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CHRISTIAN HEALING
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SERMONS DELIVERED AT BOSTON
CHRISTIAN HEALING
AND
THE PEOPLE'S IDEA OF
GOD
SERMONS DELIVERED AT BOSTON
BY
MARY BAKER EDDY
PASTOR EMERITUS AND AUTHOR OF SCIENCE AND HEALTH
WITH KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES
Published by
The Christian Science Publishing Society
FOR THE TRUSTEES UNDER THE WILL OF MARY BAKER G. EDDY
BOSTON, U.S.A.
Authorized Literature of
THE FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST
in Boston, Massachusetts
Copyright, ipo8
BY MARY BAKER G. EDDY
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CONTENTS
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CHRISTIAN HEALING i
THE PEOPLE'S IDEA OF GOD : ITS EFFECT ON
HEALTH AND CHRISTIANITY , i
CHRISTIAN HEALING
BY
MARY BAKER EDDY
AUTHOR OF SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE
SCRIPTURES
A SERMON DELIVERED AT BOSTON
Published by
The Christian Science Publishing Society
FOR THE TRUSTEES UNDER THE WILL OF MARY BAKER G. EDDT
BOSTON, U.S. A.
Authorized Literature of
THE FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST
in Boston, Massachusetts
Copyright, 1886
BY MRS. GLOVER EDDY
Copyright, 1908
BY MARY BAKER G. EDDY
Copyright renewed, 1914.
All rights reserved
SERMON
SUBJECT
CHRISTIAN HEALING
TEXT: And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name
shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; they
shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall
not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shatt recover.
MARK xvi. 17, 18.
T TISTQRY repeats itself; to-morrow grows out of to-
day. But Heaven's favors are formidable: they are
calls to higher duties, not discharge from care; and whoso
builds on less than an immortal basis, hath built on sand.
We have asked, in our selfishness, to wait until the age
advanced to a more practical and spiritual religion before
arguing with the world the great subject of Christian heal-
ing; but our answer was, "Then there were no cross to
take up, and less need of publishing the good news." A
classic writes,
"At thirty, man suspects himself a fool;
Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan;
At fifty, chides his infamous delay,
Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve."
The difference between religions is, that one religion has a
more spiritual basis and tendency than the other; and
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the religion nearest right is that one. The genius of
Christianity is works more than words; a calm and stead-
fast communion with God; a tumult on earth, religious
factions and prejudices arrayed against it, the synagogues
as of old closed upon it, while it reasons with the storm,
hurls the thunderbolt of truth, and stills the tempest of
error; scourged and condemned at every advancing foot-
step, afterwards pardoned and adopted, but never seen
amid the smoke of battle. Said the intrepid reformer,
Martin Luther: "I am weary of the world, and the world
is weary of me; the parting will be easy." Said the more
gentle Melanchthon: "Old Adam is too strong for young
Melanchthon."
And still another Christian hero, ere he passed from
his execution to a crown, added his testimony: "I have
fought a good fight, ... I have kept the faith." But
Jesus, the model of infinite patience, said: "Come unto
me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will
give you rest." And he said this when bending beneath
the malice of the world. But why should the world hate
Jesus, the loved of the Father, the loved of Love? It was
that his spirituality rebuked their carnality, and gave this
proof of Christianity that religions had not given. Again,
they knew it was not in the power of eloquence or a dead
rite to cast out error and heal the sick. Past, present,
future magnifies his name who built, on Truth, eternity's
foundation stone, and sprinkled the altar of Love with
perpetual incense.
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Such Christianity requires neither hygiene nor drugs
wherewith to heal both mind and body; or, lacking these,
to show its helplessness. The primitive privilege of Chris-
tianity was to make men better, to cast out error, and heal
the sick. It was a proof, more than a profession thereof;
a demonstration, more than a doctrine. It was the foun-
dation of right thinking and right acting, and must be
reestablished on its former basis. The stone which the
builders rejected must again become the head of the
corner.; In proportion as the personal and material ele-
ment stole into religion, it lost Christianity and the power
f
to heal;<and the qualities of God as a person, instead of
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the divine Principle that begets the quality, Engrossed the
attention of the ages. In the original text the term God
was derived from the word good. Christ is the idea
of Truth; Jesus is the name of a man born in a remote
province of Judea, Josephus alludes to several indi-
viduals by the name of Jesus. Therefore Christ Jesus was
an honorary title; it signified a "good man," which epi-
thet the great goodness and wonderful works of our
Master more than merited^ Because God is the Principle of
Christian healing, we must understand in part this divine
Principle, or we cannot demonstrate it in part/J
The Scriptures declare that "God is Love, Truth, and
Life," a trinity in unity; not three persons in one, but
three statements of one Principle. We cannot tell what is
the person 'of Truth, the body of the infinite, but we know
that the Principle is not the person, that the finite cannot
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contain the infinite, that unlimited Mind cannot start from
a limited body. The infinite can neither go forth from,
return to, nor remain for a moment within limits. We
must give freer breath to thought before calculating the
results of an infinite Principle, the effects of infinite
Love, the compass of infinite Life, the power of infinite
Truth. {^Clothing Deity with personality, we limit the ac-
tion of God to the finite senses/] We pray for God to re-
member us, even as we ask a person with softening of the
brain not to forget his daily cares. We ask infinite wisdom
to possess our finite sense, and forgive what He knows
deserves to be punished, and to bless what is unfit to be
blessed. We expect infinite Love to drop divinity long
enough to hate. We expect infinite Truth to mix with
error, and become finite for a season; and, after infinite
Spirit is forced in and out of matter for an indefinite period,
to show itself infinite again. We expect infinite Life to
become finite, and have an end; but, after a temporary
lapse, to begin anew as infinite Life, without beginning and
without end.
