r :"" " 1 ' ~ ~'unday July 29 1923 1 r J)DRESS BY CHAS }'11}ORE SUBJECT: "The Chrst conscousness of ncr~ff Matthew 9:9-13; LUke 5:2728 We call our nterpretaton of the Bble practcal ehrstan ty ' t s practcal when we apply t to the here and now t has to do wth man "~ :;~ that s n evdence not some man that exsted 1 n the past or that we hope ~ "4: ~ '~ J l' ; ;1 rf ';l 2 wll ext n the future but ths man t apples to myself to yourself and f we read t and not only read t l)ut study and awly t we fnd that we can get a defnte result but you must apply t n a sensble reasonable ' practcal way f you were an athlete a lght weght oo'1;:er or prze fghter ị you would put yourselves n the hands of someone who understood those J ~ 1' questons those ponts of physcal development and you vlould make yourself ~ ;1 : PlN'l ;Rs11"' SC;oOL OfC~'-J~S Of C~R5~N-rc U~1"< )~~ ~~ UN1"' SC't'O;?; "r":'r-"~c - ~~~ ~ 11 ~""":C_c
3 submssve you would have a traner and that traner vould tell you how to develop your ~uscles Now exactly the saoe thng s tr~e on another plane n ths development of man Under the tutelage of Chrst and the law s lad down n practcal Chrstanty f you were an a1helete and were beng prepared for a contest wth some other rrze fghter you would have to abstan from certan lusts of the flesh Your det would be re- ::~:~- --"" """"'O "-- 4 : gulated and your exerc5e and all of your hab ts eve~~thng v/ould corne : under an entrely dfferent regme because you must be ft }Tow n sprtual development we have n a parallel of the h6her plane exactly the sa~e thng to deal wt~ You have sprtual powers that you C&1 develop and become strong: you can become ft you can become an e~ert a heavy weght f you wll sub~ t to the tranng and that tranng requres frst that you get out of L
"~- - 5 your mnd everythng that n ~lay separates you from ths nner ablty The tran::r comes T and feels of your luscles and s~'s "that has to be bul t up You are veak n your bceps or you are below standard n the t " ac lon of your legs or n somethng He would fnd that there would be ponts n tour body or your mnd --the~t handle the mnd also- that h~v~ to be bult up l~ow ths teachng f you take t n a practcal - way you wll fnd everyone of these lessons that Jesus Chrst gave the~ seemed to be hstorcal and appled to outer thngs but that s ust the symbol of t f ths talk on tranng was wrtten n code and only those on the nsde bould understand t you would have to get the key and the key s that thngs sprtually gven are sprtually dscerned Do not read after the letter The letter s all rght as far as t goes but there
7 s somethng deeper than that You wll fnd n ever;')'one of these l-essons Jesus Chrst gave he was developng s~e power of hs mnd some phase of conscousness ~ow n ths lesson from the nnth chgpter of Matthew f you have read the whole chapter you wll fnd that Jesus frst healed the paralyzed man before he came to the callng of Matthew Now we read n between the lnes and we say that was the erasement from ""' 8 hs conscousness of some thng ~ne paralyzed man represellt~ some fac~ ty that sn't beng properly exercsed Everybody that suffers nactvty of the body s l~kng n some f~culty of the mnd because the body s moved by the ~nd Every muscle nerve ~~d tendon n your body s moved by soce dea n your mnd and f there s - nactvty anywhere you may take t fo~anted that there s a paralyss of 'c -- 1 )
~ - some tho~ht f you become e~ert n handlng your mnd and the faculttes of your ~nd all you have to do s touch that button So now ths dea f f r of naotvt~t ths lack of lfe or energy s done away wth and you erase : t and that man or that thought dentf~ has a personalty and ego t " Every thng n mnd takes form and e~resses tself ust lke a man Every t cell n your body s a perfect pcture of what you are as a whole You are --"'_~ 10 -': J t ' ~ s~ly aggregatng or buldng ~ that thng called man from mllons of 1 l ttle men The:r are ~eryone u~t lke you and they try to cake themselves 1 ' pcture forth you and as say they are dentfed wth your central mnd ; Your focal center s sm ~~ ths and that 'natever you say about your- : self as a~ th~t you wll pcture on ths body organsm And f you fnd as ị 1 aa~t tpat there s some faculty of your ~nd that an't workng ust as t " ; ~ --
