"For unto us a babe child is born"Isa 9:6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.

[*]Archival Note: A vertical line is drawn through the following text. Over 18 centuries ago the advent of a babe child stamped a new impress on history Little dreamed the EmperorEditorial Note: Caesar Augustus enthroned in his gorgeous palace upon the cCapitoline hHill that a babe slumbering in a manger in the obscure hamlet of Bethlehem a remote province of AsyriaEditorial Note: Assyria was a kingdom of Northern Mesopotamia, centered on the Tigris River, and located in what is now northern Iraq, southeastern Turkey, northeastern Syria, and some of northwestern Iran. was to establish an empire before which the power of the Ceasars Corrected: Caesars must dwindle into insignificance. When the child Jesus was born all the nations known of that period were in subjection to the government of Rome. Around the Mediterraneon Corrected: Mediterranean shores were clustered the thronged provinces and majestic cities that gorge gave Rome the palm of dynasties the Atlantic Ocean was an unexplored sea the Indies had but a fabulous existence Rome was then the world and Ceasar Corrected: Caesar was the govenrnor of Rome he could do what he pleased with the property the liberty and lives of over three hundred Millions of people comprising the Roman Empire. Such power no mortal ever swayed before such power no mortal will ever sway again [*]Archival Note: A metamark that looks like an X appears at this point in the manuscript. [*]Archival Note: End of vertical line drawn through text. (For unto us a child is bornIsa 9:6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. ) 1st Let us consider what gave this declaration its especial interest aits spiritual emphasis. 2nd What was the star they saw in the east that went before them till it came and stood over where the young child wasMatt 2:9 When they had heard the king, they departed; and, lo, the star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was. . 3rd What is the spiritual signification of the manger the sepulchre and the cross. Millions of children were born before the babe of Bethlehem but they were not heralded by angels or by tokens in the heavansCorrected:heavens. Even Tthe material history of Jesus furnishes us with this fact, that the meek Nazareen Corrected: Nazarene was the most conspicuous character that ever trod the globe Uneducated he put [?] Unclear or illegible  to shame tiped the scale against the arrogant Jewish Rabbi [?] Unclear or illegible s, he overthrew the proudest systems of philosophy ancient and modern; yea warrior king and philosopher went have gone down before [*]Archival Note: The following text was added to the document by the author, disrupting the surrounding thought. No. 2. [*]Archival Note: End floating text. him and yea his teachings and demonstrations casting out error and healing the sick arewere are destined to take christianity back to its primitive definitions— But turn we from the material to the Spiritual history of thate babe [?] Unclear or illegible  whose infant wailings blent with the bleating of the goat & lowing of the kineEditorial Note: Kine refers to a group of cows. The narrative of the birth of Jesus Christ, as given in the Gospel of Luke, has the baby Jesus laid "in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn." See Luke 2:7Luke 2:7 And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn. ., briefly to trace that history on to its hour of gloom and glory

The prophet Isaih Corrected: Isaiah sang,– for unto us a child is born, unto us a Son is given, and the government shall be upon his shoulder; and his name shall be called wWonderfull, Counselorlor, the mighty God, the everlasting Father, the Prince of PeaceIsa 9:6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. . And did not the Hebrew Did not that Hebrew Melodist discern just cause for clapping hands, when a mighty Truth welling up from the Infinite presented itself to mortal sense and that sense kissed it and called it a babye.

And did not that wise seerEditorial Note: Isaiah forecast the destiny of Truth when he said the government shall be upon its shoulderIsa 9:6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. , it shall be a marvelous instructor, an Omnipotent power, an imperishable Principle. But remember the Hebrew bard in his grand epic refered Corrected: referred not to that little bunch of flesh phosphat Corrected: phosphate and linen lying in a crib – but to the advent of a the the a Spiritual idea it reppresented —namely it presented even thethe idea of Life evolved from Spirit, man God, man begotten of Spirit the Principle of all being Perfect Mind reflecting perfect Mind and never entering mind never starting from or resulting in matter Soul never not cribbing with beasts Deity never blending with dust Spirit untouched with by evil passions and mortality By rRetaining his conscious spiritual existence and entity the mind of Jesus retained its native domain, of mind instead of matter Hence the controll Corrected: control Jesus he exercised over material beliefs and the error called ter or the beliefs of mortal man

The existence of Jesus was identifiedical with Truth and the Life that is God. that Truth regarding both Soul and body even he demonstrated Spirit free from matter and the divine Soul the Truth that, [?] Unclear or illegible Soul is not in the body that and Soul the is Substance of man and body its but its accompaningCorrected:accompanying that Substance is never in its body or shadow Even as As good and [*]Archival Note: The following text was added to the document by the author, disrupting the surrounding thought. No 2 [*]Archival Note: End floating text. HeEditorial Note: Jesus Christ knew that even as good and evil are opposites so are is the spiritual and a the material sense of things creation opposites things must be opposites and it is forthe material sense that declaresThe material senses declares matter substance and Spirit shadow while the spiritual senses of being things of objects reverses this statement and finds declares that the only permanent and eternal side of things are the Spirit and thoughts that beget them

To understand this great fact in Metaphysics it is necessary to you must be born againJohn 3:7 Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. ; born of the the Spirit and not of the flesh; and this was the birth referred to by in those words of the prophet IsiahCorrected:Isaiah in the sentence for unto us a child is born and the government shall be upon his shoulder and his name shall be called wonderfullIsa 9:6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. . Great epochs begin with the birth of a new ideas Truth or a new discovery— with the developementCorrected:development of an unseen Principle but which is unseen only to the material or mortal senses When our Mary the virgin Mothers our ask we enlarge our idea of God was is enlarged and it it becomes more divine and less human and this it is a more spiritual conception becomesing higherpurer and holier it was fruitage is is a new birth of being Then is there that and is a this higer has conception of being bringings a out in birth in a higher individuality of Life that and forms a new individuality character newness of Life then is it begotten Spiritually instead of materially, but But the highest our finite but our [?] Unclear or illegible  sense of goodness is a feeble conception of the infinite Love but even then is idea is a small portrature of Infinite goodness and blessedness in fine its it was is but a babe and born meekly because because of its surroundings clothed with as it must be to us with somewhat is withof worldliness sin and self. When Columbus gave birth to his conceptions of this globe the form of a globe whoever utters When Luthur uttered an impregnable Principle Truth Principle turns the fortunes of the race gently and gradually turned into a higher channel by the mild presureCorrected:pressure of God Truth presence of Truth, It is the great conceptions of meek and noisless Corrected: noiseless birth and not the roaring effervesence Corrected: effervescence that change the existing state of things and gently forces us onward and upward. The meek silent light is drawings draws artists pictures, while cheersing the cot, and gilding the palace, glinting upon the couch of woCorrected:woe only gilding the first hall of pleasure glancing into the dungeon melting the iceberg brightenig Corrected: brightening the flower blessing the world is not unpretentious but the loud and it cheers and invigorates us, but the loud whirl whirlwind that sign and product of disunion and weakness passes on and is forgotten The most notable period of the ages was that when a Galleean Corrected: Galilean peasant uttered by the way-side Corrected: wayside and in humble homes, to artless listeners to dull [*]Archival Note: The following text was added to the document by the author, disrupting the surrounding thought. No 4 [*]Archival Note: End floating text. deciples Corrected: disciples and to wondering ears his simple sense of Truth Omnipotence or in howthe Spirit is of the supremacy of Spirit how it healed the sick saved the sinner and robed Corrected: robbed the grave of its victory He supreme how mind controlls matter, yea mastering sin sickness and death through this one understanding of God he he trusted these his those words and deeds to the providence of God but in no fact seems the that man of Galelee Corrected: Galilee greater than in his serene sense in of confidence the imortality Corrected: immortality that the science of those words Truth he uttered and demonstrated could not die. Said he Jesus said "heaven and earth shall pass away but my words shall not pass awayMatt 24:35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away. Luke 21:33 Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away. ; what a calm confidence consciousness statement was that of there was that in the superior permanence of mind over matter. The late Starr KingEditorial Note: Thomas Starr King (1824–1864) was a prominent Unitarian/Universalist minister who took a strong stand for the Union during the Civil War. wrote If we study life aright we shall never sneer at abstractions as visionary or unreal— for if If they are false they are unsubstantial as the corruscations Corrected: coruscations in the northen Corrected: northern sky; but if true, they are permanent, impregnable as Principle; resistless as rightEditorial Note: This quotation is found on page 178 of Patriotism, and Other Papers by Thomas Starr King..

Truth and right Love In Mary's meek conception of the idea of Gods offspring idea of Truth and Love Immanuel of man created by God were the substance of the idea thatwhich appeared in a manger, and yet but the Judean shepherds saw in it both the dawn of called that idea an innocent babey and the ImanuelCorrected:Emmanuel for for to to themir thought Deity its outlines to them took the form of flesh and blood; but to the whereas but the Virgin mother knew that the perfect Jesus was her Jesus was is [?] Unclear or illegible  blended with her own own idea conceived of upon God and that it was who conceived this spiritual idea of Life God and itAs Written:and it was and was its Principle and man [?] Unclear or illegible  the idea hence so she called wasAs Written:was more spiritual [?] Unclear or illegible  [?] Unclear or illegible  and so and and it she gave it have His [?] Unclear or illegible  birth goodness to bless bless the world it for the world it God begotten of Truth and Love of God and she named it Jesus named it the son of God [*]Archival Note: Vertical lines are drawn through the following text. Christ Jesus — Christ and God being terms synonymusCorrected:synonymous – that appelation Corrected: appellation signified Gods man. Jesus the name of the man and Christ, God the Principle and origin of that man.[*]Archival Note: End of vertical lines drawn through text. And there Here the foresight vision The wisdom of Mary rose above the maternal instinct, and where gave and the pride and fondness native to a mother gave giving place to prophecy and as [?] Unclear or illegible  mutely she pondered the fate of thather son; representing well she knew he presented as she must a higher idea of God than ever before had appeared or than the age was willing to accept. That modest mother Even a Mothers pride and fondness were could not be blind to the necessityies of history The when the divine Life meets must be meet must meet the human in [?] Unclear or illegible  or a [?] Unclear or illegible  and the human struggle with the divine The but cConscious of the power of Truth, and and pangs of travail the supremacy of Spirit over matter the meek Mother called for this first proof from she early made her called upon its demands but this upon her it idea of God and to present this proof saying to her son at the marriage feast in Cana of Galliilee saying unto him, "they have no wine" and to which he replyedCorrected:replied meekly modestly , "mine hour is not yet come" but the persistent mother had a clearer sense of the man's dominion that the Gods creation that gaives man dominion to man and she urged the exhibition of this power and the demonstration that of her her idea was begotten of Truth preconceived views, namely that mind is creative, causal [*]Archival Note: The following text was added to the document by the author, disrupting the surrounding thought. No 5 [*]Archival Note: End floating text. and must presents its own ideals therefore she said unto the servants "whatsoever he saith unto you do it" then and Jesus turned the water into wineJohn 2:1 And the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and the mother of Jesus was there: John 2:2 And both Jesus was called, and his disciples, to the marriage. John 2:3 And when they wanted wine, the mother of Jesus saith unto him, They have no wine. John 2:4 Jesus saith unto her, Woman, what have I to do with thee? mine hour is not yet come. John 2:5 His mother saith unto the servants, Whatsoever he saith unto you, do it. John 2:6 And there were set there six waterpots of stone, after the manner of the purifying of the Jews, containing two or three firkins apiece. John 2:7 Jesus saith unto them, Fill the waterpots with water. And they filled them up to the brim. John 2:8 And he saith unto them, Draw out now, and bear unto the governor of the feast. And they bare it. John 2:9 When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine, and knew not whence it was: (but the servants which drew the water knew;) the governor of the feast called the bridegroom, John 2:10 And saith unto him, Every man at the beginning doth set forth good wine; and when men have well drunk, then that which is worse: but thou hast kept the good wine until now. John 2:11 This beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana of Galilee, and manifested forth his glory; and his disciples believed on him. and for this simple fact the scriptures declare that by this he manifested forth his glory and because of it his diciples Corrected: disciples (in the original texts his students) believed on him, in other words they understood measurably how he performed that so-called miracle. The world was at war then, as now, with the Metaphysics of Jesus, and because he in every instance he made would regarded matter the servant of mind The all-engrossing care for the body; the absorbing desire for material dependencies the craving for amusement and superficial show, yea the sensualism entrenched behind every form of society, betray the fact that with us matter is first in all things that and mortal mind has little faith in the power of Immortal mMind; that wrong has little faith in wrightCorrected:right , in greatness or goodness yea or in the power of Truth to destroy error We should ought to weary of that self that cannot fulfill more the powers of a higher destiny; when how often we try to subdue a perverse nature, to Spiritualize thought, to elevate our aims or and to exalt and consecrate the affections and how of prove theym they rebellious and trampleing for a little on the silken fetters imposed by a guardian conscience. But when if we succeed in making Love and Life one in the vocabulary of our affections we do well Every right that is wraought out, however simple or grand, is a step toward harmony the the great ultimate of being; yea it is the birth of some higher idea of God and and when unto us a child is bornIsa 9:6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. It was must have been a pure thought, a virgin conception that formed the man Jesus thatAs Written:that laid the foundations of moulded a higher idea of [*]Archival Note: A metamark that looks like an X appears at this point in the manuscript. outlined the character of Jesus God than the ages had brought forth and named [?] Unclear or illegible that ideal the son of God Mary's Spiritual idea of man and creation was crowned by birthright and her sorrowing Son never sold histhat sacred his inheritance for a mess of potageGen 25:19 ¶And these are the generations of Isaac, Abraham’s son: Abraham begat Isaac: Gen 25:20 And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of