Friends, can we ever arrive at a proper conception of the
divine character, and gain a right idea of the Principle of
all that is right, with such self-evident contradictions?
God must be our model, or we have none; and if this
model is one thing at one time, and the opposite of it at
another, can we rely on our model? Or, having faith in it,
how can we demonstrate a changing Principle? We can-
not: we shall be consistent with our inconsistent statement
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of Deity, and so bring out our own erring finite sense of
God, and of good and evil blending. While admitting
that God is omnipotent, we shall be limiting His power at
every point, shall be saying He is beaten by certain kinds
of food, by changes of temperature, the neglect of a bath,
and so on. Phrenology will be saying the developments of
the brain bias a man's character. Physiology will be say-
ing, if a man has taken cold by doing good to his neighbor,
God will punish him now for the cold, but he must wait for
the reward of his good deed hereafter. One of our lead-
ing clergymen startles us by saying that "between Chris-
tianity and spiritualism, the question chiefly is concerning
the trustworthiness of the communications, and not the
doubt of their reality." Does any one think the departed
are not departed, but are with us, although we have no
evidence of the fact except sleight-of-hand and hallu-
cination?
Such hypotheses ignore Biblical authority, obscure the
one grand truth which is constantly covered, in one way
or another, from our sight. This truth is, that we are
to work out our own salvation, and to meet the responsi-
bility of our own thoughts and acts; relying not on the
person of God or the person of man to do our work for us,
but on the apostle's rule, "I will show thee my faith by
my works." This spiritualism would lead our lives to
higher issues; it would purify, elevate, and consecrate
man; it would teach him that "whatsoever a man soweth,
that shall he also reap." The more spiritual we become
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here, the more are we separated from the world; and
should this rule fail hereafter, and we grow more material,
and so come back to the world? When I was told the other
day, "People say you are a medium," pardon me if I
smiled. The pioneer of something new under the sun is
never hit: he cannot be; the opinions of people fly too
high or too low. From my earliest investigations of the
mental phenomenon named mediumship, I knew it was
misinterpreted, and I said it. The spiritualists abused me
for it then, and have ever since; but they take pleasure in
calling me a medium. I saw the impossibility, in Science,
of intercommunion between the so-called dead and the
living. When I learned how mind produces disease on the
body, I learned how it produces the manifestations ig-
norantly imputed to spirits. I saw how the mind's ideals
were evolved and made tangible; and it matters not
whether that ideal is a flower or a cancer, if the belief is
strong enough to manifest it. Man thinks he is a medium
of disease; that when he is sick, disease controls his body
to whatever manifestation we see. But the fact remains,
in metaphysics, that the mind of the individual only can
produce a result upon his body. The belief that produces
this result may be wholly unknown to the individual, be-
cause it is lying back hi the unconscious thought, a latent
cause producing the effect we see.
"And these signs shall follow them that believe; In
my name shall they cast out devils." The word devil
comes from the Greek diabolos; in Hebrew it is belial, and
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signifies "that which is good for nothing, lust," etc. The
signs referred to are the manifestations of the power of
Truth to cast out error; and, correcting error in thought,
it produces the harmonious effect on the body. "Them
that believe" signifies those who understand God's su-
premacy, the power of Mind over matter. "The new
tongue " is the spiritual meaning as opposed to the material.
It is the language of Soul instead of the senses; it translates
matter into its original language, which is Mind, and gives
the spiritual instead of the material signification. It begins
with motive, instead of act, where Jesus formed his esti-
mate; and there correcting the motive, it corrects the act
that results from the motive. The Science of Christianity
makes pure the fountain, in order to purify the stream. It
begins in mind to heal the body, the same as it begins in
motive to correct the act, and through which to judge of it.
The Master of metaphysics, reading the mind of the poor
woman who dropped her mite into the treasury, said,
"She hath cast in more than they all." Again, he charged
home a crime to mind, regardless of any outward act, and
sentenced it as our judges would not have done to-day.
Jesus knew that adultery is a crime, and mind is the crim-
inal. I wish the age was up to his understanding of these
two facts, so important to progress and Christianity.
"They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any
deadly thing, it shall not hurt them." This is an unquali-
fied statement of the duty and ability of Christians to heal
the sick; and it contains no argument for a creed or doc-
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trine, it 'implies no necessity beyond the understanding of
God, and obedience to His government, that heals both
mind and body; God, not a person to whom we should
pray to heal the sick, but the Life, Love, and Truth that
destroy error and death. Understanding the truth regard-
ing mind and body, knowing that Mind can master sick-
ness as well as sin, and carrying out this government over
both and bringing out the results of this higher Chris-
tianity, we shall perceive the meaning of the context,
"They shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall
recover."
The world is slow to perceive individual advancement;
but when it reaches the thought that has produced this,
then it is willing to be made whole, and no longer quarrels
with the individual. Plato did better; he said, "What
thou seest, that thou beest."
The mistaken views entertained of Deity becloud the
light of revelation, and suffocate reason by materialism.
