Figure Skate
Champs Star
On TV Show
The World Figure Skating
Championships in Prague,
Czechoslovakia, with the men’s
singles, women’s singles, the
pairs and the dance champion
ships, will be presented on
“ABC’s Wide World of Sports”
Sunday at 3:20 on KFAR-TV,
Channel 2.
The telecast will feature the per
formances of Donald Jackson of
Canada, Karol Divin of Czechoslo
vakia, Alian Calmat of Fiance, and
13-year-old Scotty Allen of Smoke
Rise, N.J., in the men’s singles. In
the women's singles, the stars will
include Sioukie Dijkstra of the
Netherlands, Wendy Griner and
Petra Burka of Canada, and Mrs.
Barbara Role Pursley of Arcadia,
Calif.
In the pairs. Maria and Otto Jel
inek of Canada, Ludmilla Bolousova
and Oleg Protopopov of Russia. Mar
garete Goebl and Franz Ningel of
West Germany, will be among the
contestants seen.
Sister and Brother
In the dance the performance of
the Czechoslovakian sister and
brother team of Eva and Pavel
Romanov will be presented.
In addition to the skating compe
tition. the opening of the telecast
will give viewers a look at the city
of Prague today as seen from a
mobile TV unit touring through the
streets.
This is the first World Figure
Skating Championships since 1960.
Last year's competition was can
celled when the American team was
in an airplane accident.
Nat ‘King’ Cole Is
Top Guest Star
On ‘Moore’ Show
Nat ‘‘King” Cole, one of the coun
try’s leading recording stars, is a
special guest, along with comedian
Bob Melvin, on “The Garry Moore
Show” Tuesday at 9:30 on KTVF,
Channel Eleven.
Cole sings two solos. “Unforget
table” and “Cappuccina.” Melvin,
former gag writer for top comics,
delivers original orservations on a
number of popular issues.
The program’s opening production
number, based on the musical
theme. “Comes Once in a Lifetime,”
features Garry Moore. Durward Kir
by. Carol Burnett and the special
guests.
In “Tomboy,” a comedy sketch.
Miss Burnett appears as a young
girl far more interested in baseball,
football and wrestling than in ro
mance—until Garry Moorse comes
a-coutin’.
“That Wonderful Year" is 1949—
the year of the signing of the NATO
pact, when bikinis were the rage
on the beaches and canasta was
the popular game. It was also the
year Rita Hayworth married Aly
Khan and when “South Pacific"
opened on Broadway.
Major Plays Host
To Thoroughbred
Bob Major reluctantly allows his
race track tout Uncle Lippy to be
his house guest, and finds that he
is expected to board a race horse as
well, on “Ichabod and Me” Tues
day at 9 on KTVF, Channel Eleven.
Lippy assures Major that the race
horse will pay for itself, but the
horse's workouts are disappointing.
SOCIALITE ACTOR
Michael du Pont, 23-year-old scion
of the Delaware chemical family,
will play a principal role in “Hands
of a Stranger,” a suspense thriller.
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§g|* A Lecture
Christian Science
Entitled
Christian Science: The Way
of Progress and Protection
by
Georgina Tennant, C. S. B.
of London, England
Member ot the Board of Lectureship of
The Mother Church, The Firat Church of
Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts
Georgina Tennant, C.S.B.
The lecturer spoke substan
tially as follows:
In the old days when pioneers
struck out into the wilderness,
they protected every step of their
progress. When they settled a
community they built a stockade
on a rising slope where they
could keep a lookout in order to
protect themselves from ma
rauders.
The earth’s physical surface is
fairly well known now. Men
pioneer in different fields. They
penetrate space, release nuclear
power, perform marvels of elec
tronic communication, and travel
at speeds faster than sound.
We all watch these astonishing
achievements. There is a certain
breathlessness in cur attitude
towards them. Are they to be
the door to an expansion of op
portunity and to greater freedom,
or will they destroy what centu
ries of progress have established
as our civilization? From the
standpoint of merely human
thinking there is no assured an
swer. Christian Science offers
you an entirely different stand
point from which to look ahead.
The basis of this changed stand
point is a demonstrable under
standing of the great unseen
power commonly called God. We
pioneer in the field of spiritual
thinking, we seek and we find
the reason for confident hope.
