HONGKONG DAILY PRESS,
*Not all of one's dinculties can
be attributed to the folly of past, generations, of course. One's own mental attitude has a vital bearing -on-one's-well-being.
For example he who goes about tense with anxiety, re- sentment, remorse, or other abnormal emotions can hardly expect permanently to enjoy. good health or reasonable suc- cess.
FRIDAY, MAY 26, 1939. -PAGE 2
-Integrity as God knows it! Canduence of Christian Solence is com- there be time or place from which stantly widening.
And yet how real how tangible it is. Immediately, an individual's sense of being it is absent? From everlasting to Prior to her discovery of Chris quickens as he recognizes that everlasting it endures in form tian Science Mrs, Eddy was seldom ----he is consciousness rather than-more palpable--to enlightened free-from-sickness. Finding DQ
physicality.
vision than the wayside rock to material remedy, she eventually"
concluded that there must be a spiritual law of healing,
So it is of all divine qualities or ideas. They exist in mold and structure as tangible as they are permanent. Not one of them can lose or surrender. its Identity. And as they are when viewed" singly, so. must they be when fitly joined to- gether in man.
Birth is not the beginning of an
As a spiritually maded woman and a great student of the Scriptures" "she naturally" sought for this remedy in the Bible. She found it there. She discovered that Jesus in heal- Ing the sick was not working miracles but practicing Science. Having discovered the Science of Christianity she tested it on peo-
What about the body? Science darkened material sense. teaches and observation confirms that the human mind and the human body are one. They are different levels of the same, men- tality. What we call body is the Tensity of temperament in the lower, the grosser stratum. What upper realm of mind becomes ten-we call mind is the upper, the more sity of tissue in the lower realm of ethereal stratum. Together they body. Rigidity of thought reacts make up that intelligence which at once in rigidity of bodily func-we call a human being. tlons. Whereas dexibility of men- Not a perfect intelligence, cer- individual's career and death is tality, confidence, friendliness.tairly, but an intelligence which not Its conclusion. Birth an ple in distress and found that she
· case, and poise build a sure appears partly good and partly death are events in the voyage of could relieve them, foundation for soundness of body bad, partly spiritual and partly numan experience. You cannot She next set forth the teachings and attractiveness of individuality.material. So that consciousness truce the beginning of the tiniest of Christian Science in her famous
ATTRACTIVENESS:
appears to be a mixture of human thing in the world. You cannot volume "Science and Health with and divine ingredients.
foresee its end, Even a funy Key to the Scriptures."
insub- As one emphasizes the divine and snowflake, transient and Every individual who chooses to
The book can be read in any act and live his best possesses repudiate's the purely human, one stantial as it is, was something public Hbrary or in any Christian attractiveness. This must be so in puts of limitation and mortality before.
Science Reading Room. Many peo- vlew of the undeniable logic of and gradually discovers that true It will be something after, for ple have been healed of serious perfect God and perfect man. He selfhood, the perfect man of God's a time. Silent as thought it ailments by studying its pages. who has the courage and at the creating, occupies the whole ground tumbles down to earth bent on än Science in our times has gone as same time the graciousness to rise and always has occupied it.
undefeatable purpose. Can you (widely abroad perhaps as has the to this. height will And needful BODIES COME AND GO:
not believe that you wore Sermon on the Mount. things flowing to him.
something before? That you will words it has "permeated universal His exalted mood becomes a Since the human mind and the be something after? That you thought. veritable magnet which draws human body are different layers of have come into being for an un- opportunity, position, companion- the same mentality, an improved defeatable purpose? ship, all the conditions essential to mentality must bring an improved | LEANING BACK ON MIND:
body. Better thinking must result
then
In other
There is hardly a person in west. jern civilization who is not talking a different and a better länguage. an abundant life.
who is not pursuing a different No one of course denies that in better health. No mystery then
You have seen the surf riders of and a better life, who not living human existence appears to have about the process whereby a Chris- the South Sea, at least you have in a different and a better world Its trials and disappointments. tian Science treatment reaches the seen pictures of them. They seem to because this great woman has lived, Everyone observes that the good body.
lean back on an unseen power and and laboured here. things of the world seem most
To use Mrs. Eddy's inimitable receive its impulse and propulsion. REMEDY FOR LAWLESSNESS: unevenly distributed. Yet in the language, "Consciousness constructs They glide over the waves with as face of so-called failure and even a better body when faith in matter much assurance as others walk the
Every individual can make the despair
has been conquered." (Selence city streets.
world better. He can have part in There's a wideness" in "God's and Health. page 425).
