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 CHRISTIAN HEALING 
 
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 THE PEOPLE'S IDEA OF GOD 
 
 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 
 
 PAGE 
 
 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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 2 SERMON 
 
 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.
 
 CHRISTIAN HEALING 3 
 
 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 
 
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 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
 
 4 SERMON 
 
 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
 
 CHRISTIAN HEALING 5 
 
 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
 
 6 SERMON 
 
 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
 
 CHRISTIAN HEALING 7 
 
 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-
 
 8 SERMON 
 
 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
 
 10 SERMON 
 
 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
 
 CHRISTIAN HEALING 11 
 
 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
 
 12 SERMON 
 
 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 

 
 CHRISTIAN HEALING 13 
 
 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,
 
 14 SERMON 
 
 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.
 
 CHRISTIAN HEALING 15 
 
 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
 
 16 SERMON 
 
 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,
 
 CHRISTIAN HEALING 17 
 
 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
 
 18 SERMON 
 
 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.
 
 CHRISTIAN HEALING 19 
 
 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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 Copyright, 1886, 1908 
 BY MARY BAKER G. EDDY 
 
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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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