. Jesus could give his temporal life into his

enemies' hands; but when his earth-mission was accom-

plished, his spiritual life, indestructible and eternal,

51:15 was found forever the same. He knew that matter had

no life and that real Life is God; therefore he could no

more be separated from his spiritual Life than God could

51:18 be extinguished.

Example for our salvation

His consummate example was for the salvation of us

all, but only through doing the works which he did and

51:21 taught others to do. His purpose in healing

was not alone to restore health, but to demon-

strate his divine Principle. He was inspired by God, by

51:24 Truth and Love, in all that he said and did. The motives

of his persecutors were pride, envy, cruelty, and vengeance,

inflicted on the physical Jesus, but aimed at the divine Prin-

51:27 ciple, Love, which rebuked their sensuality.

Jesus was unselfish. His spirituality separated him

from sensuousness, and caused the selfish materialist

51:30 to hate him; but it was this spirituality which enabled

Jesus to heal the sick, cast out evil, and raise the

dead.

Master's business

52:1 From early boyhood he was about his "Father's busi-

ness." His pursuits lay far apart from theirs. His mas-

52:3 ter was Spirit; their master was matter. He

served God; they served mammon. His affec-

tions were pure; theirs were carnal. His senses drank in

52:6 the spiritual evidence of health, holiness, and life; their

senses testified oppositely, and absorbed the material evi-

dence of sin, sickness, and death.

Purity's rebuke

52:9 Their imperfections and impurity felt the ever-present

rebuke of his perfection and purity. Hence the world's

hatred of the just and perfect Jesus, and the

52:12 prophet's foresight of the reception error would

give him. "Despised and rejected of men," was Isaiah's

graphic word concerning the coming Prince of Peace.

52:15 Herod and Pilate laid aside old feuds in order to unite

in putting to shame and death the best man that ever

trod the globe. To-day, as of old, error and evil again

52:18 make common cause against the exponents of truth.

Saviour's prediction

The "man of sorrows" best understood the nothing-

ness of material life and intelligence and the mighty ac-

52:21 tuality of all-inclusive God, good. These were

the two cardinal points of Mind-healing, or

Christian Science, which armed him with Love. The high-

52:24 est earthly representative of God, speaking of human

ability to reflect divine power, prophetically said to his

disciples, speaking not for their day only but for all time:

52:27 "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do

also;" and "These signs shall follow them that believe."

Defamatory accusations

The accusations of the Pharisees were as self-contra-

52:30 dictory as their religion. The bigot, the deb-

auchee, the hypocrite, called Jesus a glutton

and a wine-bibber. They said: "He casteth out devils

53:1 through Beelzebub," and is the "friend of publicans and

sinners." The latter accusation was true, but not in their

53:3 meaning. Jesus was no ascetic. He did not fast as did

the Baptist's disciples; yet there never lived a man so far

removed from appetites and passions as the Nazarene.

53:6 He rebuked sinners pointedly and unflinchingly, because

he was their friend; hence the cup he drank.

Reputation and character

The reputation of Jesus was the very opposite of his

53:9 character. Why? Because the divine Principle and

practice of Jesus were misunderstood. He

was at work in divine Science. His words

53:12 and works were unknown to the world because above

and contrary to the world's religious sense. Mortals be-

lieved in God as humanly mighty, rather than as divine,

53:15 infinite Love.

Inspiring discontent

The world could not interpret aright the discomfort

which Jesus inspired and the spiritual blessings which

53:18 might flow from such discomfort. Science

shows the cause of the shock so often pro-

duced by the truth, - namely, that this shock arises from

53:21 the great distance between the individual and Truth.

Like Peter, we should weep over the warning, instead of

denying the truth or mocking the lifelong sacrifice which

53:24 goodness makes for the destruction of evil.

Bearing our sins

Jesus bore our sins in his body. He knew the

mortal errors which constitute the material body, and

53:27 could destroy those errors; but at the time

when Jesus felt our infirmities, he had not

conquered all the beliefs of the flesh or his sense of ma-

53:30 terial life, nor had he risen to his final demonstration of

spiritual power.

Had he shared the sinful beliefs of others, he would

54:1 have been less sensitive to those beliefs. Through the

magnitude of his human life, he demonstrated the divine

54:3 Life. Out of the amplitude of his pure affection, he de-

fined Love. With the affluence of Truth, he vanquished

error. The world acknowledged not his righteousness,

54:6 seeing it not; but earth received the harmony his glorified

example introduced.

