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:foretoorbThe ages will outgrow symbols and will "look upon" man in

God's image, the Christ (Truth) man, and will be "lifted up"to see the source and supply of their being, our Father-MotherGod, Mind, Spirit.And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw

all men unto me. Christ Jesus. (John 12: 32.)"Thou shalt have no other gods before me."

(Exodus, 20, 3.)... The divine Principle of the First Com-mandment bases the Science of being, by which man

demonstrates health, holiness, and life eternal. Oneinfinite God, good, unifies men and nations; con-stitutes the brotherhood of man; ends wars; fulfillsthe Scripture, "Love thy neighbor as thyself";annihilates pagan and Christian idolatry, what-ever is wrong in social, civil, criminal, political, andreligious codes; equalizes the sexes; annuls the curseon man, and leaves nothing that can sin, suffer, bepunished or destroyed. (Science and Health withKey to the Scriptures, by MARY BAKER EDDY,p. 340.)


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A remarkable and divinely inspired edi-entitled "Our Fathers* Flag," ap-in the Sun and New York Herald

June 14, 1920. It opens by calling atten-to the fact, that July 4, 1920, is the

144th anniversary of our independence,and states, thatAmid the crashing of thrones and the transfor-

mation of states, it [the flag] remains the same. Itis now a beacon of hope for the world, and a life-giving power to nations, old and new, ... If weAmericans, like our fathers, reject utterly the dic-


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America TEriumpijantfathers knew what they were doing and they didit wisely, even as the seal of time, set upon theiraction, shows. No form of words, even of sacredritual, was more carefully watched and guarded forthe final record: "Resolved, that the flag of thethirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternatered and white; that the Union be thirteen stars,white in a blue field, representing a new constella-tion." . . . Contrast Old World flag lore andlanguage and that of Independence Hall. Thedifference discovered is like that between a rovingplanet and a fixed star. The one reflects borrowedlight. The other gives, but borrows none.

The editorial closes, by voicing the world-wide yearning, that a leader should be raisedtip, who will complete the great work whichwas begun by the pioneers of America,continued at the birth of our Republic andwhich rose to its height of achievement bythe establishment of the Union in 1865.

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Americaveloped by spiritual conviction, and willcontinue to exist and advance under theleadership of spiritual ideals. America'simperishable covenants, the Declaration ofIndependence, the Constitution and theMonroe Doctrine, came forth under divineimpulsion, and are under the protection ofdivine Providence, to whom recognition isgiven throughout their pages. Her immor-tal sovereignty of spiritual dominion wasfounded upon the rock, Christ, Truth. "Itshall endure."The word "nation" comes from a root,

meaning, "I am born." As we rise spirit-ually, symbols disappear, and the substance,or spiritual reality of all things appears.Abraham Lincoln put the last stone in thegreat constructive building, which we maycall, America militant. His words, "This


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the earth," came forth in spiritual law andorder, as a second and final trumpet call,the first of which was sounded by Washing-ton, when he said to the makers of theConstitution, "Let us raise a standard, towhich the wise and honest can repair; theevent is in the hands of God."

This immortal demand, uttered by thefather of our nation against the insistenceupon certain fallacies being written in theConstitution, followed upon Franklin'searnest appeal, that the framers of theConstitution "invoke the divine guidanceof the Father of Light upon our proceed-ings," and he (Franklin) added,The longer I live, and the more I know, the more

I believe that God governs in the affairs of men, and,if the sparrow cannot fall without His notice, is itprobable that an empire can rise without Hisassistance ? ' ' Except the Lord build the house, theyinvain that buildit." I believe and


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AmericaFrom that moment the makers of America

knelt in childlike humility, and asked God'sdirection in all their activities. The resultwas, is, and will continue to be the Constitu-tion of the United States, under the law ofGod.Washington's burning desire for an in-

dividual, national and ever-uplifted stand-ard of purity of purpose, which our Starsand Stripes typify, namely truth, justice,righteousness, liberty, upon which Americawas founded this desire, or prayer, ofWashington, was answered by Lincoln'sprophetic utterance that, "under God," thestandard of truth, justice, righteousness,liberty, would continue to rise till Truthshould declare Her triumph over all error.Under God, America shall continue to pro-gress spiritually until she attains maturity


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0merkatErwmpf)ant"Under God," America continues to de-

mand obedience to the law of truth, justice,righteousness, and liberty."Truth's mighty arguments are rolling downFrom inland mountain to seaboard town."The demands of God are being recog-nized and immutable Truth is compelling

humanity to accept and obey her mandates.Abraham Lincoln spoke the last word to bespoken through man, in that hour. Hestruck the last note in the Liberty Bell ofAmerica militant. A new tone, in divineorder, was sounding faintly, and the listen-ing ear caught the harmony, the promise ofa triumphant America.Names are of deep significance. Abra-ham, to whom God gave His covenant,typifies America's history and parentalmission among the nations.


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gmeritastanding] that I will show thee: ... I will makeof thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, andmake thy name great. 1Abraham's immediate obedience to the

divine command, his willingness to sacri-fice himself for the fulfillment of God'spurpose, brought him his God-given missionand "covenant,"

... I will make my covenant between me andthee, and will multiply thee exceedingly . . . thoushalt be a father of many nations. Neither shallthy name any more be called Abram, but thy nameshall be Abraham; for a father of many nationshave I made thee ... I will establish my covenantbetween me and thee and thy seed ... for aneverlasting covenant. *

When Abraham's sublime test came, andIsaac his first-born of spirit was laid on thealtar,. . .the angel of the Lord called unto Abrahamthe second and said ... in I


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seed shall possess the gate of his enemies; and inthy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;because thou hast obeyed my voice. xWhat picture have we in all biblical his-

tory, more tenderly and profoundly sig-nificant, than this of the little lad of Israel,Isaac, obeying with childlike faith, thewords of Abraham, his father, as he (Isaac)brought to the altar the wood, which was tokindle the sacrificial flames. Abraham,with the same childlike trust, had obeyed&isFather God and laid his all sacrificedhimself his false or material senses inthe consuming fires of omnipotent Truthand Love.The "covenant" made with Abraham isspoken of in every great event in the historyof the house of Israel, and the radiant "bowof promise" given to Noah, in token of his


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held the "covenant" before the children ofIsrael. His command to Israel applies toAmerica :Now therefore, hearken, O Israel, unto the

statutes and unto the judgments, which I teach-you, for to do them, that ye may live, and go in andpossess the land which the Lord God of yourfathers giveth you. . . . For what nation is thereso great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as theLord our God is in all things that we call upon htmfor? And what nation is there so great, that hathstatutes and judgments so righteous as all this law,which I set before you this day? ... He declaredunto you his covenant, which he commanded youto perform. 1

The "separateness" of America is thefoundation-stone of her "covenant" withGod. In Moses* song we read:The Lord's portion is his people; Jacob is the lot

of his inheritance . . . he led him ... he in-structed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over heryoung, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them,


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America tEriumpfjantDavid, in his song of thanksgiving before

the ark, sings:Be ye mindful always of his covenant; the word

which he commanded to a thousand generations;even of the covenant which he made with Abraham,and of his oath unto Isaac; and hath confirmed thesame to Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an ever-lasting covenant. 1