Padan–aram, the sister to Laban the Syrian. Gen 25:21 And Isaac entreated the Lord for his wife, because she was barren: and the Lord was entreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived. Gen 25:22 And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to inquire of the Lord. Gen 25:23 And the Lord said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels; and the one people shall be stronger than the other people; and the elder shall serve the younger. Gen 25:24 ¶And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb. Gen 25:25 And the first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they called his name Esau. Gen 25:26 And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau’s heel; and his name was called Jacob: and Isaac was threescore years old when she bare them. Gen 25:27 And the boys grew: and Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents. Gen 25:28 And Isaac loved Esau, because he did eat of his venison: but Rebekah loved Jacob. Gen 25:29 ¶And Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the field, and he was faint: Gen 25:30 And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage; for I am faint: therefore was his name called Edom. Gen 25:31 And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright. Gen 25:32 And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die: and what profit shall this birthright do to me? Gen 25:33 And Jacob said, Swear to me this day; and he sware unto him: and he sold his birthright unto Jacob. Gen 25:34 Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau despised his birthright. — to forego the frowns, or to purchase the flatteries of a the world; but animated by a divine sense of [*]Archival Note: The following text was added to the document by the author, disrupting the surrounding thought. No 6 [*]Archival Note: End floating text. Life and its high behests– Jesus over come the worldJohn 16:33 These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world. . The purity of his origin was embodied and reflected in the character of Jesus. Science had in him a fit representative at the court of heaven; Wisdom was justified of her childLuke 7:35 But wisdom is justified of all her children. , and philosophy had to admit that the power of a man is his moral strength and Spiritual status; that animal courage, brute force, or serpentine art, never constituted strength or manliness; they are a shame to a man, they belittle his true origin— belittle belie his nature and betray the Truth that must redeem him. The lowest animal propensities cannot never produced a man; and a debased thought or a debased actionion was never made by law a higher thought or a pure act, and the offspring of the thought or act betrayes Corrected: betrays its parentage— When Spirit shall beget man God will have created him, and he will be a man; and it will require no great sagacity to distinguish the that entire man from a beast. The word son had a broad signification originally— The iIn the Hebrew, an arrow was called the son of a bow, a month the son of a year, etc,. Jesus was the son of God in thise Hebrew sense, only, as a month was the son of a year, a month being a the tiny represintative Corrected: representative of time. Jesus was in part the representative of God, of Life, Truth and Love — he represented Life and its continuance when he healed the sick and raised the dead, he represented Love by self abnegationCorrected:self-abnegation purity and mercy; he represented Truth when with Truth he destroyed error— he From the parable of the husbandmanenMatt 21:33 ¶Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country: Matt 21:34 And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it. Matt 21:35 And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another. Matt 21:36 Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they did unto them likewise. Matt 21:37 But last of all he sent unto them his son, saying, They will reverence my son. Matt 21:38 But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance. Matt 21:39 And they caught him, and cast him out of the vineyard, and slew him. Matt 21:40 When the lord therefore of the vineyard cometh, what will he do unto those husbandmen? Matt 21:41 They say unto him, He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out his vineyard unto other husbandmen, which shall render him the fruits in their seasons. Matt 21:42 Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord’s doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes? Matt 21:43 Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof. Matt 21:44 And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder. Matt 21:45 And when the chief priests and Pharisees had heard his parables, they perceived that he spake of them. Matt 21:46 But when they sought to lay hands on him, they feared the multitude, because they took him for a prophet. Mark 12:1 And he began to speak unto them by parables. A certain man planted a vineyard, and set an hedge about it, and digged a place for the winevat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country. Mark 12:2 And at the season he sent to the husbandmen a servant, that he might receive from the husbandmen of the fruit of the vineyard. Mark 12:3 And they caught him, and beat him, and sent him away empty. Mark 12:4 And again he sent unto them another servant; and at him they cast stones, and wounded him in the head, and sent him away shamefully handled. Mark 12:5 And again he sent another; and him they killed, and many others; beating some, and killing some. Mark 12:6 Having yet therefore one son, his wellbeloved, he sent him also last unto them, saying, They will reverence my son. Mark 12:7 But those husbandmen said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance shall be ours. Mark 12:8 And they took him, and killed him, and cast him out of the vineyard. Mark 12:9 What shall therefore the lord of the vineyard do? he will come and destroy the husbandmen, and will give the vineyard unto others. Mark 12:10 And have ye not read this scripture; The stone which the builders rejected is become the head of the corner: Mark 12:11 This was the Lord’s doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes? Mark 12:12 And they sought to lay hold on him, but feared the people: for they knew that he had spoken the parable against them: and they left him, and went their way. Luke 20:9 Then began he to speak to the people this parable; A certain man planted a vineyard, and let it forth to husbandmen, and went into a far country for a long time. Luke 20:10 And at the season he sent a servant to the husbandmen, that they should give him of the fruit of the vineyard: but the husbandmen beat him, and sent him away empty. Luke 20:11 And again he sent another servant: and they beat him also, and entreated him shamefully, and sent him away empty. Luke 20:12 And again he sent a third: and they wounded him also, and cast him out. Luke 20:13 Then said the lord of the vineyard, What shall I do? I will send my beloved son: it may be they will reverence him when they see him. Luke 20:14 But when the husbandmen saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying, This is the heir: come, let us kill him, that the inheritance may be ours. Luke 20:15 So they cast him out of the vineyard, and killed him. What therefore shall the lord of the vineyard do unto them? Luke 20:16 He shall come and destroy these husbandmen, and shall give the vineyard to others. And when they heard it, they said, God forbid. Luke 20:17 And he beheld them, and said, What is this then that is written, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner? Luke 20:18 Whosoever shall fall upon that stone shall be broken; but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder. Luke 20:19 ¶And the chief priests and the scribes the same hour sought to lay hands on him; and they feared the people: for they perceived that he had spoken this parable against them. we learn how the ages have received reception of the tTruth presented by Jesus; plainly depicted how vanity holdings guard at the threshold of history and and to shuting the door on thise angel visitant, that hath not on an old timeCorrected:old-time garment, saying in the language of Scripture, this is the heir come let us kill him and the inheritance shall be oursLuke 20:14 But when the husbandmen saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying, This is the heir: come, let us kill him, that the inheritance may be ours. ; let us stop the advancing steps of others, because when we are unwilling to take those steps ourselves; and let the inheritance be ours what so'erCorrected:whatsoe'er the cost [*]Archival Note: The following text was added to the document by the author, disrupting the surrounding thought. No 7 [*]Archival Note: End floating text. by killing the heir to a higher inheritance none may learn what are his rare possessions, or question the superior value of ours. We regret to say, the fires of ancient proscription, superstition, bigotry and envy, burn not dimly upon the altars of this age.