When we understand that God is what the Scriptures have
declared, namely, Life, Truth, and Love, we shall
learn to reach heaven jthrough Principle instead of a par-
don; and this will make us honest and laborious, knowing
that we shall receive only what we have earned-J Jesus
illustrated this by the parable of the husbandman, jjf we
work to become Christians as honestly and as directly
upon a divine Principle, and adhere to the rule of this
Principle as directly as we do to the rule of mathematics,
we shall be Christian Scientists, and do more than we are
CHRISTIAN HEALING 9
now doing, and progress faster than we are now pro-
gressing. i_We should have no anxiety about what is or
what is not the person of God, if we understood the
Principle better and employed our thoughts more in dem-
onstrating it.J We are constantly thinking and talking
on the wrong side of the question. The less said or thought
of sin, sickness, or death, the better for mankind, morally
and physically. The greatest sinner and the most hope-
less invalid think most of sickness and of sin; but, having
learned that this method has not saved them from either,
why do they go on thus, and their moral advisers talk for
them on the very subjects they would gladly discontinue to
bring out in their lives? Contending for the reality of
what should disappear is like furnishing fuel for the flames.
Is it a duty for any one to believe that " the curse causeless
cannot come"? Then it is a higher duty to know that
God never cursed man, His own image and likeness. God
never made a wicked man; and man made by God had not
a faculty or power underived from his Maker wherewith to
make himself wicked.
The only correct answer to the question, "Who is
the author of evil?" is the scientific statement that
evil is unreal; that God made all that was made, but
He never made sin or sickness, either an error of mind
or of body. Life in matter is a dream: sin, sickness,
and death are this dream. Life is Spirit; and when we
waken from the dream of life in matter, we shall learn this
grand truth of being. St. John saw the vision of life in
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matter; and he saw it pass away, an illusion. The
dragon that was wroth with the woman, and stood ready
"to devour the child as soon as it was born," was the vision
of envy, sensuality, and malice, ready to devour the idea
of Truth. But the beast bowed before the Lamb : it was
supposed to have fought the manhood of God, that Jesus
represented; but it fell before the womanhood of God,
that presented the highest ideal of Love. Let us re-
member that God good is omnipotent; therefore evil
is impotent, j There is but one side to good, it has no
evil side; there is but one side to reality, and that is the
good side.)
God is All, and in all: that finishes the question of
a good and a bad side to existence. Truth is the real;
error is the unreal. [JYou will gather the importance of
this saying, when sorrow seems to come, if you will look
on the bright side ;J for sorrow endureth but for the night,
and joy cometh with the light. Then will your sorrow be
a dream, and your waking the reality, even the triumph
of Soul over sense. [_If you wish to be happy, argue with
yourself on the side of happiness f] take the side you wish
to carry, and be careful not to talk on both sides, or to
argue stronger for sorrow than for joy. You are the at-
torney for the case, and will win or lose according to your
plea.
As the mountain hart panteth for the water brooks, so
panteth my heart for the true fount and Soul's baptism.
Earth's fading dreams are empty streams, her fountains
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play in borrowed sunbeams, her plumes are plucked from
the wings of vanity. Didwejsuryey the^pst of sublunary
joy, we then should gladly waken to see it was unreal. A
dream calleth itself a dreamer, but when the dream has
passed, man is seen wholly apart from the dream.
We are in the midst of a revolution; physics are yield-
ing slowly to metaphysics; mortal mind rebels at its own
boundaries; weary of matter, it would catch the meaning
of Spirit. The only immortal superstructure is built on
Truth; her modest tower rises slowly, but it stands and is
the miracle of the hour, though it may seem to the age like
the great pyramid of Egypt, a miracle in stone. The
fires of ancient proscription burn upon the altars of to-day;
he who has suffered from intolerance is the first to be in-
tolerant. Homoeopathy may not recover from the heel of
allopathy before lifting its foot against its neighbor, meta-
physics, although homoeopathy has laid the foundation
stone of mental healing; it has established this axiom,
"The less medicine the better," and metaphysics adds,
"until you arrive at no medicine." When you have
reached this high goal you have learned that proportion-
ately as matter went out and Mind came in as the remedy,
was its potency. Metaphysics places all cause and cure
as mind; differing in this from homoeopathy, where cause
and cure are supposed to be both mind and matter. Meta-
physics requires mind imbued with Truth to heal the sick;
hence the Christianity of metaphysical healing, and this
excellence above other systems. The higher attenuations
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of homoeopathy contain no medicinal properties, and
thus it is found out that Mind instead of matter heals
the sick.
While the matter-physician feels the pulse, examines
the tongue, etc., to learn what matter is doing independent
of mind, when it is self-evident it can do nothing, the
metaphysician goes to the fount to govern the streams;
he diagnoses disease as mind, the basis of all action, and
cures it thus when matter cannot cure it, showing he was
right. Thus it was we discovered that all physical effects
originate in mind before they can become manifest as
matter; we learned from the Scripture and Christ's healing
that God, directly or indirectly, through His providence
.or His laws, never made a man sick. When studying the
two hundred and sixty remedies of the Jahr, the character-
istic peculiarities and the general and moral symptoms
requiring the remedy, we saw at once the concentrated
power of thought brought to bear on the pharmacy of
homoeopathy, which made the infinitesimal dose effectual.
To prepare the medicine requires time and thought; you
cannot shake the poor drug without the involuntary
thought, "I am making you more powerful," and the
sequel proves it; the higher attenuations prove that the
power was the thought, for when the drug disappears by
your process the power remains, and homceopathists ad-
mit the higher attenuations are the most powerful. The
only objection to giving the unmedicated sugar is, it would
be dishonest and divide one's faith apparently between
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matter and mind, and so weaken both points of action;
taking hold of both horns of the dilemma, we should work
at opposites and accomplish less on either side.
