{"1": {"fulltext": "I i I\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2y.i\\niisll:.;.:.", "height": "4136", "width": "2524", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.\\nChap......... Copyright No\\nShelf.\\nUNITED STATES OF AMERICA.", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "^P iHm a* C* asaiittnep*\\nFAITH GARTNEYS GIRLHOOD.\\nHITHERTO A Story of Yesterdays.\\nPATIENCE STRONG S OUTINGS.\\nTHE GAYWORTHYS.\\nA SUMMER IN LESLIE GOLDTHWAITE S LIFE.\\nWE GIRLS: A Home Story. Illustrated.\\nREAL FOLKS.\\nTHE OTHER GIRLS.\\nSIGHTS AND INSIGHTS. 2 vols.\\nODD, OR EVEN?\\nBONNYBOROUGH.\\nBOYS AT CHEQU ASSET. Illustrated.\\nMOTHER GOOSE FOR GROWN FOLKS. Illustrated\\nby HoppiN.\\nHOMESPUN YARNS. Short Stories.\\nASCUTNEY STREET. A Neighborhood Story.\\nGOLDEN GOSSIP. Neighborhood Story Number Two.\\nThe above Novels and Stories, each i6mo, ^1.25; the set,\\n17 vols, $2X.25.\\nSQUARE PEGS. A Novel. i2mo, $1.50.\\nFRIENDLY LETTERS TO GIRL FRIENDS. i6mo, $1.25.\\nTHE OPEN MYSTERY. A Reading of the Mosaic Story.\\ni6mo, ^1.25.\\nTHE INTEGRITY OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. i6mo,\\n^i.oo.\\nJUST HOW: A Key to the Cook- Books. i6mo, ^i.oo.\\nDAFFODILS. Poems. Illustrated. i6mo, $1.25.\\nPANSIES. Poems. i6mo, $1.25.\\nHOLY-TIDES. Seven Songs for the Church s Seasons.\\ni6mo, illuminated paper, 75 cents.\\nBIRD-TALK. Poems. Illustrated. Crown 8vo, $1.00.\\nWHITE MEMORIES. i6mo, ^i.oo.\\nHOUGHTON, MIFFLIN CO.\\nBoston and New York", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "THE INTEGRITY\\nOF CHRISTIAN\\nSCIENCE\\nt^\\n\\\\.f\\nBy Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney\\nBOSTON AND NEW YORK\\nHOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY\\n1900", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "TWO COPIES rit:.ob:iV\u00c2\u00a30,\\nLibrary of Congrats\\nGffle\u00c2\u00ae of til\u00c2\u00ae\\nMAY 1 2 1900\\nSGgistor of CopyrlgbH\\nSECOND COPY, WS^\\nCOPYRIGHT, 1900, BY ADELINE D. T. WHITNEY\\nALL RIGHTS RESERVED\\n58725", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "CONTENTS\\nI\\nPAGE\\nT^he Round World and They that\\nDwell T^herein i\\nII\\nOur Reasonable Service^^ .26\\nIII\\nThe Strength that Strengtheneth 54\\nIV\\nRest 70\\nV\\nThe Scripture Key 84", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "In the following consideration of a sub-\\nject in which much that is sure is involved\\nwith much that is certainly open to seri-\\nous question^ it is very likely that some of\\nthe reasonings may he met^ by those of the\\nspecial faith discussed^ with^ Why^ that\\nis Christian Science I\\nis precisely in the hope that a reality\\nof Christian Science may appear which\\nshall be sufficient of itself to repudiate any\\ndangerous admixture of error that the\\nstudy has been attempted.\\nIf there is repetition in the argument\\nit is the inevitable recurrence of the key-\\nnote^ which rules and insists in every\\nharmony.", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "1\\nTHE INTEGRITY\\nOF\\nCHRISTIAN SCIENCE\\nI\\nThe Round World and They\\nthat Dwell Therein\\nj^HE two halves of the map\\nof the world were very-\\npuzzling to me when I\\nwas a child. I could not\\nby any mental stereoscopy resolve\\nthem into a globe.\\nIt seems to me that is the way many\\npersons look at life, and the truth of", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "2\\nliving. They flatten it out on to a\\nplane, and make two level, separate\\nrounds of it, instead of the beautiful\\nunity of a sphere.\\nEastern and Western they call the\\ntwo halves of the earth. Spiritual and\\nMaterial they call the two halves of\\nour existence. Out of this separate-\\nness grows all mistake of distance,\\nnon-relation, opposition.\\nIt used to seem to me that by this\\nsplit map there was only one jumping-\\nover place from round to round; at\\nthe equator, twenty degrees of longi-\\ntude west from Greenwich. Every-\\nwhere else it was a jumping-ofF. It is\\napt to seem to us that there is only\\none jumping-over place from life to", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "3\\nlife. As far as the East is from the\\nWest, is our apprehension of the\\nstates of our being. They are the\\nNatural and the Spiritual. We live a\\nwhile in the one then, by a narrow\\npoint of contact we pass over into the\\nother. There is no intercourse; no\\ngoing back and forth. Practically, we\\nignore even coexistence identity we\\ndo not dream of And yet there is\\nno particle of the earth, no instant nor\\nfact of our consciousness, that has not\\nboth east and west, both higher and\\nlower, both inner and outer, involved\\nwith it, and inextricably joined in it\\nto one. The margins meet all round.\\nWe live upon a globe we dwell also\\nin a round world, of sense and soul.", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "4\\nI think that the great need and\\nthe great failure in all knowledge,\\nat this day, is to put the two halves\\nof it together, and see it in the grand\\nrelief of its wholeness. Partial know-\\nledges range themselves in antago-\\nnisms, where there has no business to\\nbe antagonism at all. Science is shy\\nof religion, and religion rebels at sci-\\nence. Christian Science^ in its breadth\\nand depth and height, is the simple\\nunison of God s word in the outside\\ncreation and in humanity. The nat-\\nural and the spiritual are declared one\\nin Christ. He is the Revelation, the\\nReconciliation. His is the Gospel\\nwhose annunciation has broken down\\nthe wall of partition between sense", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "5\\nand that which informs and uses sense,\\nand given us the password into all\\nfreedom and fullness.\\nSomething has taken the name of\\nChristian Science at this day which\\nfails of this breadth and depth and\\nheight, and falls into the old error of\\nseparation. So far as it is true, it has\\nhold of a mighty truth, built into the\\nfoundations of the world, and declared\\nwith power nineteen centuries ago. In\\nthe strength of this, however warped\\nand misapplied, it is gathering crowds,\\nbuilding splendid temples, and appar-\\nently sweeping on to a wonderful tri-\\numph. It has hold of humanity by\\nhumanity s most immediate need. It\\ndraws toward the old dear faith by a", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "6\\nnew claim and pretension. By an\\napparent tangible sign while cu-\\nriously denying the tangible it ap-\\npeals to the earnest want of those who\\nwait a sign. It offers bodily healing\\nand they who suffer, or dread to suf-\\nfer, in the body, rush to it with an\\neager hope, not recognizing that its\\nonly sure truth is the revelation that\\nhas been always in the world; that\\nhas been told and taught them, over\\nand over, while yet they have received\\nit not.\\nThe error of the new Christian\\nScience is fundamental. It lies at\\nthe starting-point. It bases itself on\\nthe old fallacy of two half spheres, set\\nthe one over against the other; the", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "7\\none bidden to ignore the other; in-\\ndeed, the other totally and inconsist-\\nently denied. Here come in false\\ndoctrine, charlatanism, and the be-\\nguilement of the simple.\\nGod is all. That is true.\\nMatter is nothing. That cannot\\nbe true. If it is, then God s creation\\nis a stupendous trick.\\nThere is no such thing as no-thing.\\nIf there be a possible vacancy, a\\ngap between things which God has\\nnot occupied, He has not shown it\\nto us, and He never could. We have\\nnot got there, and we never can.\\nThe material universe is God s\\nshowing of Himself; the garment\\nwe see Him by. It is His Spirit in", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "8\\naction, in evidence. We who are of\\nHis Spirit are so made and quickened\\nof Himself, that we may know His\\nName, which He writes before us in\\nthings. The message, the touch of\\nthe Divine, is in that to which the\\nDivine has so bounded itself by form\\nand limitation, that the Infinite may\\nbe leamed within the lines of the cir-\\ncumscribed.\\nAs God is real, his work is real. It\\nis his Saying, and his Saying is the\\ntruth. He is verity to the last sylla-\\nble of his creation. He keeps his\\nword. We know it, and dare to live\\nin that knowledge. He changes\\nnot; therefore the sons of Jacob are\\nnot consumed,", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "9\\nHe does not show us false signs;\\nneither does He leave us to create il-\\nlusions for ourselves. He does not\\ncurse us with the strange power of\\nembodying insanities in a world of\\nmiserable mirage that shall be as real-\\nity to us, and displace reality, and in\\nwhich we shall be condemned to live.\\nHe is Himself Maker and Ordainer\\nHe has not given his prerogative\\naway. The Lord reigneth let the\\nearth rejoice.\\nMind is one, including nou-\\nmena and phenomena, God and His\\nthoughts. We find this axiom on\\nthe eighth page of the text-book\\nScience and Health. And further\\non, this definition of Idea An", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "lo 3\\nimage in Mind; the immediate ob-\\nject of understanding, Divine re-\\nflection.\\nGod and His thoughts. The im-\\nage in itself which the Divine Mind\\nsees, the noumenon; the manifesta-\\ntion and conveyance of that thought\\nin the appearance, the phenom-\\nenon. What of all in creative Idea\\nand created substance does this ex-\\nclude What, rather, does it not as-\\nsert, of living Fact\\nGod is not a Dreamer. His thought\\nis purpose. His purpose is act. Every-\\nthing has his thought in it; is quick\\nwith Presence. Moses saw the bush\\nalight and alive with Deity. God\\ntakes form and dwells among us.", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "11 3\\nshowing us the invisible things\\nof Himself by the things that are\\nmade and by that in us which is\\nof Him, we understand. How then\\nshall we call his sign, and our percep-\\ntion of it, an illusion of the mortal\\nmind There is no mortal mind.\\nDoubtless there may be a low estate\\nof mind, which stops at the sense and\\ninterprets nothing of the spirit. We\\nmay see and feel as by sense only, or\\nby sense as in one relation and by\\nspirit as in another irreconcilable with\\nit. This is perversion, confusion, dis-\\ntress. It is as when our eyes fail to\\nfocus alike, and to throw their images\\ntogether. Mortal mind is mind\\nself- limited to earthly things and", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "12\\nearthly thoughts and earthly desires;\\nit gives itself to the love and service\\nof mammon, the thing buried in\\nthe earth and so can neither see nor\\nserve the God who lives and sets his\\ncommandment in all. Mortal mind\\nis not our human understanding, but\\nour human will. It is our having a\\nmind to live in the mortal. It is this\\nkind of mind that is to be done away.\\nIn the third degree, mortal mind\\ndisappears. True again if we read\\nfor mind not our intelligent per-\\nceptions, but our base applications.\\nIn the highest life, the highest con-\\nsciousness, all intelligent perception\\nresolves itself into that which unifies\\nwhich brings together the seen and the", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "13\\nunseen, and acknowledges God and\\nHis Idea God s idea and its ex-\\npression as selfsame and inclusive.\\nThe spiritual and natural eyes are\\nfocused alike they see one thing,\\nand that indivisible and perfect.\\nIf Christian Science had laid and\\nleft its emphasis here, if it stood\\nsimply and logically upon its own\\ndeclaration, Mind is one, including\\nnoumena and phenomena, God and\\nHis thoughts, it would provoke\\nno controversy, as it would set forth\\nno new discovery. It would need no\\nspecial temples, no supplementary\\napostleship it would clasp hands\\nwith all that is most deeply scientific,\\nmost devoutly Christian. But it re-", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "14\\nlapses, apparently, into its own repre-\\nhended condition below the third\\ndegree, and contradicts itself when it\\ngoes on to insist that because God is\\nAll, therefore matter is nothing be-\\nyond an image in mortal mind. It\\nmakes nonsense of God s Let there\\nbe it annihilates His splendid order\\nof the universe it nullifies the di-\\nvine hope in our prayer, Let thy will\\nbe done on earth as it is in heaven.\\nIt denies that there shall be the new\\nheavens and the new earth wherein\\nshall dwell righteousness, a divine\\nharmony replacing what now is dis-\\njoint and antagonism God s Idea in\\nhis creation and his humanity carried\\nout and maintained in perfect accord", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0030.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "15\\nand happy fitness, through humanity s\\nrecognition, acceptance, acquiescence,\\nin wholeness^ that is, holiness when\\nthere shall be upon the bells of the\\nhorses, HOLINESS UNTO THE\\nLORD; and the pots in the Lord s\\nhouse shall be like the bowls before\\nthe altar. It refuses the redemption\\nof the body, for which the whole\\ncreation travaileth, waiting for the\\nmanifestation. It renounces the glo-\\nrification that Christ foreshowed in\\nHis Transfiguration, and St. Paul\\ninterpreted, telling us that there shall\\nforevermore be a lody a form and\\nillustration of the real in the appearing,\\nthe essential in the actual; that there\\nshall be things heavenly as there have", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0031.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "i6 3\\nbeen things earthly. It blots away\\nthe wonder and the majesty of the\\nApocalypse; that sublime sign-pano-\\nrama of the things which it hath not\\nentered into the heart of man to con-\\nceive, but which are kept for the\\neternal vision.\\nWe cannot give all this up, though\\nwe should try. The human soul can-\\nnot conceive of itself stripped of visi-\\nble surroundings. The spirits round\\nabout the throne the living crea-\\ntures were full of eyes, before and\\nbehind. They saw that which had\\nbeen, which was already, and which\\nwas to be. They saw without and\\nwithin. They were/^// of eyes. They\\nperceived the all of all.", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0032.