Isaiah emphasizes the "covenant" by con-stant repetition, as well as Nehemiah,Jeremiah, Daniel, Ezekiel, Haggai, and otherof the prophets. Mary and Elizabeth sangof it in the Galilean hills. Jesus used it asa refutation of mortality (material genera-tion) . To the resistent Sadducees, who werequestioning him about the resurrection,Jesus said:Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the

power of God. ... As touching the resurrectionof the dead, have ye not read that which was spoken


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Stephen began his defense before theSanhedrin, by holding before his accusersthe glory of the "covenant." Paid usesAbraham as his highest exemplar of faith in' ' keeping the covenant. 11

For he looked for a city which hath foundations,whose builder and maker is God. 1But Paul also speaks of a "new covenant/'

in relating Abraham's experience with Mel-chizedek, "to whom also Abraham gave atenth part of all. ' ' This ' ' king of peace ' ' wasWithout [material] father, without [material] mother,without descent, having neither beginning of daysnor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God. 2God is the only Creator of man, whom He

(God) made spiritual, like Himself, andwhom He governs through His law of eter-nal life and love.


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America CtuunpfjatttThere is no other God, no other man, for

God is all, and man is made in His image,and governed by His law of life and love.The following sentence also appears in

the editorial, previously referred to, in theSun and New York Herald:The Almighty had pointed the everlasting starsin the skies to Abraham, as the symbols of prophecyand increase; and our fathers read their Bibles.On April 9, 1865, Abraham Lincoln calledhis Cabinet together to announce the end

of strife at that hour, and the safety of theUnion. Those assembled knelt humbly andgave thanks to God. Lincoln was hailed asa liberator. From his great heart welledthe Christly qualities of tenderness, com-passion, "malice toward none, charity to-ward all." America militant had reachedthe limit of her power, and the "covenant,"


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Sspiritual, deathless, indestructible, a re-flector and emanation of Principle, Life, andLove; a child of our Father-Mother God,eternally co-existent with his Maker. Lin-coln's prophecy, "This nation, under God,shall have -a new birth of freedom," wasapproaching fulfillment. The new "coven-ant, " found in the promised land of infiniteLife and Love, which America typifies, wasbeing unfolded to the hungry, awakened"little ones of the new era, '-' who were beinggently, perhaps unknowingly, led toMount Zion 1 and unto the city of the living God,

the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerablecompany of angels. 2The angelic choir was heard by them, the

"little ones of the new era," chanting theanthem of immortality, peace on earth,good will (God's will) to men, and above all,


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the listening ear caught the assuring prphecy and promise,The government shall be upon his [Christ'

shoulder: and his name shall be called WonderfuCounsellor, The mighty God, The everlastiFather, The Prince of Peace. *\At this moment of spiritual unfoldme

and revelation, under divine law and ordea woman, known to human apprehensionMary Baker Eddy, but spiritually endoweto interpret the law of omnipotent Life aLove, Spirit, God, sounded the clarion caof spiritual emancipation, when in 1866 sdiscovered and founded Christian SciencThis divinely inspired woman came fortin meekness and spiritual might, claimiher royal prerogative to voice the wordGod to humanity, and, as God's child,represent her Creator, and thus to rise to h


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Master, Christ Jesus, she will finally makea demonstration of her teaching, "There isno death . . . ."' At that psychologicalmoment, 1866, tinder the omni-active lawof God and His Christ, America triumphantwas born, and the foundation-stone in thei"house [nation] not made with hands,eternal in the heavens, " 2 was laid.The stone which the builders rejected has [had]

become the head of the corner. 3

To thosewho had the prophetic vision, thespiritual nation, the spiritual structure, orChurch triumphant, began its unfoldment.Mrs. Eddy gives the spiritual definition ofChurch as ' ' the structure ofTruth andLove ;whateverrestsuponand proceedsfromdivinePrinciple."4 Again she says, " Evidencesof progress and spiritualization greet us on"


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ment, or fourth in the fullness of appearingas symbolically expressed by the pioneework of the Virginia colonists and the Pilgrims, by the birth of the Republic, by thabolition of physical slavery, and by thdiscovery of Christian Science, the Sciencof being, Mrs. Eddy says:

I saw before me the sick, wearing out yearsservitude to an unreal master, in the belief that tbody governed them, rather than Mind.The lame, the deaf, the durrib, the blind, the sicthe sensual, the sinner, I wished to save from tslavery of their own beliefs and from the eductional systems of the Pharaohs, who to-day, asyore, hold the children of Israel in bondage. I sabefore me the awful conflict, the Red Sea and twilderness; but I pressed on through faith in Godtrusting Truth, the strong deliverer, to guide minto the land of Christian Science, where fetters faand the rights of man are fully known and aknowledged. 1

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Christ, Truth, removes the symbols, andreveals the radiant reality. Jefferson andFranklin proposed as an original design forthe Seal of the United States, the Childrenof Israel in the wilderness. Franklin's notesread thus: iMoses standing on the Shore, and extending hisHand over the Sea, thereby causing the same tooverwhelm Pharaoh who is sitting in an open

Chariot, a Crown on his Head and Sword in hisHand. Rays from a Pillar of Fire in the Cloudsreaching to Moses to express that he acts by Com-mand of the Deity. t

Motto: Rebellion to Tyrants is Obedience toGod.The reason given for the rejection of this

design was on account of its heraldic com-plications. Mrs. Eddy further says:God has built a higher platform of human rights,and He has built it on diviner claims. These claims


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understanding. Divine Science rends asunder thesfetters, and man's birthright of sole allegiance to hiMaker asserts itself. 1The history of our country, like all history, illustrates the might of Mind, and shows human poweto be proportionate to its embodiment of righthinking. A few immortal sentences, breathing thomnipotence of divine justice, have been potent tbreak despotic fetters and abolish the whippingpost and slave market; but oppression neither wendown in blood, nor did the breath of freedom comfrom the cannon's mouth. Love is the liberator.

Legally to abolish unpaid servitude in the UniteStates was hard; but the abolition of mental slaveris a more difficult task. The despotic tendenciesinherent in mortal mind and always germinatinin new forms of tyranny, must be rooted outhrough the action of the divine Mind.Men and women of all climes and races are stiin bondage to material sense, ignorant how tobtain their freedom. The rights of man wervindicated in a single section and on the lowesplane of human life, when African slavery waabolished in our land. That was only prophetic ofurther steps towards the banishment of a worldwide slavery, found on higher planes of existenc


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Americawords: "Spirit is infinite; therefore Spirit isall. There is no matter." 1 This was thequickening call, the "fixed star," whichblazed forth with full radiance, and whichMrs. Eddy describes in the following verse:

Thou gentle beam of living Love, .And deathless Life !Truth infinite, so far above

All mortal strife.The star of Bethlehem is the light of all ages-

is the light of Love, to-day christening religion un-defiled, divine Science; giving to it a new name, andthe white stone in token of purity and permanence.A special despatch from Boston to theNew York Tribune of June 20, 1920, an-

nounces that "Harvard astronomers arewatching with keen interest an event thatoccurredmore than two hundred thousandyears ago. A celestial conflagration thattook place so far away from earth that the


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To those who are reading the signs of thetimes, this second appearing of the eaglestar and the attendant earthquakes, portendthe imminent revelation of a great influx ofspiritual light, which will once more producethe experience, precedent to the resurrec-tion, as recorded by Matthew:And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in

twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth didquake, and the rocks rent; and the graves wereopened; and many bodies of the saints which sleptarose, and came out of the graves after his resurrec-tion, and went into the holy city, and appearedunto many. JThe martyrdom of Jesus was the culminating sinof Pharisaism. It rent the veil of the temple. Itrevealed the false foundations and superstructuresof superficial religion, tore from bigotry and super-stition their coverings, and opened the sepulchrewith divine Science, immortality and Love. aThese phenomena will not be understood

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with the drunken," who are asleep in thedarkness of belief of life, truth, intelligence,and substance in matter and who are drunkwith pride of place and power, greed, hypoc-risy,fear, andthe qualities of the carnalmind,with its resultant phenomenon, death.

Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry :they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger,but not with strong drink. For the Lord hathpoured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, andhath closed your eyes. . . . And the vision of allis become urito you as the words of a book that issealed. . . . Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuchas this people draw near me with their mouth, andwith their lips do honour me, but have removedtheir heart far from me, and their fear toward me istaught by the precept of men: Therefore behold, Iwill proceed to do a marvellous work among thispeople, even a marvellous work and a wonder: forthe wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and theunderstanding of their prudent men shall be hid. *


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who will be found thinking materially,putting their trust in material man, materialgovernment, and a material universe, thephenomena recorded by John the Revelatorwill be experienced.And, lo, there was a great earthquake ....And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled

together; and every mountain and island weremoved out of their places. And .the kings of theearth, and the great men, and the rich men, andthe chief captains . \ . hid themselves in thedens and in the rocks of the mountains; and saidto the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hideus from the face of him that sitteth on the throne,and from the wrath of the Lamb: For the greatday of his wrath is come; and who shall be able tostand? 1

I will overturn, overturn, overturn, it: and itshall be no more, until he come whose right it is;and I will give it him. 2And they [the opposers of Christ] shall go intothe holes of the rocks, and into the caves of theearth, for fear of the Lord, [Christ, at his secondcoming], and for the glory of his majesty, when he


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To genuine Christian Scientists who arebuilding on a

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wholly spiritual foundation' ' *

and demonstrating the life and teachings ofChrist Jesus, viz., the power of spiritualunderstanding, the second coming of Christis imminent. Referring to the oppositionwhich Christian Scientists meet from thematerially minded, Mrs. Eddy says:

If one would not quarrel with his fellow-man forwaking him from a cataleptic nightmare, he shouldnot resist Truth, which banishes yea, foreverdestroys with the higher testimony of Spirit theso-called evidence of matter. a

The government was, is, and forever willbe,uponthe shoulder ofChrist, theidealman,the son of the living God, who is the creatorof spiritual man and the spiritual universe;and there is no other God. There is noother man and no other universe, since there


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This infinite logic is the infinite light tincom- .prehended, yet forever giving forth more light,because it has no darkness to emit. x

America, America, thou gavest birthTo light that lighteth all the earth.God keep it pure!We love that onward leading light;We will defend it with our might;It shall endure! 2

There would be opportunity for dwellingat length upon Mary Baker Eddy's con-

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stant reference, throughout her writings,to her full realization of the significancein type of the history of America, with thediscovery of Christian Science. She quotesthe words and deeds of Washington, Frank-lin, Jefferson, and others, to illustrate vitalmetaphysical points, and rings out her pureAmericanism in these words:

I believe strictly in the Monroe Doctrine, in ourConstitution, and in the laws of God. 3


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America {rrampi)atttAnd again, of February 22, Washing-

birthday, in connection with an eventChristian Science record, Mrs. Eddy says:Memorable date, all unthought of till the day hadThen we beheld the omen, religious

the Father of the universe and the fatherour nation in concurrence. x '

And again she states:Like our nation, Christian Science has its De-

of Independence. God has endowed maninalienable rights, among which are self-

reason, and conscience. a 'In Pulpit and Press, by Mary BakerEddy,67, we read:It was exactly one hundred years ago from the

of the Declaration of Independence, when on4, 1876, the first Christiaii Science Associationorganized by seven persons, of whom the fore-was Mrs. Eddy.

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America Chome, the vast gloom of the mysterious forests, andknew not the trials before them, so this little bandof pioneers, guided by their dauntless Leader andteacher, starting out on their labors against thecurrents of dogma, creed, sickness, and sin, musthave felt a peculiar sense of isolation. . . . Thiswas indeed the little church in the wilderness, andfew knew of its teachings, but those few saw thegrandeur of its work, and were willing to labor forthe Cause. 1

In Miscellaneous Writings,2 Mrs. Eddyrecords her divine perception of the Ameri-can and Christian idea:The day we celebrate reminds us of the heroesand heroines who counted not their own lives dear

to them, when they sought the New England shores,not as the flying nor as conquerors, but, steadfastin faith and love, to build upon the rock of Christ,the true idea of God the supremacy of Spirit andthe nothingness of matter. When first the Pilgrimsplanted their feet on Plymouth Rock, frozen ritualand creed should forever have, melted away in thefire of love which came down from heaven. The


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And in Pulpit and Press,* Mrs. Eddy says:Rome's fallen fanes and silent Aventine is glory'sher pomp and power lie low in dust. Ourmore favored, had its Pilgrim Fathers. On

of solitude, at Plymouth Rock, they plantednation's heart, the rights of conscience, imperish-

glory. No dream of avarice or ambition brokeexalted purpose, theirs was the wish to reign

hope's reality the realm of Love.This "nation's heart," typifies the great

of Christ, upon whose shoulder,by the materialist, rests the govern-

of America triumphant. This "na-heart" is correlated by Mrs. Eddy

her discovery of Christian Science, andin the corner-stone of her church,Mother Church in Boston, which, spirit-

interpreted, is "the structure of TruthLove," not a material edifice or symbol.page 144 of Miscellaneous Writingsthese words:


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America ^tmmpijantwithKey to the Scriptures, and other workswritten bythe same author, your teacher, the Discoverer andFounder of Christian Science; without pomp orpride, laid away as a sacred secret in the heart of arock, there to typify the prophecy, "And a manshall be as an hiding place from the wind, and acovert from the tempest; ... as the shadow of agreat rock in a weary land" ; henceforth to whisperour Master's promise, "Upon this rock I will buildmy church; and the gates of hell shall not prevailagainst it."

The I44th anniversary of American In-dependence, and sooth anniversary of thelanding of the Pilgrims, is momentous astype. It ^symbolizes fullness, completeness,spiritual unfoldment, appearing. The Bibleand Mrs. Eddy's writings note the spiritualsignification of numbers. One hundred andforty-four represents nine times sixteen, ortwelve times twelve. Sixteen symbolizesfour-square. Nine represents three times


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Science as the Science of Christ,Truth, 1 she says:My conclusions were reached by allowing the

of this revelation to multiply with mathe-certainty and the lesser demonstration to

the greater, as the product of three multipliedthree, equaling nine, proves conclusively that

times three duodecillions must be nine duo-not a fraction more, not a unit less. 2

The number twelve expresses infinity,oneness; twelve times twelve, therefore,

the fullness of fullness, the pure,effulgence of light, hitherto unper-

ceived.The symbolic number seven (7) was

" early ac-counted sacred." Webster.The Infinite is One, and this One is Spirit; Spiritis God, and this God is Infinite Good.

