Part 4 (2/2)

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is unjust,-is wrong and cruel. Envy, evil thinking, [1]

evil speaking, covetousness, l.u.s.t, hatred, malice, are always wrong, and will break the rule of Christian Science and prevent its demonstration; but the rod of G.o.d, and the obedience demanded of His servants in [5]

carrying out what He teaches them,-these are never unmerciful, never unwise.

The task of healing the sick is far lighter than that of so teaching the divine Principle and rules of Chris- tian Science as to lift the affections and motives of men [10]

to adopt them and bring them out in human lives. He who has named the name of Christ, who has virtually accepted the divine claims of Truth and Love in divine Science, is daily departing from evil; and all the wicked endeavors of suppositional demons can never change the [15]

current of that life from steadfastly flowing on to G.o.d, its divine source.

But, taking the livery of heaven wherewith to cover iniquity, is the most fearful sin that mortals can commit.

I should have more faith in an honest drugging-doctor, [20]

one who abides by his statements and works upon as high a basis as he understands, healing me, than I could or would have in a smooth-tongued hypocrite or mental malpract.i.tioner.

Between the centripetal and centrifugal mental forces [25]

of material and spiritual gravitations, we go into or we go out of materialism or sin, and choose our course and its results. Which, then, shall be our choice,-the sin- ful, material, and perishable, or the spiritual, joy-giving, and eternal? [30]

The spiritual sense of Life and its grand pursuits is of itself a bliss, health-giving and joy-inspiring. This

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sense of Life illumes our pathway with the radiance of [1]

divine Love; heals man spontaneously, morally and physically,-exhaling the aroma of Jesus' own words, ”Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” [5]

CHAPTER II. ONE CAUSE AND EFFECT.

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Christian Science begins with the First Com- [1]

mandment of the Hebrew Decalogue, ”Thou shalt have no other G.o.ds before me.” It goes on in perfect unity with Christ's Sermon on the Mount, and in that age culminates in the Revelation of St. John, [5]

who, while on earth and in the flesh, like ourselves, beheld ”a new heaven and a new earth,”-the spiritual universe, whereof Christian Science now bears testimony.

Our Master said, ”The works that I do shall ye do also;” and, ”The kingdom of G.o.d is within you.” This [10]

makes practical all his words and works. As the ages advance in spirituality, Christian Science will be seen to depart from the trend of other Christian denomina- tions in no wise except by increase of spirituality.

My first plank in the platform of Christian Science [15]

is as follows: ”There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter. All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for G.o.d is All-in-all. Spirit is immortal Truth; matter is mortal error. Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal. Spirit is [20]

G.o.d, and man is His image and likeness. Therefore man is not material; he is spiritual.”(1)

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I am strictly a theist-believe in one G.o.d, one Christ [1]

or Messiah.

Science is neither a law of matter nor of man. It is the unerring manifesto of Mind, the law of G.o.d, its divine Principle. Who dare say that matter or [5]

mortals can evolve Science? Whence, then, is it, if not from the divine source, and what, but the contempor- ary of Christianity, so far in advance of human knowl- edge that mortals must work for the discovery of even a portion of it? Christian Science translates Mind, G.o.d, [10]

to mortals. It is the infinite calculus defining the line, plane, s.p.a.ce, and fourth dimension of Spirit. It abso- lutely refutes the amalgamation, transmigration, absorp- tion, or annihilation of individuality. It shows the impossibility of transmitting human ills, or evil, from one [15]

individual to another; that all true thoughts revolve in G.o.d's...o...b..ts: they come from G.o.d and return to Him,-and untruths belong not to His creation, there- fore these are null and void. It hath no peer, no comp- pet.i.tor, for it dwelleth in Him besides whom ”there is [20]

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