Have the hoary centuries declared or the thunders of Sinai uttered their voices, that a man must graduate at a uUniversity before he can do good to his fellow man, heal the sick or reform the sinner?

Strange as it may sound in the nenineteenth century, and in America, where the statue of our LyncolnCorrected:Lincoln is represented as is blessing the oppressed, [?] Unclear or illegible  thatit of ye people , that a majority of the states in our Union have by law precluded healing the sick unless a man is authorized by a without a diploma! board of censors to do this, and how to do itEditorial Note: In the 1870s, a number of states enacted some form of medical licensing laws to limit the practice of medicine to physicians licensed by a state board. Eddy is likely referring to those laws here in relation to their impact on the practice of Christian Science. Is it civil or Is it less than not religous Corrected: religious despotism yea is it not both that will enatcts laws statutes prohibiting the rights of conscience, and vainly essaying to and would and anulling seek to forestall those the divine prophecy decrees Our MasterEditorial Note: Jesus Christ ph prophetic words of our Lord and Master whom said And these signs shall follow then Corrected: them that believe, they shall lay their hands on the sick and they shall recoverMark 16:18 They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover. .

Shall human law make war on the divine? law and prophecy? shall state statutes prevent Christianity or and trample u under footCorrected:underfoot the reward the wages of honest toil? Shall vain man presume to mock God, to hold back progress, to stop that which is stop the work of his Maker they stop christian labor that is uplifting mankind physically and morally, and seek to stop it only because thate new is better than the old and they fear this will be found out labor is progressive Man and it must must and must leave inevitably leave the beaten path to and pioneer the way still ondward on and thus to achieve asome higher good for mankind God hath said it— and it echoes adown methinks I hear it reechoing along the dim [?] Unclear or illegible  aisles of the past,— on to eternity — that every succeeding age should have we need a higher and purer christianity and when we have it we shall shall all know it the tree will be known by its fruitMatt 12:33 Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit. Luke 6:43 For a good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit; neither doth a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Luke 6:44 For every tree is known by his own fruit. For of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes. for it will and Truth layeth the axe at the root of the treeMatt 3:10 And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. Luke 3:9 And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: every tree therefore which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. and cuts down all a that bringeth not forth good fruit [?] Unclear or illegible Truth it must it will heal sickness as well as sin both sickness and sin before as it bringseth Imortality Corrected: Immortality to lightII Tim 1:10 But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel: . Our legislative enactments recall the vision of the rRevelator "wherein where no man should shall buy nor or sell save he that had who hath not the mark of the beastRev 13:16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: Rev 13:17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. the image of the beast"; Is that which iIs that tha [?] Unclear or illegible at how a foreseen by the evangelist foresaw upon us? is it indeed again church and state? are we prohibited by law the freedom of the sons of God have we lost theat freedom of conscience [*]Archival Note: The following text was added to the document by the author, disrupting the surrounding thought. No 2nd 7 [*]Archival Note: End floating text. Hath Plymouth Rock no longer a worn reminesenceCorrected:reminiscence? And aremay not all this rouse the spirit of the past for which our forefathers planted their first footsteps upon Plymouth rock as when men and women scorning to be slaves consecated Corrected: consecrated this land to liberty and shook the depths of the desert gloom with the anthems of the freeEditorial Note: The phrases, "desert gloom" and "anthems of the free" are found in a poem by Felicia Hemans (1793-1835) titled "The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers in New England.".— Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of AskelonII Sam 1:19 The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen! II Sam 1:20 Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph. Publish it not to the world, that the the children of the puritans, have desecrated prostrated their birthright holy heritage and [?] Unclear or illegible  profaned their father's shrine fathers sacred shrine of religious liberty but Oh! surround it still [?] Unclear or illegible with with theat But let us see to it that the halo of history, a faiths pure shrine depart not from their resting places Let womans fearless eye, lit by her deep love's truth still look upon the land of civil and religious liberty her land where her children leave hath been and left unstained what there they found, freedom to worship God Did Jesus teach us it was Is it an Instution Corrected: Institution of learning or is it athe the power and theAs Written:the gifts of the Spirit, yea the understanding power of Truth and understanding of the power of God wisdom of God that endows an individual man with the power with the spirit of Christian to healingthe sick prophet or apostle to heal the sick that armed s and equipeds him as the Lord directs. to fight the good fightI Tim 6:12 Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses. with the flesh and the devil Commissioned by our our Father? God shall a man take take away our that commission? Because as man employs When we use the means mental the Spirit that If a man uses the talent God hath given us him to heal the body and it purifies and elevates, him to purify and elevates the mind to and thise use thereof heals the sick rescues the subjugated reason, from the thrall of superstition to and elevates mankind consecrates the life and meekly to plants ourhis footsteps in the path of divine Science, shall we be held back by law law attempt to and that would annul the claims of the gospel and call that science which never did this prevent our Spirit not that Christian progress and the good whe [?] Unclear or illegible  could do mankind and think to make a nasty nostrum better than a clean thought to purify the blood? and do [?] Unclear or illegible  this, by l [?] Unclear or illegible  iterally starving us out [?] Unclear or illegible him out every high claim to healing by affording us himman no protection fromby law to either [?] Unclear or illegible  his person or [?] Unclear or illegible his property, or his conscience. and making it impossible for him to collect a debt or to receive wages according to law and difficult to escape unjust imprisonment Such a law is unconstitutional it would abrogate the inalienable rights of the individual to Life liberty and the persuit Corrected: pursuit of happiness Is the alternative placed before us to disobey the commands of our mMaker, to silence the dictates of conscience, or to accept starvation? Then let us I shall accept the latter, and trust to the ravens, and Gods providence; for I have faith in right and can have no faith in wrong. But if If a woman that had no moral taint, but to have resorted to the highest resources of being namely to mind instead of matter to heal the sick, and was assaulted oin the open street, knocked down and robbed of her pocket bookCorrected:pocketbook, and she were to appeal to the honorable bench at Salem she need fear [*]Archival Note: The following text was added to the document by the author, disrupting the surrounding thought. No 8 [*]Archival Note: End floating text. nothing more than the following cross examinationCorrected:cross-examination and iunique judgement– First inquiry— Have you ever written a book? "yes sir" Show it; the Judge takes the book passed to him by the lawyer, and while this blot upon the bar, made grandilloquent Corrected: grandiloquent eloquent with whiskey, holdsing the book like a cocked pistol drawn upon the plaintiff while he proceeds with a leer— Your Honor this book is m [?] Unclear or illegible ere bosh, it talks of nothing but God, and how to heal the sick, and how to be rid of sin, and all such nonsense as this – The Judge scowls and lays down the book (the lank lawyer nearly substanceless from the use of tobacco, and the disuse of mind) with ears working ominously, commences again, wWhat is your business, aint you a doctor, how do you htrealt the sick? through mind is the proud response.