This simple statement of Oneness is the onlypossible correct version of Christian Science. 3

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America CnumpfjantThat Mrs. Eddy saw, as did the Revela-

the number 144, pregnant with lightharmony, is shown by her conceptionthe lighting of the original Mother

A sunburst in the center of the ceiling takes theof chandeliers. There is a disc of cut glass

. . covering one hundred and forty-four electricin the form of a star, which is twenty-onefrom point to point, the center being a pure

light, and each ray under prisms which reflectrainbow tints. x

Here we have the completion of the21, 3 times 7, leading up to the

of the light. From Science and Health,508, we read :

the third stage in the order of Christian Sciencean important one to the human thought, lettingthe light of spiritual understanding. This period

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gmerttazation. Our Master reappeared to his students,to their apprehension he rose from the grave, onthe third day of his ascending thought, and sopresented to them the certain sense of eternal Life.The numerals of infinity, called seven days, cannever be reckoned according to the calendar of time.These days will appear as mortality disappears,and they will reveal eternity, newness, of Life, inwhich all sense of error forever disappears, andthought accepts the divine, infinite calculus. *

"The divine infinite calculus, " is summedup in Mrs. Eddy's quotation of the twenty-third Psalm with her interpretation, asfollows: "I will dwell in the house{the (con-sciousness] of [LOVE] for ever." 2

Mary Baker Eddy, the feminine repre-sentative of the Mqtherhood of God Ibohuman apprehension seen as a woman-will demonstrate this "glorified spiritualidea of the everpresent God/'3 and willappear ' ' clothed with the sun [spiritual light,


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of twelve stars." 1 As Christ Jesusto human sense the Fatherhoodi God, so at his second appearing theof God will be apprehended.

appearing of the compound spiritualthe eternal man of God's creating, is

The twelve tribes of Israel with all mortals,by belief from man's divine origin and the

idea, will through much tribulation yield toactivities of the divine Principle of man in theof Science. These are the stars in the

of rejoicing. 11i

During this purifying process of yieldingthe activities of Spirit, which involveswrestlings with false mortalthe sealing of the "one hundred

and four thousand of all the tribes ofchildren of Israel, "3 is taking place.


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America QfriHurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees,

till we have sealed the servants of God in theirforeheads. x

This sealing, renaming, andreappearing ofGod's man, whom He made in His ownimage and likeness, spiritual and eternal, orthe Christ (Truth) man, was prophesied bythe Revelator after the "four angels, stand-ing on the four corners of the earth, holdingthe four winds of the earth, "a had appeared.

Spiritual definition of ' ' Angels" :

God's thoughts passing to man; spiritual intui-tions, pure and perfect, the inspiration of goodness,purity, and immortality, counteracting all evil,sensuality, and mortality. 3

Spiritual definition of ' ' Earth "

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Spiritual definition of "Wind "That which indicates the might of omnipotencethe movements of God's spiritual government,

all things. 1

The sublimity, purity, spiritual beauty,significance of this metaphysical pictureits complete type in numerals, fourthree equals twelve, -typifies the

revelation (through woman,to humanity in this age as MaryEddy), points to the fulfilling of the

of Love, and the appearing of the spirit-idea, man in God's image, whom God

with spiritual dominion, which willforever the claim of sin, sickness,death, and will reveal God and His

universe, governed by the law ofMind, Life, and Love.

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Americabefore members of The Mother Church,Mrs. Eddy said:

Christian Science is not only the acme of Science,but the crown of Christianity. It is universal. . . .It is the pearl priceless, whereof our Master said,"If a man findeth, he goeth and selleth all that hehath, and buyeth it." 1 '.

Definition of ' ' Science" :Knowledge gained and verified by exact obser^

vation and correct thinking. 2

It is nearly two thousand years sinceJohn's radiant vision of the royally crownedwoman burst upon him, which is chronicledin the book of Revelation (chapter 12: i).Mrs. Eddy's spiritual discernment has re-corded this fact in the following words:

Progress is spiritual. Progress is the maturingconception of divine Love; it demonstrates thescientific, sinless life of man and mortal's painless


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Americabut through the true idea,of Life, and Life not inmatter but in Mind. r

Today the "crown of twelve stars" addsto its radiance of eternity and Light, the"pearl priceless," and reveals thirteen jewels.The number twelve is America's foundationnumber, and the thirteenth State was addedlater. The twelve tribes of Israel becamethirteen, through the forcing of Manasseh,

Joseph's first born, into the last or thir-teenth place. By Jacob's act in adoptingEphraim as the elder, Manasseh, through ex-perience and persecution, through his resist-ance to autocracy and his willingness tomeetand conquer, with spiritual understanding,the brutal qualities of "aggression, oppres-sion, and pride of power," which Ephraimpossessed and exercised, through his (Man-asseh's) obedience to the law of God,


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made in His own image and likeness. The"man-child," is the first-born to whom theRevelator refers. John saw the inseparabil-ity of the Fatherhood and Motherhood ofGod, expressed in the man-child, the spirit-ual idea or Christ, who was to ''rule allnations and peoples imperatively, abso-lutely, finally with divine Science." 1 It isinteresting to recall that Mrs. Eddy speaks,in Retrospection and Introspection* of theparable of the "Prodigal Son." The prodi-gal son symbolizes the coming of Ephraim(Great Britain) to Manasseh, who representsthe fullness of the reflection of divine Love,in its more infinite meaning. This is thedrawing together to the outstretched armsof divine Love, all of God's little ones, whohave wrestled with and overcome, throughspiritual power, belief of life, truth, intelli-


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is opposed to the law of God, who is infiniteLife and Love. Thus is the covenant. . . made with Abraham . . . become an oathunto Isaac, confirmed unto Jacob for a law, and toIsrael for an everlasting covenant. 1

Spiritual definition of "Abraham":Fidelity; faith in the divine Life and in the eternal

Principle of being.This patriarch illustrated the purpose of Love to

create trust in good, and showed the life-preservingpower of spiritual understanding. a

Spiritual definitionof ' 'Children of Israel' ' :

The representatives of Soul, not corporeal sense;the offspring of Spirit, who, having wrestled witherror, sin, and sense, are governed by divine Science;some of the ideas of God beheld as men, casting outerror and healing the sick; Christ's offspring. 3

Spiritual definition of "Jacob":


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so-called material senses yield to the spiritualof Life and Love. *America, America, in thee is foundManasseh's tribe, to Ephraim boundBy Israel's vow,Whose destiny is heaven-sealed;Far spreading vine in fruitful field,

God's planting, thou ! 2 jI thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth,

thou hast hid these things from the wiseprudent, and hast revealed them unto babes.