11 : ~- ought to ~etat the dea back of t and say :"Ths must be changed" You deolare the truth and all at once your paralyzed man s healed And what s the result? You r~ve a new conscousness You are broader ) and deeper and go on to hgher thngs After you have dened away tn- actv ty you are ready for a great acton and ths brngs us to the subect - of the lesson Jesus was pass n(; by a lttle vl1:-ge and he saw a roan ; :' -'~"""';'):"'-- of 12 ; 1 : sttng as a tax gatherer Now we dsoern that that man that sat there ( from wh~t he was dong to Dean that t s that somethng Whch s n us whch s sttng at the door of the mnd t s that whch determnes mld 1 put nto a~ton the tho~hts of the mnd n other words t s the wll 1 1; J Matthew represents wll n man That s the uner~ meanng of the word That carres out ths nterpretaton Matthew represents the wll your { ~
13 wll and my v/ll and the wll s the executve power of the mnd Now the - wll wor~:s n two ~s t works n outer avenues t gets ts ncentve ; or s~eston from the outer or the nler n other words you CWl through your wll f you would drect t n the realm of deas draw upon great forces un- 1 lm ted powers of act v ty all ea~cut ve power 'rould come to you f you would draw from wthn Now the wll s drectly connected wth the understandng 1 -o~ " ; f ; ' ; : J c" J -" ""cc"'c:~"~~_ 14 J : c Thomas another dscple represents the 1mderstand ~ and those 1 t d" 1 qual tes functon thro1jgh the front bran The wll ~ the udders an 1ng the wll and the un ders t an d ng 11 "ow f you 0D'et them n rght relaton you " ' t be llful or arbtrary nor wll you do won't make mjstakes ~"ou won -' thngs that br ng poor results and you wll because you KnOW look before you leap You v/ll be careful what you are do' 1ng a "on' t mean bv ~ that you
--~ '~-'~_o ;;~:2:to::":'; ; 15 ; ṭ ; ~ wll be full of fear but you wll thnk the matter over througt the realm of sprt You wll make ~ your mnd what you want to do and then do t 1 ~ That s good lmke up your mnd what you want to do and then do t But make up your mnd frst Thnk before you act 1~y people act and then thnk afterwards that s puttng thjcart before the horse You must do your thnkng and then your actng That s the law and yet when you have ~:;c~~ 16 thought the matter over and fully decded to do t do t don't stand on the verge waver~ and thnkng " can't go n ths drecton because of ths or that" f t s tne thng to do do t But fully make up your mnd that you have the capacty of these Qoubtng condtons and the power and that you have put out all ~OV a paralyzed man represents a doubtng ~an All the doubts anq fears and neffcences of the mnd are workng around
11 -- some center some pom of actvty You mght sa~' t s the vo11tonary center; the motor nerve s "tjeng affected by the doubts you have You sa:>' "1 do not mow whether 1 better 40 th :t t and prett:' soon you vlll fnd some ; part of your body becomes paralyzed Now you rmjst put that out and then you are ready to go to ths omnpotent wll of the sprt n man n other words ~ you are ready to call that wll nto acton from the nner sde'/eonscousness c -"" ~- 18 - That s ~{hat Jesus dd Now people thnk t s rather strange that takng t hstorcally a man was sttng n hs offce and ths great teacher came along and sad:"leave the busness you have and come and follow ~e" That s mreasonable ;but appled sprtually we can see that t has meanng and the am n you-can say to the wll: "l~ow yo; follow Sprt 1 ar:1 Sprt Hereafter YmT wll shall follow Sprt lt shall no longer be gatherdg -": -rl Of C""RS1~~ U~" ' SC~OO U""1'< ~ RC'rJ~S - C';~ c
f J u k f 1 ; ts substance 141111 not longer have that dea of accumulatng from the outsde 1 wll transmute the whole process through the ~r t" and you 1 do t through your 1 am power Now a tax-gatherer was the most despsed ; : t ~ of all the people n the olden t'res especally the Jews Ths rnan vas a Jew He had been one of the sraeltes He name was Lev He was a Jew but he sold hmself to the Roman emperor and became a tax-gatherer ~"'" c"~"'c-'c"'~c~ 1 20 They~ used to farm out ther taxes to the hghest bdder He evdently was the hghest bdder for that tax gatherng port and he taxed everybody 1 to sut hmself T4ere was a great graft there B ut when he ;ave hm3elf 1 J; ; : to be a tax-gatherer when he be~e one of the mtmons of the law under 1 ' '" " " the Roman empre he was ostraczed by the sraeltes He had to change 1 - t hs name; he became Matthew nstead af Lev So we fnd n ourselves When we f