The pharmacy of homoeopathy is reducing the one hun-
dredth part of a grain of medicine two thousand times,
shaking the preparation thirty times at every attenuation.
There is a moral to this medicine; the higher natures are
reached soonest by the higher attenuations, until the fact is
found out they have taken no medicine, and then the so-
called drug loses its power. We have attenuated a grain of
aconite until it was no longer aconite, then dropped into
a tumblerful of water a single drop of this harmless solu-
tion, and administering one teaspoonful of this water at
intervals of half an hour have cured the incipient stage of
fever. The highest attenuation we ever attained was to
leave the drug out of the question, using only the sugar of
milk; and with this original dose we cured an inveterate
case of dropsy. After these experiments you cannot be
surprised that we resigned the imaginary medicine alto-
gether, and honestly employed Mind as the only curative
Principle.
What are the foundations of metaphysical healing?
Mind, divine Science, the truth of being that casts out
error and thus heals the sick. You can readily perceive
this mental system of healing is the antipode of mesmer-
ism, Beelzebub. Mesmerism makes one disease while it is
supposed to cure another, and that one is worse than the
first; mesmerism is one lie getting the better of another,
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and the bigger lie occupying the field for a period; it is the
fight of beasts, in which the bigger animal beats the lesser;
in fine, much ado about nothing. Medicine will not arrive
at the science of treating disease until disease is treated
mentally and man is healed morally and physically. What
has physiology, hygiene, or physics done for Christianity
but to obscure the divine Principle of healing and en-
courage faith in an opposite direction?
Great caution should be exercised in the choice of
physicians. If you employ a medical practitioner, be sure
he is a learned man and skilful; never trust yourself in the
hands of a quack. In proportion as a physician is enlight-
ened and liberal is he equipped with Truth, and his efforts
are salutary; ignorance and charlatanism are miserable
medical aids. Metaphysical healing includes infinitely
more than merely to know that mind governs the body and
the method of a mental practice. The preparation for a
metaphysical practitioner is the most arduous task I ever
performed. You must first mentally educate and develop
the spiritual sense or perceptive faculty by which one learns
the metaphysical treatment of disease; you must teach
them how to learn, together with what they learn. I
waited many years for a student to reach the ability to
teach; it included more than they understood.
Metaphysical or divine Science reveals the Principle and
method of perfection, how to attain a mind in harmony
with God, in sympathy with all that is right and opposed
to all that is wrong, and a body governed by this mind.
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Christian Science repudiates the evidences of the senses
and rests upon the supremacy of God. Christian healing,
established upon this Principle, vindicates the omnipo-
tence of the Supreme Being by employing no other remedy
than Truth, Life, and Love, understood, to heal all ills
that flesh is heir to. It places no faith in hygiene or drugs;
it reposes all faith hi mind, in spiritual power divinely
directed. By rightly understanding the power of mind
over matter, it enables mind to govern matter, as it rises
to that supreme sense that shall "take up serpents" un-
harmed, and "if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not
hurt them." Christian Science explains to any one's per-
fect satisfaction the so-called miracles recorded in the
Bible. Ah! why should man deny all might to the divine
Mind, and claim another mind perpetually at war with this
Mind, when at the same time he calls God almighty and
admits in statement what he denies in proof? You pray
for God to heal you, but should you expect this when you
are acting oppositely to your prayer, trying everything else
besides God, and believe that sickness is something He
cannot reach, but medicine can? as if drugs were superior
to Deity.
The Scripture says, "Ye ask, and receive not, because
ye ask amiss;" and is it not asking amiss to pray for a
proof of divine power, that you have little or no faith in
because you do not understand God, the Principle of
this proof? Prayer will be inaudible, and- works more
than words, as we understand God better. The Lord's
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Prayer, understood in its spiritual sense, and given its
spiritual version, can never be repeated too often for the
benefit of all who, having ears, hear and understand.
Metaphysical Science teaches us there is no other Life,
substance, and intelligence but God. How much are you
demonstrating of this statement? which to you hath the
most actual substance, wealth and fame, or Truth and
Love? See to it, O Christian Scientists, ye who have
named the name of Christ with a higher meaning, that you
abide by your statements, and abound in Love and Truth,
for unless you do this you are not demonstrating the
Science of metaphysical healing. The immeasurable
Life and Love will occupy your affections, come nearer
your hearts and into your homes when you touch but the
hem of Truth's garment.
A word about the five personal senses, and we will leave
our abstract subjects for this time. The only evidence we
have of sin, sickness, or death is furnished by these senses;
but how can we rely on their testimony when the senses
afford no evidence of Truth? They can neither see, hear,
. feel, taste, nor smell God; and shall we call that reliable
evidence through which we can gain no understanding of
Truth, Life, and Love? Again, shall we say that God
hath created those senses through which it is impossible to
approach Him? Friends, it is of the utmost importance
that we look into these subjects, and gain our evidences of
Life from the correct source. Jesus said, " I am the way,
the truth, and the life. No man cometh unto the Father,
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but by me," through the footsteps of Truth. Not by the
senses the lusts of the flesh, the pride of life, envy,
hypocrisy, or malice, the pleasures or the pains of the
personal senses does man get nearer his divine nature
and present the image and likeness of God. How, then,
can it be that material man and the personal senses were
created by God? Love makes the spiritual man, lust
makes the material so-called man, and God made all that
was made; therefore the so-called material man and these
personal senses, with all their evidences of sin, sickness,
and death, are but a dream, they are not the realities of
life; and we shall all learn this as we awake to behold His
likeness.