— What do you do with mind, squeaksals the long-eard Corrected: long-eared gentleman, — "heal the body"— is the reply; yes, oh; yes fill the body with mind eh; how do you do that? I said heal the body, sir.– Yes you did, did you? Whats the essence of mind Gord God? God? the plaintiff replies slowly "I know of nothing higher than God." Then you dare to deny there is any aAlmighty do you? "no sir I believe in God." You do, do you? then why dont you say it? "I thought I did replied the plaintiff." Answer the lawyers question thundered the Judge — plaintiff replies firmly I know there is a supreme bBeing Then why dont you use medicine, starts up the lear nedschollarlyCorrected:scholarly lawyer, why dont you give rheubarb Corrected: rhubarb or physic instead of giving folks Metaphysics? dont when the Bible says you must use physic when you have dyspepsia? " answer my question "I never sawread any such command in the scriptures." Now do you dare tell me the Bible aint true; you raise the dead dont you? "No sir"— thenYes you acknowledged say you raised the dead — but you cant heal a fool cause he haint no mind, eh;– The plaintiff began by saying I I never said either of those things, I understand all men have some mind— if they had no mind whatever they would not be man but matter Stop, I will not have this evasion, put in the court and down came the gentlemanly his Judge's heel foot on the floor.– answer the [*]Archival Note: The following text was added to the document by the author, disrupting the surrounding thought. 8 (No 2) [*]Archival Note: End floating text. answer the question directly TheLawyer— Yes; O! yes, whines the leanank lawyer to the Judge 'tis so tis wearisome;– Madam– you'r Corrected: you're dishonest, you're the wickedest person on the face of all the l earth, and you know it , and you cdont give any squillsEditorial Note: A squill is the common name for several plants of the lily family used for medicinal purposes., and you know it, and you can walk on the water as far as egg— rockEditorial Note: Egg Rock is a small island in Nahant Bay, near Nahant, Massachusetts., eh! The discouraged plaintiff began— I never said— Silence! roared the gentlemanly Judge Close You must confine yourself to the question, but but as at it stands if he stole your pocket bookCorrected:pocketbook he shall pay for it. There was a stir— the magnaminous Corrected: magnanimous Judge was going to do right for it was already provideden that he had stolen the pocket bookCorrected:pocketbook it. But the Lawyer was too much for him— Your Honor, he began, the woman is perjured, she denies there is a God, she has said says she raises the dead, she has said says she walks on the water, she would make it appear, too, that she never agreed to pay the gentleman for stealing her pocket bookCorrected:pocketbook But your Honor, here is the agreement (showing something that refered Corrected: referred to a will) [?] Unclear or illegible  you see she made a will once in which she bequeathinged her whole property to the aforesaid Gentleman; and now it is proven beyond a doubt that when he stole her pocket bookCorrected:pocketbook he he only took but a small amount of her personal property; when he stole her pocket book. sSuch is the law and evidence in the case, and I further contend that unless he should assault her more effectually next time that the plaintiff may live to change her will, in which case, my injured client will be defrauded out of his pocket book just claims [*]Archival Note: The following text was added to the document by the author, disrupting the surrounding thought. No 9 [*]Archival Note: End floating text. Enough vociferated the indignant Judge — such in all human probability may be the case— The court adjourned — one — two — three months elapsed and no judgment was awarded, — but a when a second assault of the law upon the defenceless Corrected: defenseless woman was premeditated, and it was feared lest immanent [?] Unclear or illegible  the public opinion should might be arroused, the important judgment must come out be awarded come, and out it and here it is— came at last and such a mockery of justice may it never again occur. The Judge supposing the peoThe Court concluding that the people had forgotenCorrected:forgotten that he had openly said in court the plaintiff defentant Corrected: defendant must pay the plaintiff for the pocket bookCorrected:pocketbook he state if he had used her money awarded the following judgement returned the decision— The The aggravating circumstancs Corrected: circumstances which lead to the assault, wherein it appears, that the plaintiff had cured there defendant assailant of consumptionEditorial Note: Consumption is a disease now known as tuberculosis. but without using a single drug, renders it plain, that according to Blackstone, that her services are should be without considirationCorrected:consideration, according to Blackstone, also, that she w has no protection under the law for either her person or her property.— The defendant who stole her pocket bookCorrected:pocketbook is in rightful possession thereof, and the plaintiff shall be put under heavy bonds for good behavior. 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When a doctor who carries plenty of poison in hs Corrected: his pocket he can presents his bill, even if it be for killing a man, and he gets a plump payment and walks off under protection of law, of law, arrogant of his right to do this in the name of the almighty diploma. bBut the Metaphysicians; why, if O they should must heal the sick it must be without thanks or a nickleCorrected:nickel. These are the footspeps Corrected: footsteps of the ages but they are not the footsteps of proggress, not the spirit with which Paul stood on the Areopagus at AthensActs 17:16 ¶Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry. Acts 17:17 Therefore disputed he in the synagogue with the Jews, and with the devout persons, and in the market daily with them that met with him. Acts 17:18 Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the
Stoics, encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler say? other some, He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods: because he preached unto them Jesus and the resurrection. Acts 17:19 And they took him, and brought him unto Areopagus, saying, May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is? Acts 17:20 For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean. Acts 17:21 (For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing.) Acts 17:22 ¶Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars’ hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious. Acts 17:23 For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you. Acts 17:24 God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands; Acts 17:25 Neither is worshipped with men’s hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things; Acts 17:26 And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation; Acts 17:27 That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us: Acts 17:28 For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring. Acts 17:29 Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man’s device. Acts 17:30 And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men everywhere to repent: Acts 17:31 Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead. Acts 17:32 ¶And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked: and others said, We will hear thee again of this matter. Acts 17:33 So Paul departed from among them. Acts 17:34 Howbeit certain men clave unto him, and believed: among the which was Dionysius the