Inspiration of sacrifice

Who is ready to follow his teaching and example? All

54:9 must sooner or later plant themselves in Christ, the true

idea of God. That he might liberally pour

his dear-bought treasures into empty or sin-

54:12 filled human storehouses, was the inspiration of Jesus'

intense human sacrifice. In witness of his divine com-

mission, he presented the proof that Life, Truth, and

54:15 Love heal the sick and the sinning, and triumph over

death through Mind, not matter. This was the highest

proof he could have offered of divine Love. His hearers

54:18 understood neither his words nor his works. They

would not accept his meek interpretation of life nor

follow his example.

Spiritual friendship

54:21 His earthly cup of bitterness was drained to the

dregs. There adhered to him only a few unpretentious

friends, whose religion was something more

54:24 than a name. It was so vital, that it en-

abled them to understand the Nazarene and to share

the glory of eternal life. He said that those who fol-

54:27 lowed him should drink of his cup, and history has con-

firmed the prediction.

Injustice to the Saviour

If that Godlike and glorified man were physically on

54:30 earth to-day, would not some, who now pro-

fess to love him, reject him? Would they

not deny him even the rights of humanity, if he enter-

55:1 tained any other sense of being and religion than theirs?

The advancing century, from a deadened sense of the

55:3 invisible God, to-day subjects to unchristian comment and

usage the idea of Christian healing enjoined by Jesus; but

this does not affect the invincible facts.

55:6 Perhaps the early Christian era did Jesus no more

injustice than the later centuries have bestowed upon

the healing Christ and spiritual idea of being. Now

55:9 that the gospel of healing is again preached by the

wayside, does not the pulpit sometimes scorn it? But

that curative mission, which presents the Saviour in a

55:12 clearer light than mere words can possibly do, cannot be

left out of Christianity, although it is again ruled out of

the synagogue.

55:15 Truth's immortal idea is sweeping down the centuries,

gathering beneath its wings the sick and sinning. My

weary hope tries to realize that happy day, when man shall

55:18 recognize the Science of Christ and love his neighbor as

himself, - when he shall realize God's omnipotence and

the healing power of the divine Love in what it has done

55:21 and is doing for mankind. The promises will be ful-

filled. The time for the reappearing of the divine healing

is throughout all time; and whosoever layeth his earthly

55:24 all on the altar of divine Science, drinketh of Christ's

cup now, and is endued with the spirit and power of

Christian healing.

55:27 In the words of St. John: "He shall give you another

Comforter, that he may abide with you /forever/." This

Comforter I understand to be Divine Science.

What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder. In the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. - JESUS.

56:1 WHEN our great Teacher came to him for baptism,

John was astounded. Reading his thoughts, Jesus

56:3 added: "Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us

to fulfil all righteousness." Jesus' concessions (in certain

cases) to material methods were for the advancement of

56:6 spiritual good.

Marriage temporal

Marriage is the legal and moral provision for genera-

tion among human kind. Until the spiritual creation

56:9 is discerned intact, is apprehended and under-

stood, and His kingdom is come as in the vision

of the Apocalypse, - where the corporeal sense of crea-

56:12 tion was cast out, and its spiritual sense was revealed from

heaven, - marriage will continue, subject to such moral

regulations as will secure increasing virtue.

Fidelity required

56:15 Infidelity to the marriage covenant is the social scourge

of all races, "the pestilence that walketh in darkness,

. . . the destruction that wasteth at noonday."

56:18 The commandment, "Thou shalt not com-

mit adultery," is no less imperative than the one, "Thou

shalt not kill."

57:1 Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it 57:3 one cannot attain the Science of Life.

Mental elements

Union of the masculine and feminine qualities consti-

tutes completeness. The masculine mind reaches a

57:6 higher tone through certain elements of the

feminine, while the feminine mind gains cour-

age and strength through masculine qualities. These

57:9 different elements conjoin naturally with each other, and

their true harmony is in spiritual oneness. Both sexes

should be loving, pure, tender, and strong. The attrac-

57:12 tion between native qualities will be perpetual only as it

is pure and true, bringing sweet seasons of renewal like

the returning spring.

Affection's demands

57:15 Beauty, wealth, or fame is incompetent to meet the

demands of the affections, and should never weigh

against the better claims of intellect, good-

57:18 ness, and virtue. Happiness is spiritual,

born of Truth and Love. It is unselfish; therefore

it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to

57:21 share it.