When you marvel at the feats
of physical science, have you
ever stopped to marvel at the
intelligence which makes them
possible, and asked yourself
where it comes from? Christian
Science reveals that intelligence
is the primal quality of Deity, of
divine Mind. As there is only
one God there is in reality only
one Mind, the source of all true
intelligence and understanding.
So-called human intelligence,
based on the belief of the reality
of matter, is merely a counterfeit
of true intelligence. To attain a
confident standpoint we need to
learn from the divine Mind how
to think and understand rightly.
Divine intelligence, divine Mind,
is the great unseen power. We
see indications of it in the order
of the heavens and in the chang
ing seasons. Where there is be
lief in a material basis of crea
tion there is belief in material
destruction. God’s creation alone
is indestructible. It is spiritual.
We become aware that it is ac
tual as we learn to understand
I God, express His qualities, and
prove His power.
Progress Spiritually Understood
Christian Science is a religion.
It is Science. It is the way of life
to the Christian Scientist. Chris
tian Science takes its authority
from the Bible. In the first chap
ter of Genesis we have the record
of God’s spiritual creation. Here
it is recorded that God made man
in His image and likeness, that
He saw everything that He had
ma£e, and that it was very good.
This account is followed by an
allegory presenting an account of
a material creation. It presents
creation as discerned through a
mist, the mist of material sense,
which gives a distorted view of
man as made from the dust of
the ground. God has already
created man in His likeness. The
term in Christian Science for this
misty material thinking is mor
tal mind. The highest human
progress lies in the spiritual un
derstanding which divides be
tween these two concepts of
creation, rejects the material
concept as false, and recognizes
that God’s creation is the real
and ever present. This under
standing is spiritual power. It
has power to prove that God’s
good creation is the reality in any
circumstance. It heals the sick
in mind and body and leads to
unity and brotherly understand
ing in families, businesses, and
nations. We can see that this
spiritual understanding is some
thing to be greatly desired,—it
has direct bearing on human
experience. It is practical.
We find how wide the benefits
of divine Science are when we
recognize that it is the truth of
being unfolding the nature of
God and man to human con
sciousness. Our progress begins
when we turn our back, so to
speak, on a material basis and
look to God for evidence of what
.o spiritually, and therefore fac
tually true. The time comes
when we see that progress is
God’s law and that the spiritual
understanding and power needed
for each progiessive step is avail
able to us here and now if sought
from divine Mind. Our illustra
tion of the pioneer still helps us;
he turned his back on his old
home and went his way till he
came to the new country. The
country was already there and as
he progressed it unfolded its
character and opportunities to
him As we seek an understand
ing of the things of Spirit, God’s
spiritual creation is unfolded to
us. We find that health, happi
ness, confidence, and opportunity
belong naturally to man as God’s
reflection And in the degree we
gain this spiritual understanding
we are able to demonstrate do
minion over material conditions.
The ability to think spiritually,
to understand reality, is inherent
in human consciousness. It may
appear shrouded in the mist of
materialism but it is there. As
we progress we need to claim
and develop this God-given abil
ity. We shall see from example
and explanation how to do this.
But first of all let us see how far
humanity’s understanding of God
and expression of His nature has
progressed already.
The Record of Spiritual Progress
The Bible is the great record
of spiritual unfoldment in the
human consciousness. The first
concept of an invisible God was
of a tribal personal Deity, liable
to anger and change. Through
centuries the Bible shows us how
this concept developed more
spiritually till Christ Jesus re
vealed God as universal Love.
Jesus taught his disciples God’s
real nature as a loving Father,
forgiving and constant.
Material science is working
wonders, but it has not equalled
the works of Jesus. He demon
strated divine Science. He healed
the sick and sinning, and he
raised the dead; he fed thousands
with very little food, moved him
self and the ship he was in in
stantaneously from one place to
another. And yet he said that he
had come to fulfil the law. He
said that those who believed on
him should do the works that he
did, and still greater works. He
must have referred to and dem
onstrated some law as yet not
understood, the law of Spirit.