The allegory of Adam, when spiritually understood,
explains this dream of material life, even the dream of
the "deep sleep" that fell upon Adam when the spiritual
senses were hushed by material sense that before had
claimed audience with a serpent. Sin, sickness, and
death never proceeded from Truth, Life, and Love. Siix,
sickness, and death are error; they are not Truth, and
therefore are not TRUE. Sin is a supposed mental condi-
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tion; sickness and death are supposed physical ones, but
all appeared through the false supposition of life and in-
telligence in matter. Sin was first in the allegory, and
sickness and death were produced by sin. Then was not
sin of mental origin, and did not mind originate the de-
lusion? If sickness and death came through mind, so
must they go; and are we not right in ruling them out of
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mind to destroy their effects upon the body, that both
mortal mind and mortal body shall yield to the govern-
ment of God, immortal Mind? In the words of Paul,
that "the old man" shall be "put off," mortality shall
disappear and immortality be brought to light. People are
willing to put new wine into old bottles; but if this be
done, the bottle will break and the wine be spilled.
There is no connection between Spirit and matter.
Spirit never entered and it never escaped from matter;
good and evil never dwelt together. There is in reality
but the good: Truth is the real; error, the unreal. We
cannot put the new wine into old bottles. If that could be
done, the world would accept our sentiments; it would will-
ingly adopt the new idea, if that idea could be reconciled
with the old belief; it would put the new wine into the
old bottle if it could prevent its effervescing and keep it
from popping out until it became popular.
The doctrine of atonement never did anything for sick-
ness or claimed to reach that woe; but Jesus' mission
extended to the sick as much as to the sinner: he estab-
lished his Messiahship on the basis that Christ, Truth,
heals the sick. Pride, appetites, passions, envy, and malice
will cease to assert their Caesar sway when metaphysics is
understood; and religion at the sick-bed will be no blind
Samson shorn of his locks. You must admit that what is
termed death has been produced by a belief alone. The
Oxford students proved this: they killed a man by no other
means than making him believe he was bleeding to death.
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A felon was delivered to them for experiment to test the
power of mind over body; and they did test it, and proved
it. They proved it not in part, but as a whole; they
proved that every organ of the system, every function of
the body, is governed directly and entirely by mind, else
those functions could not have been stopped by mind in-
dependently of material conditions. Had they changed
the felon's belief that he was bleeding to death, removed
the bandage from his eyes, and he had seen that a vein had
not been opened, he would have resuscitated. The illusive
origin of disease is not an exception to the origin of all
mortal things. Spirit is causation, and the ancient ques-
tion, Which is first, the egg or the bird? is answered by
the Scripture, He made " every plant of the field before it
was in the earth."
Heaven's signet is Love. We need it to stamp our re-
ligions and to spiritualize thought, motive, and endeavor.
Tireless Being, patient of man's procrastination, affords
him fresh opportunities every hour; but if Science makes
a more spiritual demand, bidding man go up higher, he is
impatient perhaps, or doubts the feasibility of the demand.
But let us work more earnestly in His vineyard, and accord-
ing to the model on the mount, bearing the cross meekly
along the rugged way, into the wilderness, up the steep
ascent, on to heaven, making our words golden rays in the
sunlight of our deeds; and "these signs shall follow them
that believe; . . . they shall lay hands on the sick, and
they shall recover."
20 SERMON
The following hymn was sung at the close:
"Oh, could we speak the matchless worth,
Oh, could we sound the glories forth,
Which in our Saviour shine,
We'd soar and touch the heavenly strings,
And vie with Gabriel, while he sings,
In notes almost divine,"
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PEOPLE'S IDEA OF GOD
ITS EFFECT ON
HEALTH AND CHRISTIANITY
A SERMON DELIVERED AT BOSTON
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SERMON
SUBJECT
THE PEOPLE'S IDEA OF GOD
TEXT: One Lord, one faith, one baptism. EPHESIANS iv. 5.
TT^VERY step of progress is a step more spiritual. The
*-* great element of reform is not born of human wis-
dom; it draws not its life from human organizations;
rather is it the crumbling away of material elements from
reason, the translation of law back to its original language,
Mind, and the final unity between man and God.
The footsteps of thought, as they pass from the sensual
side of existence to the reality and Soul of all things, are
slow, portending a long night to the traveller; but the
guardians of the gloom are the angels of His presence, that
impart grandeur to the intellectual wrestling and colli-
sions with old-tune faiths, as we drift into more spiritual
latitudes. The beatings of our heart can be heard; but
the ceaseless throbbings and throes of thought are unheard,
as it changes from material to spiritual standpoints. Even
the pangs of death disappear, accordingly as the under-
standing that we are spiritual beings here reappears, and
2 SERMON
we learn our capabilities for good, which insures man's
continuance and is the true glory of immortality.
The improved theory and practice of religion and of
medicine are mainly due to the people's improved views
of the Supreme Being. As the finite sense of Deity, based
on material conceptions of spiritual being, yields its grosser
elements, we shall learn what God is, and what God does.
The Hebrew term that gives another letter to the word
God and makes it good, unites Science and Christianity,
whereby we learn that God, good, is universal, and the
divine Principle, Life, Truth, Love; and this Principle is
learned through goodness, and of Mind instead of matter,
of Soul instead of the senses, and by revelation supporting
reason. It is the false conceptions of Spirit, based on the
evidences gained from the material senses, that make a
Christian only in theory, shockingly material in practice,
and form its Deity out of the worst human qualities, else
of wood or stone.