Jesus. 3

Lest we forget, it is highly important tobefore us 'always the fact that our

childlikeness has been the corner-of America triumphant. Washington,

Valley Forge, knelt as a little child, andwith God," asking for divineat that crucial hour. Lincoln

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childlike joy, purity, beauty of rhythm, in-spired our first national expression in music,which was a little song entitled, "My DaysHave Been So Wondrous Free, " which waswritten for and dedicated to "the young, asa study for the clavecin." The composer,Francis Hopkinson, was a signer of theDeclaration of Independence, and an activemember of the Convention of 1787 whichformed the Constitution of the UnitedStates. He was a close friend of Washing-ton, to whom the first copy of the song wassent. Washington's flute now rests tenderlyat Mt. Vernon on the little spinet of NellieCustis. The song sings of the birds, trees,brooks, zephyrs, and ends with a dainty,delicate dance movement, which suggeststhe purest rhythm and grace. This spiritualsense of grace and rhythmic joy is at the rootof all creation, and all true art it.


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America QfrittmpfratttWe quote the following from The Chris-

Science Monitor:Washington, alike statesman, soldier, and patriot,

alone. He was not only the greatest Ameri-he was also one of the greatest men the worldever known. Few centuries and few countriesever seen his like. Among the people of Eng-stock there is none to compare with him, unless

Cromwell, utterly different though thewas. Of Americans, Lincoln alone is worthy

stand even second. 1

Mrs. Eddy says:Eternal Life must be brought to light by the

that there is no death, as well as bygraces of Spirit.*

To discern the rhythm of Spirit, and to be holy,must be purely spiritual. 3

Spiritual man is a mental being, anof Spirit, Mind, Life, Truth, and

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Americatouched upon by Mrs. Eddy in The GreatDiscovery

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As sweet music ripples in one's thoughts of it,Hke the brooklet in its meandering midst pebblesand rocks, before the mind can duly express it tothe ear so the harmony of divine Science, firstbroke upon my sense, before gathering experienceand confidence to articulate it. Its natural mani-festation is beautiful and euphonious, but its writtenexpression increases in power and perfection underthe guidance of the great Master. The divine handled me into a new world of light and Life, a freshuniverse old to God, but new to His "little one."

It is also helpful to know that the firstexpression in music of the Anglo-Saxonconsciousness, through written song, "Sum-er is I-Cumen In," breathed of the birdsand springtime. This was written a cen-tury before Chaucer. The English language,with its marvelous vitality and structural"the of


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will be demanded by mankind in thefuture, and the demonstration and

of wholly spiritual thinkingreveal man as God's child, idea or son,the universe as spiritual and eternal,

with God's perfect ideas and gov-by Christ. In this spiritual universe,

language of Spirit is the "new" tongue, 1the "new heaven and the new earth," 2the phenomena.

After my discovery of Christian Science, most ofknowledge I had gleaned from schoolbooks

like a dream. Learning was so illuminedgrammar was eclipsed. Etymology was divine

voicing the idea of God in man's origin andSyntax was spiritual order and unity.the song of angels, and no earthly or in-

theme. 3

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America Srtumplmntat eight o'clock in the evening, by theAmerican boat Resolute, symbolizes not onlythat the cup of blessing must, logically,remain with Manasseh (America), but em-phasizes the fact that grace, delicacy,fleetness, spiritual alertness, expressed inbeauty of conception, of form, outline, andcolor, are divinely triumphant qualities ofspiritual leadership. The press spoke ofthe Resolute as a "bright beacon, holdingtrue"; as "a white flier, due west, and sailingdirectly into the burning eye of the settingsun, glowing like a vast, incandescent orb " ;and again, as a "starry banner, shiningthrough the storm," as "a white fairy," as"thewhite hope, with grace of a white swan,turning around like a lilypad"; again, as"a great White Bird . . . she seemed tofly to run home like a living thing, withthe rosy sun's light, suggesting a rainbow."


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These concepts of the Resolute are ofbeautiful significance, and correlate thetender types which Jesus used in his parablesto illustrate his mighty truths. For in-stance, the lilies of the field, the tiny mus-tard seed, the fowls of the air, the little fishes,the pearl of great price, the lambs, land littlechildren. Most potent of all is the indissol-uble relation, in type, to the consciousnessof the first-born of Spirit, which Manassehtypifies, and the restitution, redemption ofthe blessing, through Manasseh to Joseph,which, in Jacob's far-seeing wisdom, seemedto have been denied him, until, throughpersecution, and demonstration of the lawof brotherly, or spiritual love, he shouldredeem his birthright, and prove his rightto rule in spiritual understanding of God'sLaw.


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America tEriumpijantAmerica is the Manasseh, the first-born

of Joseph, and will redeem his birthright.Mrs. Eddy says:Beloved, that which purifies the affections also

strengthens them, removes fear, subdues sin, andendues with divine power; that which refinescharacter at the same time humbles, exalts, andcommands a man, and obedience gives him courage,devotion, and attainment. For this hour, for thisperiod, for spiritual sacrament, sacrifice, andascension, we unite in giving thanks. For the bodyof Christ, for the life that we commemorate andwould emulate, for the bread of heaven whereof if aman eat, "he shall live forever," for the cup redwith loving restitution, redemption, and inspirationwe give thanks. The signet of the great heart,given to me in a little symbol, seals the covenant ofeverlasting love. May apostate praise return to itsfirst love, above the symbol seize the spirit, speakthe "new tongue" and may thought soar andSoul be. 1

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July, 1920, -the day on which the racesbegan a festival of sacred and sectdarsong was given on the deck of the UnitedStates battleship, Tennessee, by the OratorioSociety of the New York City ChristianScience Institute. It concluded, with thetriumphant strains of the "HallelujahChorus, " (accompanied by the ship's band)which rang out with conscious spiritualdominion over the waters. Our Americawas sung, also accompanied by the band.

America, America, on-pressing vanOf all the hopes of waking man,We love thy flag!Thy stately flag of steadfast stars,And white, close held to heart-red bars,Which none shall drag! 1

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America iEriumpfjantof our Lord and of His Christ; and He shall reignforever and ever. King of kings, and Lord oflords. HALLELUJAH!The following day, Resolute upheld

America's standard. The sea has played avital part in America's history. On July30, 1619, was held the first meeting of thefirst representative assembly in America,when the Council and House of Burgesses,elected by the three colonies in Virginia,gathered in the little wooden church atJamestown, to transact the business of thenew community, with a Governor of liberalideas. It marks the beginning of the wholelegislative system. It was a new departurein "government of the people, by the people,for the people." This stone was placed inthe temple of American liberty, by the smallband of fighters against autocracy and


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which indicates the fraternal recognition ofEngland (Ephraim) for America (Manas-seh) Brothers John and Jonathan:The Women's Freedom League seems to feel that

while England and America are vying with eachother to do honor to the Pilgrim Fathers, too littlehas been said about the Pilgrim Mothers. Theyare, therefore, commemorating these women whosailed in the Mayflower, by a festival in the groundsof Lord Leverhulme's house at Hampstead, whichhe has lent for this purpose.