The impetus to spiritual ad
vancement is always some
glimpse of the reality of the un
seen God, some intuition that He
loves man, and that mankind can
prove this. God’s great love was
most clearly expressed by Christ
Jesus. He knew the Father’s
love, he preached it, and he
proved it. It is the impetus of
his teachings that has brought
so much social progress to the
world. The desire of nations to
help underdeveloped countries
and so enable them to stand on
their own feet is the outcome of
Christianity. There have been
many dark periods in the record
of Christian nations right up to
this present day, but shining
through the darkness and always
triumphant has been sincere
Christian worship of a God who
is Love, naturally expressed in a
desire to help others. Greed for
material wealth or power has
been the reversal of this Chris
tian impetus but it progressively
yields to the understanding of
man as the beloved child of God.
Jesus showed humanity how
to redeem its experience from
every phase of evil—from sin,
disease, lack, death. He re
deemed his own experience from
death and raised his mortal body
from the grave. In this great
achievement he proved that real
life is deathless, that it is always
present and never in a mortal
body. In his ascension he proved
that the belief that the body is
physical is a false concept which
vanishes in the pure light of spir
ituality. His Father’s love cared
for him all the way. Occasionally
one hears that the story of Jesus’
crucifixion and resurrection and
healing works is a beautiful
legend. But would a legend have
brought social progress to the
world as Christianity has done?
The story of Jesus’ works and of
his resurrection and ascension is
perfectly scientific when under
stood in the light of Christian
Science, but it was to be centu
ries before the Science of his
teaching was discovered.
Since Jesus’ time healing has
undoubtedly been accomplished
through prayer and faith. And
many a Christian has studied
material medicine so that he
could devote himself to healing
the sick, feeling that in this way
he was obeying the Master’s in
junction to heal the sick. Heal
ing through prayer and faith is
practised in many orthodox
churches. But Christian Science
healing, is distinct from medical
means, psychosomatic methods,
or faith healing. When he prays
the Christian Science healer
turns from the evidence of mate
rial sense to the perfection of
God’s spiritual creation where
God saw all that He had made
and it was good. The Christian
Science healer thinks out logi
cally from this spiritual basis
and, therefore, scientifically un
derstands the unreality of matter
and evil. He proves the unreality
of disease by removing the evi
dence of it.
The Coming of Scientific
Christianity
Mary Baker Eddy, the Discov
erer and Founder of Christian
Science, was a devout follower
of Christ Jesus. She discovered
the Science of Jesus’ teachings.
It was revealed to her that his
saying (John 8:32), “Ye shall
know the truth, and the truth
shall make you free,” is a prac
tical, scientific proposition. Her
revelation that true being is spir
itual and perfect, not corporeal,
healed her when she had been
given up to die. She had imme
diate proof of the spiritual power
that accompanies spiritual un
derstanding. Then came years of
rugged pioneering in spiritual
understanding to discover the
law that had healed her and how
she could use it for others. Her
awareness of divine Love, and
her expression of it in love for
humanity, sustained and pro
tected her during these years.
Her pioneering opened up the
Science of Christian healing
which she gives us in the Chris
tian Science textbook, “Science
and Health with Key to the
Scriptures.”
The Christian Science organi
zation was founded through her
pioneering activities to protect
and disseminate her teachings.
Through the Christian Science
periodicals, church services, lec
tures, and weekly Bible Lessons,
we are encouraged and inspired
to pursue our own way into spir
itual understanding and the joy
of its healing laws. The Lesson
Sermons are published in the
Christian Science Quarterly, and
are studied every day by earnest
students before they are read on
Sunday in Christian Science
churches. These lessons might
be likened to blazed trails left by
pioneers in wilderness country to
point out the way of progress.
Today, these Lesson-Sermons are
being used for self-instruction
and healing in countries of the
free world.
The Starting-point of Progress
Mrs. Eddy says in Science and
Health (p. 275), “The starting
point of divine Science is that
God, Spirit, is All-in-all, and
that there is no other might nor
Mind,—that God is Love, and
therefore He is divine Principle.”
From this starting point the na
ture of God unfolds to each of us
individually. We find a sense of
power and intelligence apart
from matter. We catch a glimpse
of the spiritual truth that an
acknowledgment of God’s infini
tude, and He could not be less,
includes the den;al of reality or
substance to anything that is un
like Love. We see that God is
ever active, that Principle gov
ems, whether material s6«m ac
knowledges it ot not A child
may insist that two and two
makes three and his sums will
always be wrong; but the mo
ment he aecepts his teacher’s cor
rection the principle ot mathe
matics is there to help him.
