Gives Rules to Work by

BY HERBERT S. FULLER.

As growth in Christian Science implants in the consciousness of each student the beautiful images of thought which Truth places there in the room vacated by the thoughts which we had cherished as real until their worthlessness became apparent to us from the opening of our eyes which had been blinded, we see through thought's vistas views above any that we had imagined.

The leaven is found to be doing its work, as through the constant assimilation of Truth and Love our own thoughts become spiritualized to the extent that words which were meaningless to us in the old condition of mind become illumined, and we wonder why we never saw them in this light before. It is simply because the light of Truth is now shining upon them in place of the tallow dip of error, whose feeble beams only lighted up just what our personal senses wanted to see.

I have in mind one text whose meaning was first made clear to me in Christian Science; in fact before Truth shed its spiritual brilliancy upon it, it seemed to me only like so many words, words that evidently in their time meant something to those who understood how to apply them, but which to me, without the key seemed dead.

I read, "Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts." Here was a peremptory and mandatory order, and it was uttered time after time from the pulpits, but how to obey it was the thing. Listen as often as I might to sermons on the text, it did not seem as though there was any light thrown upon how to obey this call to a higher life. The earnest, honest clergyman explained it as best he could, but when he had done, the fact still remained that no rule had been given me by which the order could be obeyed. In fact, it seemed impossible that it could be obeyed.

When I turned to Christian Science I found for the first time that the way to obey was made plain. That one was not simply told to do a certain thing that seemed impossible to him, and then turned out on an open sea of doubt, without chart or compass with which to direct his course. With the order to do the thing came the way to do it, and this gave one courage to go to work.

Applying the rule as given in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker G. Eddy, I found that it worked, and that with this spiritual key the entrance could be had "to the secret place of the Most High," where Wisdom for guidance was to be found in full measure.

What the world wants to-day, and especially the men of the world, is a rule by which they can work out the orders which they find given to them in the Bible. Orders to do, without the direction how to do, amount to nothing. Christian Science, it seems to me, gives man just what he has always been seeking, an understanding of how to obey the Father, and makes plain the remainder of the words of the great prophet Isaiah: "Return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him; and unto our God, for he will abundantly pardon."

This is only one of many texts that Christian Science has made plain to me.

We know that the wicked can forsake his ways and the unrighteous man his thoughts, but only when he has a clear understanding of what man is, and what is his relation of God. Christian Science gives him this, and with the rule the result can be worked out for a surety.

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