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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The People's Idea of God Its Effect On Health And Christianity + +Author: Mary Baker Eddy + +Release Date: January 26, 2011 [EBook #35081] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE PEOPLE'S IDEA OF GOD *** + + + + +Produced by Gerard Arthus and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + +</pre> + + +<br /> +<hr /> +<br /> + +<h3>THE</h3> + +<h1>PEOPLE'S IDEA OF GOD</h1> + +<h4>ITS EFFECT ON</h4> + +<h3>HEALTH AND CHRISTIANITY</h3> + +<br /> +<br /> + +<h4>BY</h4> + +<h3>MARY BAKER EDDY</h3> + +<h5>AUTHOR OF SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES</h5> + +<br /> +<br /> + +<h4>A SERMON DELIVERED AT BOSTON</h4> + +<br /> +<br /> +<br /> +<br /> +<br /> +<br /> +<br /> + +<h5>Published by<br /> +The Christian Science Publishing Society<br /> +FOR THE TRUSTEES UNDER THE WILL OF MARY BAKER G. EDDY<br /> +BOSTON, U.S.A.</h5> + +<br /> +<hr /> +<br /> +<br /> +<br /> +<br /> + +<h4>Authorized Literature of<br /> +<span class="sc">The First Church of Christ, Scientist</span><br /> +in Boston, Massachusetts</h4> + +<br /> +<br /> +<br /> +<br /> + +<h4><i>Copyright, 1886, 1908</i><br /> +<span class="sc">By Mary Baker G. Eddy</span><br /> +<br /> +<i>Copyright renewed, 1914</i><br /> +<br /> +<i>All rights reserved</i></h4> + +<br /> +<br /> +<br /> +<br /> +<hr /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_1" id="Page_1">[1]</a></span><br /> +<br /> +<br /> +<br /> + + +<h2>SERMON</h2> + +<h3>SUBJECT</h3> + +<h2>THE PEOPLE'S IDEA OF GOD</h2> + +<p class="cen"><span class="sc">Text</span>: <i>One Lord, one faith, one baptism.</i>—<span class="sc">Ephesians</span> +iv. 5.</p> + +<br /> + +<p>Every step of progress is a step more spiritual. The great element of +reform is not born of human wisdom; 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 collisions with old-time 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 understanding that we are spiritual beings here +reappears, and we learn our capabilities for good, which insures<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_2" id="Page_2">[2]</a></span> +man's continuance and is the true glory of immortality.</p> + +<p>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 +<i>God</i> and makes it <i>good</i>, 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.</p> + +<p>Such a theory has overturned empires in demoniacal contests 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 lift man ultimately to the understanding<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_3" id="Page_3">[3]</a></span> +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 <i>materia medica</i> 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 +punished; 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 Christianity and Christ-healing are +preternatural; yea, that make a mysterious God and a natural devil.</p> + +<p>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 +implanted 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, <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_4" id="Page_4">[4]</a></span>by working out our own salvation. It has +given to all systems of <i>materia medica</i> 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 originated 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 unspiritual and mysterious ideas of God +and man are far from correct.</p> + +<p>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 <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[5]</a></span>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 <i>materia medica</i> and theology were one.</p> + +<p>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 doctrine, or dogma, to the diviner sense of Life and +Love,—yea, to the Principle that is God, and to the demonstration +thereof in healing the sick. Let us then heed this heavenly visitant, +and not entertain the angel unawares.</p> + +<p>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 +<i>materia medica</i> could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[6]</a></span>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 College of Physicians in Edinburgh, +writes: "Medicine is the science of guessing." Dr. James Johnson, +Surgeon Extraordinary 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."</p> + +<p>Believing that man is the victim of his Maker, we naturally 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.</p> + +<p>Periods and peoples are characterized by their highest <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[7]</a></span>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.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"Chisel in hand stood a sculptor-boy,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">With his marble block before him;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And his face lit up with a smile of joy<br /></span> +<span class="i2">As an angel dream passed o'er him.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">He carved the dream on that shapeless stone<br /></span> +<span class="i2">With many a sharp incision.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">With heaven's own light the sculptor shone,—<br /></span> +<span class="i2">He had caught the angel-vision.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"Sculptors of life are we as we stand<br /></span> +<span class="i2">With our lives uncarved before us,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Waiting the hour when at God's command<br /></span> +<span class="i2">Our life dream passes o'er us.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">If we carve it then on the yielding stone<br /></span> +<span class="i2">With many a sharp incision,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Its heavenly beauty shall be our own,—<br /></span> +<span class="i2">Our lives that angel-vision."<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>To remove those objects of sense called sickness and disease, we must +appeal to mind to improve its subjects and objects of thought, and +give to the body those better delineations. 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 <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[8]</a></span>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 incompetency 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.</p> + +<p>Judaism, enjoining the limited and definite form of a national +religion, was not more the antithesis of Christianity 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 +<i>Talitha cumi</i>, "Damsel, I say unto thee, arise." Then shall Christian +Science again appear, to light our sepulchres with immortality. We +thank our Father that to-day the uncremated 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 times unskilful.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[9]</a></span>Christian Science has one faith, one Lord, one baptism; and this faith +builds on Spirit, not matter; and this baptism is the purification of +mind,—not an ablution of the body, but tears of repentance, an +overflowing love, washing away the motives for sin; yea, it is love +leaving self for God. The cool bath may refresh the body, or as +compliance 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 in 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 pardons the sin +that deserves to be punished and can be destroyed only through +suffering.</p> + +<p>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."</p> + +<p>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 +<i>All</i>-power. This truth of Deity, understood, destroys discord with +the higher and more potent evidences in Christian Science of man's +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[10]</a></span>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 materiality; and as we struggle through the cold night of +physics, matter will become vague, and melt into nothing under the +microscope of Mind.