21 1 ; leave any of these dvne qualtes --the sraelte represents the real : qualtes of man --t s s~~bolzed n ths Bble as that relg~ so~thng n everyone of us and when t comes out to outer aondtons ~~d we try to lve under the flesh 'tmder the law of the land altogether and forget ths nner we ahange our whole character n other words the character repr_esents the name so Matthew changed hs name le was an alen to the real But when:~~:~~ ' --'~ ~"cc~ ;:: 22 Amcoalled hm he left all that He left all and followed Jesus So when we leclare for ourselves sprtual qua~ltles and you wll fnd n these lessons we go through : 11 the twelve dscples you wll fnd we have as we - come nto the new understandng called them from ther materal gentle attachments Sa~T to your wll: " wll see thngs sprtually; am Sprt and shall eduate you n sprtual thngs You follow me" You are the "'-~" ~--- ' "
23 l~ht and f you wll open yourself to the great lght you wll demonstrate s~ply Ths s a lesson on demonstratng s~ply Jesus recognzed that man dd not lve altogether on the word of God 7henhe sad that ~ dd not lve by bread alone but by every word proceedng out of the mouth of G)d he ddn't sa;:' you shouldn' t have ~' bread at all Ths s part of your lvng and so lo:ng as you are n the temporal world you must use 1 24 - the t~oral law Jesus recognzed that and gave Peter the money and told hm to pay the taxes "Render unto Caesar the thnes that are Caesar's and ~ unto God the thngs/are God's" But you as a sprtual lan change your vev~ont change your tax gatherng You get your ncrease from wthn nstead of from wthout Now ljatthew under the Gentle la:ls as a taxgatherer was despsed as a Jew and he was despsed because he dd not --'r "O""_M"~';""'c'
-25 observe the nner law but when he c~e nto the new understandng he dropped the old He left everythng 30 Jesus told the; young man that had observed all the law and yet he wasn't n the ~ncdom -;; ~ He was full of possessons He sad: "Sell all thou hast and come and follow OO" Now that doesn't really mean that we would have to gve l"p all of our temporal possessons but gve up our dea whch we have had about those ' ~~ -~ ~"- " 26 possessons as belongng to us that they are ours and that t~ey are our resource ;/e have got to adust them n dvne order You adust frst ~urself and your possessons wll be adusted That s the law Everythng orgnates n tho~ht and f you let ths wll of yours Begn to exercse tself you wll come under another law and the $prtual man wll despse you You are despsed f you do not understand ths law of sprtual '~-~-"'---'-;"-'-C_C_J- ~
cc ~-- ---~- 27 accumulaton "e must everyone come to that because our outer possessons wll sooner or later be taken a':lty f not n one way n another People - tt~nk they are gong to ~ang onto possessons by handng them down to ther chldren but the courts of the land see to t that the' are dss~ated and ~ scattered So we fnd that n one way or another we have to 8ve up our possessons and the better way s to do t obedently -;J"e::o t wllngly 1 J 26 1{ JJ [Ị ; to wll to let go of the outer Now you come nto ths understandng that ; : God s the resource and that from ths nfnte cause comes everythng n 1 : f the outer you begn to develop facultes and powers that wll ncrease your - s~fce~y as a fnancer Jesus Chrst sad ~ake frends wth the God of Mammon" He sad: "The chldren of ths generaton are wser L~ ther day than the chldren of lfe" He gave SO:1e llustraton That s when J ; ț ~