You could cultivate the habit of quieting the present unrest. This As one corrects the material be- leaning back on all-knowing Mind he can accomplish by recognizing lets, the ignorances, the mesmer- and permitting it to give you and insisting that the Lord God His iams which throng the human direction. This Mine would then omnipotent reigneth
mind, one finds that consciousness keep you out of mistakes, out of builds for him a healthier, stronger. dangers, out of follies. younger, body-a more prepossess. ing personal appearance.
mercy,
Like the wideness of the sea; There's 3 kindness In
justice,
Which is more than liberty. For the love of God is broader Than is seen by human mind. And the heart of the Eternal Is most wonderfully kind.
CONVERSING IN HEAVEN:
Consciousness, is continually at work. The physiologists-say- that it builds each individual a new body every year or so.
The mesmerism of the material
Why are the same scars and world is not a permanent affair.limps and idiosyncracies imaged Man's genuine status of perfection forth year after year? Because the has not departed." It has not even individual holds them in thought. faded. If unseen or forgotten in He refuses, to forget the accidents: this wilderness of mortal belief the allments, the misfortunes that and ignorance, it is nevertheless at have appeared to cross his path in hand.
this material world.
We all know that He does reign. reign wisely and absolutely. We It would release in you thoughts should be sufciently alert and just, that would enable you to build a and reverent to admit the fact- better business or to carve out a In this very admission. this very Aner career than you have yet recognition, we help to make of attained.
none effect the turbulence at large In the earth.
That Mind right impart to you some idea which would en- able you to launch an entirely new enterprise in some hi- therto unexplored field where there is no competition."
The World, with its affairs and its people, is, after all Is and done, governed by the ne Mind, Chaos and disorder therefore canãot run riot. If the unemployed would lean The world la a place where divine back on divine Mind It would Principle governs, making sinister direct them to where they are intrigue, selfish ambition, attempts It is not a.condition so much to He describes them, boasts of needed. For every individual is at ruthless domination unavailing. be struggled for as it is to be them, whenever he can and an needed. No man has been brought The certain effect of a constant called to remembrance. Life with audience. In short he fills thought into being for uselessness or idle- and resolute acknowledgment of 'all its glories, is here to be re- with the worst sort of materials ¡ness. God has an active career these truths will be to still the cognized. It is
for each of His men and women. harsh noises of the day. yours this day, for consciousness to use.
He has a vital purpose for every yours to be enjoyed.
one of them, a purpose that can-
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the marbic. Serene and
The impatient and turbulent utterances of the day scarcely reach the plane of intelligence. They are more on the level with. lunacy. Shall we then be alarmed.
It makes no difference how busy | you are, you are choosing, you arej Because consciousness is not only not be frustrated. making decisions, you are talking the builder but the bullding mate- UNDEFEATABLE CAREER: with yourself. If you are not cau-rial. It is at once the sculptor tious you will be picturing age, and
You may fear that the injustice by their clamour? Rather shall we fashioning ill health, deploring the possessed of divine substances of others can defeat that purpose, challenge them as senseless, and inémiciency of government. ' integrity, animation, wisdom, affec- can keep from you the good things powerless to deceive or organize
When you select this line of tion-consciousness is equipped to God has prepared. Nothing of the or work mischief of any sort. conversation you add to the mes-rear a princely structure.
sort really can happen. Not even We are not helpless in the situa- merism which is already weighing Upset bry alarms, anxieties. your own fully can indefinitely tion. We have the ability to ex- . you down. You make the wrong animosities, and supplled with postpone the destiny God plans for tinguish, noiselessly and finally, the
choice.
mortal materiais, consciousness you as you press toward the mark forbidding influences bent on un- With a little more discernment produces forms and figures which for the prize of the high calling dermining industry and govern- and resolution 'you, can make the do well if they survive three score of God in Christ Jesus." right choice. You can order your ears and ten.
You remember the morning SUSPICION AND HATRED: conversation along healthful and Bodies come and go. but con- Jesus was brought before Pilate, It is time to know that "He dis- wholesome lines.
sciousness persists. It refuses to charged with making himself king.appointeth the devices of the be put under ground. Eluding the At one point in the trial where he crafty, so that their hands cannot grave it builds in the hereafter refused to talk Pilate said to him: perform their enterprise. He taketn such a body as it may need to "Speakest thou not unto me?