Areopagite, and a woman named
Damaris, and others with them. carrying christianity into Europe– not that which gives gGods us presince Corrected: presence and providence, hHis fFatherly Love and the brotherhood of man. Paul stood where Socratees Corrected: Socrates had stood four hundred years before, defending himself against the charge of Ath [?] Unclear or illegible eism; whenre Demosthenes had pleaded in immortal strains of elegance for of religious freedom What is a desolate diploma but a golden [*]Archival Note: The following text was added to the document by the author, disrupting the surrounding thought. No 10 [*]Archival Note: End floating text. calfEx 32:1 And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him. Ex 32:2 And Aaron said unto them, Break off the golden earrings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them unto me. Ex 32:3 And all the people brake off the golden earrings which were in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron. Ex 32:4 And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. Ex 32:5 And when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation, and said, To-morrow is a feast to the Lord. Ex 32:6 And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play. Ex 32:7 ¶And the Lord said unto Moses, Go, get thee down; for thy people, which thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves: Ex 32:8 They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. Ex 32:9 And the Lord said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people: Ex 32:10 Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of thee a great nation. Ex 32:11 And Moses besought the Lord his God, and said, Lord, why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people, which thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power, and with a mighty hand? Ex 32:12 Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, and say, For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people. Ex 32:13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou swarest by thine own self, and saidst unto them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they shall inherit it for ever. Ex 32:14 And the Lord repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people. Ex 32:15 ¶And Moses turned, and went down from the mount, and the two tables of the testimony were in his hand: the tables were written on both their sides; on the one side and on the other were they written. Ex 32:16 And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables. Ex 32:17 And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said unto Moses, There is a noise of war in the camp. Ex 32:18 And he said, It is not the voice of them that shout for mastery, neither is it the voice of them that cry for being overcome: but the noise of them that sing do I hear. Ex 32:19 ¶And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses’ anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount. Ex 32:20 And he took the calf which they had made, and burnt it in the fire, and ground it to powder, and strawed it upon the water, and made the children of Israel drink of it. Ex 32:21 And Moses said unto Aaron, What did this people unto thee, that thou hast brought so great a sin upon them? Ex 32:22 And Aaron said, Let not the anger of my lord wax hot: thou knowest the people, that they are set on mischief. Ex 32:23 For they said unto me, Make us gods, which shall go before us: for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him. Ex 32:24 And I said unto them, Whosoever hath any gold, let them break it off. So they gave it me: then I cast it into the fire, and there came out this calf. Ex 32:25 ¶And when Moses saw that the people were naked; (for Aaron had made them naked unto their shame among their enemies:) Ex 32:26 Then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, Who is on the Lord’s side? let him come unto me. And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together unto him. Ex 32:27 And he said unto them, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Put every man his sword by his side, and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbour. Ex 32:28 And the children of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men. Ex 32:29 For Moses had said, Consecrate yourselves to-day to the Lord, even every man upon his son, and upon his brother; that he may bestow upon you a blessing this day. Ex 32:30 ¶And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses said unto the people, Ye have sinned a great sin: and now I will go up unto the Lord; peradventure I shall make an atonement for your sin. Ex 32:31 And Moses returned unto the Lord, and said, Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of gold. Ex 32:32 Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin—; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written. Ex 32:33 And the Lord said unto Moses, Whosoever hath sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book. Ex 32:34 Therefore now go, lead the people unto the place of which I have spoken unto thee: behold, mine Angel shall go before thee: nevertheless in the day when I visit I will visit their sin upon them. Ex 32:35 And the Lord plagued the people, because they made the calf, which Aaron made. , a mere sheepskin inscription to an unknown God whoomCorrected:whom therefore ye ignorantly worshipActs 17:22 ¶Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars’ hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious. Acts 17:23 For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you. Acts 17:24 God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands; Acts 17:25 Neither is worshipped with men’s hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things; The power of Truth to destroy error; the superiority of mind over matter, to eradicate sin, and [?] Unclear or illegible  sickness (compare but for a moment) with a helpless, inanimate drug; and then declare ye, if God be God, and there is none like hHim. When ye ask, that charity cover with her white veil our human laws, and thus cover a multitude of sinsI Pet 4:8 And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins. , are ye willing that the divine law shall be exalted even when ye pray, "thy kingdom comeMatt 6:10 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Luke 11:2 And he said unto them, When ye pray, say, Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, so in earth. " According to Dean Stanley and our most learned compilers of the Bible— Christian healing continued over a period of three centuries after the crucifixion of our Master, Jesus Christ; according to Dean Stanley and our most eminent compilers of the Bible [*]Archival Note: A metamark that looks like an X, as well as the words "Begin here", appears at this point in the manuscript. I love to contemplate that period, though it be dim with in the mist of remoteness and the light hath faded on the mount of revelation. over the Over the track of time– [?] Unclear or illegible  swept clean by the winds of centuries, methinks I behold the untiring zeal, the struggling hope, and the pure faith of our of the christian martyrs and I see the right hand of the th [?] Unclear or illegible eir blessed tha fellowship with God take hold of this hour — healing [?] Unclear or illegible  the palsied palm, cleansing the lepros Corrected: leprous conscience, plucking the feathers from the plumes of vanity, and christian love charity once more brooding with white winged charity over the Jerusalem churches that saying unto them to day would kill the prophets saying unto them Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that thou that killest the prophetsMatt 23:27 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness. Luke 13:34 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee; how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings, and ye would not! and stonest them prophets how oft would I have gathered thee under my wings as hen doth her gathereth her chickens and but but ye would not.