In one’s experience ignorance
may bring frustration and suffer
ing, but the divine Principle
Love, is always ready to put
things right. All that we need is
to let our thinking unfold, or
progress, from the standpoint of
the allness of Spirit, the ever
operative divine Principle, Love,
and the consequent nothingness
of anything unlike Love. Then
we see that evil is not God
created and it. has, scientifically
speaking, no reality.
This understanding is our line
of defence and we need to watch
that error cannot make us ignore
evil or believe in .its reality. Fear
is nothing but mistaken convic
tion that there is reality in a
power opposed to good, its basis
is the belief that evil is not only
as real as good but more power
ful. The acknowledgment of
God’s allness and power even
when the mists of disease, or lack,
or international tensions, seem
very real, destroys fear. I do not
ask you just to accept this state
ment but to try it out. Acknowl
edge the power and allness of
divine Love and persist in this
acknowledgment — see what it
does for you.
Progress Individual
The way of true progress is
individual. Christ Jesus said, “I
am the way, the truth, and the
life: no man cometh unto the
Father, but by me” (John 14:6).
Jesus was personally present
only a short time, but his divine
nature, the Christ, is eternal. He
alluded to this divine idea when
he said, “Before Abraham was,
I am” (John 8:58). The Christ
has always been the way. It
sustained Joseph, strengthened
Moses, and inspired David, and
reached its fullest expression in
the blessed ministry of Christ
Jesus. It still brings the promise
(John 14:12), “He that believeth
on me,”—he who understands the
Christ,—“the works that I do
shall he do also.”
Man’s individuality is sacred,
and one must learn to value and
protect it. A right understanding
of individuality is the answer to
problems that confront human
progress. We shall consider some
of these problems more specifi
cally later pn. Mrs. Eddy says in
Science and Health (p. 281),
“The one Ego, the one Mind or
Spirit called God, is infinite indi
viduality, which supplies all form
and comeliness and which re
flects reality and divinity in indi
vidual spiritual man and things."
This is a profound statement. As
we consider -it we can see that it
is simple A child can under
stand it. A three-year-old child
whom I .know flew into a tem- ■
per one morning. Suddenly he
stopped, smiled seraphically, and
said, “I’m forgetting who I
am.” This incident shows the
effect of the teaching children
receive in the Christian Science
Sunday School. The child knew
his identity as the child or reflec
tion of God and that the child of
God expresses His qualities. This
acknowledgment of his true iden
tity dispelled the temper.
xnow let us go back to consider
the fact, so important to spiritual
progress, of man’s spiritual indi
viduality as the expression, or
reflection, of the one Mind. In
real being progress is the per
petual unfoldment of Mind's
ideas. It is the law of God and
it is irresistible. This unfoldment
is demonstrated in one’s experi
ence in proportion to his expand
ing understanding of God, and it
must be individual..
Science and Health says (page
508), “The only intelligence or
substance of a thought, a seed,
or a flower is God, the creator of
it.” We might take a packet of
mixed seeds to illustrate how in
dividual progress is, but let us
take a bag of mixed bulbs in
stead. Their characteristics are
more familiar and their only true
substance is in the Mind that
conceived them. When we planti
our bag of bulbs—daffodils, cro
cuses, snowdrops, and tulips—in
a garden together we expect
something to happen. The bulbs
may look dull and dead but we
know that they are under na
ture’s law and that when the
right time comes, each will grow
and express beauty in an indi
vidual way. Each bulb has its
own identity that unfolds com
plete, and exclusive of all not
belonging to it. They arc all
equal in importance though var
ied in appearance. As each hu
man being becomes conscious ot
thetrue Idea of God, his spirit^
ualtdentity, complete, and ex
xdusive of anything unlike God
unfolds to him. The bulbs do not
all flower -together. Progress
does not come to mankind simul
taneously nor in the same way.
This illustration points to the
human perception of the inevita
ble, individual, protected unfold
ment of God's idea, man, eter
nally going on in Science. To
become conscious of this perpet
ual unfoldment protects one’s
individual progress in human ex
perience. There is comfort in this
illustration.
one's demonstration of true
individuality is under God’s law
of progress, and this law does
not ask one to do something that
he is not able to do, any more
than the law of nature asks the
daffodil to be a tulip, or to come
out before the snowdrop. Be
cause the One Ego, the one Mind,
is infinite individuality, man,
Mind’s reflection, is individual.