Help and discipline

Human affection is not poured forth vainly, even

though it meet no return. Love enriches the nature, en-

57:24 larging, purifying, and elevating it. The wintry

blasts of earth may uproot the flowers of affec-

tion, and scatter them to the winds; but this severance

57:27 of fleshly ties serves to unite thought more closely to

God, for Love supports the struggling heart until it ceases

to sigh over the world and begins to unfold its wings for

57:30 heaven.

Marriage is unblest or blest, according to the disap-

pointments it involves or the hopes it fulfils. To happify

58:1 existence by constant intercourse with those adapted to

elevate it, should be the motive of society. Unity of

58:3 spirit gives new pinions to joy, or else joy's drooping

wings trail in dust.

Chord and discord

Ill-arranged notes produce discord. Tones of the

58:6 human mind may be different, but they should be con-

cordant in order to blend properly. Unselfish

ambition, noble life-motives, and purity, -

58:9 these constituents of thought, mingling, constitute in-

dividually and collectively true happiness, strength, and

permanence.

Mutual freedom

58:12 There is moral freedom in Soul. Never contract the

horizon of a worthy outlook by the selfish exaction of

all another's time and thoughts. With ad-

58:15 ditional joys, benevolence should grow more

diffusive. The narrowness and jealousy, which would

confine a wife or a husband forever within four walls, will

58:18 not promote the sweet interchange of confidence and love;

but on the other hand, a wandering desire for incessant

amusement outside the home circle is a poor augury for

58:21 the happiness of wedlock. Home is the dearest spot on

earth, and it should be the centre, though not the bound-

ary, of the affections.

A useful suggestion

58:24 Said the peasant bride to her lover: "Two eat no more

together than they eat separately." This is a hint that

a wife ought not to court vulgar extravagance

58:27 or stupid ease, because another supplies her

wants. Wealth may obviate the necessity for toil or the

chance for ill-nature in the marriage relation, but noth-

58:30 ing can abolish the cares of marriage.

Differing duties

"She that is married careth . . . how she may please

her husband," says the Bible; and this is the pleasantest

59:1 thing to do. Matrimony should never be entered into

without a full recognition of its enduring obligations on

59:3 both sides. There should be the most tender

solicitude for each other's happiness, and mu-

tual attention and approbation should wait on all the years

59:6 of married life.

Mutual compromises will often maintain a compact

which might otherwise become unbearable. Man should

59:9 not be required to participate in all the annoyances and

cares of domestic economy, nor should woman be ex-

pected to understand political economy. Fulfilling the

59:12 different demands of their united spheres, their sympa-

thies should blend in sweet confidence and cheer, each

partner sustaining the other, - thus hallowing the union

59:15 of interests and affections, in which the heart finds peace

and home.

Trysting renewed

Tender words and unselfish care in what promotes the

59:18 welfare and happiness of your wife will prove more salutary

in prolonging her health and smiles than stolid

indifference or jealousy. Husbands, hear this

59:21 and remember how slight a word or deed may renew the

old trysting-times.

After marriage, it is too late to grumble over incompati-

59:24 bility of disposition. A mutual understanding should

exist before this union and continue ever after, for decep-

tion is fatal to happiness.

Permanent obligation

59:27 The nuptial vow should never be annulled, so long as

its moral obligations are kept intact; but the frequency

of divorce shows that the sacredness of this re-

59:30 lationship is losing its influence, and that fatal

mistakes are undermining its foundations. Separation

never should take place, and it never would, if both

60:1 husband and wife were genuine Christian Scientists.

Science inevitably lifts one's being higher in the scale of

60:3 harmony and happiness.

Permanent affection

Kindred tastes, motives, and aspirations are necessary

to the formation of a happy and permanent companion-

60:6 ship. The beautiful in character is also the

good, welding indissolubly the links of affec-

tion. A mother's affection cannot be weaned from her

60:9 child, because the mother-love includes purity and con-

stancy, both of which are immortal. Therefore maternal

affection lives on under whatever difficulties.

60:12 From the logic of events we learn that selfishness

and impurity alone are fleeting, and that wisdom will

ultimately put asunder what she hath not joined

60:15 together.

Centre for affections

Marriage should improve the human species, becoming

a barrier against vice, a protection to woman, strength to

60:18 man, and a centre for the affections. This,

however, in a majority of cases, is not its

present tendency, and why? Because the education of

60:21 the higher nature is neglected, and other considerations,

- passion, frivolous amusements, personal adornment,

display, and pride, - occupy thought.

Spiritual concord

60:24 An ill-attuned ear calls discord harmony, not appreciat-

ing concord. So physical sense, not discerning the true

happiness of being, places it on a false basis.

