Then. there is the extreme left wing—the school which will tolerate no half measures. Why camouflage the business at all! Not merely Religion, but the Creator Himself must go; His service is the very opium of the people. Tear down the churches. Away with: these religious laws which only stifle man's legitimate aspirations. Thou shalt not kill Thou.shalt not steal. Thou shalt not bear false witness. Thou shalt not commit adultery. Honour thy father and thy mother" Away with these shackles. Let the people be free. Religion for none. Liberty for all. And so on.
No; not liberty, but license. And poor little man—that he would dare to measure his intellect against the mind of the Almighty! What an awakening when he finds out too late the eternal truth that God does not fail. Nor does the Church to which He has delegated His own infallible authority.
God is Our Father But Religion is more than all this. More than a mere service of duty. it is the creation-wide family union which we know as the communion of saints, in which God is our Father and we are His heirs—heirs of heaven and joint-heirs with Christ, cur. Brother. And that, too, is the foundation truth, not only of religion but all civilization—that God is our Father and that we owe Him, not alone the worship which the creature owes to its creator, not alone the allegiance which the subject owes to his king, nor the service which the servant owes to-his master, but the filial affection which the child owes to the best of fathers.
These last few. years we have been hearing a good deal about the brotherhood. of men. "My religion," the champion of man's ights will tell you, "is the service of humanity" It Lesson Sermon First Church of Christ, Scientist.
Doctrine of Atonement is the subject of the Lesson Sermon read in àll Churches of Christ, Scientist, throughout the world on October 16. Golden Text: 1 Thessalonians 5:9,10. "God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, who died íor us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him."
Among the citations which comprise the Lesson Sermon is the fol-sowing from the Bible: "How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!" (Isa, 52.7)
The Lesson Sermon also includes the following passage from the Christian Science textbook: "Stience and Health with Key to the Scriptures," by Mary Baker Eddy:
"Our Master taught no mere theory, doctrine, or belief, It was the divine principle of all real being which he taught and practised."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.