Behold your house is left unto you desolateMatt 23:28 Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. Luke 13:35 Behold, your house is left unto you desolate: and verily I say unto you, Ye shall not see me, until the time come when ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord. for in other words — the sSpirit that healeth hath fled.— In But in the words of the prophet, Well might the prophet say— for Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof, go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burnethIsa 62:1 For Zion’s sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth. . When I remember thee O! Zion with healing in thy wingsMal 4:2 ¶But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall. ; th [?] Unclear or illegible y w [?] Unclear or illegible alls were salvation and thy gates praiseIsa 60:18 Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy gates Praise. We aught Corrected: ought to have a new lexicon and a new life with for the new tongueMark 16:17 And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; , we aught Corrected: ought to set our light upon a hillMatt 5:14 Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. [*]Archival Note: The following text was added to the document by the author, disrupting the surrounding thought. No 11 [*]Archival Note: End floating text. that others seeing our good worksMatt 5:16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven. may be be led to Christ Truth drawn to the fount of all healing.

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And lo the star which they saw in the east went before them till it came and stood over where the young child wasMatt 2:9 When they had heard the king, they departed; and, lo, the star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was. The star that was watched by the wise men depicted by the sages of the orient, symbolized ScienceEditorial Note: Christian Science; it went before them till it stood over where the young child was — Those watching, willing, willing those working waiting, watching sages evidently they were guided by divine Science to a higher and more spiritual knew whence came the more the birth of a new and higher a spiritual christianity till christianity and until that christianity it gave birth to its a its more spiritual idea of creation; and when and unto them a child was born that was was of their faithfulness and Love [?] Unclear or illegible  the of Love begotten of the through the womanhood of God Spirit, and and wholly apart from all material law, or conditions contributing thereto. The cChaldeans proverbial faith in the stars proverbial was proverbial, and prophetic those clothed those they saw in those guardians of the night were with a beauty and a mystery [?] Unclear or illegible  propehetic of fate, prop [?] Unclear or illegible hetic of destiny they chaldean sage saw to them the fate of men and empires in a star, andno to their the highest revelation hung out upon empyrean [?] Unclear or illegible  the heavens in the orient They said in the orient— said where the rain hath a father, who hath begotten the drops of the dewJob 38:28 Hath the rain a father? or who hath begotten the drops of dew? . Unlike the orient the At the oxidentCorrected:occident unlike the precepetatesCorrected:precipitates fate and destiny but we may symbolize destiny and not a devines Corrected: divines it not but do not divine it by a star. We here speak of the star of destiny but and we [?] Unclear or illegible  liken it [?] Unclear or illegible to a guiding light, and not and we likening fame fortune and or power to a star, only but only asas to us the a [?] Unclear or illegible  scintillati [?] Unclear or illegible on in the sky of fortune destiny of destiny But Today the sky it is a beauty and a mystery nNot so was with the chaldean astrologer to whoom But today tThe face of the sky heavens was a written page, to the replete with hoary intelligence, blushes yet at blushes todaytoday at the dawn for Tthe star that once then rose in the heavens east, would and that knelt kneels would kneels today at upon has gone down before the shrine of the sun, our and calls matter was the as of the so-called to earth the as the matter as the gGod of our our the day and that star was the more befitting synmbol of ScienceEditorial Note: Christian Science because science rests upon the which that reveals of God is the Principle very [?] Unclear or illegible  altar of Deity. The sun – the sun symbol governing its the system of worlds symbolizes the government of God, and it was Science that rescued this sun from the definitions of superstition, and enthroned it in the stellar universe; then here was there was the birth of a new idea, and Galeile [?] Unclear or illegible o was its victim. and Science traversed night, it waded through gloom, till it came and stood over where the young child was. where the new idea had birth that afterwards was no placed astr took astronomy out of the hands of superstition. Again Almost Over [?] Unclear or illegible  nineteen centures Corrected: centuries ago — Science, symbolized by a star, waded [*]Archival Note: The following text was added to the document by the author, disrupting the surrounding thought. No 12 [*]Archival Note: End floating text. appeared to Zions watchman in the night of that age, a period darkened by the reign of the debauched Herrod, and it guided them to the birth of a new higher aAs Written:a more spiritual idea, even to the virgin mothers spiritual thought, and true conception of our of man's real being, which thought and conception that wonderful Mother made palpable[*]Archival Note: A metamark that looks like an X appears at this point in the manuscript., and[*]Archival Note: A metamark that looks like an X appears at this point in the manuscript. and to their belief it [?] Unclear or illegible  became flesh and dwelt among usJohn 1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. [*]Archival Note: A metamark that looks like an X appears at this point in the manuscript. presented it to others [*]Archival Note: A metamark that looks like an X appears at this point in the manuscript. in the form of a babe, [*]Archival Note: A metamark that looks like an X appears at this point in the manuscript. at first — and according to their belief her her mental conception and they called her spiritual conception of man brought forth a material man and was but a matter, flesh and bones miraculous conception (and but it was neitherot) and andAs Written:and they called they named it the babe Jesus; but tThe prophetEditorial Note: Isaiah however gave this idea of Mary's a more appropiate Corrected: appropriate term — he called it, wWonderful, a Counsellor, the Prince of PeaceIsa 9:6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. That spiritual idea of God, to by mans material thought changed to a belief of lLife sSubstance and Intelligence in matter, but it was not changed from its spiritual basis to Mary or to her son and it and was this right understanding of creation by which only as that son he afterwards changed the water into wineJohn 2:1 And the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and the mother of Jesus was there: John 2:2 And both Jesus was called, and his disciples, to the marriage. John 2:3 And when they wanted wine, the mother of Jesus saith unto him, They have no wine. John 2:4 Jesus saith unto her, Woman, what have I to do with thee? mine hour is not yet come. John 2:5 His mother saith unto the servants, Whatsoever he saith unto you, do it. John 2:6 And there were set there six waterpots of stone, after the manner of the purifying of the Jews, containing two or three firkins apiece. John 2:7 