In his efforts to plant Christianity onthese shores, the Norseman, Lief Ericson,in the year 1000, planted his standard inNew Bedford, on the Massachusetts coast. *

Christopher Columbus, almost five hun-dred years later, landed at San Salvador.Thus the discovery of America militant,

1 "The Scandinavians, after having colonized Iceland in


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8merita Ertumpfjatrtunder spiritual law and order, remainedAnglo-Saxon.Thus has the great heart of Love, the

Motherhood of God, ever brooded overand protected the destiny of this nation,America.

The bird of hope is singingA lightsome lay, a cooing call,And in her heart is beatingA love for all." 'Tis peace not power I seek,'Tis meet that man be meek. "

MARY BAKER EDDY. *The Mayflower covenant was formulated

by the second little flock of fighters for " life,liberty, and the pursuit of happiness," ondisturbed waters, which reflected the con-flict aboard. The record states, that the

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gave some appearance of faction, it was thoughtgood that there should be an association and agree-ment that we should combine together in one body.The covenant is then stated to be "under-

taken for the glory of God and advancementof the Christian faith.'*

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In metaphor, the dry land illustrates the absoluteformations instituted by Mind, while water sym-bolizes the elements of Mind. 1

When the "elements of Mind," or thetrue concord of unity of purpose and rightthinking, was established by the little bandof Pilgrims, and discord was eliminated, the"dry land," or spiritual reality "the abso-lute formations instituted by Mind" therock of spiritual understanding (America)appeared.

Mrs. Eddy defines the true United Statesof America, a people united in the demon-


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. . . children of one common Parent, whereinand whereby Father, Mother, and child are thedivine Principle and divine idea, even the divine"Us," one in good and good in One. *

This divine "Us" or trinity of numbershas its highest expression in the reverse

of our Seal, the "All-Seeing Eye," which isintentionally enclosed in a triangle, at theapex of the pyramid. This symbol expressesthe conviction of the founders of America,that God knew the hour for the revelationof the capstone, which is His glory, -manin His image and likeness. This phenome-non, this pyramid or capstone, appears onFirst Church of Christ, Scientist, New YorkCity, corner of 96th Street and CentralPark West. It is the first-born branchchurch of The Mother Church, Mrs. Eddy'sChurch,The First Church of Christ, Scien-


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by Mrs. Augusta E. Stetson, C. S. D., astudent of Mrs. Eddy.

Spiritual definition of ' ' Church " :

The structure of Truth and Love. x

!Mrs. Eddy wrote to Mrs. Stetson asfollows:

... I entrust you with another momentousmove namely Our memorial of Christian Science,that the ages will look upon and be lifted up. 2

(Facsimile letter from Vital Issues in ChristianScience, p. 375. 2)

Mrs. Eddy entrusted her student,Augusta E. Stetson, C. S. D., with a "mo-mentous move" when the " our memorial ofChristian Science" was erected in 1899, andexternalized in Concord granite with the


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FIRST CHURCHOF

CHRIST SCIENTISTNEW YORK CITY

ERECTEDANNO DOMINI MDCCCXCIXA TRIBUTE

OFLOVE AND GRATITUDE

To OURLEADER AND TEACHER

THE REVERENDMARY BAKER EDDY

DISCOVERER AND FOUNDER OFCHRISTIAN SCIENCE

AND AUTHOROF ITS TEXT BOOK

SCIENCE AND HEALTH


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and with the following letter from Mrs.Eddy, laid in the corner-stone:

PLEASANT VIEW, CONCORD, N. H.To Mrs. A. E. STETSON:Beneath this corner-stone, in this silent, sacred

sanctuary of earth's sweet songs, paeans of praiseand records of Omnipotence, I leave my name withthine in unity and love. MARY BAKER G. EDDY.November 30, 1899.

The structure, or edifice, costing onemillion two hundred and fifty thousanddollars, and paid for as soon as com-pleted, was indeed a "momentous move"with which to entrust one student, whowas to erect this "memorial" withoutthe aid of any but herself and her ownstudents.

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3meruaChristian Science history. In a letter,sent to Mrs. Stetson's church, by Mrs.Eddy, on the occasion of the dedication ofthe church, November 29, 1903, America'sfoundation, in type, is touched upon inthese words:

In this lofty temple, dedicated to God andhumanity, may the prophecy of Isaiah be fulfilled:"Fear not; I have called thee by thy name; thouart mine." Within its sacred walls may song andsermon generate only that which Christianitywrites in broad facts over great continentssermons that fell forests and remove mountains,songs of joy and gladness. . . . The tender memor-ial engraven on your grand edifice stands forhuman self lost in divine light, melted into theradiance of His likeness. It stands for meeknessand might, for Truth as attested by the Founder oyour denomination and emblazoned on the faiescutcheon of your church. x


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America"pearl priceless," and obtained the "crownof Christianity."

Buyeth it ! Note the scope of that saying, eventhat Christianity is not merely a gift, as St. Paulavers, but is bought with a price, a great price; andwhat man knoweth as did our Master its value, andthe price he paid for it ? x

Augusta E. Stetson "paid for it" in bear-ing the cross and drinking the cup ofwhichChrist Jesus and Mary Baker Eddy drankto gain their spiritual dominion and crownof immortality.

Know ye not that they which run in a race runall, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that yemay obtain. 2

The obtaining of this prize is the result ofthe struggle for the Mind of Christ the


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Americaience to Truth. This strife and victoryreveal the immortality, vision, strength,and capacity to soar, which the eagle, on ournational Seal, typifies.

America, America, thy seer-graved sealForetells the perfect CommonwealOf God-made men;Its eagle with unwearied wingsIs symbol of the thought-seen thingsOf prophets' ken. 1

The reason for the adoption of the eaglas the obverse of the Seal, can be foundthroughout the Bible. On Mount SinaiMoses prophesied the revealing of Americatriumphant, and the eagle as its symbol.And Moses went up unto God, and the Lor

called unto him out of the mountain, saying: Thushalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell thchildren of Israel; Ye have seen what I did unto th


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ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my cove-nant, then shall ye be a peculiar treasure unto meabove all people: for all the earth is mine. 1

John, the Revelator, speaks of the woman,to whom was given "two wings of a greateagle" 2 typifying America among the na-

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tions and also the spiritual interpretation ofthe Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, inScience and Health with Key to the Scrip-lures.The "tender memorial," First Church of

Christ, Scientist, New York City, alsotypifies, at this hour, the spiritual ark which"went upon the face of the waters," andwhich the waters "bare up." 3 Spiritualdefinition of "Ark":

Safety; the idea or reflection of Truth, provedto be as immortal as its Principle. . . God andman co-existent and eternal. 4


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The most striking type regarding thiedifice is the obelisk, with the capstone,pyramid in form. Thus this church symbolizes man. It is a "memorial of ChristiaScience, that the ages will look upon and blifted up. " (Mary Baker Eddy.) Christ, aHis first appearing, said:

' And I, if I be lifted up ... will draw all meunto me. 1

This "memorial of Christian Sciencethat the ages will look upon and be lifteup" as thought is spiritualized, was builby Mary Baker Eddy, Augusta E. Stetsonand her students. It declares that manspiritual. At Christ's second appearing, acompound idea, reflecting Life and Love, thFatherhood and Motherhood of God, thnations will be "lifted up." They wi


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and symbol, to God, man, and the spiritualuniverse.Over the great organ in this church, First

Church of Christ, Scientist, New York City,is the "triumphal arch of Truth and Love," 1whose sixteen words,GOD is LOVE AND HE THAT DWELLETH IN LOVE

DWELLETH IN GOD AND GOD IN HlM. 2

With the word "LOVE" at the keystonedf the arch typify the city foursquare.This city of pur God has no need of sun or satel-

lite, for Love is the light of it, and divine Mind isits own interpreter. 3

Thus "Love . . . designates, and leadsthe way, "4 to the ark of thenew ' ' covenant,"the "church of the first-born, written inheaven," 5 whose "bow of promise" indi-


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America Crittmpftantcates that idea is "as immortal as itPrinciple."