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "17 3\\nAnd before the throne was a sea\\nof glass; an infinite mirroring of\\ntruth in images. And the sea of glass\\nwas mingled with fire the fire of\\nthe living Spirit in things manifested,\\nthe Fire that came down at Pente-\\ncost. And they that have gotten the\\nvictory over the beasts and his image,\\nand his mark, and the number of his\\nname, stand on the sea of glass, hav-\\ning the harps of God, the voices\\nof his ineflfable meanings.\\nThe beast, and the mark and the\\nimage of him, the number of his\\nname, which is the sense-limit, are\\nthe sense-perversions and the living in\\nthe letter of the mere outward fact.\\nMen are tried and proven in actual-", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0033.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "i8\\nities, not in shadows the saving prin-\\nciple the escape from sin and evil\\nis not in denying the facts, but in\\npure use and faithful enduring. We\\ngo wrong by either over-value or\\nrefusal.\\nMatter is not life but it is an issue\\nand vehicle of lifco Separate from\\nlife hence from reality it could\\nnot be. Neither can life itself be,\\nwithout ex-istence, a going forth\\ninto demonstration. Life is the es-\\nsence of all substance substance is\\nthe necessity of all life.\\nWhat we call material life is life in\\nits material relation. Earth teems with\\nit in the potential essential life urges\\nincessantly to the taking of its own in", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0034.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "19\\nthis potential, and so clothing itself\\nwith form and act. A seed sown in\\nthe earth is alive to that which the\\nearth, in continual relation of respon-\\nsive vitality, holds ready for it. The\\nhigher commands, appropriates, as-\\nsumes from the lower. It roots down-\\nward, it branches upward it reveals\\nitself a plant, a tree. And within all\\nthis secondary nature and evolution is\\nthe impulse of the Life Supreme which\\nmeans a plant, a tree which forms its\\nown divine thought into an expres-\\nsion which makes a speech and lan-\\nguage in the natural whereinto that\\nwhich is above the natural may be\\ntranslated.\\nThe tree, the flower, lives at", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0035.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "20\\nonce as matter and spirit it is a thing\\nof earth, showing forth a thing of hea-\\nven. Just so, God wills, and gives\\nout of Himself a human soul His\\nown thinking, loving child. He\\nbreathes into this soul the breath of\\nan eternal life but He giveth it a\\nbody as it hath pleased Him; formed,\\nas it is phrased in the Genesis, out\\nof the dust of the earth out of, and\\nso far identical with, this same sub-\\nstance-matter which in itself could be\\nnothing, but by Divine communica-\\ntion is the revealing of all.\\nFor his abiding, for his work, in a\\nworld so created of form and essence,\\ncreated himself in the same beauti-\\nful relation of being and showing,", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0036.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "21\\nman depends upon, is inseparable\\nfrom, his material condition. He does\\nnot have to live in spite of the mate-\\nrial, at war with it, but by its use and\\nservice. Sun and air, plant for food,\\nand healing herb, minister to him out-\\nwardly of energy, sustenance, restor-\\ning. God comes to him this way for his\\nbody inwardly, directly. He feeds his\\nspirit from Himself And yet the two\\nways, the two lives, are not two, but\\none. In all is the selfsame Spirit,\\nministering as He will. By both,\\nby the Unity of the Life, man is a\\nwhole; a spirit in manifestation,\\nmade ready, both in body and in\\nsoul, to cheerfully accomplish that\\nwhich God commandeth.", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0037.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "22\\nIt is the Marriage of the King s\\nSon.\\nBe reverent of things in them is\\nthe condescension of the Infinite.\\nLift up your heads, O ye gates\\nand be ye Hfted up, ye everlasting\\ndoors. Hold yourselves high, throw\\nyourselves wide, ye entrance-ways of\\nthe Spirit and let the spirit of man\\nwait, meek and glad, in your porches,\\nwhile the King of Glory shall come\\nin.\\nDoubtless the Power of God can\\ndo without intermediates. Doubtless,\\nso far as we can follow cause and\\neffect, He has sometimes so acted, that\\nwe may know and believe that the\\nPower is in Him, and not in the in-", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0038.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "23\\ntermediates without Him. We who\\nbelieve in the whole beautiful unity\\nof the story of Jesus Christ, believe\\nthat the Son of God, knowing\\nall things that the Father doeth,\\nworked thus in what we call miracle\\nthe direct, accelerated operation of\\nthe great causing Force, the Word,\\nwhich, uttered slowly that we may\\nspell its syllables, makes the world\\nalive, and all life a miracle. We be-\\nlieve He did these things that we\\nmight feel the signal truth of this\\nlife, and enter into it through con-\\nsciousness of God in all things, from\\ninstant to instant, from pulse to pulse\\nof our being. For this life He or-\\ndained, and by this new outgiving", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0039.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "M\\nHe poured forth, the spiritual baptism\\ninto the Name the everlasting\\ndeclaring and recognition of the\\nFather, and the Son, and the Holy-\\nGhost. In sign of this He gave the\\nbread and wine, that we might learn\\nto receive, even in all our mortal sus-\\ntenance, the inward nourishing that it\\nall means.\\nGod divides Himself in the mate-\\nrial. He is broken for us, into mor-\\nsels that we can receive Him by. He\\npours Himself into the little limit that\\nis our cup of life, that we may drink\\nfrom it of the fullness of His own\\nmeasureless life. Shall we refuse the\\nbread, saying it is naught Shall we\\nthrust aside the cup, and let the wine", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0040.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "25\\nbe spilled, because we will not take it\\nin the dear, small definiteness He has\\nprepared for us For such rejection\\nthere is only that other word, Not\\none of those which were bidden shall\\ntaste of my supper.", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0041.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "26\\nII\\nOur Reasonable Service\\nAVING reasoned and re-\\ncognized that spirit and\\nmatter together, by God s\\nordinance, make one con-\\nstituted world; that they are not an-\\ntagonistic, but correlative that matter\\nis alive with spirit, and spirit finds its\\nneedful use and expression in matter,\\nlet us see what is our reasonable\\npractical acceptance of these condi-\\ntions what is whole truth, and what\\none-sided error, in our understanding\\nand appliance of them.", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0042.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "27\\nIs it reasonable, is it whole^ as a\\nfaith and profession, to assert and de-\\nmand a life in the spirit which shall\\nscorn and deny that in which spirit,\\nfrom the beginning, clothes itself, and\\nwith which it exists in a virtual iden-\\ntity And has such life been proved\\npossible, or achieved, by those who\\npropound it as a religion The old\\nascetics came nearer to it. They\\ndenied the body utterly. They did\\nwithout the material until they severed\\nthemselves from the last link with it,\\nand went away, let us hope to a larger\\nfulfillment of themselves in some new\\ncreation. But this later asceticism, it\\nseems to us outsiders, clings to the\\nbody, mends it up, and offers such", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0043.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "28\\nrestoration and prolonging of bodily\\ncondition as central motive and great\\nultimate promise. We are to be in-\\ndependent of matter by controlling a\\ncertain perpetuity of matter. Are\\nthere not strange inconsistencies in the\\nnew system, between its visible pro-\\nceedings and the fundamental teach-\\ning that no thing is\\nDo its followers refuse, ignore, the\\npleasantness of the senses, as well as\\nthe pains thereof? Are sweet tastes,\\ndelicate odors, beautiful color and\\nform, lovely adaptations of the mate-\\nrial in furnishing and clothing, no\\nlonger of any slightest account with\\nthem? Do they no longer take joy\\nin blue skies, clouds, sunsets, mountain", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0044.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "29\\nglories, the flowers of the field, the\\ngreen richness of forests? Do they\\ncare nothing for bird-songs or brook-\\nmusic? Are all that these many-\\nnatural revealings inspire, the con-\\nsummate symphonies through which\\nsoul voices itself; the pictures, the\\nstatues, that reproduce the visible har-\\nmonies of things the very training\\ntoward perfection of human bodily\\nform, a blank indifference, a dis-\\ncarded interest, to them? We do\\nnot see it. We see them clothed,\\nadorned, living easily in more or less\\nof the luxury to which civilization has\\nattained. Nobody is robed in coarse\\nfrieze of hair nobody s meat is only\\nlocusts and wild honey. Things are", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0045.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "30\\naccepted as they are, for the greatest\\ngood and comfort that can be got of\\nthem. And yet no thing is any-\\nthing.\\nWhy do Christian Scientists\\ncarrying principles to last results\\neat, or sleep, or allow themselves\\nbodily re-creations, as we call renewals\\nof force by changes of air and scene,\\nwork and exercise Why is not the\\ninner force unfailing and adequate to\\neverything, regardless of instrument\\nor adjustment Why build houses\\nfor bodily shelter, since neither the\\nbodies are real, to want houses, nor\\nthe houses anything but images in the\\nmortal mind? Why go on living\\nin a phantasm Is not the way to", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0046.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "31\\naccomplish emancipation to emanci-\\npate?\\nTo such queries as these a scientist\\nhas rephed, We have not yet pro-\\ngressed so far as entirely to put off\\nthese things. We still wear over-\\ncoats we still eat, and live in houses\\nwarmed by fires. We shall get be-\\nyond these needs by and by.\\nOne here asks the further natural\\nquestion, If you have not got beyond\\nthe overcoat, and the bread and butter,\\nand the roof and fire, if you still ac-\\nknowledge cold and hunger, and use\\nmaterial defense and supply, how can\\nyou claim the advanced control over\\nextremest physical exigency of sick-\\nness and hurt, and an absolute inde-", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0047.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "32\\npendence of physical help and heal-\\ning? or, still further, the power to\\nextend this control over other bodily\\norganisms than your own? If you\\nhave not yet been able to run with\\nthe footmen, how do you undertake to\\ncontend with horses Are you not\\nmaking large drafts upon the future\\nStill again, apart from such bodily\\nnecessities, and in needless bondage\\nto the sensible, why decorate and em-\\nbellish clothing and shelter? Why\\nput life and strength into that which\\nhas not life, which is merest mockery\\nand waste\\nWhy, above all, build costly tem-\\nples, splendidly elaborate in material\\nsubstance, brick, stone, mortar, and", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0048.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "33\\nthe rest, in which to teach this re-\\nnunciation of the thralldom of things\\nWhy make false showings of nothing,\\nand pander to the delusions of mortal\\nbelief?\\nComing straight to the crucial point\\nof the whole practical question,\\nwhy, after all, heal? What is the\\nrestoring of the body, and of what\\naccount If there is no pain, there\\ncan be no well-being, no positive joy\\nor comfort of health. If disease is\\na figment, health is but a negation.\\nThere can be neither delight nor ser-\\nvice by sense. We are evidently\\nmade in a mistake, or a deception,\\nwhich it is our business to expose and\\nrectify. Are we content with such", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0049.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "34\\nconclusion Do we accept such re-\\nsponsibility One would think it\\nmight be here that angels would fear\\nto tread.\\nAnd why, O prophets and teachers\\nof a twentieth-century revelation, take\\nmoney for healing or instruction? Is\\nthere any lower sign in the material\\nthan money? It is not even as\\nmoney a things as the Lord has\\nmade things, and given them freely to\\nour use. It is the arbitrary wage and\\ntoken of work and claim in things, in\\nall this so-charged false and evil com-\\nmerce of the flesh. Earned by any\\nless than absolutely righteous equiva-\\nlent, in the extreme reasoning from\\nthe theory in question, by anything", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0050.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "35\\nthat touches or ministers solely to the\\nsensible, applied to anything less\\nthan purely righteous use (and what\\nbecomes of its use if the sensible be\\ndone away it is the very mark of\\nthe beast, and the number of his\\nname his certificate and sign-man-\\nual to our credit in account with him.\\nSo long as spiritual healing is a\\nmoney-making avocation, so long\\nas apostleship in the new teaching\\ntakes fee and reward, so long it defiles\\nand falsifies itself with that which\\nSimon Magus offered, and Paul re-\\njected, with Thy money perish with\\nthee and so long, on its own pre-\\nmising as to sense and spirit, must we\\ndistrust, refuse, condemn.", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0051.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "36 3\\nThe light from heaven comes with-\\nout taxation. There is a wisdom from\\nabove, which is easy to be intreated,\\nfull of mercy and good fruits, without\\npartiality, and without hypocrisy.