All students of mental science centre and agree on one point, namely: that all real existence is Mind and Thought. This is the theory of Christ-Science: that there is but one Mind; that the knowledge of this Mind is revealed through Christ, the Truth, and that the understanding of this Truth (like the kindergarten theory) is only obtained through practice or demonstration. The rule for this demonstration, everywhere overlooked, despised and rejected, because it seems so simple and so unscientific, is found in the two commandments: Have no other gods but Mind, and love the neighbor; and wherever and whenever this rule has been observed, great prosperity has been the result as the Bible shows. In proportion to the Jews' obedience to this rule, wassickness and disaster banished from their midst. When Anselm Rothschild died, his sons made a compact that each should look to the welfare of his brothers rather than to his own; the result is that the Rothschilds are the richest family in the world.
Christian Science shows that the purpose and object of the Bible, is to call man from the dream of matter, into the reality of thought. Here again we have the concurrence of scholastic thinkers, namely: that the exercise of all true power is in thought. I wish you would take this proposition and study on it for a little, i. e.: That action consists in working out our thoughts, in matter or otherwise—that there is no action unless thought precedes it. This will lead you to the conclusion that thought, not matter, is the true reality or existence. Again, when you realize that God, Mind, created man, His image and likeness, in thought (not in matter, flesh) you will read your Bible with new understanding.
You are interested to know how the observance of the rule of Divine Mind cures sickness. Lord Bacon tells us: "There is a mental cure for every physical ail." This suggestion is acted upon by the Chautauqua literary and scientific circle of to-day, as it has been heretofore acted upon for all ages of people. Turning the channel of belief away from self, even to the contemplation of worldly knowledge, has a most salutary effect. It is like several feeding flocks of sheep, each eating his little measure of corn, without regarding the hand that placed it. Now comes in Christian Science to point all these sheep to one Shepherd that feeds and shelters continually; and now it is that people are turning from the various branches of knowledge to that Christ which leads to eternal Truth. To recognize the hand that dispenses Life, Truth, and Love, is to drink continually at the spiritual Fountain, and surely of the medicine "that carries healing in its wings."