Nothing can come into man’s
individual experience unless it
comes from God, from good. If
one seems to have less than his
neighbor, to be slower than
others at his business; if others
are healed while one struggles
with sickness, he can remember
the illustration of the bag of
bulbs. The snowdrop unfolded
long before the tulip, but each
was lovely in its own way. So
one’s complete harmony will be
come apparent. There is no ri
valry in the attaining of it; just
patient growth in the under
standing and demonstration of
the real man. But we must grow.
This illustration is a comfort
too when we find ourselves hold
ing a position which mortal mind
says is beyond our powers. As
we regard progress as governed
by spiritual unfoldment, we need
not fear inadequacy or accept the
suggestion of it. We know we
could not be in this position if
we had not grown to fitness for
it. We can humbly trust our un
foldment. We know it includes
the qualities we need. It is for
us to Use them.
Deafness Healed
A pioneer needs equipment.
The pioneer in spiritual thinking
needs spiritual qualities—the ex
pression of God’s nature—and
spiritual ideas too. They come
from God. So man is equipped
by God and this equipment gives
him power; We need to under
stand this in order to claim our
equipment, sometimes it needs
persistence. Let me tell you
about a friend of mine who per
sisted in claiming her equipment.
She was just a young student of
Christian Science, but she had
learned that as God’s expression
she manifested His nature, and
that it included joy. While she
was visiting an uncle who was
very deaf, she became depressed
and felt dull. But she saw that
this was a wrong state of
thought, and she needed to be
healed of it. She prayed to be
conscious of her joy, the joy that
was her right. She prayed ear
nestly. One day her uncle and
his son took her for a drive in an
automobile. During this drive
the joy that my friend had been
claiming suddenly flooded her
consciousness. Her uncle called
out to his son, “What’s the matter
with this automobile? It’s mak
ing such a noise. It sounds like a
locomotive.” He had been healed
of deafness. He had not asked
for healing. My friend had not
included him consciously in her
prayer, but the Christ light
which flooded her consciousness
in her own healing of depression
disjtelled the darkness in his
thought too. Such is the power of
spiritually enlightened thought.
A Christian Scientist does not
treat others unless they ask for
treatment. A Christian Scientist
has respect for each one’s right
to work out his problems in his
own way and would regard any
form of mental interference as
wrong. We can see that human
thought, instructed in Christian
Science, recognizing and demon
strating Mind as the one creator
and .man as Mind’s reflection, is
the vanguard of human progress.
Progressive Prayer Understood
Science and Health says (p.
170), “Spiritual causation is the
one question to be considered, for
more than all others spiritual
causation relates to human prog
ress.” Now let us see how this
fact helps us to face today’s
problems produced by human
progress. Let us apply it to the
threat of nuclear warfare. When
we set out as pioneers in spirit
ual thinking we turn our back on
a material basis, on the belief
that mattei is causative. That
does not mean we have turned
from the world, far from it. It
means that we regard world hap
penings from the standpoint of
spiritual understanding. The
world seemed determined to
destroy Joseph when he was sold
into Egypt, but his understanding
of God and the use of His quali
ties changed the evidence so
completely that he was benefac
tor to the very people who tried
to destroy him.
The scientific spiritual thinker
is a small minority of the world’s
population. But his spiritual
thinking — his prayers — reveal
the power of God as supreme in
all the universe. To disregard
erroneous conditions is not Chris
tian Science, but to recognise
that power belongs to God, to
good, and therefore rightly re
garded erroneous conditions are
without power, can bring nucleai
achievements under God’s law.
They then bless humanity and
the threat of destructive poten
tial can fade from human con
sciousness.
Let us just face this threat in
the light of Christian Science and
think it out. Who is to start a
nuclear war? Not man whose
origin is in God and whose indi
viduality unfolds God’s wisdom
and goodness. There might be a
mistake. Can a mistake originate
in divine Mind that governs all?