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Just here it is interesting to note, that theditorial on "Our Fathers' Flag," whicinspired this article, touches upon certai/astronomical facts which are of deep ansignificant interest. When the signers othe Declaration of Independence sat iIndependence Hall, they looked out upoan astronomical observatory, a small platform of wood. They were constantlprotesting against old world astronomical literature, as all new discoveries wernamed in honor of kings and autocratidignitaries.David Rittenhouse, of Dutch origin (th

first American astronomer) was a patriot,a man versed in science, and proclaimed bJefferson as the first in genius. Rittenhous


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America iErrompfmnttion of Independence was read from thiswooden observatory inIndependenceSquare,Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and also all

"ithe thirteen colony flags on June 15,1777, with the new Stars and Stripes aboveall of them, were raised from the sameplatform.

In the dedicatory address, which wasdelivered by Mrs. Augusta E. Stetson atthe dedication of First Church of Christ,Scientist, New York City, on November29, 1903, are found these pregnant words inconnection with the footsteps which un-folded this cljurch:

As we look back to the little hall, where Ipreached my first sermon in New York City to anaudience of about twenty, and recall the pine tableupon which was an improvised desk made of a dry-goods box, and covered with red cambric, we grate-


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Americaward: ever shielding us, and furnishing us " a tablein the wilderness"; causing waste places to budand blossom as the rose, until we have beenbrought into this "house exceeding magnificat,"into this sanctuary which God's hands haveestablished. >

These words appear on page 144 ofReminiscences, Sermons, and Correspondence*by Augusta E. Stetson, C. S. D.The true Declaration of Independence,

or spiritual emancipation, was "signed andsealed," its clarion call was sounded, its ef-fulgent light was revealed in NewYork City,/from this little dry-goods box the spiritualastronomical observatory, and the spiritualunderstanding, or standard of demonstrableChristian Science, then and there raised, hasnever been lowered. The editorial heretoforementioned states, that notwithstanding the


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. . . nevertheless the banner of the stars andstripes is a correct conception, according to history,and a true prophecy of that which is to come. Itwas made in conformity with exact science, realevents, and deliberate conviction and choice. It islife, not theory. Its stripes record the past, its starspoint to the future.

The spiritualconceptionand divineunfold-ment of First Church of Christ, Scientist,New York City, represents the operationof the law of Love, and the demonstrationof ' ' exact science, " true Christian Science,as discovered and founded by Mary BakerEddy, and taught and demonstrated byAugusta E. Stetson, C. S. D.On January 16, 1909, Mrs. Eddy wrotethe following letter:

When my dear brethren in New York desire tobuild higher, to enlarge their phylacteries, anddemonstrate Christian Science to a


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no matter" is not only the axiom of true ChristianScience, but it is the only basis upon which thisScience can be demonstrated. 1

The instant obedience and compliancewith this request, to begin to build "on awholly spiritual foundation," to strive moreearnestly to attain a higher understanding,which will reveal the Church Triumphant,where "Spirit is infinite, therefore Spirit isall," re-sealed and made eternally invul-nerable the "covenant" made with Abra-ham.* It has become an "oath unto Isaac,"and to-day the "covenant" is confirmed"unto Jacob 3 for a law, and to Israel* for aneverlasting covenant. "3

It is significant that our Seal is withoutsupporters. According to its designer, ' ' Godis our support."


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The Science of being gives back the lost likenessand power of God as the seal of man's adoption. xThis Truth is the rock which the builders re-

jected; but "the same has become the head of thecorner." This is the chief corner-stone, the basisand support of creation, the interpreter of one God,and infinity and unity of good. a

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The stamp and Seal of our coinage is "InGod We Trust." Mrs. Eddy's last wordsspoken at Pleasant View to her Churchmembers assembled there, were:

I would present a gift to you to-day, only thatthis gift is already yours. God hath given it to allmankind. It is His coin, His currency; it has Hisimage and superscription. This gift is a passage ofScripture; it is my sacred motto, and it reads thus:"Trust in the Lord, and do good; so shalt thoudwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.". . . Trust in Truth, and have no other trusts. 3

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gfoierita l&rfumpfjmttAnd the ransomed of the Lord shall return, andcome to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon

their heads : they shall obtain joy and gladness, andsorrow and sighing shall flee away. 1

And from No and Yes* let us continueto quote Mrs. Eddy:The question now at issue is; Shall we have a

practical, spiritual Christianity, with its healingpower, or shall we have material medicine and super-ficial religion? The advancing hope of the race,craving health and holiness, halts for a reply; andthe reappearing Christ, whose life-giving under-standing Christian Science imparts, must answerthe constant inquiry: "Art thou he that shouldcome ? " Woman should not be ordered to the rear,or laid on the rack, for joining the overture of angels.Theologians descant pleasantly upon free moralagency; but they should begin by admitting in-dividual, rights.The author's ancestors were among the firstsettlers of New Hampshire. They reared there thePuritan standard of undefiled religion. As dutifuldescendants of let us lift their standard


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Mary Baker Eddy's platform or stand-ard

Spirit is infinite ; therefore Spirit is all. ' ' Thereis no matter," 1

has been accepted and will be demonstrated,by all who follow and obey the teachings ofChrist Jesus and Mary Baker Eddy. Asshe comes forth, representing the compound,ideal man of God's creating, those who haverisen with her, through spiritualization ofthought and demonstration of Truth andLove, will stand on the Horeb height ofdivine, omnipotent Love, singing the songof the redeemed, and the "paeans of praise "3which Mary Baker Eddy has foretold.

Washington, at Valley Forge, had a vividillumination which remained long with him,of woman's prophetic vision and great


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mission. As Mary Baker Eddy's inspiredthought was leavening universal conscious-ness, it found expression, at that stage ofspiritual unfoldment, in the campaign songof 1864, "We're Coming, Father Abraham,Three Hundred Thousand Strong." TheRevelator saw the "woman clothed with thesun"; heard a. . . new song . . . the voice ofmany angeis roundabout the throne . . . and the number of them wasten thousand times ten thousand, and thousandsof thousands; saying with a loud voice, "Worthyis the Lamb that was slain to receive power, andriches, and wisdom, and strength, and honor, andglory, and blessing."*

Mary Baker Eddy sings the final andcrowning song of victory and rejoicing, iScience and Health:

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Americathe mighty conquest over all sin? A loudersong, sweeter than has ever before reached highheaven, now rises clearer and nearer to thegreat heart of Christ; for the accuser is not there,and Love sends forth her primal and everlastingstrain. x

At this one hundred and forty-fourthanniversary of American independence, allsigners of the spiritual Declaration of In-dependence "an hundred forty and fourthousand, having his [their] Father's namewritten in their foreheads," 2 will standon Mount Zion with Christ at his secondappearing, and will be heard singing the"new song before the throne." Its har-monies are voiced by the people of God,in song and sermon, throughout the uni-verse.The "fixed star" in the spiritual astro-

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gfoterica Crfompfjantto the "city which hath foundations,Mount Zion,having the, glory of God: and her light was likunto a stone most precious, even like a jaspestone, clear as crystal; And had a wall great anhigh, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelvangels, and names written thereon, which arthe names of the twelve tribes of the children oIsrael. 1

The completeness of this symbolic visiois clearly seen.And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. An

let him that heareth say, Come. And let him thais athirst come.