Such a theory has overturned empires in demoniacal con-
tests over religion. Proportionately as the people's belief
of God, in every age, has been dematerialized and unfinited
has their Deity become good; no longer a personal tyrant
or a molten image, but the divine Life, Truth, and Love,
Life without beginning or ending, Truth without a
lapse or error, and Love universal, infinite, eternal. This
more perfect idea, held constantly before the people's
mind, must have a benign and elevating influence upon
the character of nations as well as individuals, and will
THE PEOPLE'S IDEA OF GOD 3
lift man ultimately to the understanding that our ideals
form our characters, that as a man " thinketh in his heart,
so is he." The crudest ideals of speculative theology
have made monsters of men; and the ideals of materia
medica have made helpless invalids and cripples. The
eternal roasting amidst noxious vapors; the election of the
minority to be saved and the majority to be eternally pun-
ished; the wrath of God, to be appeased by the sacrifice
and torture of His favorite Son, are some of the false
beliefs that have produced sin, sickness, and death; and
then would affirm that these are natural, and that Chris-
tianity and Christ-healing are preternatural; yea, that
make a mysterious God and a natural devil.
Let us rejoice that the bow of omnipotence already
spans the moral heavens with light, and that the more
spiritual idea of good and Truth meets the old material
thought like a promise upon the cloud, while it inscribes
on the thoughts of men at this period a more metaphysical
religion founded upon Christian Science. A personal
God is based on finite premises, where thought begins
wrongly to apprehend the infinite, even the quality or the
quantity of eternal good. This limited sense of God as
good limits human thought and action in their goodness,
and assigns them mortal fetters in the outset. It has im-
planted in our religions certain unspiritual shifts, such as
dependence on personal pardon for salvation, rather than
obedience to our Father's demands, whereby we grow out
of sin in the way that our Lord has appointed; namely,
4 SERMON
by working out our own salvation. It has given to all
systems of materia medico, nothing but materialism,
more faith in hygiene and drugs than in God. Idolatry
sprang from the belief that God is a form, more than an
infinite and divine Mind; sin, sickness, and death origi-
nated in the belief that Spirit materialized into a body,
infinity became finity, or man, and the eternal entered the
temporal. Mythology, or the myth of ologies, said that
Life, which is infinite and eternal, could enter finite man
through his nostrils, and matter become intelligent of
good and evil, because a serpent said it. When first good,
God, was named a person, and evil another person, the
error that a personal God and a personal devil entered
into partnership and would form a third person, called
material man, obtained expression. But these unspirit-
ual and mysterious ideas of God and man are far from
correct.
The glorious Godhead is Life, Truth, and Love, and
these three terms for one divine Principle are the three in
one that can be understood, and that find no reflection in
sinning, sick, and dying mortals. No miracle of grace can
make a spiritual mind out of beliefs that are as material as
the heathen deities. The pagan priests appointed Apollo
and Esculapius the gods of medicine, and they inquired of
these heathen deities what drugs to prescribe. Systems
of religion and of medicine grown out of such false ideals
of the Supreme Being cannot heal the sick and cast out
devils, error. Eschewing a materialistic and idolatrous
THE PEOPLE'S IDEA OF GOD 5
theory and practice of medicine and religion, the apostle
devoutly recommends the more spiritual Christianity,
"one Lord, one faith, one baptism." The prophets and
apostles, whose lives are the embodiment of a living faith,
have not taken away our Lord, that we know not where they
have laid him; they have resurrected a deathless life of
love; and into the cold materialisms of dogma and doctrine
we look in vain for their more spiritual ideal, the risen
Christ, whose materia medico, and theology were one.
The ideals of primitive Christianity are nigh, even at
our door. Truth is not lost in the mists of remoteness or
the barbarisms of spiritless codes. The right ideal is not
buried, but has risen higher to our mortal sense, and
having overcome death and the grave, wrapped in a pure
winding-sheet, it sitteth beside the sepulchre in angel
form, saying unto us, "Life is God; and our ideal of God
has risen above the sod to declare His omnipotence." This
white-robed thought points away from matter and doc-
trine, or dogma, to the diviner sense of Life and Love,
yea, to the Principle that is God, and to the demonstra-
tion thereof in healing the sick. Let us then heed this heav-
enly visitant, and not entertain the angel unawares.
The ego is not self-existent matter animated by mind,
but in itself is mind; therefore a Truth-filled mind makes
a pure Christianity and a healthy mind and body. Oliver
Wendell Holmes said, in a lecture before the Harvard
Medical School : " I firmly believe that if the whole materia
medico, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be
6 SERMON
all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes."
Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse writes: "I am sick of learned
quackery." Dr. Abercrombie, Fellow of the Royal Col-
lege of Physicians in Edinburgh, writes: "Medicine is the
science of guessing." Dr. James Johnson, Surgeon Ex-
traordinary to the King, says: " I declare my conscientious
belief, founded on long observation and reflection, that
if there was not a single physician, surgeon, apothecary,
man-midwife, chemist, druggist, or drug on the face of
the earth, there would be less sickness and less mortality
than now obtains." Voltaire says: " The art of medicine
consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the
disease."