\\nThere is another different wisdom,\\nwhich is from beneath. We cannot\\nhelp but judge between the two. By\\nmotive and by method we must try\\nthe spirits.\\nThese are inconsistencies in the\\ngeneral in the whole reasoning and\\napplication of the theory. There are\\nabsurdities and contradictions in de-\\ntail, which can hardly escape the most\\ncasual notice. We come upon them\\nat nearly every step, if we pause to\\nconsider all that is involved.", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0052.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "37\\nPersuasion, belief, habit\\nof thinking, to these, whatever they\\nin turn may be explained to mean,\\nare relegated the accounting for of\\nwhat we deem in our folly actual ex-\\nperience. To say nothing of how far\\nfull persuasion and actual experience\\nmay be practically identical and refer-\\nable to the same inevitable law of\\nhuman condition, how does the ar-\\ngument work, in every example If\\nonly habits of belief, kept up by tra-\\ndition, cause the seeming of disease\\nand pain, how is it with little infants,\\nwho have not come under any of these\\nfalse influences and persuasions If\\na pin prick a baby, the baby cries he\\nis quite as sure as Mrs. Gradgrind was", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0053.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "38\\nthat there is a pain somewhere in the\\nroom, though his reason may not be\\ndeveloped to name or place it. How\\nis this baby affected by any mental\\nbelief about pain Perhaps Chris-\\ntian Science would say it inherits an\\ninstinct, a dread would call it a result\\nof embryotic thought how then\\naccount for the baby s fearlessness of\\nall that it has not yet experienced\\nIt will placidly pick up a red-hot\\ncoal it will do this once, but not a\\nsecond time. It is only the actually\\nburnt child that dreads the fire.\\nSo far as the published teaching of\\nthe new school is susceptible of ra-\\ntional interpretation, there is a great\\ndeal upon which it is difficult to bring", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0054.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "39\\nthe average reason to bear, it seems\\nto be therein set forth that not only-\\nafter finding ourselves here in the flesh,\\nin a material world, does the inherited\\nperversion of beliefs beset us, per-\\nsuading us that flesh is subject to cer-\\ntain material conditions, the last of\\nwhich is its final rendering up of tem-\\nporary office, not only are we ill,\\nand do we die, because our fathers\\nmade the same mistakes and left us\\nwith the tradition that we must, but\\nbirths as well as death, is traditional\\nWe are bom because of an embry-\\notic belief No wonder this mor-\\ntal mind of ours is a hard thing to\\ndefine. It scarcely seems to stop\\nshort of preexistent cause. Truly, the", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0055.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "40\\nforce of persuasion could no fur-\\nther go than to persuade of this.\\nAnd as to persuasion in the gen-\\neral, we are here reminded to ask, if\\nby persuasion only we are subject to\\ncertain ills that seem, what is this\\nreliance upon a counter-persuasion to\\nwhich we are so vehemently admon-\\nished? Is it not somewKat sugges-\\ntive of Beelzebub casting out Beelze-\\nbub?\\nLeaving these baffling inconsist-\\nencies, however, and seeking the deep\\nconsistencies of truth, we come, inevi-\\ntably, to this\\nSouls and bodies, we must accept\\nourselves. Spirit and matter informed\\nby spirit, we must accept creation.", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0056.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "41\\nGod s will and God s means are one,\\nacting in one. We are bound to re-\\nceive Him in his own methods. If\\nHe puts his life-giving into the sun-\\nlight, it is no less his life. If He\\nputs his healing into the herb of the\\nfield, it is no less of Him in its na-\\nture, purpose, and action than was the\\nimmediate touch of his holy Christ.\\nThe scorning of power bestowed\\nthrough things given, and the intelli-\\ngence given to discern and use, is not\\nentire reliance on the Divine Will and\\nStrength. It is refusal of them in the\\nway offered. It is taking heaven by\\nviolence. It is usurping divine pre-\\nrogative. It is only half belief It\\nwill believe in miracle, but not in", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0057.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "42\\nthe washing in Jordan. It will ask\\nfor restored sight, but will repudiate\\nthe anointing of the blind eyes with\\nclay.\\nThe leper cries out to be made\\nclean, and the Christ cleanses his body\\nby a bodily touch. What did He do\\nthat for? Sometimes He healed by\\nhis word only, received in faith some-\\ntimes by a permitted grasp upon the\\nhem of his garment. Was it not to\\nteach us that all ways are his that the\\nhem of his garment sweeps out over\\nthe whole universe of things that by\\nall means we may lay hold of Him,\\nand draw forth from Him the willing\\nvirtue of his restoring?\\nThe lightning leaps from heaven to", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0058.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "43\\nearth no less by line and law than if\\nwe could trace its swiftness; and so\\ndoes miracle follow its quick, in-\\nvisible course from cause to effect by-\\nlinks ordained from the beginning;\\nno less nor more a miracle than when\\nthe process is shown to us step by\\nstep, that our slow, partial reasoning\\nmay follow it. When God chooses\\nthat we shall use his visible, tangible\\nmeans, and as to the visible and\\ntangible of us He does ordinarily\\nseem so to choose, when He safely\\nfolds away in leaf or root, or crystal-\\nlizes into some mineral substance, a\\nprinciple that so relates to our physi-\\ncal organism as to minister to its need\\nor soothe its suffering, is it any less", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0059.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "44\\nhis ordering than that food should\\nnourish us? Is it any less a com-\\nmunication of his own life to ours\\nHe was known of them in the\\nbreaking of bread The leaves of\\nthe tree of life are given for the heal-\\ning of the nations, what do these\\nwords mean, if not that God s way is\\nto give Himself to us mediately,\\nthrough even the outermost things,\\nthe very leaves, that are put forth\\nfrom life-power, that they may have\\ntransmission-power of life And is\\nit any less an act of prayer and faith\\nin us so to look for and receive his\\ngift, than in effect to cast it aside with\\ncontempt, saying, We care not for\\nthy sign; we do not believe in it;", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0060.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "45\\nspeak to us without a parable; give\\nus Thyself without veil or vehicle\\nWhich is faith, and which is blas-\\nphemy\\nAll things are yours, saith the\\napostle and ye are Christ s, and\\nChrist is God s. There is the chain,\\nthe living line; Christ came in the\\nflesh to join and prove the holy cir-\\ncuit. Of him, and through him,\\nand to him, are all things. There-\\nfore, St. Paul goes on, reaching the\\nintent and end of all, I beseech you,\\nby the mercies of God, that ye present\\nyour bodies a living sacrifice, holy,\\nacceptable unto God, which is your\\nreasonable service. Directly upon\\nwhich he adds the counter-admonition,", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0061.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "46\\nagainst a materialism that would dis-\\njoin itself from the essential life Be\\nnot conformed to this world, but be\\nye transformed by the renewing of\\nyour mind, that ye may prove what\\nis that good, and acceptable, and per-\\nwill of God.\\nBe not shaped to a mere earthly\\nideal. Put not your whole conscious-\\nness and desire into things; live not\\nfrom the wrong end of your being.\\nLet the higher flow through, and con-\\ntrol, and determine, the lower and\\nlesser. Be subject unto the higher\\npowers. powers are of God\\nLet spirit have its rule in all spirit,\\ncontinually reinforced, through obe-\\ndience, by the Divine. Then you", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0062.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "47\\nshall indeed be whole, and in your\\nwhole spirit, and soul, and body,\\nshall glorify God. To worship the\\nFather in spirit and in truth is to feel\\nHim in the spirit, and confess Him\\nin the manifestation.\\nSpirit stands first and inmost in the\\norder. Beyond doubt, to give spirit\\nits due dominion, to maintain its\\npower and precedence, is to plant\\nforce at its centre. To hold the soul\\nserene and high and quiet, trustful\\nand fearless, is to take attitude and\\nsupply condition most open and aux-\\niliary to all help and healing. It is\\nupon this principle that the new\\npractice rests, and through the opera-\\ntion of this potency that it gets its", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0063.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "48\\ntestimony. But it is no new ground\\nno first discovered potency. We\\nall know, and medical science fully\\nacknowledges, that there is a large\\nclass of disorders that no external\\ntreatment will reach; that can only\\nbe overcome by reinforcement of\\nmoral and mental strength. You\\ncan do yourself more good than I\\ncan do you, says the true doctor\\noften to his patient.\\nWonders happen, when there have\\nbeen faith and prayer, even without\\nexternal appliance we will not de-\\nspise nor dispute the fact. They hap-\\npen also with the kind of faith and\\nprayer that joins itself to an intelligent\\nuse of means. The physician says,", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0064.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "49\\nhonestly, at an extreme crisis, All\\nthat we know how to do has been\\ndone. The rest is with God. Chris-\\ntian Science calls this giving over\\nthe case; it steps in with assured\\nword, and claims the charge. God\\ndoes do the rest. But shall we say\\nHe has not been in the case from the\\nbeginning? How shall any contra-\\ndictory science appropriate the credit\\nof results, or say that there had been\\nno faith, no looking to a divine power,\\nin the doing of that other all? Spirit-\\nual and natural science should con-\\nfess each other, and join hands for\\nhumanity in the highest, most\\nbeneficent ministration they do so\\njoin.", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0065.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "so\\nSpiritual and physical order consent\\nmutually. This is the way we are\\nmade and put together. Only God\\ncan remake and put us together dif-\\nferently. Whether He ever will or\\nnot, it is not our business to say. Our\\nbusiness is to be as He has made us,\\nnot to tear ourselves in sunder. As\\nwe are, only unison is completeness.\\nIt is to this acceptation and end, this\\nobedience and harmony, this reason-\\nable service, that we are called and\\ncommanded. Our whole power, de-\\nlight and use, are to be our continual\\nliving sacrifice. And a living thing\\nis not a thing in any part destroyed\\nor crushed. We are to rejoice and\\ngive thanks in all, while we lift all", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0066.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "51\\nup as the offering is lifted up over the\\naltar.\\nThis is Christian Science. If, or so\\nfar as, that which has taken the dis-\\ntinctive name is the study and know-\\nledge of our human life in its entirety,\\nin the spiritual and the physical, in\\nour conjunction on the one hand to\\nour Creator and on the other to the\\nsystem of things He has created for us,\\nit is the one, same, glorious truth\\nthat we have had through Abraham,\\nMoses, and the Prophets through the\\nSon of God Himself; and it can-\\nnot be supplemented nor replaced\\nby any re-statement or readjustment,\\nnor further authenticated, though one\\nshould rise from the dead. So far as", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0067.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "52\\nit pretends to a new and special dis-\\ncovery, and a separate teaching, or\\nmakes a trade of truth and benefit, or\\ndivorces that which God hath joined\\ntogether in his universe, it is presump-\\ntuous and pernicious, an opening for\\nfraud and delusion.\\nBelieve not every spirit. Every\\nspirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ\\nis come in the fleshy that the Liv-\\ning Word is in the world, is of\\nGod. And every spirit that confess-\\neth not that Jesus Christ is come\\nin the flesh, is not of God. This is\\nthat spirit of antichrist.\\nWhat is this confession but that of\\nthe Infinite and Eternal Incarnation?\\nThe acknowledgment of the real-", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0068.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "53\\nity and sacredness of all things, as ta-\\nbernacles and instruments of that\\nwhose reality and sacredness cannot\\nbe searched or touched without a me-\\ndiation", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0069.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "54\\nIII\\nThe Strength that Strengtheneth\\n[CCEPTING the natural,\\nwe accept it as it is,\\nas we find ourselves in\\nit, with all its laws,\\nlimits, and possibilities. We do not\\nknow why all things are, but we re-\\ncognize that they are, and acquiesce.\\nIf peace is real and possible, its an-\\ntithesis, pain, is also real and possible.\\nThe one is to be obviated, or borne,\\nthat the other may be hoped for and\\nensue. We believe that each is a part\\nof our eternal training.", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0070.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "55\\nIt is true that matter, by itself, can\\nhave neither attribute of peace or\\npain. But matter is not by itself It\\ncannot be, it never is, apart from\\nspirit. We cannot so conceive of it.\\nThe relation of our conscious life\\nto a particular body of matter may\\nbe dissolved; the life may be lifted\\naway and set elsewhere. But it is\\nonly our life rather, our conscious-\\nness of life in such temporary con-\\njunction that is lifted away. This\\npower of removal is in the hands of\\nGod. Our times are his. That to\\nwhich we have been joined is then\\nonly dead to us, and as our represen-\\ntation in this body and form of life.