Sunday Services on July Fourth

Sunday Services on July FourthExtempore RemarksThe great theme so deeply and solemnly expoundedby the preacher, has been exemplified in all ages, butchiefly in the great crises of nations or of the human race.It is then that supreme devotion to Principle has espe-cially been called for and manifested. It is then that we [10]learn a little more of the nothingness of evil, and moreof the divine energies of good, and strive valiantly for theliberty of the sons of God.The day we celebrate reminds us of the heroes andheroines who counted not their own lives dear to them, [15]when they sought the New England shores, not as theflying nor as conquerors, but, steadfast in faith and love,to build upon the rock of Christ, the true idea of God—the supremacy of Spirit and the nothingness of matter.When first the Pilgrims planted their feet on Plymouth [20]Rock, frozen ritual and creed should forever have meltedaway in the fire of love which came down from heaven.The Pilgrims came to establish a nation in true freedom,in the rights of conscience.But what of ourselves, and our times and obligations? [25]Are we duly aware of our own great opportunities andresponsibilities? Are we prepared to meet and improvethem, to act up to the acme of divine energy wherewithwe are armored?[pg 177]Never was there a more solemn and imperious call [1]than God makes to us all, right here, for fervent de-votion and an absolute consecration to the greatest andholiest of all causes. The hour is come. The greatbattle of Armageddon is upon us. The powers of evil [5]are leagued together in secret conspiracy against theLord and against His Christ, as expressed and opera-tive in Christian Science. Large numbers, in desperatemalice, are engaged day and night in organizing actionagainst us. Their feeling and purpose are deadly, and [10]they have sworn enmity against the lives of our standard-bearers.What will you do about it? Will you be equally inearnest for the truth? Will you doff your lavender-kidzeal, and become real and consecrated warriors? Will [15]you give yourselves wholly and irrevocably to the greatwork of establishing the truth, the gospel, and the Sciencewhich are necessary to the salvation of the world fromerror, sin, disease, and death? Answer at once and practi-cally, and answer aright! [20]Easter ServicesThe editor ofThe Christian Science Journalsaid thatat three o'clock, the hour for the church service proper,the pastor, Rev. Mary Baker G. Eddy, accompaniedby Rev. D. A. Easton, who was announced to preach [25]the sermon, came on the platform. The pastor introducedMr. Easton as follows:—Friends:—The homesick traveller in foreign landsgreets with joy a familiar face. I am constantly home-sick for heaven. In my long journeyings I have met [30][pg 178]one who comes from the place of my own sojourning [1]for many years,—the Congregational Church. He isa graduate of Bowdoin College and of Andover The-ological School. He has left his old church, as I did,from a yearning of the heart; because he was not sat- [5]isfied with a manlike God, but wanted to become a God-like man. He found that the new wine could not beput into old bottles without bursting them, and he cameto us.Mr. Easton then delivered an interesting discourse [10]from the text,“If ye then be risen with Christ, seekthose things which are above, where Christ sitteth on theright hand of God”(Col. iii. 1), which he prefaced bysaying:—“I think it was about a year ago that I strayed into[15]this hall, a stranger, and wondered what sort of peopleyou were, and of what you were worshippers. If anyone had said to me that to-day I should stand beforeyou to preach a sermon on Christian Science, I shouldhave replied,“Much learning”—or something else— [20]“hath made thee mad.”If I had not found ChristianScience a new gospel, I should not be standing before you:if I had not found it truth, I could not have stood upagaintopreach, here or elsewhere.”At the conclusion of the sermon, the pastor again came [25]forward, and added the following:—My friends, I wished to be excused from speakingto-day, but will yield to circumstances. In the flesh, weare as a partition wall between the old and the new;between the old religion in which we have been educated, [30]and the new, living, impersonal Christ-thought that hasbeen given to the world to-day.[pg 179]The old churches are saying,“He is not here;”and, [1]“Who shall roll away the stone?”The stone has been rolled away by human suffer-ing. The first rightful desire in the hour of loss, whenbelieving we have lost sight of Truth, is to know where [5]He is laid. This appeal resolves itself into thesequestions:—Is our consciousness in matter or in God? Have weany other consciousness than that of good? If we have,He is saying to us to-day,“Adam, where art thou?”We [10]are wrong if our consciousness is in sin, sickness, anddeath. This is the old consciousness.In the new religion the teaching is,“He is not here;Truth is not in matter; he is risen; Truth has becomemore to us,—more true, more spiritual.”[15]Can we say this to-day? Have we left the conscious-ness of sickness and sin for that of health andholiness?What is it that seems a stone between us and theresurrection morning? [20]It is the belief of mind in matter. We can only comeinto the spiritual resurrection by quitting the old con-sciousness of Soul in sense.These flowers are floral apostles. God does all thisthrough His followers; and He made every flower in [25]Mind before it sprang from the earth: yet we look intomatter and the earth to give us these smiles of God!We must lay aside material consciousness, and thenwe can perceive Truth, and say with Mary,“Rabboni!”—Master! [30]In 1866, when God revealed to me this risen Christ,this Life that knows no death, that saith,“Because he[pg 180]lives, I live,”I awoke from the dream of Spirit in the [1]flesh so far as to take the side of Spirit, and strive to ceasemy warfare.When, through this consciousness, I was delivered fromthe dark shadow and portal of death, my friends were [5]frightened at beholding me restored to health.A dear old lady asked me,“How is it that you arerestored to us? Has Christ come again on earth?”“Christ never left,”I replied;“Christ is Truth, andTruth is always here,—the impersonal Saviour.”[10]Then another person, more material, met me, and Isaid, in the words of my Master,“Touch me not.”Ishuddered at her material approach; then my heart wentout to God, and I found the open door from this sepulchreof matter. [15]Ilovethe Easter service: it speaks to me of Life, andnot of death.Let us do our work; then we shall have part in hisresurrection.