Can chance, superstition, or ig
norance really destroy human
ity’s progress toward universal
good. God is all power. Where
would these negative forces get
the ability to act? Reasoning
with himself like this and an
swering from his understanding
of God and of spiritual causation
is one way a Christian Scientist
prays. He petitions divine Mind
for a clearer understanding that
it is the only Mind, so the only
Mind he has. He does not plead
with God to save humanity from
destruction, because he knows
the whole picture to be only in
the distorted sense of creation
called mortal mind or matter
which is utterly unknown to
Goa. But he petitions silently
and constantly that he may be a
clearer reflection of the divine.
In one of her books, No and
Yes, Mrs. Eddy explains this
prayer of silent intercession and
tells us, “Such prayer humiliates,
purifies, and quickens activity, in
the direction that is unerring.”
She goes on to deal with the
progressive sense of prayer, to
quote: “True prayer is not ask
ing God for love; it is learning to
love, and to include all mankind
in one affection” (p. 39). Was
not that how Joseph reversed the
evidence of destruction and how
Jesus turned his crucifixion into
the glory of ascension? They un
derstood that spiritual causation
governed their individuality and
so their human experience. The
threat to both appeared to be
from without, but they overcame
it with their own spiritual think
ing.
Opportunity Unlimited
Now let us consider the young
man or woman who wants to
choose a progressive career, or
the middle-aged who desire a
progressive change. The first
thing to do is to establish in one’s
own thinking a right sense of
man’s identity as the child of
God and the realization that he
expresses the unfoldment of God’s
nature. This enables us to see
that neither material environ
ment, background or prospects
can limit us.
To set out to seek one’s fortune
by material means will not free
one from limitations of material
sense. To set out to express God
in His way does free one from
the limitations of material sense.
Science and Health says (p. 326)
“Working and praying with true
motives, your Father will open
the way.” One’s motive is to
express the affluence of good that
comes from God. We have turned
our back on the belief that mate
rial ways and means can bring
affluence, happiness, or success.
These are signs of human prog
ress so to be genuine and secure
they come from spiritual causa
tion. Let us consider some of the
spiritual facts which bring about
and protect this desired human
progress. As we accept and value
spiritual truths they guide us in
the way God plans.
God, divine Mind, is all
knowing, so includes all right
direction. Love’s resources are
infinite, there are no closed doors
to Love’s expression. Spirit’s
power is unopposed, supreme.
Man, His image, is spiritual, pro
vided for, protected and directed
by this divine power. Man’s ex
pectation is from God, it is con
fident and responsive. Mind is
infinite individuality carin'; indi
vidually for each of its ideas.
God’s plan unfolds intelligently
and irresistibly.
The desire to express God in
i His way destroys fear of failure
! and breaks the mesmerism of
personal responsibility, personal
ability, or personal inability. It
requires one to lay aside precon
ceived ideas and self-will and to
be active learning God and ex
pressing His qualities, expressing
energy, patience, industry, and
appreciation. Paul told the Co
rinthians (I Cor. 10:31) “What
soever ye do, do all to the glory
of God.” If one comes to a diffi
cult patch in his human progress,
let him remember Paul’s advice;
it cuts away the thorn bushes of
self-pity and discouragement.
A young man worked out the
problem of progress along these
lines: he was successful but al
ways overworked and with a
sense of strain because he still
felt that power was his own. One
day a friend said to him, “God is
not a hard taskmaster.” That just
broke the spell. He went on with
his progressive work but now
with a sense of lightness and
freedom. You see, he had been
demonstrating progress but he
had not protected it, so he came
under the general belief that
progress brings strain, and when
he woke to see that God governs
every step through His own lov
ing power, he was freed.
Unfoldment Heals
Mortal mind’s outline of prog
ress for mankind is: immaturity,
maturity, decline, and decay.
Isn’t that a travesty of man in
God’s likeness? But human
thought is changing all the while
and we see how much more
older people are doing now. An
understanding that man’s indi
viduality is spiritual unfoldment
of God’s nature and so is eternal
heals sickness and old age and
destroys the belief in death. Let
me give you an example: there
was a woman well on in her
eighties who became crippled
with arthritis Her daughter was
a Christian Scientist and the
woman herself read Christian
Science literature. But she was
a loyal member of an orthodox
church. One day when she was
not getting any better she asked
her daughter if a Christian Sci
ence practitioner would help her.