All day long you can talk with yourself of the vigour, the buoyancy, the resistlessTI35, the eternality, the glory of Life, keeping in thought all the time that it is your life you are talk-- ing about.
In this way you put vital, truths to work in your own premises in stead of idly contemplating them in the abstract, In this mood you are not far from invoking the Daily Prayer set forth by Mrs. Eddy in her Manual of The Mother Church;
meat.
operate through. You get a hint Knowest thou not that I have the wise in their own craftiness; for this process in your dreams. power to crucify thee and have and the counsel of the forward is
Curried headlong."
The moment you fall asleep con-power to release thee?" "Thou sclousness evolves another body couldest huvé no
power at all Your friends do not see it. You against me," answered Jesus, ""ex- take it a hundred miles on a visit. cept it were given thee from It has all its members. You may above." have only one arm when awake. You have two in slumber.
Then Pilate delivered him to his accusers and he was executed. But
INDENTITY IN THE HEREAFTER: presently Jesus was back alive the same man he was before: How Does this not help you to under- little the conspiracy accomplished Thy kingdom come; let the reign stand what takes place when one except to speed and glorify the of divine Truth, Life, and Love be talls into the last sleep? Im-career of that great man. established in me, and rule out of mediately consciousness evolves.
י
me all sin.”
RELATION OF BODY TO MIND:
another body untouched by the
last flinear" and invisible
to
anxious friends.
The departed, becoming invisible in the form we are accustomed to,
At the outset of our argument we agreed, did we not, that God ta Spirit, Life, Mind, Love. Which take on another. form which our
We can calm the Interna- tional suspicions and hatreds which lead to open conflict, we fan silence rumours of war, by realizing that divine Principle holds the nations in their or-. bits and will not permit them ta spring at each other in strife.
has a destiny for your nation--a Are you not persuaded that God
peaceful and fruitful destiny; a There was not power enough destiny that as yet is not half ful- in the clamorous rabble or
Alled? Perhaps it will not be ful even in the Roman government filled if we fall to do our part, to defeat the purpose God háð
What is our part?. It u tô? bike had for Jesus.
definite account of the wily at- There is no circumstance, no m-tempts to undermine government
means that His people must be dull senses cannot comprehend. Justice, no power in this world to and civilization itself, and denounce mental and spiritual, that is, con- But with vision quickened by the defeat the purpose God has for you them as unprincipled and there stituted of intelligence. They can-truths of Christian Science we you make the right choice and not differ in quality from their shall some day see that the real stay resolutely with it. And life designs.
man does not come, age, sicken, still before you. creator.
or depart.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.
Life as impotent to carry out their
Every one of us has a respon- afbility which he cannot evade. A moment's self-examination We shall see that the real man
We can do more than we have leaves no doubt that man is made is was, and will be. He lives an Christian Science has now been dreamed towards preserving the of intelligence rather than of non- and on indefinitely, maintaining operation three-quarters of a stability of nations and of society intelligence. This is why he is so his identity, distinguishable and century. Discovered and founded generally, secure. Intelligence cannot grow recognizable, made in the pattern fu New England by Mary Baker If civilization is permitted to gu old, cannot become sick, cannot of endless life.
Eddy, it has long since reached forward at its present pace, toll suffer fractures, cannot be ex-
Things of Spirit may seem at world-wide dimenäions. Its chur and pain and strife may well be tinguished.
first approach elusive to him acches encircle the earth." Its per- eliminated from human experience Intelligence does not differ es- customed to deal with the sup-fodicals, including The Christian within another century, sentially from consciousness, which posedly sure, firm things of matter. Science Monitor, an international reminds us of Mr. Eddy's" denni-But if difficult to define, they are daily newspaper, are read and tion of man as "individual con-impossible to deny. In, number appreciated in all kinds. sciousness" (Science and Health, they are as the sands of the shore. The headquarters of the move- page 76). Here again one observes In unison they are the substance ment are in Boston, Massachusetts. how safe true selfhood must be of spiritual man.". Outstanding where its affairs are administered For, consciousness cannot be seen, among them. are affection, faith-by a board of five directors Bo cannot be touche1, cannot be put fulness, generosity, acumen, In- faithfully and efficiently do they in danger.
tegrity.
discharge their duties that the in-
The millenium cannot long be postponed if the impatience.. and lawlessness of the fimes are curbed. We have the means of curbing them, and the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds t
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