Extempore Remarks

The great theme so deeply and solemnly expoundedby the preacher, has been exemplified in all ages, butchiefly in the great crises of nations or of the human race.It is then that supreme devotion to Principle has espe-cially been called for and manifested. It is then that we [10]learn a little more of the nothingness of evil, and moreof the divine energies of good, and strive valiantly for theliberty of the sons of God.

The great theme so deeply and solemnly expounded

by the preacher, has been exemplified in all ages, but

chiefly in the great crises of nations or of the human race.

It is then that supreme devotion to Principle has espe-

cially been called for and manifested. It is then that we [10]

learn a little more of the nothingness of evil, and more

of the divine energies of good, and strive valiantly for the

liberty of the sons of God.

The day we celebrate reminds us of the heroes andheroines who counted not their own lives dear to them, [15]when they sought the New England shores, not as theflying nor as conquerors, but, steadfast in faith and love,to build upon the rock of Christ, the true idea of God—the supremacy of Spirit and the nothingness of matter.When first the Pilgrims planted their feet on Plymouth [20]Rock, frozen ritual and creed should forever have meltedaway in the fire of love which came down from heaven.The Pilgrims came to establish a nation in true freedom,in the rights of conscience.

The day we celebrate reminds us of the heroes and

heroines who counted not their own lives dear to them, [15]

when they sought the New England shores, not as the

flying nor as conquerors, but, steadfast in faith and love,

to build upon the rock of Christ, the true idea of God—

the supremacy of Spirit and the nothingness of matter.

When first the Pilgrims planted their feet on Plymouth [20]

Rock, frozen ritual and creed should forever have melted

away in the fire of love which came down from heaven.

The Pilgrims came to establish a nation in true freedom,

in the rights of conscience.

But what of ourselves, and our times and obligations? [25]Are we duly aware of our own great opportunities andresponsibilities? Are we prepared to meet and improvethem, to act up to the acme of divine energy wherewithwe are armored?

But what of ourselves, and our times and obligations? [25]

Are we duly aware of our own great opportunities and

responsibilities? Are we prepared to meet and improve

them, to act up to the acme of divine energy wherewith

we are armored?

Never was there a more solemn and imperious call [1]than God makes to us all, right here, for fervent de-votion and an absolute consecration to the greatest andholiest of all causes. The hour is come. The greatbattle of Armageddon is upon us. The powers of evil [5]are leagued together in secret conspiracy against theLord and against His Christ, as expressed and opera-tive in Christian Science. Large numbers, in desperatemalice, are engaged day and night in organizing actionagainst us. Their feeling and purpose are deadly, and [10]they have sworn enmity against the lives of our standard-bearers.