Jesus saith unto them, Fill the waterpots with water. And they filled them up to the brim. John 2:8 And he saith unto them, Draw out now, and bear unto the governor of the feast. And they bare it. John 2:9 When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine, and knew not whence it was: (but the servants which drew the water knew;) the governor of the feast called the bridegroom, John 2:10 And saith unto him, Every man at the beginning doth set forth good wine; and when men have well drunk, then that which is worse: but thou hast kept the good wine until now. John 2:11 This beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana of Galilee, and manifested forth his glory; and his disciples believed on him. by a purely mental process and either through a change of belief or the or understanding that by which form is evolved from by and from Spirit and instead of not matter and that we for we can gain no likeness of the Father of eternal Spirit, from a material basis. Marys conception was the counterpart of a God's creation, of a Scientific Metaphysical creation, without a single material element, whereby to create — as when Spirit first said– let there be light and there was lightGen 1:3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. "and let uUs make manGen 1:26 ¶And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. " This great Metaphysical fact by which we learn that mind evolves all outline form and color, that the universe and man are created Spiritually, and exist spiritually instead of materially; by which we learn that Life Substance or Soul is not in matter, but Spirit has come down the track of centuries to our time, and again the shepherds shout, for unto us a child is born, a new idea has been given birth, and his name is called wonderful, and we have seen the star in the east, the ScienceEditorial Note: Christian Science that guided us to this idea, and have come to worship its Principle which is for this is Principle is God, the everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace Why cChristian Science is the star of christian destiny is because it reveals this true idea of God, in the supremacy of Spirit, the one God, and the proper dependence of man on God as his only Substance Life and Intelligence even as the idea is dependant on a dependence such as the idea hath upon its Principle for all those original elements. This great Truth in Metaphysics robs not man of his individuality rather does it makes him it eternal in the power that Science confers, namely, that of demonstration for we all admit mind is Immortal and if it can evolve its own idea and see it as a flower a tree or a man, theat thing is as immortal as the thought that beget ait and as perfect as thought would have it On this Scientific Principle, Jesus, prophet and apostle healed the sick and cast out error. Jesu's Corrected: Jesus's demonstration was above theirs for he understood the its Principle from his birth. This guiding star of scienceEditorial Note: Christian Science hath led on the ages, and will lead on to our final Spiritual ultimate where all tears are wiped awayRev 21:4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. and no night is thereRev 22:5 And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever. to demand a star. The creative, or causal, power, supposed to be hidden in the blind forces of matter, we learn by in Christian Science adhere only in Spirit. tThis great Truth of Being dispised Corrected: despised and rejected of mortal manIsa 53:3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. , material thought, [*]Archival Note: The following text was added to the document by the author, disrupting the surrounding thought. (2nd) No–12 [*]Archival Note: End floating text. in all ages came to the waiting wise men of old, as it comes to the waiting heart to dayCorrected:today, a Prince of peace, healing the sick casting out error, raising the dead, (that is resurrecting our understanding of Life from the basis of matter to the basis of Spirit) and of the increase of hHis government there shall be no endIsa 9:7 Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this. . When unto us this child is born; again the age lays it again in a manger, binds it in swadling Corrected: swaddling clothes nurses it in obscurity and decrees its death is decreed and yet [*]Archival Note: The following text was added to the document by the author, disrupting the surrounding thought. No 13 [*]Archival Note: End floating text. we behold now as of old the power of Truth in meekness as in might. [*]Archival Note: A metamark that looks like an X appears at this point in the manuscript. I said, we aught Corrected: ought to have a new lexicon as well as newness of LifeRom 6:4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. in Christ Jesus, and I will add here are a few definitions I would place upon its pages.

God is Omnipotent, therefore there is now Corrected: no power or Intelligence besides hHim. sSin, sickness and death are impotent because God is Omnipotent.— dDrugs are anti christianCorrected:anti-christian, being employed instead of God to heal the sick; matter emp used in the place of Spirit is anti-Science. Drugs temporaryly Drugs rel [?] Unclear or illegible ieve a difficulty for the time being by permanently fastening on the patient mind and body the conditions that call for the drug Allopathy teaches, that disease is properly cured by producing another and a greater difficulty. Homeopathy teaches the part is greater than the whole. Christian Science casting out error and healing the sick teaches that all things are possible with to gGod it comes to us in a new idea and in another tongueMark 16:17 And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; Mark 16:18 They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover. and Do you beliefve a new this? and how can you doubt it if you believe the Bible? [?] Unclear or illegible  Like the star of night thise gentle presence of Truth comes to us in the darkness, when earth hath half starved our angel appetites and we are anhungered; and it comes to cheer, to guide and to bless – to point to heaven and lead the way

Schristian Corrected: Christian Scientists, Brethren in Christ on this aniversary Corrected: anniversary of the nativity of our Master, may we question thee? Has the light of the DevineCorrected:Divine science Truth science pressence gone before you the as as a star in the heavens of being of Soul that that till it till it came and stood over where [?] Unclear or illegible  the young child was, and when it steady ray shows illuminating beamed on your path shining as a steady ray [?] Unclear or illegible  [?] Unclear or illegible  to break and was it not an affuence of Truth and Love [?] Unclear or illegible  the to change your night of [?] Unclear or illegible  earth wh [?] Unclear or illegible  born and [?] Unclear or illegible  to break to brake the solenn Corrected: solemn night that made you happier day by day, was it has its was it a a divine hope, springing exultant on triumphant wings, establishing its sovereignty o'er sin ore the sickness the victor over [?] Unclear or illegible  sickness and the sheep [?] Unclear or illegible  all the vicisitudes of mortal existence, yielding [?] Unclear or illegible  glad earth time brought you whose fruition yields the As a sublime faith understanding whose upward tendency told us you it was a child of heaven born of Spirit and not of the flesh but of the Spirit clothed awith white wingedCorrected:white-winged charity spreading her pinions soft wings over all the earth, with her one a hand on the door of heaven and face radiant with good byeCorrected:goodbye (God be with you)