\\nIt is not dead to God. It is his, still,", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0071.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "56\\nin its elements instinct with his will\\nand power, and used by Him, over\\nand over, in the economy of his live\\nworld.\\nIf we could detach any bit of our\\nmaterial body from its informing,\\nconscious spirit, then it would be dead\\nto us, and fall away. To put it more\\ntruly, if we could withdraw utterly\\nour conscious spirit, and all its even\\ninvoluntary action, from any point of\\nour bodily form, we should leave that\\npart of us as dead. By a merciful\\nappointment the life does so withdraw\\nitself from a crushed and useless part\\nthat can only be a suffering and a\\nthreatening to the whole, and the part\\nis mortified. What becomes, then,", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0072.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "57\\nof the doctrine that we can heal our-\\nselves, or be healed, by such ignoring\\nand refusal of the flesh as amounts, if\\nit amounts to anything, to such with-\\ndrawal? We take away the very\\npower of healing, the life-instinct\\nof recuperation. We can only conquer^\\nor he helped to conquer^ by enduring. By\\nbeing willing to live on, through the\\npain, and keep active that working\\nof spirit in bodily relation which we\\ncall bodily vitality, and which strives\\ntoward health and restoration. The\\nwise physician knows that though\\npain may be alleviated, it may not be\\ndeadened wholly and persistently, lest\\nthe life which is the consciousness of\\nit should desist from its repairing", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0073.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "58\\neffort. Some pain must be bome.\\nBorne in the strength of the spirit, it\\nis good for us. It is like the pain of\\nrepentance in the soul. It proves the\\nlife, and the possible redemption.\\nThe strength of the spirit is the\\nDivine com-fort. It is the Great\\nStrength with us. As one whom\\nhis mother comforteth, so will I com-\\nfort you.\\nCom-passion. Com-fort. Bearing\\nthe pain, sharing the strength,\\nwith us. That is what the mother\\ndoes, in a small, human way; it is\\nwhat the Lord does, with all his hea-\\nvenly might and love. It is the\\nChrist-Strength, in which we can do\\nall things. It was the strength of", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0074.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "59\\nthe Crucified, in which he did not\\ncome down from the cross, nor com-\\nmand to his bodily succor the twelve\\nlegions of angels. It was his triumph,\\nto the last utterance, It is fin-\\nished.\\nThe Supreme Sacrifice the di-\\nvine submission in the Divine\\nStrength, to the last possible extrem-\\nity of the human was the victory\\nfor us and with us over the evil. In\\nthis Sign we conquer.\\nIs the sign real, or a shadow?\\nHere arises the unanswerable ques-\\ntion. If pain and death are fabulous,\\nwhat did the Son of Man suffer?\\nWhat did He accept and share, as\\npart of his humanity A delusion", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0075.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "6o\\nOr did He delude the world by a\\npantomime of pain and death One\\nor the other conclusion, upon the\\ntheory that negatives the material, is\\ninevitable. And in either case, what\\nbecomes of our belief in this Son of\\nMan? What becomes of Christian\\nscience\\nChristian Science is indeed larger\\nthan any apparition of trouble. It\\nknows that the apparition of trouble\\nis not from the belief that pain exists,\\nbut from the idea that pain is evil.\\nEvil is the only apparition; the\\nthought that suffering and limitation\\nin the human are essentially bad is\\nthe only delusion. Security and de-\\nliverance are from something in the", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0076.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "6i\\nheart that gives certainty of good be-\\nhind the passing phase of contradic-\\ntion and distress. Let not your\\nheart be troubled, says the Saviour\\nto his own, in the face of earthly dan-\\nger and mortal dread.\\nIn anguish itself is promise of the\\nend. It will be over soon, comes\\nthe mother-whisper. And against the\\nfear, which is more terrible than pain,\\nwe are assured beforehand, Ye shall\\nnot be tried beyond that ye are able\\nto bear. I will make an escape for\\nyou.\\nWe need not be afraid for that\\nwhich is to come. We do not know\\nwhat God has for us, against our su-\\npreme need but we may be sure", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0077.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "62\\nthat it will be there, waiting. We\\ndo not know what the opened heaven\\nwill stretch out to us in our agony,\\nany more than we know what the\\nagony itself shall be until it arrives.\\nWe only remember and hold fast to\\nthe great word, When the enemy\\nshall come in like a flood, the Spirit\\nof the Lord shall lift up a standard\\nagainst him.\\nIn this faith there is better than in-\\nstantaneous healing or unconditional\\nrelease. We find ourselves elected\\npartakers of. the suffering of Christ,\\nthat we may be also of the consola-\\ntion. Always, in all these beautiful\\nwords, the conjoining syllable. We\\nare made commoners with the Lord.", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0078.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "63\\nWe are together with Him in the\\nanguish, that we may be also in the\\nglory. How far grander and sweeter\\nthis is, than the revival of the ancient\\nstoicism which had no gospel which\\nsaid, and repeats now defiantly, I\\nwill not suffer. I refuse hurt. I am\\nnot of the earthly at all. I have no-\\nthing to bear. This is resistance,\\ndenial, struggle the attitude at bay.\\nThe other is power and peace. It is\\nGod s Strength. We are willing to\\nhave this treasure in earthen vessels,\\nthat the excellency of the power may\\nbe in God, and not in us. We are\\nglad to bear the image of the earthly,\\nthat we may also bear the image of\\nthe heavenly.", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0079.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "64\\nEnd, motive, victory, all suprem-\\nacy of the spiritual, are in those\\nwords. To bear the image of the\\nheavenly. To have the heavenly\\nimage, the spiritual body, the\\ninner personality, so formed to\\npower and beauty as to be ready for\\nits resurrection its coming forth into\\nthe grand fulfillment of the life that is\\nto be. So to take all outward disci-\\npline and experience as to receive\\nmore and more of the divine inward\\nreinforcement. So to be healed\\nmade whole from the heart out-\\nward, as even bodily healing of wound\\nand hurt teaches us must be the way.\\nTo learn and get the real regeneration\\nthat we need.", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0080.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "65\\nThere is no bodily iM that has not\\nits correspondent in the spiritual or-\\nganism. These may not always, in\\nthe individual, literally coincide. We\\nhave not yet, perhaps, traced pain and\\ndisease to their remotest sources, and\\nwe may not always judge others or\\nourselves by direct inference. But we\\nknow this that the central need is\\nmore than the external, and that until\\nit shall be reached and supplied, outer\\ncondition cannot be redeemed from its\\nparticipated penalty, nor the world of\\nthings be reconciled to the best life\\nthat ought and might be in it. We\\nare to seek both kinds of renewal.\\nThere is a literal balm in Gilead, and\\nit was not made for naught. We may", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0081.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "66\\ngather and use it. There is balm of\\nspiritual grace also, to be had by the\\nlooking for. We must believe and\\nreceive both. They are to work to-\\ngether. Every creature of God is\\ngood, and nothing to be refused, if it\\nbe received with thanksgiving but\\nthere is a gift, a help, a strength, a\\nnourishing, that is profitable unto all\\nthings, having promise of the life that\\nnow is, and of that which is to come.\\nFor to this end we labor and strive,\\nbecause we have our hope set on the\\nliving God, who is the Saviour of all\\nmen.\\nThis is the true spiritual belief and\\ntreatment; and it needs no new sci-\\nence, nor proclamation, nor mystical", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0082.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "67\\nministry at second hand but only a\\ndirect, simple, individual acceptance\\nof all the Supreme Goodness, in all its\\nchosen ways of impartation, knowing\\nthat every one is part and complement\\nof every other.\\nWait upon the Lord. But wait\\nvigorously not passively, helplessly,\\nexpecting all and doing nothing.\\nWhatsoever He saith unto you, do\\nit. Whatever means He gives you,\\nuse them. Fill the waterpots with\\nwater, up to the brim. Do it in\\nfaith, though it may seem only water\\nand say not that the water is not wine,\\nand never can be. They that wait\\non the Lord, in his appointinent,\\nnot for Him in idle attendancy,", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0083.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "68\\nshall increase their strength. They\\nshall mount up on wings like eagles\\nthey shall run and not be weary, they\\nshall walk and not faint. For what\\nare eagles wings, and what are the\\nfeet of runners, but vehicle and instru-\\nment that God feeds with instant and\\ncontinuous power Why do we not\\nleam, in this our wonderful day, that\\nalthough the power is central there\\nmust still be the secondary motor and\\nthe trolley line\\nThe Christ-Secret the revelation\\nand the watchword of the knowledge\\nthat is Life was given long ago.\\nLay hold of My Strength.\\nNever lose touch with it. It is\\nall yours. It is behind your every", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0084.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "69\\ntrue effort, in every kind above all,\\nthrough all, in you all. It is made\\nperfect in your weakness. It shall\\ncarry you through. By it you shall\\nconquer and attain. By it you are\\nalready conquering and attaining,\\nwhile you endure and follow on,\\nin whatsoever I command you.", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0085.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "70\\nIV\\nRest\\nULL consent is absolute\\nrest.\\nNot hopeless capitula-\\ntion; but strong acqui-\\nescence and willing co-operation. A\\nunity with God s will and way, that\\nis the certainty of hope, that has\\nbecome faith. Consent is brave\\nsurrender is cowardly. Unwilling\\nwork is wearying work with a will\\nis inspiring. Consent is a power of\\nendurance that gives us the upper\\nhand; succumbing thrusts us under.", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0086.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "71\\nThe moment we cry out, It is too\\nmuch for me, the agony takes pos-\\nsession and has its way. Agreement\\nbears us on; resistance hinders, and\\nis its own pain. A woman when\\nshe is in travail, hath sorrow but\\nshe consents triumphantly with the\\nsorrow, in the joy that a man shall be\\nborn into the world. A woman s\\nsuffering is a woman s crown, not\\ncurse.\\nRest is not inertness; it is open-\\nness, readiness, assured confidence,\\nand expectation. We are most at\\nrest, often, in the midst of exertion.\\nLabor is repose, when it is surely in-\\ntelligent of its end.\\nThey shall rest in their beds, each", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0087.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "72\\none walking in his uprightness. This\\nis Isaiah s lovely paradox of utmost\\ntruth. It tells of the essential rest;\\nthe rest in sure, strong, unhindered\\ndoing, which remains for the people\\nof God.\\nIt is meant to begin here. We are\\nto learn it in these very relations of\\nsoul and body, spirit and substance,\\nwhich are inseparable in our nature\\nand in all nature, and are to be recon-\\nciled together in a final glorious har-\\nmony. The earthly was not made to\\nbe despised nor destroyed, but to be\\nwisely, reverently, obediently, gladly\\naccepted and lifted up. Any science,\\nany faith, that insists and presumes\\notherwise, is an attempt to dissolve", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0088.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "73\\nGod s own bond that has joined seen\\nwith unseen, sense with its signifying\\nto spirit, and holds all life in equili-\\nbrium. It is a continual, violent\\nstruggle and torture of disruption,\\nnever to be effected. It is a futile\\nlabor that will never attain to rest.\\nThe Seventh Day Rest of the Lord\\nwas his rest in the very things that He\\nhad made. He had built a house for\\nhis Spirit to dwell in, to fill inces-\\nsantly with his own Life and Light.\\nTo put his children into, that they\\nmight find it home might use, enjoy,\\ninherit it. His Rest was that of his\\ninfinite nature, of which we have a\\nreflection in our own little experience,", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0089.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "74\\nwhen we have accompUshed any\\nwork; when we have done, built,\\nsomething in which the spirit of our\\nlife finds expression and abiding the\\nsense of rest we have in home and be-\\nlonging, in plan, system, organization.\\nWe do not eliminate ourselves from\\nthese, and stand apart from them,\\nwhen they are completed. They are\\nonly complete to a beginning. We\\nmake them alive by continual action,\\nappropriation, application to service.\\nA family home is instinct with family\\nlife; with the motive and intent of\\nits formers. Its every furnishing has\\na family meaning. Nothing in it is\\ndisowned, unreal. It is full of use,\\nof duty, of relation.", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0090.