Never was there a more solemn and imperious call [1]

than God makes to us all, right here, for fervent de-

votion and an absolute consecration to the greatest and

holiest of all causes. The hour is come. The great

battle of Armageddon is upon us. The powers of evil [5]

are leagued together in secret conspiracy against the

Lord and against His Christ, as expressed and opera-

tive in Christian Science. Large numbers, in desperate

malice, are engaged day and night in organizing action

against us. Their feeling and purpose are deadly, and [10]

they have sworn enmity against the lives of our standard-

bearers.

What will you do about it? Will you be equally inearnest for the truth? Will you doff your lavender-kidzeal, and become real and consecrated warriors? Will [15]you give yourselves wholly and irrevocably to the greatwork of establishing the truth, the gospel, and the Sciencewhich are necessary to the salvation of the world fromerror, sin, disease, and death? Answer at once and practi-cally, and answer aright! [20]

What will you do about it? Will you be equally in

earnest for the truth? Will you doff your lavender-kid

zeal, and become real and consecrated warriors? Will [15]

you give yourselves wholly and irrevocably to the great

work of establishing the truth, the gospel, and the Science

which are necessary to the salvation of the world from

error, sin, disease, and death? Answer at once and practi-

cally, and answer aright! [20]

Easter ServicesThe editor ofThe Christian Science Journalsaid thatat three o'clock, the hour for the church service proper,the pastor, Rev. Mary Baker G. Eddy, accompaniedby Rev. D. A. Easton, who was announced to preach [25]the sermon, came on the platform. The pastor introducedMr. Easton as follows:—Friends:—The homesick traveller in foreign landsgreets with joy a familiar face. I am constantly home-sick for heaven. In my long journeyings I have met [30][pg 178]one who comes from the place of my own sojourning [1]for many years,—the Congregational Church. He isa graduate of Bowdoin College and of Andover The-ological School. He has left his old church, as I did,from a yearning of the heart; because he was not sat- [5]isfied with a manlike God, but wanted to become a God-like man. He found that the new wine could not beput into old bottles without bursting them, and he cameto us.Mr. Easton then delivered an interesting discourse [10]from the text,“If ye then be risen with Christ, seekthose things which are above, where Christ sitteth on theright hand of God”(Col. iii. 1), which he prefaced bysaying:—“I think it was about a year ago that I strayed into[15]this hall, a stranger, and wondered what sort of peopleyou were, and of what you were worshippers. If anyone had said to me that to-day I should stand beforeyou to preach a sermon on Christian Science, I shouldhave replied,“Much learning”—or something else— [20]“hath made thee mad.”If I had not found ChristianScience a new gospel, I should not be standing before you:if I had not found it truth, I could not have stood upagaintopreach, here or elsewhere.”At the conclusion of the sermon, the pastor again came [25]forward, and added the following:—My friends, I wished to be excused from speakingto-day, but will yield to circumstances. In the flesh, weare as a partition wall between the old and the new;between the old religion in which we have been educated, [30]and the new, living, impersonal Christ-thought that hasbeen given to the world to-day.[pg 179]The old churches are saying,“He is not here;”and, [1]“Who shall roll away the stone?”The stone has been rolled away by human suffer-ing. The first rightful desire in the hour of loss, whenbelieving we have lost sight of Truth, is to know where [5]He is laid. This appeal resolves itself into thesequestions:—Is our consciousness in matter or in God? Have weany other consciousness than that of good? If we have,He is saying to us to-day,“Adam, where art thou?”We [10]are wrong if our consciousness is in sin, sickness, anddeath. This is the old consciousness.In the new religion the teaching is,“He is not here;Truth is not in matter; he is risen; Truth has becomemore to us,—more true, more spiritual.”[15]Can we say this to-day? Have we left the conscious-ness of sickness and sin for that of health andholiness?What is it that seems a stone between us and theresurrection morning? [20]It is the belief of mind in matter. We can only comeinto the spiritual resurrection by quitting the old con-sciousness of Soul in sense.These flowers are floral apostles. God does all thisthrough His followers; and He made every flower in [25]Mind before it sprang from the earth: yet we look intomatter and the earth to give us these smiles of God!We must lay aside material consciousness, and thenwe can perceive Truth, and say with Mary,“Rabboni!”—Master! [30]In 1866, when God revealed to me this risen Christ,this Life that knows no death, that saith,“Because he[pg 180]lives, I live,”I awoke from the dream of Spirit in the [1]flesh so far as to take the side of Spirit, and strive to ceasemy warfare.When, through this consciousness, I was delivered fromthe dark shadow and portal of death, my friends were [5]frightened at beholding me restored to health.A dear old lady asked me,“How is it that you arerestored to us? Has Christ come again on earth?”“Christ never left,”I replied;“Christ is Truth, andTruth is always here,—the impersonal Saviour.”[10]Then another person, more material, met me, and Isaid, in the words of my Master,“Touch me not.”Ishuddered at her material approach; then my heart wentout to God, and I found the open door from this sepulchreof matter. [15]Ilovethe Easter service: it speaks to me of Life, andnot of death.Let us do our work; then we shall have part in hisresurrection.