60:27 Science will correct the discord, and teach us

life's sweeter harmonies.

Soul has infinite resources with which to bless mankind,

60:30 and happiness would be more readily attained and would

be more secure in our keeping, if sought in Soul. Higher

enjoyments alone can satisfy the cravings of immortal

61:1 man. We cannot circumscribe happiness within the

limits of personal sense. The senses confer no real

61:3 enjoyment.

Ascendency of good

The good in human affections must have ascendency

over the evil and the spiritual over the animal, or happi-

61:6 ness will never be won. The attainment of

this celestial condition would improve our

progeny, diminish crime, and give higher aims to ambi-

61:9 tion. Every valley of sin must be exalted, and every

mountain of selfishness be brought low, that the highway

of our God may be prepared in Science. The offspring

61:12 of heavenly-minded parents inherit more intellect, better

balanced minds, and sounder constitutions.

Propensities inherited

If some fortuitous circumstance places promising chil-

61:15 dren in the arms of gross parents, often these beautiful

children early droop and die, like tropical

flowers born amid Alpine snows. If perchance

61:18 they live to become parents in their turn, they may re-

produce in their own helpless little ones the grosser traits

of their ancestors. What hope of happiness, what noble

61:21 ambition, can inspire the child who inherits propensities

that must either be overcome or reduce him to a loath-

some wreck?

61:24 Is not the propagation of the human species a greater

responsibility, a more solemn charge, than the culture of

your garden or the raising of stock to increase your flocks

61:27 and herds? Nothing unworthy of perpetuity should be

transmitted to children.

The formation of mortals must greatly improve to

61:30 advance mankind. The scientific /morale/ of marriage is

spiritual unity. If the propagation of a higher human

species is requisite to reach this goal, then its material con-

62:1 ditions can only be permitted for the purpose of gener-

ating. The foetus must be kept mentally pure and the

62:3 period of gestation have the sanctity of virginity.

The entire education of children should be such as to

form habits of obedience to the moral and spiritual law,

62:6 with which the child can meet and master the belief in so-

called physical laws, a belief which breeds disease.

Inheritance heeded

If parents create in their babes a desire for incessant

62:9 amusement, to be always fed, rocked, tossed, or talked

to, those parents should not, in after years,

complain of their children's fretfulness or fri-

62:12 volity, which the parents themselves have occasioned.

Taking less "thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or

what ye shall drink"; less thought "for your body what

62:15 ye shall put on," will do much more for the health of the

rising generation than you dream. Children should be

allowed to remain children in knowledge, and should

62:18 become men and women only through growth in the

understanding of man's higher nature.

The Mind creative

We must not attribute more and more intelligence

62:21 to matter, but less and less, if we would be wise and

healthy. The divine Mind, which forms the

bud and blossom, will care for the human

62:24 body, even as it clothes the lily; but let no mortal inter-

fere with God's government by thrusting in the laws of

erring, human concepts.

Superior law of Soul

62:27 The higher nature of man is not governed by the lower;

if it were, the order of wisdom would be reversed.

Our false views of life hide eternal harmony,

62:30 and produce the ills of which we complain.

Because mortals believe in material laws and reject the

Science of Mind, this does not make materiality first and

63:1 the superior law of Soul last. You would never think

that flannel was better for warding off pulmonary disease

63:3 than the controlling Mind, if you understood the Science

of being.

Spiritual origin

In Science man is the offspring of Spirit. The beauti-

63:6 ful, good, and pure constitute his ancestry. His origin is

not, like that of mortals, in brute instinct, nor

does he pass through material conditions prior

63:9 to reaching intelligence. Spirit is his primitive and ulti-

mate source of being; God is his Father, and Life is the

law of his being.

The rights of woman

63:12 Civil law establishes very unfair differences between the

rights of the two sexes. Christian Science furnishes no

precedent for such injustice, and civilization

63:15 mitigates it in some measure. Still, it is a

marvel why usage should accord woman less rights than

does either Christian Science or civilization.

Unfair discrimination

63:18 Our laws are not impartial, to say the least, in their

discrimination as to the person, property, and parental

claims of the two sexes. If the elective fran-

63:21 chise for women will remedy the evil with-

out encouraging difficulties of greater magnitude, let us

hope it will be granted. A feasible as well as rational

63:24 means of improvement at present is the elevation of

society in general and the achievement of a nobler

race for legislation, - a race having higher aims and

63:27 motives.