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I am the root and offspring of David, and thbright and morning star. 3

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8merita QfrititnpfiatttGive us not only angels' songs,But Science vast, to which belongsThe tongue of angelsAnd the song of songs. 1MARY BAKER EDDY.

The last appearing of Truth will be a whollyidea of God and man, without the fettersthe flesh, or corporeality. This infinite idea of

will be, is, as eternal as its divine Principle.day star of this appearing is the light of Chris-Science the Science which rends the veil offlesh from top to bottom. The light of this

leaves nothing that is material; neitherdoubt, disease nor death. The material

disappears; and individual spirituality,and eternal, appears, never to disappear. 2

To-day the watchful shepherd shoutsthe new cradle of an old truth. This truth hasnight, through gloom to glory, from cradle

crown. To the awakened consciousness, thebabe has left his swaddling-clothes

environments) for the form and comeli-of the divine ideal, which has passed from ato the sense of Christ, and is


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Americatenderness. The Christ is speaking for himself anfor his mother, Christ's heavenly origin and aimTo-day the Christ is, more than ever before, "thway, the truth and the life, " "which lighteth everman that cometh into the world," healing all sorrowsickness and sin. ... At this immortal hour, alhuman hate, pride, greed, lust, should bow, andeclare Christ's power, and the reign of Truth anLife divine should make man's being pure anblest. 1

Mrs. Eddy was asked, who would be hesuccessor? Her reply was,What remains to lead on the centuries and reveamy successor, is man in the image and likeness o

the Father-Mother God. 2

This "man" has already been revealed iChristian Science. The Christian Scientistswho have attained the spiritual understand-ing and vision, which the teachings of Chris


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gmerfcahis second appearing, in the image and

of God, will succeed the humanjust as the Christ, at his first appear-

succeeded the human Jesus.Christ at his first appearing was not long

to his disciples, whose spiritual visionnot equal to retaining their greatTeacher. Christ, the real "man, " declared,

In my Father's house are many mansions: if itwere not so, I would have told you. I go to preparea place for you. And if I go and prepare a place foryou, I will come again, and receive you unto my-self; that where I am, there ye may be also. 1

A Christian Scientist, who is building on a"wholly spiritual foundation" (Mary BakerEddy), will gain the spiritual vision, whichwill reveal the risen Christ, at his secondtriumph over the false material sense ofthe first demonstration


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Amenta Criumpfiantsecond appearing of Christ will destroy thbelief of life and intelligence in so-callematerial woman, and the real "man," thcompound idea, reflecting the Fatherhooand Motherhood of God, will appear , thperfect image of a perfect Principle, MindSpirit, God.Thus Christ's great and final victory wil

be made over the "dragon" the belief ofmaterial man and a material woman, whclaim to be creators, the result of whicfalse claim is a mortal man and a materiauniverse, expressed in sin, sickness, andeath. This dream-man and dream-universe, evil calls God's creation.The real "man" -the Christ, reflects th

creative Principle of Being, Life, and LoveThe Truth-man is the "man" of God'

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without sin," 1 without a material,embodiment, but with a spiritual" in the likeness of God, perfect and

God's glorified substance man.This "man, " who is to succeed Mrs. Eddy,

Science reveals to the Christianwho are building on a "wholly

foundation" in response to Mrs.letter to her "dear brethren in New2

Spiritual sense reveals this "man" andMrs. Eddy's teaching of the

Christ-spirit which governed the corporeal3 the masculine representative of the

of God.It was the Christ-spirit which governed

Baker Eddy, the feminine representa-of God's Motherhood.

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Mary Baker Eddy, is dissolved by God'"man,

"Christ, the ideal man of God'creating, then Mrs. Eddy's words, whic

are as follows, will be understood by thspiritual builders in Christian Science, whare rising with Christ, and who will recognize and reign with him. Of this man, MrsEddy says:For this Principle there is no dynasty, no eccles

astical monopoly. Its only crowned head is immortal sovereignty. Its only priest is the spiritualizman. x

The material senses can not grasp thispiritual fact of Scientific Being. To spiritual sense, the coming of Christ is imminent

Paul, through having suffered out of thmaterial senses, having carried the cross andrank the cup of the Master Metaphysicianunderstood that he wouldbehold the ' 'man,


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America {Eriumpijantand he left this legacy of hope, to all whosuffer with Christ, that they may reign withhim.When Christ, who is our life, shall appear [be

manifest] then shall ye also appear [be manifest]with him in glory. x

Spiritual vision illumined Mrs. Eddywhen she, the scribe of Spirit, chronicledher vision in the following words.The chaos of mortal mind is made the stepping-

stone to the cosmos of immortal Mind. aThe ' ' chaos of mortal mind ' ' indeed seems

to have reached its limit of ' ' confusion worseconfounded, " and portends the self-destruc-tion of evil viz., material sense, materialorganization, material government, andfinally material generation. Verily, thebelief and claim of a power opposed to Life,


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The "man, " Christ, who was the "succes-sor" of the human Jesus, will be the "suc-cessor" of the human Mary. Thus will Godestablish or reveal His dominion, throughHis son, or the Christ-man, the divine manof His creating, the compound idea whoreflects the Fatherhood and Motherhood,the Life and Love, the Principle of all real,eternal being, the one God. Christ is thehead of the body.

So-called material history, material law,and material government, is fast drawing toa dose. Man is God's image and likeness.Christ, the executor of God's law, is fulfill-ing the Scripture.

Set ye up a standard in the land, blow the trum-pet among the nations, prepare the nations againsther, . . . And the land shall tremble and sorrow:for every purpose of the Lord shall be performedagainst Babylon. 1


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ica Criumpftantmighty God, The everlasting Father, Theof Peace.

Of the increase of his government and peaceshall be no end, upon the throne of David,

upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establishwith judgment, and with justice from henceforth

for ever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts willthis. *

Let me conclude with the words of theFathers, as they put in writing theirto one another, before they left the

and stepped upon the shores ofland where they were to establish theof one God, obedience to whose law

Truth and Love would result in "life,and pursuit of happiness." Thesetheir immortal words: " In the name of

Amen."Brave Britain, blest America!

Unite your battle-plan;Victorious, all who live it,


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America, America, the God of loveWhose name is ev?ry name above,Is thy defence.Tis thou must lead the longing worldFrom phantom fears to Love's unfurl'dOmnipotence. 1

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