Believing that man is the victim of his Maker, we natu-
rally fear God more than we love Him; whereas "perfect
Love casteth out fear; " but when we learn God aright, we
love Him, because He is found altogether lovely. Thus it
is that a more spiritual and true ideal of Deity improves
the race physically and spiritually. God is no longer a
mystery to the Christian Scientist, but a divine Principle,
understood in part, because the grand realities of Life and
Truth are found destroying sin, sickness, and death; and
it should no longer be deemed treason to understand God,
when the Scriptures enjoin us to "acquaint now thyself
with Him [God], and be at peace;" we should understand
something of that great good for which we are to leave all
else.
Periods and peoples are characterized by their highest
THE PEOPLE'S IDEA OF GOD 7
or their lowest ideals, by their God and their devil. We are
all sculptors, working out our own ideals, and leaving the
impress of mind on the body as well as on history and
marble, chiselling to higher excellence, or leaving to rot and
ruin the mind's ideals. Recognizing this as we ought, we
shall turn often from marble to model, from matter to
Mind, to beautify and exalt our lives.
"Chisel in hand stood a sculptor-boy,
With his marble block before him;
And his face lit up with a smile of joy
As an angel dream passed o'er him.
He carved the dream on that shapeless stone
With many a sharp incision.
With heaven's own light the sculptor shone,
He had caught the angel-vision.
"Sculptors of life are we as we stand
With our lives uncarved before us,
Waiting the hour when at God's command
Our life dream passes o'er us.
If we carve it then on the yielding stone
With many a sharp incision,
Its heavenly beauty shall be our own,
Our lives that angel-vision."
To remove those objects of sense called sickness and dis-
ease, we must appeal to mind to improve its subjects and
objects of thought, and give to the body those better de-
lineations. Scientific discovery and the inspiration of
Truth have taught me that the health and character of
man become more or less perfect as his mind-models are
more or less spiritual. Because God is Spirit, our thoughts
must spiritualize to approach Him, and our methods grow
more spiritual to accord with our thoughts. Religion and
8 SERMON
medicine must be dematerialized to present the right idea
of Truth; then will this idea cast out error and heal the
sick. If changeableness that repenteth itself; partiality
that elects some to be saved and others to be lost, or that
answers the prayer of one and not of another; if incom-
petency that cannot heal the sick, or lack of love that will
not; if unmercifulness, that for the sins of a few tired
years punishes man eternally, are our conceptions of
Deity, we shall bring out these qualities of character in our
own lives and extend their influence to others.
Judaism, enjoining the limited and definite form of a
national religion, was not more the antithesis of Chris-
tianity than are our finite and material conceptions of
Deity. Life is God; but we say that Life is carried on
through principal processes, and speculate concerning
material forces. Mind is supreme; and yet we make more
of matter, and lean upon it for health and life. Mind,
that governs the universe, governs every action of the body
as directly as it moves a planet and controls the muscles
of the arm. God grant that the trembling chords of human
hope shall again be swept by the divine Talitha cumi,
"Damsel, I say unto thee, arise." Then shall Christian
Science again appear, to light our sepulchres with im-
mortality. We thank our Father that to-day the uncre-
mated fossils of material systems, already charred, are
fast fading into ashes; and that man will ere long stop
trusting where there is no trust, and gorging his faith with
skill proved a million tunes unskilful.
THE PEOPLE'S IDEA OF GOD 9
Christian Science has one faith, one Lord, one baptism;
and this faith builds on Spirit, not matter; and this bap-
tism is the purification of mind, not an ablution of the
body, but tears of repentance, an overflowing love, wash-
ing away the motives for sin; yea, it is love leaving self
for God. The cool bath may refresh the body, or as com-
pliance with a religious rite may declare one's belief; but
it cannot purify his mind, or meet the demands of Love.
It is the baptism of Spirit that washes our robes and makes
them white in the blood of the Lamb; that bathes us hi the
life of Truth and the truth of Life. Having one Lord, we
shall not be idolaters, dividing our homage and obedience
between matter and Spirit; but shall work out our own
salvation, after the model of our Father, who never par-
dons the sin that deserves to be punished and can be de-
stroyed only through suffering.
We ask and receive not, because we "ask amiss;" even
dare to invoke the divine aid of Spirit to heal the sick, and
then administer drugs with full confidence in their efficacy,
showing our greater faith in matter, despite the authority
of Jesus that "ye cannot serve two masters."
Silent prayer is a desire, fervent, importunate: here
metaphysics is seen to rise above physics, and rest all faith
in Spirit, and remove all evidence of any other power than
Mind; whereby we learn the great fact that there is no
omnipotence, unless omnipotence is the All-power. This
truth of Deity, understood, destroys discord with the higher
and more potent evidences in Christian Science of man's
10 SERMON
harmony and immortality. Thought is the essence of an
act, and the stronger element of action; even as steam is
more powerful than water, simply because it is more
ethereal. Essences are refinements that lose some materi-
ality; and as we struggle through the cold night of physics,
matter will become vague, and melt into nothing under the
microscope of Mind.
Massachusetts succored a fugitive slave in 1853, and put
her humane foot on a tyrannical prohibitory law regulating
the practice of medicine in 1880. It were well if the sister
States had followed her example and sustained as nobly
OUT constitutional Bill of Rights. Discerning the God-
given rights of man, Paul said, " I was free born." Justice
and truth make man free, injustice and error enslave
him. Mental Science alone grasps the standard of liberty,
and battles for man's whole rights, divine as well as hu-
man. It assures us, of a verity, that mortal beliefs, and
not a law of nature, have made men sinning and sick,
that they alone have fettered free limbs, and marred in
mind the model of man.