If a dissolute husband deserts his wife, certainly the

wronged, and perchance impoverished, woman should be

63:30 allowed to collect her own wages, enter into business

agreements, hold real estate, deposit funds, and own her

children free from interference.

64:1 Want of uniform justice is a crying evil caused by the

selfishness and inhumanity of man. Our forefathers

64:3 exercised their faith in the direction taught by the Apostle

James, when he said: "Pure religion and undefiled before

God and the Father, is this, To visit the fatherless and

64:6 widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted

from the world."

Benevolence hindered

Pride, envy, or jealousy seems on most occasions to

64:9 be the master of ceremonies, ruling out primitive Chris-

tianity. When a man lends a helping hand

to some noble woman, struggling alone with

64:12 adversity, his wife should not say, "It is never well to

interfere with your neighbor's business." A wife is

sometimes debarred by a covetous domestic tyrant from

64:15 giving the ready aid her sympathy and charity would

afford.

Progressive development

Marriage should signify a union of hearts. Further-

64:18 more, the time cometh of which Jesus spake, when he

declared that in the resurrection there should

be no more marrying nor giving in marriage,

64:21 but man would be as the angels. Then shall Soul re-

joice in its own, in which passion has no part. Then

white-robed purity will unite in one person masculine wis-

64:24 dom and feminine love, spiritual understanding and per-

petual peace.

Until it is learned that God is the Father of all, mar-

64:27 riage will continue. Let not mortals permit a disregard

of law which might lead to a worse state of society than

now exists. Honesty and virtue ensure the stability of

64:30 the marriage covenant. Spirit will ultimately claim its

own, - all that really is, - and the voices of physical

sense will be forever hushed.

Blessing of Christ

65:1 Experience should be the school of virtue, and human

happiness should proceed from man's highest nature.

65:3 May Christ, Truth, be present at every bridal

altar to turn the water into wine and to give to

human life an inspiration by which man's spiritual and

65:6 eternal existence may be discerned.

Righteous foundations

If the foundations of human affection are consistent

with progress, they will be strong and enduring. Divorces

65:9 should warn the age of some fundamental error

in the marriage state. The union of the sexes

suffers fearful discord. To gain Christian Science and its

65:12 harmony, life should be more metaphysically regarded.

Powerless promises

The broadcast powers of evil so conspicuous to-day

show themselves in the materialism and sensualism of

65:15 the age, struggling against the advancing

spiritual era. Beholding the world's lack of

Christianity and the powerlessness of vows to make home

65:18 happy, the human mind will at length demand a higher

affection.

Transition and reform

There will ensue a fermentation over this as over many

65:21 other reforms, until we get at last the clear straining of

truth, and impurity and error are left among

the lees. The fermentation even of fluids is

65:24 not pleasant. An unsettled, transitional stage is never

desirable on its own account. Matrimony, which was once

a fixed fact among us, must lose its present slippery foot-

65:27 ing, and man must find permanence and peace in a more

spiritual adherence.

The mental chemicalization, which has brought con-

65:30 jugal infidelity to the surface, will assuredly throw off

this evil, and marriage will become purer when the scum

is gone.

Thou art right, immortal Shakespeare, great poet of

humanity:

66:3 Sweet are the uses of adversity;

Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,

Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

Salutary sorrow

66:6 Trials teach mortals not to lean on a material staff, -

a broken reed, which pierces the heart. We do not

half remember this in the sunshine of joy

66:9 and prosperity. Sorrow is salutary. Through

great tribulation we enter the kingdom. Trials are

proofs of God's care. Spiritual development germi-

66:12 nates not from seed sown in the soil of material hopes,

but when these decay, Love propagates anew the higher

joys of Spirit, which have no taint of earth. Each suc-

66:15 cessive stage of experience unfolds new views of divine

goodness and love.

Amidst gratitude for conjugal felicity, it is well to re-

66:18 member how fleeting are human joys. Amidst conjugal

infelicity, it is well to hope, pray, and wait patiently on

divine wisdom to point out the path.

Patience is wisdom

66:21 Husbands and wives should never separate if there

is no Christian demand for it. It is better to await the

logic of events than for a wife precipitately

66:24 to leave her husband or for a husband to

leave his wife. If one is better than the other, as must

always be the case, the other pre-eminently needs good

66:27 company. Socrates considered patience salutary under

such circumstances, making his Xantippe a discipline for

his philosophy.