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "75\\nGod has not left his house dead or\\ndesolate. It is his dwelling place\\nwith us. He has put nothing into it\\nto be denied, refused, despised, or de-\\nclared needless. In every sign is His\\nPresence. In every touch is his close\\ncoming, his benediction. The\\nstrength of the hills is His Strength.\\nThe Everlasting Arms are round us\\nbodily, as truly as in the spirit. The\\none cannot be was not meant to\\nbe without the other. We cannot\\nlay ourselves down to sleep but by his\\nholding up. All rest is in Him. He\\nhas provided force in substance,\\nagainst which we may lean secure;\\nwe shall not fall through into nothing-\\nness. If it were not so, if He did", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0091.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "76\\nnot make things sure and solid for us\\nwith his own faithfulness and might,\\nnever breaking the continuity of Will\\nby which He has fixed the round\\nearth so fast that it cannot be moved/\\nwe should have no bodily rest nor\\nhold. He has us always in the hol-\\nlow of his hand.\\nSo environed, so met in our help-\\nlessness and auxiliated in our en-\\ndeavor by all-pervading Power, shall\\nwe say of that which the Almighty\\ninterposes between our need as crea-\\ntures and his central Almightiness,\\nhis method and means for caring for\\nus, It is nothing it is our own\\nmiserable conceit; we can do with-\\nout it; we are to put it aside, for it is", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0092.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "77\\nunworthy of our own reality we are\\nto be God unto ourselves, without\\nany mediation\\nPhysical law the law of forces\\nin the material constrains, supports\\nus on every side. We do not think\\nof departure or escape from it. To\\nbe ignorant of it is to be in peril\\nat every step. We submit to its\\nrestrictions, its incident hurts and\\npenalties, that we may have its\\nbenefits. In the commonest affairs\\nof life, we acknowledge the practical\\nnecessity. Christian Scientists still\\nhave fires in their furnaces in the win-\\nter. They admit that they do not\\nattempt to keep themselves warm by\\nbelief I suppose a Christian Scien-", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0093.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "78\\ntist housewife still puts her bread\\nnot being yet so far advanced in her\\nfaith as to have found bread an un-\\nnecessary imagination into the oven\\nto bake. She would not expect the\\ndough to become bread by standing\\non the kitchen table.\\nWe have the laws of mechanics,\\nand men study and apply them. It\\nis a science, a profession. Is it an\\nun-christian science? We travel\\nbelievers and unbelievers over\\nbridges and rails, constructed and laid\\nin accordance with mechanical re-\\nquirement in material force and pro-\\nportion. We neither ignore nor neg-\\nlect these conditions. If a bridge be\\nbadly or ignorantly built, and injury", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0094.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "79\\nor loss of human life result, would\\nChristian Science prevent a demand\\nupon a railroad company for just in-\\ndemnity\\nWe have also the science of hy-\\ngiene and therapeutics. Men make\\na life-study of bodily conditions, their\\ncauses and remedies. They search\\nout all methods for promoting and\\nsustaining health, all relations of the\\nouter world to our natural life, all pre-\\nventions of harm and powers of heal-\\ning. They apply them with scrupu-\\nlous observation and comparison of\\neffect. They stand prepared with the\\nbest of human wisdom, counsel, and\\nrelief for us. And we depend we\\nrely on these knowledges and cer-", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0095.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "8o\\ntainties to which they have attained\\nin that which we cannot fully study\\nout for ourselves, as we depend on\\nthe intelligence that has mastered the\\nprinciples of physics to their applica-\\ntion in the most complicated and\\nmagnificent engineering.\\nUntil we repudiate all custom\\nfounded on mechanics, chemistry, and\\nmathematics, why should we cast\\naside physiology, with its threefold\\nresultant use and help, in hygiene,\\nmedicine, and surgery?\\nEvery worker the laborer, the\\nengineer, the physician works upon\\nthis sure basis of established fact, upon\\nwhich all our life in the sensible is\\npredicated; the reverent worker acts", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0096.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "8i\\nin the strength and faith of its divine-\\nness.\\nIn returning and rest shall ye be\\nsaved in quietness and confidence\\nshall be your strength. In a return-\\ning which is a referring of all things\\nand happenings to a spiritual origin,\\nmaintenance, and prevailing; in the\\nquietness and confidence resulting\\nfrom our conviction that we do live\\nin a divine order that nothing is un-\\nreal, disconnected, or out of place;\\nthat in every least concern, not com-\\nmanding our repudiation of anything\\nbut sin, our help cometh from Him\\nwho hath made heaven and earth.\\nWe return to the deep and simple\\nfaith in the relation of all our life to", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0097.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "82\\nGod. The nature of things is His\\nNature and way. We are not afraid\\nof it. We are not doubtful of it.\\nWe know that only our own mis-\\ntakes about it can do us harm and\\nthat even if we do mistake, there is\\nstill a rescue or retrieval reserved for\\nus in the infinite plan.\\nWe rest in the certainty that all is\\nprovided for. This is the beautiful\\nbelief which forestalls and precludes\\nall morbid persuasions. If we had\\nit vitally enough, we should fall into\\nthe waves or the fire, if summoned to\\ndo so, with as sure a trust and pro-\\nfound a peace as possess us when we\\nlie down to sleep.\\nThis is full consent and utter reli-", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0098.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "83\\nance. It finds the world we know a\\ncoherent, good, and beautiful whole;\\nit makes the body of our life a sacred\\nthing and our reasonable service\\nit feels always behind and with the\\nhuman the Everlasting Strength; it\\nhushes into calm our extremest fear\\nand doubt. It is Christian Science in\\nits integrity.", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0099.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "84\\nV\\nT^he Scripture Key\\n?N its argument and inter-\\npretation, the Christian\\nScience of the new\\nschool uses a term by\\nwhich it confesses it cannot adequately\\nexpress the thing it means, and then\\nsets up the thing thus imperfectly\\ndesignated as the falsity and delusion\\nto be overthrown. All reasoning is\\ndirected against it all significance\\nof the Divine Word is forced into\\ndenial of it all hope for the human\\nrace is centred in the promise of a", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0100.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "85\\nfinal absolute deliverance from it.\\nIt is called admittedly by a sole-\\ncism mortal mind. The whole\\nteaching hinges upon, and reiterates,\\nthe assaults upon this windmill, this\\nunreality, this active power which\\nhas no actual existence.\\nIt would be well to start, in any\\nsearch for authoritative testimony\\nconcerning the subject involved, with\\na clearer definition. Apparently, what\\nis meant by this metaphysical assump-\\ntion of something that is not, is simply\\nwhat we are all conscious of as insep-\\narable fi-om our present human condi-\\ntion namely, our material perception.\\nWe recognize ourselves as in a\\nbody; we recognize the Truth of", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0101.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "86\\nthings as in a body of things. The\\nquestion is, can we divest ourselves\\nof this conscious relation, and if so,\\nwhat is left for us to know with, and\\nwhat is left about us to know by\\nThere is an effort to prove, by a\\nvery strained and partial, not to say\\ncontradictory, interpretation of Scrip-\\nture, that no world of things, as such,\\nwas ever created, that none exists.\\nThat we are not clothed upon, but\\nunclothed and naked souls, in the\\npresence of blank, unclothed Spirit.\\nIt does not seem as if this were\\nreally the way that God has come\\ndown to us, or that the highest insight\\nand inspiration have so conceived and\\ndeclared Him.", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0102.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "87\\nThe Hebrew Scriptures are the\\nrecords of such insight and inspiration.\\nThey are written in the primeval lan-\\nguage of exact meanings when to\\nsee was to discern expression; when\\nthings were words; when there was\\nno speech nor language but from\\nthe Word that had gone forth into\\nall the world.\\nIt was this secret that Swedenborg\\nannounced. It was no discovery/\\nexcept in the sense of a new uncover-\\ning. It was no constructive theory;\\nit was not promulgated with intent\\nto make of it a new religion; it was\\nbut one more grand unfolding of the\\nold. It was what prophets and poets\\nhave understood and spoken from the", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0103.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "88\\nbeginning; what they are seeing with\\nclearer and clearer vision, and utter-\\ning with more and more vital force,\\nto-day.\\nThe New Testament of Jesus Christ\\nis the Life and Manifestation of the\\nOld the great, inclusive Incarnation\\nthe evangel of the Word made flesh,\\nand dwelling among us/\\nWhere, if not in these two books\\nof inspiration and fulfillment, shall we\\nfind testimony of the true relation of\\nLife and life of Reality and the real-\\nities; of the Essential and the evi-\\ndent?\\nNo study of such a subject would\\nbe complete or satisfying without re-\\nference to these. Christian Science", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0104.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "89\\nwas wise in its generation in claiming\\nthe Sacred Record as its own basis\\nin offering its own exegesis as deepest\\nrecognition of its truth. To many\\nminds, who in the latter-day neglect\\nof Scripture research, or in carelessness\\nof any but the most superficial accept-\\nance of a Book not to be ignored, but\\nnevertheless under process of super-\\nsedure by a later practical wisdom,\\nor in earthly absorption in the very\\nthings they now so glibly declare\\nnon-existent, have been in blind-\\nness to the whole world of truth under\\nlanguage and form, this new opening\\nup of something in the Bible which\\nis to set free from the body of sin\\nand death, and give dominance over", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0105.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "90\\nthe material by the very refusal of\\nmatter, has come with a wonderful\\nawakening of interest. In so far as it\\nmay be the beginning of the real\\nhunger and thirst which shall\\nsurely be satisfied, it may have its\\nerrand and initial work. This we\\nwould not hinder. Search the Scrip-\\ntures, for in them ye think ye have\\n(already) eternal life and they are they\\nwhich testify of Me, were the words\\nof the Lord of Truth to the pharisaic\\nsense-and-ordinance worshipers in law\\nand ceremony. Sooner or later, the\\nreal light will shine forth. It is much\\nto have opened the eyes, and to be\\nlooking toward the east.\\nTo help, rather than to oppose,", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0106.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "91\\nsuch earnestness, some comparison of\\nthe foregone conclusions of an arbi-\\ntrary doctrine appropriated from the\\ndeclarations of Holy Writ with the\\ndeclarations themselves, some in-\\nquiry as to what prophets and apostles\\nreally have set forth from their spirit-\\nually enlightened perceptions in their\\nannunciations to a waiting world,\\nmay well be made.\\nNecessarily, such examination and\\ncomparison must be very brief; it can\\nonly give clue and index for larger\\nand corroborative study.\\nThe Bible is full of statement and\\nillustration concerning the unity of\\nthings and spirit for the reason that\\nitself is the very revelation and key", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0107.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "92\\nto that unity, and the unity is the cen-\\ntral being and motive of the divine\\ncosmos, which by that selfsame iden-\\ntity and intent is a universe.\\nIt is nothing new to set this forth.\\nThere is no claim of discovery in\\nso doing. It is simply a pointing\\nout, here and there, something of the\\nthrongingly recurrent testimony in the\\nScriptures to a truth that has been\\nopen from the beginning.\\nIt is this unity of mind and form\\nwhich has been lost sight of in the\\nwhole treatment of its theme, and in\\nits exposition of Bible witness by\\nChristian Science.\\nThis exposition is very brief in its\\nown synopsis. It touches only at the", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0108.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "93\\nbeginning and the end it explains\\nonly the Genesis and the Apocalypse.\\nStrange that the very juxtaposing of\\nthese did not at once indicate to the\\nwriter the Alpha and Omega, the first\\nand the last, the uncreate and the\\ncreated, as mutually necessary and\\ninevitable, eternal in their generation\\nand reflex, the everlasting Father and\\nSon, the Spirit and the Word that in-\\nform and agree forever\\nCompare or rather read as one\\nthe proem of the First Book of the\\nOld Testimony with that of the Fourth\\nGospel of the New.\\nIn the beginning God created the\\nheaven and the earth.\\nThere is a meaning given in the", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0109.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "94\\ndictionary to the word create which\\nis there illustrated by quotation of this\\nvery word of the beginning. To\\nproduce out of nothing. That is a\\ndefinition which postulates too much.\\nThere is no nothing. Or if there\\nbe a non-existence which we must so\\nterm, no thing was ever produced\\nfrom it. There is another significance\\ngiven farther on To beget, to bring\\nforth. This is truer.