The practitioner discerned the
mortal belief that death was not
far off and would free her from
disease; so she asked the daugh
ter to explain to her mother that
unfoldment is eternal; death has
nothing to do with it, doesn’t
come into it. The mother ac
cepted this idea of the unfold
ment of man’s real nature and
was quickly healed. She resigned
from her old church, joined the
Christian Science church, and
worked on suitable committees.
Truth went on unfolding to her
and she loved to share her in
spiration with others until she
was ninety-seven. The under
standing of unfoldment, accepted
when general belief might say it
was too late, brought healing and
a changed standpoint, trans
formed her life.
The Strong Tower of Our
Protection
You remember at the begin
ning of this lecture we spoke
about the stockade which the
pioneers in civilization built so
that they could keep an alert
watch and so protect themselves,
and how important it is for us to
protect our thinking from mental
interference that would try to
hinder our spiritual progress.
This stockade would have been a
castle with towers in the old
countries. The Bible says (Prov.
18:10), “The name of the Lord
is a strong tower: the righteous
runne*h into it, and is safe.”
How *an we run into this strong
tower and enjoy its safety? We
can know that man’s individual
ity unfolds God’s nature, and we
abide in this truth. Truth con
tains no error. In fact the omni
presence of Truth means that
error is not present. So to dwell
consciously in the strong tower
of Truth is a sure protection
from errors of mortal mind.
God is Life. God is not in
matter, so life cannot be in mat
ter. Life does not die out of
matter. The strong tower of Life
protects us from the false beliefs
about life which mortal mind en
tertains. Beliefs, for instance,
that life is prone to disease and
deterioration. Divine Life gives
us the understanding that un
foldment is eternal. Old age and
death cannot restrict it.
God is Mind. Intelligence is
Mind’s most distinctive quality.
Intelligence does not make mis
takes. So the strong tower of
M>nd is a sure defence against
mistakes, ignorance, oi accident.
Mind’s allness is a sure defence
against mental interference,
i domination, or imposition.
God is Love. There is no
malice or jealousy in Love. To
live in the strong tower of Love
purifies our thinking from hatred
and envy This protects us
! from malice. Our motives are
| strengthened as they respond to
Love’s constant desire to bless.
Love gives us the right word, the
i right impulse that we need to
help others.
We live in the strong tower of
the name of the Lord as we ex
press His nature. From this
strong tower we keep watch over
i our thoughts, rejecting those we
j see to be unlike God’s nature,
cultivating those we recognize as
emanating from the divine Mind.
This is not a merely intellectual
process; it bears witness to the
activity of the Christ in our con
sciousness. It is a sacred and
religious activity, not at allotted
times but all the time. It dem
onstrates the truth concerning
the man of God’s creating and
destroys the contrary evidence of
material sense. Thus we demon
strate the healing power of the
Christ, the power Jesus used.
God’s Own Idea the Answer
Now let us just go over what
we have been talking about.
Truth is forever unfolding its
own immortal idea. And Mary
Baker Eddy, through her discov
ery of Christian Science, is the
l'evelator of Truth to this age. At
first, in Biblical times, the stir
rings of spiritual thinking in
human consciousness were faint,
but through the years they have
grown steadily stronger. Their
transforming power in human
society has become more appar
ent. When we see that God does
express His qualities in man and
that the human concept of man
is redeemable, this understand
ing gives buoyancy, steadfast
ness, and adaptability. We see
the irresistible progress of man
kind. This progress whether po
litical, social, or religious is the
fruit of the unfoldment of spirit
ual truths in individual human
consciousness. We can trust the
unfoldment of Truth’s own im
mortal idea. It may not unfold in
the way we have humanly out
lined. God’s way is wise. The
right idea to meet the situation
is ever available to the one who
sincerely seeks good.
Mankind’s true hope lies in the
increasing longing for stability
and understanding. No one be
lieves that fear can bring peace.
Peace comes with the dawning
of spiritual understanding—the
Christ consciousness. This new
light reveals God’s spiritual crea
tion and the universal brother
hood of man. This is the goal of
all true pioneers, where freedom,
progress, and peace are already
established and protected.
Jesus told his followers that
there would be days of tribula
tion but that they were to look
up because their redemption was
near (Luke 21:28). Mrs. Eddy,
too, has spoken of the material
world as being the arena for
conflicting forces. She says (Sci
ence and Health, p. 96), “On one
side there will be discord and
dismay; on the other side there
will be Science and peace.” Let
us be sure that we are on the
side of Science—the understand
ing of true manhood and the un
folding of God’s nature through
man. This will bring peace.
