Extract From A Sermon Delivered In Boston, January 18, 1885
TEXT: _The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman_ _took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened._--MATT. xiii. 33.
Few people at present know aught of the Science of mental healing; and so many are obtruding upon the public attention their ignorance or false knowledge in the name of Science, that it behooves all clad in the shin- ing mail to keep bright their invincible armor; to keep [30]
their demonstrations modest, and their claims and lives [1] steadfast in Truth.
Dispensing the Word charitably, but separating the tares from the wheat, let us declare the positive and the negative of metaphysical Science; what it is, and [5] what it is not. Intrepid, self-oblivious Protestants in a higher sense than ever before, let us meet and defeat the claims of sense and sin, regardless of the bans or clans pouring in their fire upon us; and white-winged charity, brooding over all, shall cover with her feathers [10] the veriest sinner.
Divine and unerring Mind measures man, until the three measures be accomplished, and he arrives at fulness of stature; for "the Lord God omnipotent reigneth." [15]
Science is divine: it is neither of human origin nor of human direction. That which is termed "natural science," the evidences whereof are taken in by the five personal senses, presents but a finite, feeble sense of the infinite law of God; which law is written on the heart, received [20] through the affections, spiritually understood, and dem- onstrated in our lives.
This law of God is the Science of mental healing, spiritually discerned, understood, and obeyed.
Mental Science, and the five personal senses, are at [25] war; and peace can only be declared on the side of im- mutable right,--the health, holiness, and immortality of man. To gain this scientific result, the first and funda- mental rule of Science must be understood and adhered to; namely, the oft-repeated declaration in Scripture [30] that God is good; hence, good is omnipotent and omnipresent.
Ancient and modern philosophy, human reason, or [1] man's theorems, misstate mental Science, its Principle and practice. The most enlightened sense herein sees nothing but a law of matter.