\\nOut of his own Being, God brought\\nforth the worlds. That understanding\\nredeems and illuminates the text.\\nIn the beginning was the Word,\\nand the Word was with God, and\\nthe Word was God.", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0110.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "95\\nThat which God would set forth\\nand declare by his creation was in his\\nThought from the beginning. It was\\nalready a reality in Him.\\nAll things were made by him;\\nand without him was not anything\\nmade that was made. In him was\\nlife; and the life was the light of\\nmen. And the light shineth in dark-\\nness and the darkness comprehended\\nit not.\\nThe things made were not set off,\\nseparate God s Thought was not de-\\ntached from them they were filled\\nwith Himself Without Himself\\nthere was not anything. His life was\\nthe light men should see by. Until\\nthey should recognize this life, they", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0111.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "96\\nwould be in darkness; they would\\nsee only shadows. This is sense-ab-\\nsorption.\\nThe earth was without form, and\\nvoid; darkness was upon the face of\\nthe deep.\\nThere was an earth in the mind of\\nGod; but it was not yet formed, or\\nplaced. Its beautiful verity, and all\\nthe wonder of its unfolding, were yet\\nhidden in the Divine Thought. So\\nfar, we are permitted, doubtless under\\na type, to conceive of a remoteness of\\nintent of which the first evolution was\\nof a substance-potency out of which\\nGod would unfold all. We call it\\nChaos; matter not yet informed to\\nspecialty. Surely this does not con-", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0112.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "97\\ntradict the understanding of a reality\\nwhich God ordained to work in.\\nThe Spirit of God moved upon\\nthe face of the waters over the flu-\\nent possibihty to be concreted in fact.\\nGod said, Let there be Hght.\\nWe know now, in this later com-\\nparison, what that light was. It was\\nwhat should be the life of men.\\nIt was the effluence of an Almighti-\\nness shaping toward its purpose. In\\nsuns and stars and moons in showers\\nand dew and winds in fire and heat,\\nin winter and summer, in frost and\\ncold in lightnings and clouds in\\nmountains and hills in green things\\nupon the earth in seas and floods,\\nin wells and springs in fowls of the", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0113.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "98\\nair and in beasts and cattle in chil-\\ndren of men, in an Israel of believ-\\ners; in priests and servants of the\\nLord in spirits and souls of the right-\\neous, in holy and humble men of\\nheart. In all these it was to be, and\\nto outgive itself; the selfsame Light\\nthat lighteth every man that cometh\\ninto the world.\\nMounting up, as the day mounts,\\nfrom low horizon to the upper zenith\\nfrom the power and showing in the\\nfirst and natural to the power and\\nshowing in the last, the celestial; in\\nlives and souls quickened of the liv-\\ning Spirit, that in lives and souls is\\nnamed the Holy Ghost.\\nWhere, in this genesis, was the di-", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0114.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "99\\nviding line between the no thing and\\nthe all Where did the delusion\\ngather itself up in actuality? And\\nwho was first deluded Man and\\nmortal mind were not, when\\nGod, by and to Himself, declared\\nthat all was, and that all was good.\\nAnd the Word was made flesh,\\nand dwelt among us, and we beheld\\nhis glory, the glory as of the only be-\\ngotten of the Father, the same ex-\\npression, note, for the bringing forth\\nof the Divine in humanity as for that\\nof the divine in things, full of\\ngrace and truth.\\nHere is the culmination. The\\nfullness of the Godhead, bodily. The\\nLofC.", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0115.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "loo\\ndeclaring of the unseen God by the\\nonly begotten Son, which is in the\\nbosom of the Father. The Word,\\nbegun in letter and syllable of sim-\\nplest initial sign, spelled out to perfect\\nutterance.\\nAnd yet, letter and syllable remain.\\nIf anything is true, all is true. There\\nis a ladder from earth to heaven; it\\nstands firm on the reality of things\\nalready made and shown, and it holds\\nfast at the supreme height by the\\nThrone of God, among the things\\nthat cannot be told or conceived as\\nyet and the angels of the Lord go up\\nand down upon it.\\nMy word that goeth forth out of\\nmy mouth, saith Jehovah, shall not", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0116.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "loi\\nreturn unto me void, but it shall ac-\\ncomplish that which I please, and it\\nshall prosper in the thing whereto I\\nsent it. For ye shall go out with joy\\n(into this world that I have made\\nand am yet making) and be led forth\\nwith peace; the mountains and the\\nhills shall break forth before you into\\nsinging, and all the trees of the field\\nshall clap their hands. Instead of the\\nthorn shall come up the fir tree, and\\ninstead of the brier shall come up the\\nmyrtle tree and it shall be to the\\nLord for a name^ for an everlasting sign\\nthat shall not be cut off\\nIs this a repudiation of the work\\nof his hands Is this any teaching\\nthat the things He has made visible", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0117.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "102\\nand tangible, real and present, to us,\\nare mere figments, to be rejected and\\ndisowned, or even divested of their\\nseeming as emblems, and returned\\ninto the unknowable depths of the\\nuncreated That by which the Lord\\nnames Himself that we may conceive\\nof Him, shall remain for us to call\\nHim by. His own sign is everlasting\\nit shall not be cut off. It will be\\nmade greater, more glorious, to us, as\\nwe can apprehend it it shall be our\\neternal life to spell it out, to learn to\\npronounce it but it shall not be lost,\\nnor perish. We may well believe\\nthat in the most transcendent mani-\\nfestation that shall ever be, we shall\\nrecognize tlie old, dear, simple begin-", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0118.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "103\\nning still, as in all of evolution that\\nscience has traced is found the repeti-\\ntion of every step and phase of all the\\ngrand, sure leading up. The same\\ngoodness and mercy, in amplified\\nlines of the same essential gift and\\ngrace, shall follow us all the days of\\nour life, and we shall dwell in the\\nhouse of the Lord forever.\\nThe Hebrew Psalms are the voice\\nof a people imbued through and\\nthrough with this sense of a divinity\\nin things with the truth that God is\\nnot separable from his creation that\\nHe is to be learned by his works;\\nthat He is clothed with majesty and\\nwith strength in the world that He", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0119.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "104\\nhas stablished that it cannot be\\nmoved. That his throne is of old,\\nand from everlasting. Thy testi-\\nmonies, saith the chant sublime, are\\nvery sure holiness becometh thine\\nhouse, O Lord, for ever.\\nTrace that word house and its\\nsynonyms, tabernacle, habita-\\ntion, dwelling place, church,\\ncity, heavenly Jerusalem, the\\nmany mansions, all through\\npsalm and prophecy, gospel, and\\napostolic message and revelation, and\\nsee how they all mean something\\nbuilded for an abiding some\\nform and body of life through which\\nthe Spirit appears, and works, and\\nputs itself in touch with spirit. Never", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0120.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "105]\\nwithout insistence that there is more\\nbehind, to be yet revealed; that the\\nlife is more than meat, and the body\\nthan raiment; never without the re-\\nminder that the kingdom, the throne\\nof life and its ruling, are within but\\nnever loosing away from the evidence\\nthat which is to be made evident.\\nSeek first the kingdom, and the\\nTightness, of God and all these things\\nshall be added unto you. For your\\nFather knoweth that ye have need of\\nall these things T And the need is not\\na mere mortal need. It is the need\\nof the spirit itself, that must take form\\nand find use in form, and that shall\\nnever be disembodied or denied.\\nWe know, says Saint Paul, that", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0121.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "io6]\\nif our earthly house of this tabernacle\\nwere dissolved, we have a building of\\nGod, an house not made with hands,\\neternal in the heavens. God giv-\\neth a body as it hath pleased him, and\\nto every seed his own body. And\\nas we have borne the image of the\\nearthly, we shall also bear the image\\nof the heavenly.\\nIt cannot but be an image, a reflec-\\ntion, always we ourselves are the body\\nof God s showing; we are, in our\\nhighest, one body in Christ Jesus,\\nin the Divine Humanity.\\nImage and Demonstration of the\\nDivine, Christ declared himself and is\\ndeclared. He sanctified forever all\\nepiphanies in his own Epiphany. He", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0122.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "107\\ndid not disdain the embodiment which\\nmade the Father manifest; he was\\nraised up in it to a glory visible and\\nembodied still. He is Emmanuel for-\\never. The Supernal Glory we may\\nnever see we have the light of the\\nknowledge of the glory of God in the\\nface of Jesus Christ.\\nHe who was and is the Truth and\\nthe Life, was and is the Eternal Way.\\nAfter Him shall we follow, in like\\nmanner, to a new appearing and a\\nplace prepared. If the Spirit of\\nHim that raised up Jesus from the\\ndead be in you, He that raised up\\nChrist from the dead shall also quicken\\nyour mortal bodies by his Spirit that\\ndwelleth in you.", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0123.jp2"}, "122": {"fulltext": "io8]\\nOur resurrection shall be like his.\\nA quickening of the mortal into im-\\nmortality a replacing of the corrupt-\\nible with incorruption. A passing\\nover in power of the selfsame person-\\nality to a fuller, finer declaration no-\\nthing obliterated, cast off as a lie;\\nbegun in such reality as expressed and\\nserved the being here, it shall be\\nlifted up to the larger reality that is\\nto find itself in relation with all larger\\nbeing there. For he shall change\\nthe body of our humiliation, that it\\nmay be fashioned like unto his glori-\\nous body, according to the working\\nwhereby he is able to subdue all\\nthings unto himself\\nOne speech answers to another;", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0124.jp2"}, "123": {"fulltext": "109\\none Scripture carries us on to the\\nutterance of another, yet always the\\nsame. Always God and always\\nthe Divine made manifest. To put\\nthe manifestation aside is to deny\\nthat the Word has been made flesh\\nit is to deny the very Christ.\\nThe earth is the Lord s, and the\\nfulness thereof God created the\\nworld that He might fill it full, and\\nkeep it alive, with Himself It is the\\neverlasting co-venant the coming-to-\\ngether the sign of the bow in the\\ncloud, the Eternal Light in the earth-\\nmist; softened, repeated, measured,\\nfor our receiving and bearing. It is\\nbetween me and you, and every living", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0125.jp2"}, "124": {"fulltext": "[no]\\ncreature of all flesh/ said the Lord,\\nwhen He promised that all flesh should\\nnever more be destroyed by any flood.\\nO Lord, how excellent is thy\\nName in all the earth The psalms\\nof praise ring with the refrain. The\\nglory of light, the majesty of storm,\\nthe might of the great deep, held and\\ncontrolled within the bound that it\\nmay not pass over the sweetness\\nof the little springs and water-brooks\\nthat run among the hills the\\ntrees of the Lord, where the birds\\nmake their nests the refuge of\\nthe high hills for the wild goats, and\\nof the rocks for the conies the day\\nand the darkness, for labor and for\\nrest these, the verse recites, all", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0126.jp2"}, "125": {"fulltext": "111\\nwait upon thee. Thou sendest forth\\nthy spirit, they are created Thou re-\\nnewest the face of the earth. The\\nglory of the Lord shall endure for-\\never: the Lord shall rejoice in his\\nworks. I will be glad in the Lord.\\nGlory ye in his holy Name.\\nBecause the Lord is at my right\\nhand, I shall not be moved. There-\\nfore my heart is glad, and my glory\\nrejoiceth my flesh also shall rest in\\nhope. Does this deny the sensible,\\nor make of the sensible a shadowy\\nthing of which we have no possible\\nclear, positive concept Does it\\nnot exalt the things of earth, declar-\\ning that the common things of every\\nday are of and by the very things of", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0127.jp2"}, "126": {"fulltext": "[112]\\nheaven, and the will of Him to whom\\nour souls respond in joyful under-\\nstanding, feeling through the made to\\nthe Maker, who hath prepared his\\nthrone in the heavens, whose\\nkingdom ruleth over all\\nBless the Lord, ye his angels\\nBless the Lord, all ye his hosts\\nBless the Lord, all his works, in all\\nplaces of his dominion:\\nBless the Lord, O my soul\\nThe Lord is my Rock. The\\nLord is my Shepherd. Defense and\\ncomfort, stronghold, and green pas-\\nture, and still water, safety and\\npeace in the very valley of the shadow,\\nunder the very rod of an appointed", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0128.jp2"}, "127": {"fulltext": "[113]\\ndiscipline and endurance, because the\\nvery rod is a staff also, these are\\nwhat He is to us, in joy or need, in\\npleasure or pain we demand nothing,\\nwe deny nothing; in all He is our\\nsure well being, our sustaining, our\\nrestoring. And as He is real, the\\nexperiences of our life are real also.