</p> + +<p>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 our 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 human. 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.</p> + +<p>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 <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[11]</a></span>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.</p> + +<p>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 subject to his Maker. The lame, the blind, +the sick, the sensual, 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 oppression, and are +the modern Pharaohs that hold the children of Israel still in bondage. +Mortals, <i>alias</i> 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.</p> + +<p>The learned quacks of this period "bind heavy burdens," 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 <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[12]</a></span>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 sickness 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 disputed and trampled under the feet +of Truth. Deal, then, with this fabulous law as with an inhuman State +law; repeal it in mind, and acknowledge only God in 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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[13]</a></span>The worshippers of wood and stone have a more material deity, hence a +lower order of humanity, than those who believe that God is a personal +Spirit. But the worshippers 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.</p> + +<p>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 reassured me that Christianity must be +a divine reality."</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[14]</a></span>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 +Scientist, 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 omnipotence; 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."</p> + +<br /> +<br /> +<hr /> +<br /> +<h4>The University Press, Cambridge, U.S.A.</h4> + +<br /> +<hr /> +<br /> + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The People's Idea of God Its Effect On +Health And Christianity, by Mary Baker Eddy + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE PEOPLE'S IDEA OF GOD *** + +***** This file should be named 35081-h.htm or 35081-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/3/5/0/8/35081/ + +Produced by Gerard Arthus and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The People's Idea of God Its Effect On Health And Christianity + +Author: Mary Baker Eddy + +Release Date: January 26, 2011 [EBook #35081] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE PEOPLE'S IDEA OF GOD *** + + + + +Produced by Gerard Arthus and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + + + + + THE + + PEOPLE'S IDEA OF GOD + + ITS EFFECT ON + + HEALTH AND CHRISTIANITY + + 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. EDDY + BOSTON, U.S.A. + + + + + Authorized Literature of + THE FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST + in Boston, Massachusetts + + + _Copyright, 1886, 1908_ + BY MARY BAKER G. EDDY + + _Copyright renewed, 1914_ + + _All rights reserved_ + + + + +SERMON + +SUBJECT + +THE PEOPLE'S IDEA OF GOD + +TEXT: _One Lord, one faith, one baptism._--EPHESIANS iv. 5. + + +Every step of progress is a step more spiritual. The great element of +reform is not born of human wisdom; 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 collisions with old-time 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 understanding that we are spiritual beings here +reappears, and 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 contests 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 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 +punished; 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 Christianity 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 +implanted 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, by working out our own salvation. It has +given to all systems of _materia medica_ 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 originated 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 unspiritual 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 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 medica_ 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 doctrine, or dogma, to the diviner sense of Life and +Love,--yea, to the Principle that is God, and to the demonstration +thereof in healing the sick. Let us then heed this heavenly 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 medica_ could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be +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 College of Physicians in Edinburgh, +writes: "Medicine is the science of guessing." Dr. James Johnson, +Surgeon Extraordinary 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 naturally 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 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 disease, we must +appeal to mind to improve its subjects and objects of thought, and +give to the body those better delineations. 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 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 incompetency 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 Christianity 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 immortality. We +thank our Father that to-day the uncremated 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 times unskilful. + +Christian Science has one faith, one Lord, one baptism; and this faith +builds on Spirit, not matter; and this baptism is the purification of +mind,--not an ablution of the body, but tears of repentance, an +overflowing love, washing away the motives for sin; yea, it is love +leaving self for God. The cool bath may refresh the body, or as +compliance 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 in 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 pardons the sin +that deserves to be punished and can be destroyed 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 +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 materiality; 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 our 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 human. 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 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 subject to his Maker. The lame, the blind, +the sick, the sensual, 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 oppression, and are +the modern Pharaohs that hold the children 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 burdens," 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 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 sickness 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 disputed and trampled under the feet +of Truth. Deal, then, with this fabulous law as with an inhuman State +law; repeal it in mind, and acknowledge only God in 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 worshippers of wood and stone have a more material deity, hence a +lower order of humanity, than those who believe that God is a personal +Spirit. But the worshippers 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 reassured me that Christianity must be +a divine reality." + +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 +Scientist, 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 omnipotence; 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." + + + + +The University Press, Cambridge, U.S.A. + + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The People's Idea of God Its Effect On +Health And Christianity, by Mary Baker Eddy + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE PEOPLE'S IDEA OF GOD *** + +***** This file should be named 35081.txt or 35081.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/3/5/0/8/35081/ + +Produced by Gerard Arthus and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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