The editor ofThe Christian Science Journalsaid thatat three o'clock, the hour for the church service proper,the pastor, Rev. Mary Baker G. Eddy, accompaniedby Rev. D. A. Easton, who was announced to preach [25]the sermon, came on the platform. The pastor introducedMr. Easton as follows:—

The editor ofThe Christian Science Journalsaid that

at three o'clock, the hour for the church service proper,

the pastor, Rev. Mary Baker G. Eddy, accompanied

by Rev. D. A. Easton, who was announced to preach [25]

the sermon, came on the platform. The pastor introduced

Mr. Easton as follows:—

Friends:—The homesick traveller in foreign landsgreets with joy a familiar face. I am constantly home-sick for heaven. In my long journeyings I have met [30]

Friends:—The homesick traveller in foreign lands

greets with joy a familiar face. I am constantly home-

sick for heaven. In my long journeyings I have met [30]

one who comes from the place of my own sojourning [1]for many years,—the Congregational Church. He isa graduate of Bowdoin College and of Andover The-ological School. He has left his old church, as I did,from a yearning of the heart; because he was not sat- [5]isfied with a manlike God, but wanted to become a God-like man. He found that the new wine could not beput into old bottles without bursting them, and he cameto us.

one who comes from the place of my own sojourning [1]

for many years,—the Congregational Church. He is

a graduate of Bowdoin College and of Andover The-

ological School. He has left his old church, as I did,

from a yearning of the heart; because he was not sat- [5]

isfied with a manlike God, but wanted to become a God-

like man. He found that the new wine could not be

put into old bottles without bursting them, and he came

to us.

Mr. Easton then delivered an interesting discourse [10]from the text,“If ye then be risen with Christ, seekthose things which are above, where Christ sitteth on theright hand of God”(Col. iii. 1), which he prefaced bysaying:—

Mr. Easton then delivered an interesting discourse [10]

from the text,“If ye then be risen with Christ, seek

those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the

right hand of God”(Col. iii. 1), which he prefaced by

saying:—

“I think it was about a year ago that I strayed into[15]this hall, a stranger, and wondered what sort of peopleyou were, and of what you were worshippers. If anyone had said to me that to-day I should stand beforeyou to preach a sermon on Christian Science, I shouldhave replied,“Much learning”—or something else— [20]“hath made thee mad.”If I had not found ChristianScience a new gospel, I should not be standing before you:if I had not found it truth, I could not have stood upagaintopreach, here or elsewhere.”

“I think it was about a year ago that I strayed into[15]

this hall, a stranger, and wondered what sort of people

you were, and of what you were worshippers. If any

one had said to me that to-day I should stand before

you to preach a sermon on Christian Science, I should

have replied,“Much learning”—or something else— [20]

“hath made thee mad.”If I had not found Christian

Science a new gospel, I should not be standing before you:

if I had not found it truth, I could not have stood up

againtopreach, here or elsewhere.”

At the conclusion of the sermon, the pastor again came [25]forward, and added the following:—

At the conclusion of the sermon, the pastor again came [25]

forward, and added the following:—

My friends, I wished to be excused from speakingto-day, but will yield to circumstances. In the flesh, weare as a partition wall between the old and the new;between the old religion in which we have been educated, [30]and the new, living, impersonal Christ-thought that hasbeen given to the world to-day.

My friends, I wished to be excused from speaking

to-day, but will yield to circumstances. In the flesh, we

are as a partition wall between the old and the new;

between the old religion in which we have been educated, [30]

and the new, living, impersonal Christ-thought that has

been given to the world to-day.