\\nHe does not deal with us in chi-\\nmeras; pain and loss are, in their limit,\\nas actual as their beautiful and un-\\nmeasured compensations; the differ-\\nence, the absolute and utter difference,\\nis in the limit and the fullness. There\\nis no separation, no enmity, for all is\\ngood, and of good purpose. In the\\npresence of what seem like enmi-\\nties, our table is spread we sup", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0129.jp2"}, "128": {"fulltext": "[114]\\nwith Him, and He with us He\\nblesses our bread, and our cup runs\\nover.\\nAU the paths of the Lord are\\nmercy and truth unto such as keep\\nhis covenant and his testimonies.\\nOne thing have I desired of the\\nLord; that will I seek after: that I\\nmay dwell in the house of the Lord\\nall the days of my life, to behold the\\nbeauty of the Lord, and to inquire in\\nhis temple.\\nThe spirit of the living creature\\nwas in the wheels. This was the\\nburden of the wonderful song of the\\nvision of Ezekiel. It is the one out-\\nshining of a certain meaning in it to", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0130.jp2"}, "129": {"fulltext": "115]\\nUS who can understand so little of the\\nstrange, vast parable.\\nThere is one law, one necessity\\nthe living spirit is in all the form and\\nworking. The life and the life mani-\\nfest are one. There are no feeble,\\nhalfway signs.\\nWe and our wheels are one. We\\ncannot detach ourselves, nor renounce\\nthe wholeness of our being and ac-\\ncountability.\\nTheir rings the high, dread-\\nful rings of the great wheels that rolled\\nbetween earth and heaven were\\nfull of eyes. They saw all their way,\\nas they traveled, and all that their way\\nrevealed. Life is an open secret.\\nWhen the living creatures went, the", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0131.jp2"}, "130": {"fulltext": "[116]\\nwheels went by them and when the\\nliving creatures were lifted up, the\\nwheels were lifted up. Are these not\\nthe wheels of circumstance and action,\\nunder great conditions and meanings\\nof human history? Are they not the\\nstories in the earthly, of souls, and of\\nnations The bearing forward, in\\npower and form, of our tremendous\\npositive existence, moving by and\\nbeside, in inexorable energy, and in-\\nevitable consequence, the choices and\\nimpulses of our living spirits\\nWhere those went, these went\\nthere was no disjunction, no apartness.\\nWhen those stood, these stood and\\nwhen those were lifted up from the\\nearth, the wheels were lifted up over", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0132.jp2"}, "131": {"fulltext": "117]\\nagainst them for the spirit of the liv-\\ning creature was in the wheels.\\nMaterial life, and the living spirit\\nthey have been so surely as one upon\\nthe earth, that just so surely are they\\nto be judged as one at the supreme\\nlast.\\nTheir works do follow them.\\nNothing is left behind. Evil or good,\\nthat which has been, is. It is as use-\\nless to say of sin, as of matter, that it\\nis nothing, that it does not exist.\\nIt lives forever in its results. Those\\nresults may still be sin, and more sin;\\nor they may be repentance unto sal-\\nvation, not to be repented of, which\\nhas wrought carefulness and clear-\\ning indignation standing on", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0133.jp2"}, "132": {"fulltext": "ii8]\\nGod s side against the past self,\\nfear, desire/ zeal, revenge\\nholy vengeance upon the wrong, and\\ngrand vindication of the good they\\nmay be these, so that even the joy\\nof the angels of heaven over one sin-\\nner that repenteth, more than over the\\nninety and nine that need no repent-\\nance, and the everlasting joy upon\\ntheir heads with which the re-\\ndeemed of the Lord shall return unto\\nZion, their high spiritual inheritance,\\nyes, the rejoicing over them of\\nthe Lord Himself, who shall undo\\nall that afflict them, and gather\\nthem that were driven out, and\\nrest in his love with them, shall\\ncome to be understood beyond all", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0134.jp2"}, "133": {"fulltext": "[119]\\nOther understanding. But for the\\nvery sake that this may be, the works\\nmust follow.\\nAnd the likeness of the firmament\\nupon the heads of the living creatures\\nwas as the color of the terrible crystal,\\nthe searching of holy, absolute\\ntruth, stretched forth over their\\nheads from above.\\nAnd above the firmament that\\nwas over their heads was the likeness\\nof a throne, as the appearance of a\\nsapphire stone. As the appear-\\nance of the bow that is in the cloud\\nin the day of rain, so was the appear-\\nance of the brightness round about.\\nThis was the appearance of the like-\\nness of the glory of the Lord.", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0135.jp2"}, "134": {"fulltext": "120\\nAppearance, likeness ap-\\npearance, even, a likeness hea-\\nven itself is full of great appearances.\\nWithin, and yet within, they reach,\\nand infold. There is no reality that\\nhas not its appearance there is no\\nappearance, in all God s own order,\\nthat has not his own Reality truth\\nbeyond truth behind it.\\nAnd before the Appearance of this\\nultimate Glory before this Supreme\\nPresence we shall carry all our own\\nmortal showings, to be judged in its\\ntremendous light.\\nInextricably joined, and interde-\\npendent, as are the living creatures\\nand the wheels, how can we say that\\nsoul has nothing to do with body, that", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0136.jp2"}, "135": {"fulltext": "121\\nsoul cannot sin, that sin, as well as\\ndisease, is an unreality and illusion, a\\nbelief of mortal mind, coming from\\nthe false persuasion that matter is\\nreal\\nAbove all, in the face of this high,\\nawful symbolism of appearance, what-\\never we may choose to call it, reach-\\ning through earth and into heaven, in\\nwhich we live and move, and in which\\nGod comes to us, how shall we dare\\nto distinguish any sign or act of his\\nfrom Him How shall we dare to\\nthink we can get behind, above, that\\nfirmament which is between us and\\nthe Throne, and measure God in his\\nworks by God in his Infinite Essence\\nYet this is what Christian Science", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0137.jp2"}, "136": {"fulltext": "122\\nbids us do. This confronting and in-\\nvestigating of God Himself^ in his\\nSupreme and Inmost Nature, is pre-\\nscribed to us as necessarily preceding\\nour rightful understanding and ap-\\npraisal of the semblances of things.\\nTruly this is a reversal of life-order a\\nleaping to the ladder top among the\\nstars, that climbing downward we may\\nmaster and prove the steps. It is a\\nspurning of God s footstool, that we\\nmay invade his throne.\\nThe New Testament of our Lord\\nand Saviour Jesus Christ begins,\\ngoes on and finishes with event and\\nact, teaching and illustration, ministry\\nand example, in the natural. But the", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0138.jp2"}, "137": {"fulltext": "123\\nnatural is never presented without the\\nspiritual. The reconciliation is\\ncomplete. It is a restoring. It is the\\nbringing of the world and God to-\\ngether again. The apostolic declara-\\ntion of this is prefaced by the distinct\\ninsistence that all things are of God,\\nalthough the old things things\\naccording to the old knowledge\\nhave passed away, and all things\\nin the new understanding have\\nthemselves become new. This is\\nthe ministry of reconciliation to\\nwit, that God was in Christ, reconcil-\\ning the world unto himself, not im-\\nputing to them their trespasses, in\\nthe old ignorance and misuse of mere\\nsense-life; not denouncing the sense-", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0139.jp2"}, "138": {"fulltext": "124\\nlife either, or declaring it unreal, but\\nlifting it up to its absolute original\\nreality in vital conjunction with the\\nspirit. It is the perfect amnesty the\\nnew beginning, all errors condoned;\\nthe wakening of the Word in the\\nsouls of men, making all things, as of\\nthe same Word also, clean and holy.\\nJesus was baptized with water. He\\nconsecrated that sign of spiritual\\ncleansing and renewal forevermore.\\nHe confronted the temptations of\\nsense. He did not deny sense. He\\nadmitted sense-condition, and that\\nthere was possibility of turning it to\\nevil. He acknowledged pain of hun-\\nger. He did not conquer by assump-\\ntion that the pain of hunger could", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0140.jp2"}, "139": {"fulltext": "125]\\nnot be. He bore it, in order to de-\\nclare that bread, in its satisfying, is\\ntruly the gift of God, and that God\\nHimself satisfies the hungry with a\\nreal thing, and that only the thing by\\nwhich He chooses so to communicate\\nthe nourishing of his life to ours is so\\nmade real to its end. That we are to\\ntrust Him for it, and in it; that our\\neating is a communion; he never\\ntaught that we are to despise or reject\\nit, or even to separate arbitrarily in\\nour thought the life from its convey-\\nance. The Son of Man came eating\\nand drinking. We are to take food\\nand drink, and the life that is in and\\nby them, together as God s one word\\nin answer to our need and asking. It", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0141.jp2"}, "140": {"fulltext": "126]\\nis nothing that we can do, or com-\\nmand, or subordinate to ourselves, that\\nwill make or keep us bodily alive it\\nis the continual down-giving and in-\\ngiving through the visibly ap-\\npointed means of the creative and\\nsustaining energy. To our spirits\\nHe gives Himself, through spiritual\\nmedia; our human thoughts, affec-\\ntions, intelligence of and joy in the\\ntruth. That is his feeding of our hun-\\nger, and satisfying of our thirst, for\\nrighteousness. Therefore, let us\\nglorify God, in our bodies and our\\nspirits which are his.\\nFor danger or hurt, Jesus met the\\ntrial of faith, and the temptation to\\nunwarranted assumption, with demon-", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0142.jp2"}, "141": {"fulltext": "1^7]\\nstration in like manner. Could he not\\nbe hurt? Might he cast himself\\ndown from the topmost pinnacle of\\nthe temple, and not even dash his foot\\nagainst a stone? He was conscious\\nin himself of the power of what we\\ncall miracle. He knew that he was\\nplenipotentiary of the Father, and that\\nby such an act he might so accredit\\nhimself in men s eyes. But was his\\nerrand to teach and lead men in the\\npractising of deeds like that Was\\nit to do or say anything which men\\nmight understand to mean that as\\nGod s children they were so secure\\nagainst material harm as to recklessly\\nor carelessly defy material danger?\\nHe knew too interiorly that which", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0143.jp2"}, "142": {"fulltext": "[128]\\nthe Father doeth, to mistake or misap-\\npropriate he was too truly the Way,\\nto violate God s order of outer cause\\nand consequence. If he had a know-\\nledge of divine order within and\\nabove what men have ever learned in\\nthis wise, it was of something within\\nand above the common cause some-\\nthing that controls and moves the\\ncommon cause, but never revokes it.\\nThou shall not tempt, he says, the\\nLord thy God. Thou shalt not chal-\\nlenge his Almightiness.\\nThe first miracle was a miracle in\\nthings. A using of the power that is\\nresultant in things, from a point far-\\nther back than the obvious natural\\ncause and process. We may as well", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0144.jp2"}, "143": {"fulltext": "129\\ntake this definition of miracle at the\\nstart, instead of any discussion about\\npossibiHty or evidence, which is end-\\nless; because we know but a very\\nlittle way among the possibilities, and\\nevidence is precisely the conveyance,\\nthrough some sign or event, of a truth\\ninto the human understanding. What\\nthe men who afterward became apos-\\ntles of the highest revelation ever\\ngiven into the world understood by\\nthe signs which were given them, is\\nthe only evidence we can reach, and\\nit is all we want. And right here,\\nalso, comes in the very distinction we\\nneed to miake in examining Christian\\nScience, between the notion of mat-\\nter as utterly non-existent, and the", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0145.jp2"}, "144": {"fulltext": "130\\nperception of it as non-existent in it-\\nself^ but as never, by any possibility,\\napparent only by itself; never with-\\nout the life and word of spirit in it;\\nappealing to sense, and sure to the\\nsenses made for recognizing it, but\\nonly so for the sake of spiritual mani-\\nfestation and interpretation to a sense\\nbehind the senses. Divine word in\\ndivine work human apprehension\\nthrough human cognitive faculty in\\nthe external. It is idle to argue that\\nwhen we see a blade of grass, we see\\nonly our human concept of a blade\\nof grass, and that that is nothing. It\\nis all we have by which to reach to\\nthe thought of God which He is\\nshowing us in the blade of grass. The", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0146.jp2"}, "145": {"fulltext": "131\\nreality of matter is God s reality of\\nself-expression; and our sense-power\\nof seeing it is his correlative reality in\\nour natural organization. Not all see\\nor understand precisely alike, it is\\ntrue each gets only what he can re-\\nceive; but the thing is there, brimful\\nof gift and meaning for those who can\\nand will receive and it enlarges con-\\ntinually to the enlarging perception.\\nIndeed, if we could understand a blade\\nof grass to the last law and reason of\\nits being, we could understand the\\nworlds. No two persons see a flower\\nor a star, a tree or a mountain, identi-\\ncally. Color is far from being the\\nsame to everybody. Some people\\nare color-blind. Some are music-deaf", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0147.jp2"}, "146": {"fulltext": "13^\\nSome are senseless to fragrances. To\\nhim that hath shall be given. He\\nthat hath ears to hear, let him hear.\\nBut let no one deny.