Isaiah’s vision of God’s power
still stands (Isa. 26:3), “Thou
wilt keep him in perfect peace,
whose mind is stayed on thee:
because he trusteth in thee.”
*
UNDERSTANDING OF GOD
BASIC TO PROGRESS,
LECTURER SAYS
Fulfillment of mankind’s desire
for progress and protection de
pends upon a scientific under
standing of the great unseen pow
er commonly called God. This was
a central theme of the public lec
ture on Christian Science deliver
ed by Mrs. Georgina Tennant of
London, England, last Thursday
evening.
An authorized Christian Science
teacher and practitioner, Mrs.
Tennant is on an extensive tour
as a member of The Christian
Science Board of Lectureship. She
spoke under the auspices of First
Church of Christ, Scientist, Fair
banks, in the church auditorium,
811 First Avenue on the subject,
Christian Science: The Way of
Prepress and Protc',’i'’1. Ro«s
Simpson, Chairman of the Board,
introduced her.
T * ‘Si.
Ed Sullivan's
Show Slates
Many Stars
Patti Page, Wayne and Shus
ter. Anna Moffo, Myron Cohen.
Jackie Wilson, Pat Boone and
Ann-Margret are guests on “The
Ed Sullivan Show” Sunday at
8 on KTVF, Channel Eleven.
In addition, the husband-and
wife night club comedy team of
Betty Kean and Lew Parker
also headline the program.
Miss Page, night club and re
cording song stylist, will present
a medley of popular tunes. The
Canadian team of Johnny Wayne
and Frank Shuster, in a comedy
sketch satirizing medical dramas,
will perform a “carbondoctomy" on
an automobile.
Miss Moffo, Metropolitan Opera
soprano, will present classical se
lections and record star Wilson will
sing in a popular vein. Cohen will
offer a comedy monologue.
Film Sequence
Boone and Ann-Margret, stars of
the new motion picture, “State
Fair," sing Richard Rodgers’ “Will
ing and Eager." in a sequence from
the film.
The score marks the first time
that Rodgers has written the lyrics
as well as the music for a motion
picture. The composer's first effort
as a stage lyricist was represented
on the Sullivan show last Sunday
when the program showcased four
numbers from Rodgers’ new Broad
way musical. “No Strings.”
Ann-Margret will also be seen
singing "Mack the Knife” in the
20th Century-Fox test film which
won her the “State Fair” role.
Other guests are Los Filipos. two
Mexican brothers in a comedy danc
ing act. and Kasten’s animal fan
tasy, a performing animal act.
Daredevils Show
Driving Wizardry
On Sports Show
An eye-opening display of driving
vizardry by the top men and wom
en stunt experts in the country will
be presented in “The Auto Thrill
Show" on “The Sunday Sports
Spectacular" Sunday at 2 on KTVF,
Channel Eleven.
Three veterans of the auto circus
circuit—A1 Gross, "Bumps" Willet
and Don Chadwick—will be joined
iy a trio of lovely ladies—Pat Jack
•on. Nellie Bird and Kav Caldwell —
in a breathtaking exhibition of dar
ing-do.
Topped by a nerve-tingling head
on crash by cars moving at 50 miles
an hour, the program also includes
iuch events as a two-wheel drive
competition, ramp jumping, car roll
overs. crashes into walls of ice and
fire, and a submarine stunt in which
a car careens off the speedway and
into the infield lake.
Added attractions include a high
pole act, a motorcycle plowing
through a blazing wall and a death
defying stunt in which “Dynamite’*
Gene Beene is blown from a dyna
mite-loaded box. *
Con Men Upset
Top Cat's Plans
T. C. and his friends learn that
Tony, their free hot dogs source, is
quitting his vending job with a sav
ings nest egg of $1000 in “The Con
Men” on “Top Cat," Wednesday at
8:30 on KFAR-TV, Channel 2.
Never one to pass up an oppor
tunity like that, T. C. just about
has Tony sold on investing in his
African game project—crossing a
zebra with a tiger to get genuine
leather checkerboards—when two
?on men get into the ret.
He travels fastest who has a knaelc
of folding up a road map.