We possess our own body, and make it harmonious or
discordant according to the images that thought reflects
upon it. The emancipation of our bodies from sickness
will follow the mind's freedom from sin; and, as St. Paul
admonishes, we should be "waiting for the adoption, to
wit, the redemption of our body." The rights of man were
vindicated but in a single instance when African slavery
was abolished on this continent, yet that hour was a
THE PEOPLE'S IDEA OF GOD 11
prophecy of the full liberty of the sons of God as found in
Christian Science. The defenders of the rights of the
colored man were scarcely done with their battles before a
new abolitionist struck the keynote of higher claims, in
which it was found that the feeblest mind, enlightened
and spiritualized, can free its body from disease as well as
sin; and this victory is achieved, not with bayonet and
blood, not by inhuman warfare, but in divine peace.
Above the platform of human rights let us build another
staging for diviner claims, even the supremacy of Soul
over sense, wherein man cooperates with and is made sub-
ject to his Maker. The lame, the blind, the sick, the sen-
sual,, are slaves, and their fetters are gnawing away life
and hope; their chains are clasped by the false teachings,
false theories, false fears, that enforce new forms of op-
pression, and are the modern Pharaohs that hold the chil-
dren of Israel still in bondage. Mortals, alias mortal
minds, make the laws that govern their bodies, as directly
as men pass legislative acts and enact penal codes; while
the body, obedient to the legislation of mind, but ignorant
of the law of belief, calls its own enactments "laws of
matter." The legislators who are greatly responsible for
all the woes of mankind are those leaders of public thought
who are mistaken in their methods of humanity.
The learned quacks of this period "bind heavy bur-
dens," that they themselves will not touch "with one of
their fingers." Scientific guessing conspires unwittingly
against the liberty and lives of men. Should we but
12 SERMON
hearken to the higher law of God, we should think for one
moment of these divine statutes of God: Let them have
"dominion over all the earth." "And if they drink any
deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands
on the sick, and they shall recover." The only law of sick-
ness or death is a law of mortal belief, and infringement
on the merciful and just government of God. When this
great fact is understood, the spurious, imaginary laws of
matter when matter is not a lawgiver will be dis-
puted and trampled under the feet of Truth. Deal, then,
with this fabulous law as with an inhuman State law; re-
peal it in mind, and acknowledge only God hi all thy ways,
"who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy
diseases." Few there be who know what a power mind is
to heal when imbued with the spiritual truth that lifts man
above the demands of matter.
As our ideas of Deity advance to truer conceptions,
we shall take in the remaining two thirds of God's plan
of redemption, namely, man's salvation from sickness
and death. Our blessed Master demonstrated this great
truth of healing the sick and raising the dead as God's
whole plan, and proved the application of its Principle to
human wants. Having faith in drugs and hygienic drills,
we lose faith in omnipotence, and give the healing power
to matter instead of Spirit. As if Deity would not if He
could, or could not if He would, give health to man; when
our Father bestows heaven not more willingly than health;
for without health there could be no heaven.
THE PEOPLE'S IDEA OF GOD 13
The worshippers of wood and stone have a more mate-
rial deity, hence a lower order of humanity, than those
who believe that God is a personal Spirit. But the wor-
shippers of a person have a lower order of Christianity than
he who understands that the Divine Being is more than a
person, and can demonstrate in part this great impersonal
Life, Truth, and Love, casting out error and healing the
sick. This all-important understanding is gained in
Christian Science, revealing the one God and His all-
power and ever-presence, and the brotherhood of man in
unity of Mind and oneness of Principle.
On the startled ear of humanity rings out the iron tread
of merciless invaders, putting man to the rack for his
conscience, or forcing from the lips of manhood shameful
confessions, Galileo kneeling at the feet of priestcraft,
and giving the lie to science. But the lofty faith of the
pious Polycarp proved the triumph of mind over the body,
when they threatened to let loose the wild beasts upon him,
and he replied : " Let them come; I cannot change at once
from good to bad." Then they bound him to the stake,
set fire to the fagots, and his pure faith went up through
the baptism of fire to a higher sense of Life. The infidel
was blind who said, " Christianity is fit only for women and
weak-minded men." But infidels disagree; for Bonaparte
said: "Since ever the history of Christianity was written,
the loftiest intellects have had a practical faith in God;"
and Daniel Webster said: "My heart has assured and re-
assured me that Christianity must be a divine reality."
14 SERMON
As our ideas of Deity become more spiritual, we express
them by objects more beautiful. To-day we clothe our
thoughts of death with flowers laid upon the bier, and in
our cemeteries with amaranth blossoms, evergreen leaves,
fragrant recesses, cool grottos, smiling fountains, and
white monuments. The dismal gray stones of church-
yards have crumbled into decay, as our ideas of Life have
grown more spiritual; and in place of "bat and owl on the
bending stones, are wreaths of immortelles, and white
fingers pointing upward." Thus it is that our ideas of
divinity form our models of humanity. O Christian Scien-
tist, thou of the church of the new-born; awake to a
higher and holier love for God and man; put on the whole
armor of Truth; rejoice in hope; be patient in tribulation,
that ye may go to the bed of anguish, and look upon this
dream of life in matter, girt with a higher sense of omnipo-
tence; and behold once again the power of divine Life and
Love to heal and reinstate man in God's own image and
likeness, having "one Lord, one faith, one baptism."
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FEED MY SHEEP
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