The old churches are saying,“He is not here;”and, [1]“Who shall roll away the stone?”

The old churches are saying,“He is not here;”and, [1]

“Who shall roll away the stone?”

The stone has been rolled away by human suffer-ing. The first rightful desire in the hour of loss, whenbelieving we have lost sight of Truth, is to know where [5]He is laid. This appeal resolves itself into thesequestions:—

The stone has been rolled away by human suffer-

ing. The first rightful desire in the hour of loss, when

believing we have lost sight of Truth, is to know where [5]

He is laid. This appeal resolves itself into these

questions:—

Is our consciousness in matter or in God? Have weany other consciousness than that of good? If we have,He is saying to us to-day,“Adam, where art thou?”We [10]are wrong if our consciousness is in sin, sickness, anddeath. This is the old consciousness.

Is our consciousness in matter or in God? Have we

any other consciousness than that of good? If we have,

He is saying to us to-day,“Adam, where art thou?”We [10]

are wrong if our consciousness is in sin, sickness, and

death. This is the old consciousness.

In the new religion the teaching is,“He is not here;Truth is not in matter; he is risen; Truth has becomemore to us,—more true, more spiritual.”[15]

In the new religion the teaching is,“He is not here;

Truth is not in matter; he is risen; Truth has become

more to us,—more true, more spiritual.”[15]

Can we say this to-day? Have we left the conscious-ness of sickness and sin for that of health andholiness?

Can we say this to-day? Have we left the conscious-

ness of sickness and sin for that of health and

holiness?

What is it that seems a stone between us and theresurrection morning? [20]

What is it that seems a stone between us and the

resurrection morning? [20]

It is the belief of mind in matter. We can only comeinto the spiritual resurrection by quitting the old con-sciousness of Soul in sense.

It is the belief of mind in matter. We can only come

into the spiritual resurrection by quitting the old con-

sciousness of Soul in sense.

These flowers are floral apostles. God does all thisthrough His followers; and He made every flower in [25]Mind before it sprang from the earth: yet we look intomatter and the earth to give us these smiles of God!

These flowers are floral apostles. God does all this

through His followers; and He made every flower in [25]

Mind before it sprang from the earth: yet we look into

matter and the earth to give us these smiles of God!

We must lay aside material consciousness, and thenwe can perceive Truth, and say with Mary,“Rabboni!”—Master! [30]

We must lay aside material consciousness, and then

we can perceive Truth, and say with Mary,“Rabboni!”

—Master! [30]

In 1866, when God revealed to me this risen Christ,this Life that knows no death, that saith,“Because he

In 1866, when God revealed to me this risen Christ,

this Life that knows no death, that saith,“Because he

lives, I live,”I awoke from the dream of Spirit in the [1]flesh so far as to take the side of Spirit, and strive to ceasemy warfare.

lives, I live,”I awoke from the dream of Spirit in the [1]

flesh so far as to take the side of Spirit, and strive to cease

my warfare.

When, through this consciousness, I was delivered fromthe dark shadow and portal of death, my friends were [5]frightened at beholding me restored to health.

When, through this consciousness, I was delivered from

the dark shadow and portal of death, my friends were [5]

frightened at beholding me restored to health.

A dear old lady asked me,“How is it that you arerestored to us? Has Christ come again on earth?”

A dear old lady asked me,“How is it that you are

restored to us? Has Christ come again on earth?”

“Christ never left,”I replied;“Christ is Truth, andTruth is always here,—the impersonal Saviour.”[10]

“Christ never left,”I replied;“Christ is Truth, and

Truth is always here,—the impersonal Saviour.”[10]

Then another person, more material, met me, and Isaid, in the words of my Master,“Touch me not.”Ishuddered at her material approach; then my heart wentout to God, and I found the open door from this sepulchreof matter. [15]

Then another person, more material, met me, and I

said, in the words of my Master,“Touch me not.”I

shuddered at her material approach; then my heart went

out to God, and I found the open door from this sepulchre

of matter. [15]

Ilovethe Easter service: it speaks to me of Life, andnot of death.

Ilovethe Easter service: it speaks to me of Life, and

not of death.

Let us do our work; then we shall have part in hisresurrection.

Let us do our work; then we shall have part in his

resurrection.

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