The gold and dross

66:30 Sorrow has its reward. It never leaves us

where it found us. The furnace separates

the gold from the dross that the precious metal may

67:1 be graven with the image of God. The cup our Father

hath given, shall we not drink it and learn the lessons

67:3 He teaches?

Weathering the storm

When the ocean is stirred by a storm, then the clouds

lower, the wind shrieks through the tightened shrouds,

67:6 and the waves lift themselves into mountains.

We ask the helmsman: "Do you know your

course? Can you steer safely amid the storm?" He

67:9 answers bravely, but even the dauntless seaman is not

sure of his safety; nautical science is not equal to the

Science of Mind. Yet, acting up to his highest under-

67:12 standing, firm at the post of duty, the mariner works on

and awaits the issue. Thus should we deport ourselves

on the seething ocean of sorrow. Hoping and work-

67:15 ing, one should stick to the wreck, until an irresistible

propulsion precipitates his doom or sunshine gladdens

the troubled sea.

Spiritual power

67:18 The notion that animal natures can possibly give force

to character is too absurd for consideration, when we

remember that through spiritual ascendency

67:21 our Lord and Master healed the sick, raised

the dead, and commanded even the winds and waves to

obey him. Grace and Truth are potent beyond all other

67:24 means and methods.

The lack of spiritual power in the limited demonstration

of popular Christianity does not put to silence the labor

67:27 of centuries. Spiritual, not corporeal, consciousness is

needed. Man delivered from sin, disease, and death

presents the true likeness or spiritual ideal.

Basis of true religion

67:30 Systems of religion and medicine treat of physical pains

and pleasures, but Jesus rebuked the suffering from any

such cause or effect. The epoch approaches when the

68:1 understanding of the truth of being will be the basis of

true religion. At present mortals progress slowly for

68:3 fear of being thought ridiculous. They are

slaves to fashion, pride, and sense. Some-

time we shall learn how Spirit, the great architect, has

68:6 created men and women in Science. We ought to weary

of the fleeting and false and to cherish nothing which

hinders our highest selfhood.

68:9 Jealousy is the grave of affection. The presence of

mistrust, where confidence is due, withers the flowers

of Eden and scatters love's petals to decay. Be not

68:12 in haste to take the vow "until death do us part."

Consider its obligations, its responsibilities, its rela-

tions to your growth and to your influence on other

68:15 lives.

Insanity and agamogenesis

I never knew more than one individual who believed

in agamogenesis; she was unmarried, a lovely charac-

68:18 ter, was suffering from incipient insanity, and

a Christian Scientist cured her. I have named

her case to individuals, when casting my bread upon

68:21 the waters, and it may have caused the good to ponder

and the evil to hatch their silly innuendoes and lies, since

salutary causes sometimes incur these effects. The per-

68:24 petuation of the floral species by bud or cell-division is

evident, but I discredit the belief that agamogenesis

applies to the human species.

God's creation intact

68:27 Christian Science presents unfoldment, not accretion;

it manifests no material growth from molecule to mind,

but an impartation of the divine Mind to man

68:30 and the universe. Proportionately as human

generation ceases, the unbroken links of eternal, har-

monious being will be spiritually discerned; and man,

69:1 not of the earth earthly but coexistent with God, will

appear. The scientific fact that man and the universe

69:3 are evolved from Spirit, and so are spiritual, is as fixed in

divine Science as is the proof that mortals gain the sense

of health only as they lose the sense of sin and disease.

69:6 Mortals can never understand God's creation while believ-

ing that man is a creator. God's children already created

will be cognized only as man finds the truth of being.

69:9 Thus it is that the real, ideal man appears in proportion

as the false and material disappears. No longer to marry

or to be "given in marriage" neither closes man's con-

69:12 tinuity nor his sense of increasing number in God's in-

finite plan. Spiritually to understand that there is but

one creator, God, unfolds all creation, confirms the Scrip-

69:15 tures, brings the sweet assurance of no parting, no pain,

and of man deathless and perfect and eternal.

If Christian Scientists educate their own offspring

69:18 spiritually, they can educate others spiritually and not

conflict with the scientific sense of God's creation. Some

day the child will ask his parent: "Do you keep the First

69:21 Commandment? Do you have one God and creator, or

is man a creator?" If the father replies, "God creates

man through man," the child may ask, "Do you teach

69:24 that Spirit creates materially, or do you declare that

Spirit is infinite, therefore matter is out of the ques-

tion?" Jesus said, "The children of this world marry,

69:27 and are given in marriage: But they which shall be ac-

counted worthy to obtain that world, and the resur-

rection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in

69:30 marriage."