\\nJesus Christ began, and went on,\\nthrough his ministry, by declaring in\\nseparate parables, of act or word, the\\nOne Great Parable of Creation. He\\nbegan with most elementary teaching\\nhe showed by experiment how God\\ngives, as it pleases Him, through the\\nmaterial. When he came to preach,\\nhe did not preach in the abstract. He\\nbrought life down to its smallest ex-\\nperiences. He admitted man s need\\nin things his inseparable relation to\\nthem. He said, I am not come to\\ndestroy, but to fulfil. He told men", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0148.jp2"}, "147": {"fulltext": "133\\nthat God s act and law in everything\\nwas true that act and law are one\\nrighteousness and he commanded\\nthem that their own deeds be true, in\\nthe same single righteousness in which\\nGod s are true. If thine eye be\\nsingle, thy whole body shall be full\\nof light.\\nConsider the lilies, and believe\\nthat your Father will clothe your life\\nwith all perfect and beautiful mani-\\nfestation, as He clothes theirs. De-\\nspise nothing. Reject nothing. Strug-\\ngle not with, nor for, nor against things\\nas if they were not all of one sure\\norder and intent. Reach forth your\\nhands and receive and in all receive\\nHim. This is the life of the kingdom.", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0149.jp2"}, "148": {"fulltext": "134\\nThe kingdom is not far off and sepa-\\nrate. It is at hand. It is in all you\\nhave, because it is first within you.\\nWhen they did not comprehend\\nhis sayings, he asked them, Know\\nye not this parable How then shall\\nye know all parables If I have told\\nyou earthly things and ye believe not,\\nhow shall ye believe if I tell you\\nof heavenly things\\nHe healed by a touch even by a\\nword. Truly there was no need of\\nintervention when the Divine was im-\\nmediately present. But it is to be\\nnoted that the occasions were very\\nfew when he healed without the bod-\\nily touch, and never without the open\\noutward assurance and communication", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0150.jp2"}, "149": {"fulltext": "135]\\nof sensible speech. He seemed care-\\nful to maintain the personal relation,\\nand the double sign of flesh and spirit.\\nHe put himself in living contact both\\nbodily and spiritually with those whom\\nhe would help. And we know how\\ntrue it is that personal touch does\\nhelp. Take me in your lap, the\\nchild says to his mother when he has\\na pain to bear and he lays his head\\nupon her shoulder, and is comforted.\\nHold my hand, says the sufferer to\\nthe loved one nearest. There is a\\nsharing of endurance, a conveyance\\nof the strength to endure. It goes so\\nfar, we seek not to deny, as to neu-\\ntralize and cast out many a trouble or\\ndisorder in the flesh or spirit. Indeed,", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0151.jp2"}, "150": {"fulltext": "136]\\nit not only explains, but puts on high\\nand everlasting ground, the human\\ninstinct toward human help which is\\nthe secret of Christian Science heal-\\ning. It is the sympathy, the tak-\\ning on and bearing with each other of\\ntrouble and pain, which is divine,\\nand which the divine permits and\\nmakes instrument of in the human,\\nimparting life-power and restoring by\\ncontact of a ministering love with a\\nreceiving faith. It is the inmost truth\\nof the Christ-healing and salvation.\\nJesus, the Christ, put himself in man s\\nplace in each and every man s place.\\nHimself took our sicknesses, and\\nbare our infirmities. He gave him-\\nself into an absolute fellowship with", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0152.jp2"}, "151": {"fulltext": "137\\nour suffering; he put all his love\\nand might into conjunction with our\\nstruggle and desire he set his whole\\ncertainty and promise alongside our\\nhope and prayer. And so far as we\\ncan do this for and with each other,\\nidentifying need with need, effort with\\neffort, faith with faith, so far we have\\ntrue share in the Divine Healing.\\nIf two of you shall agree on earth\\nas touching any thing that they shall\\nask, it shall be done for them of my\\nFather which is in heaven. But it\\nmust be this integral agreement, this\\nself-sameness of realization, which only\\ncomes from a perfect Christliness of\\nself-giving. No mere external consent\\nwill do.", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0153.jp2"}, "152": {"fulltext": "138]\\nThe world, in its anguish, is hold-\\ning the hand of Christ, expecting his\\nredemption. Believing in Him, we\\nhold each other s hands. Yet the\\npower of help in this does not coun-\\ntermand, and never can conflict with,\\nacceptance of the ordered physical aid\\nsupplied and plainly adapted to phy-\\nsical condition. As soul and sign,\\nthey work together.\\nJesus used the direct power, and in\\ndivine measure but he never forbade\\nwhat we call natural healing, through\\nuse and study of natural means. Even\\nin commissioning those whom he sent\\nforth in his own authority to do like\\nwork with his own, he did not tell\\nthem to instruct the people to give", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0154.jp2"}, "153": {"fulltext": "139\\nover instrumentalities and remedies at\\nonce and for all the future, and to ex-\\npect continual miracle. Wonderful\\nworks were done, in what seemed to\\nthem wonderful ways, chiefly to as-\\nsure them that all ways were wonder-\\nful that God s help is in all heaven\\nand earth; that they are to be trustful\\nof it everywhere, however it may be\\ngiven. It is in that faith we should\\nuse wise care, and seek wise remedies.\\nLuke, the beloved physician, did\\nnot cease his ministry in his calling\\nbecause he became a proclaimer of the\\ngospel of the new ministration. Paul s\\nmention of him shows that he was\\nstill at work in it.\\nChrist fed the hungry in the wilder-", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0155.jp2"}, "154": {"fulltext": "140\\nness with real bread and meat. He\\ndid not tell them that they were not\\nhungry nor faint; neither did he turn\\nstones into bread for their amazement.\\nHe made the common food at hand\\nsufScient for them. He reinforced it\\nby the same power that puts vital nu-\\ntrition into the grain of wheat, and\\ninto the single grain the possibility of\\na multiplied harvest. He sent them\\naway filled not only with bodily re-\\nfreshment, but with some sense of\\nhow all refreshment comes, and how\\nit shall never altogether fail. He gave\\nthem the beginning of a faith that\\nshould be able to say, Although the\\nfig tree shall not blossom, neither\\nshall fruit be in the vines the labor", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0156.jp2"}, "155": {"fulltext": "14\\nof the olive shall fail, and the fields\\nshall yield no meat; the flock shall\\nbe cut off from the fold, and there\\nshall be no herd in the stalls yet will\\nI rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the\\nGod of my salvation. Beyond even\\nthat, to answer the last doubt and\\ndread with the triumphant assurance,\\nThough he slay me, yet will I trust\\nin him. For unto God the Lord\\nbelong the issues from death.\\nJesus Christ, the Lord of Life, sub-\\nmitted himself to bodily death. He\\nbore cruelty and pain; the very ut-\\nmost in the human to teach us how\\nto die, and that to die is to live again.\\nHe came back to his disciples in\\nthe body that they knew. He walked,", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0157.jp2"}, "156": {"fulltext": "142\\nand talked, and ate with them. He\\nshowed them his hands and his side\\nhe said to them, when they were\\nterrified and affrighted, and supposed\\nthat they had seen an apparition,\\nWhy do such thoughts arise in your\\nhearts Behold my hands and my\\nfeet, that it is I, myself: handle me, and\\nsee; for a spirit hath not flesh and\\nbones, as ye see me have. And\\nwhile they yet believed not for joy,\\nand wondered, he said unto them,\\nHave ye any meat\\nCould he have more effectually\\ndeclared that the evidence of sense\\nis evidence? Could he have more\\nclearly demonstrated the unity of ex-\\nternal fact with inmost reality We", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0158.jp2"}, "157": {"fulltext": "143\\ncannot know, however we may en-\\ndeavor to conceive, exactly the na-\\nture of the risen body, or how it\\nmaintained relation and identity with\\nthe earthly individuality that had\\nbeen how it could manifest itself to\\nthe sense that was still in the flesh, or\\nwhether it summoned to recognition\\nof spiritual individuality the spiritual\\nsense but we do see that the identity\\nwas announced and proven that even\\nafter his resurrection the Lord did\\nnot repudiate his own earthly sign of\\nhimself, his own conjunction with\\nthe material, his own sharing, then\\nand always, with the nature and ex-\\nperience of men in the conditions\\nand manifestations of the outward.", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0159.jp2"}, "158": {"fulltext": "144\\nThe first chapter of St. Paul s\\nLetter to the Church at Colosse is a\\nsetting forth of this revelation of the\\nunity, and the glory of the inheritance\\nin the wisdom and spiritual under-\\nstanding that translate all life into\\nthe life of the kingdom; unveiling\\nthe great secret that all life is the\\nkingdom of his God s dear\\nSon, who is the image of the invisible\\nGod, the first-born of every creature.\\nIs not this to say, the first in whom\\nthe created and the Creator are re-\\nvealed together in the one Life\\nFor by him by this very union\\nof the Divine and the so-called nat-\\nural were all things created, that\\nare in heaven, and that are in earth,", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0160.jp2"}, "159": {"fulltext": "145]\\nvisible and invisible, and he is\\nbefore all things, and by him all\\nthings consist. For it pleased the\\nFather that in him should all fulness\\ndwell; and having made peace\\nthrough the blood of the cross,\\nthe suffering of the human, to re-\\nconcile all things unto himself; whe-\\nther they be things in earth, or things\\nin heaven.\\nEvery single understanding of the\\ntruth is a key that opens toward all\\nunderstanding. We may go through\\nthe Bible again and again, each time\\nwith some one especial spiritual per-\\nception, and each time find its pages\\nfull of light and confirmation upon", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0161.jp2"}, "160": {"fulltext": "146]\\nthat one point. Truth is many-fa-\\nceted each plane or face of it gives\\nus its own color but the divided ra-\\ndiances never oppose they all pour\\nforth from, and meet again in, the\\nsame clear, vast Unity.\\nThe recognition of this Unity of\\nTruth revealed in all the unities\\nof spirit and form, the inner and the\\nouter of God s Life and ours from\\nHim is the Master-key to Scripture\\nand to all from which the Scripture\\nis translated.\\nThere is no separate abstract, no\\nseparate concrete. The seen and the\\nunseen are an indivisible completeness.\\nThe written Scripture is a book of\\ntype and image a revelation of all", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0162.jp2"}, "161": {"fulltext": "147\\nparable in things and history. There\\nis no parable without essential iden-\\ntity of showing and shown. In the\\nBible truth takes on its wholeness.\\nFrom the Co-venant with Abraham to\\nthe At-one-ment in Jesus Christ,\\nfrom the buming bush to the Great\\nWhite Throne, the primeval sim-\\nplicity of faith is presented and re-\\nstored. Spiritual and natural, God\\nand humanity, are brought together,\\nin the glory that was in the begin-\\nning, is now, and ever shall be, world\\nwithout end.\\nFaith in ritual soul in history\\ninspiration through the grand and\\nwonderful and sweet in natural phe-\\nnomena, these are the elements of", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0163.jp2"}, "162": {"fulltext": "148]\\nthe first and older Testimony then\\ncomes the New, and tells us how the\\nvery purpose and accomplishment of\\nit all have been that what may be\\nknown of God may be and is\\nmade manifest. For the invisible\\nthings of him from the creation of the\\nworld are clearly seen, being under-\\nstood by the things that are made,\\neven his eternal power and Godhead.\\nIt is simple, and lovely; it is un-\\nspeakably great and glad. God leads\\nus by the outer sense in his world\\nand in his Word, until our spiritual\\neyes are opened, and we can discern\\nthe inner. Then we are indeed in\\nlight. Then we have entered into\\nlife. We do not any longer stop in", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0164.jp2"}, "163": {"fulltext": "149\\nmere manifestation, but the manifes-\\ntation itself becomes to us an ever-\\nlasting verity. The crowning word\\nis fulfilled to us\\nThe sun shall be no more thy\\nlight by day: neither for brightness\\nshall the moon give light unto thee\\nbut the Lord shall be unto thee an\\neverlasting light, and thy God thy\\nglory. Thy sun shall no more go\\ndown neither shall thy moon with-\\ndraw itself: for the Lord shall be\\nthine everlasting light, and the days\\nof thy mourning shall be ended.\\nChristian Science, in full scope and\\nright, is the unfolding of this gracious,\\ntranscendent knowledge. We are to", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0165.jp2"}, "164": {"fulltext": "150]\\ncome to it by a living from the high-\\nest; and to live from the highest is to\\nmake our common life a perpetual\\nsacrament. It is to eat and drink, and\\nto take remedy, to rest and sleep, to\\nwork and to clothe ourselves, in the\\npresence and by the gift and leading\\nof God to do all things in the name\\nof the Lord. It is to lie down and\\ndie, when that call comes, in perfect\\nassurance that in death He is with us\\nalso, as He was at Calvary and in the\\ntomb where Jesus lay, and that with\\nhim He will surely raise up us also\\nby his Spirit that dwelleth in us.\\nThis quickening and uplifting life\\nis the baptism of the Holy Ghost,\\nwhich the first disciples were to carry", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0166.jp2"}, "165": {"fulltext": "151\\nforth and make sign of to all the\\nnations, in the threefold Name which\\nholds all the mystery of Fatherhood,\\nSonhood, and Eternal Spiritual Pro-\\nceeding. And with the last spoken\\ncommand stands the full declarative\\nPromise, the very Gospel of the\\nDivine in and beside all the human,\\nLo, I am with you always even\\nunto the end of the world.", "height": "3588", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "integrityofchri00whit_0167.jp2"}, "166": {"fulltext": "\u00c2\u00ae5e Cflitjerj^ibe ^xt^^\\nPRINTED BY H. O. 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