1 c ease f YOU f'; " b t e ros~erty as a 1 29 he comoended that unust stewart who was evdently a grafter t s hard to e~lan that ;h~" should we commend a ~ that would openly cheat hs employer'? rye fnd n these orental lessons there s more or less exaggeraton They pant ~ the pcture strode to ~et the attenton of the people Jesus Chrst gave a strong llustraton there of how we should seek ~or ncrease but n the rght -y Ve ahould deny a':'ay these lmtatons 1 30 --- That s the frst thng Deny the lm t~tons of ~ense ~ you want n r want prosperty you ~st egln 0 se p ~ qualty of mnd n other words when God created you he gave you a certaln : provdng thought that when you touched that thought t was lke touchng r ~ 1) ~ " t ' how that thought s al;vays f e y;:now f the button and gettng the lght 00 no t f1 d th t So~e People are so na ~a 11y prosper~~ nothng toucned but we n a
'-- ---'~- --"'-'- f '" 31 keeps prosperty sway trod the~ and we wonder why t s Other people that are ndustrous and savng and count ever~rthng and look after everythng are honest and ust they don't get ahead and we say "Well Why s t?" -Vell t s bec~use of ths pecular law of the mnd read the other day of a man n England who had had seven fortunes gven to hm and he had spent everycne of them Now you would say " do not understand There must be an ( -:~ 32 ~ 'Unust God sodewhere or there s somethng wronb wth the world to allow a thng of that knd l~obody has ever gven me a fortune and have worked ' hard and have been true and pr~d to God" Some metahpyscans say they have ta~ht prosperty and nobody has gven theo anythng Ths man had - seven fortunes;ust as fast he used up one someone gave h~ another There was an edtoral n one of the Englsh papers ~lng attenton to t and
- 33 wonder ng wh~t t was A 100"7 " ~ told ~e w-~en she a~e nt o t" ne un-' uer~tandng of ths truth she sad she seemed t 0 open ~ a realm 0 f pro ser ty she never had befo d re an whenever she wanted any thne she smply 'got rlerself n that state of mnd and all at once sooethng would cooe t o her &n d she told me of her dffere t d n emonstratons and the y were al l based Upon real servce She sad she was a wealthy woman At one t 1me she had a wealthy -7-"-"-- ~--- 34 patent She was very attentve to that patent and took a great nterest n her and then dropped her out of mnd~ she was healed and she thought no more of t l~ot lonb ago she was notfed by the probate court she had been left"a quarter of a mllon dollars from that patent You ask how that was done She had that pecular atttude pecular ablty of touchng the prospert~t button and she dd t froo vlthn 3 he ddn't work fro~ wthout
r"1 cc;; at all She lldn't try to accumulate from wthout S he ust thought of' the all provd)f; good and servce row there s a11other secret n dezoonstratng pros:perty servce "Follow me" Follow the Chrst; serve Try to do those thngj nemessary to the express on of your nnate kndness and your nnate ablty 8nd ~""ou wll be surprsed to fnd out how the lttle thngs you do lead to great results Not long ago the papers stated --_C --~-~--~~~ --"--~ -"~' '-'~~-~'O_~~ 36t -~-~ " ; a certan nurse had 'been left thr ty thousand dollars -by a man whom she had J ) " met accdentally an nvald go~ to Calforna and she had a desrable 1 berth on the pullman le wanted the berth and ddn't have any and she sad: "You oan have my berth tt and he took her name and when he ded he left her thrty thousand dollars That was ust a lttle act of kndness but t had t a large result and we f~d that ttle acts of kndness lead to great Q~~s #
v( of prosperty sometmes t s touchng that nner button of the mnd and that button Whch we call prosperty s connected wth a whole lot of other acts throug~ thoughts They come under the head of servce The commerc al world s fndng that prosperty depends on servce Do that to Whch you are prompted by the sprt wthn and f you do that you vlll be prosperous Nobody can keep you 'rom real prosperty That does not depend on outer 38 thngs They become subservent to ths nner am power and f you pray T~~t and gve yourself up to that proper medtaton on that great nfnte resource gven to you as a chld of God and look to your ~'ather as your resource and pray belevng that you have receved --quetly say to the Father day by day:"you are my resource; trust you for all good; my wll s thy wll; do thatthng whch know to be the rght _c~"_~ ~ -~c;~c~'";-~~':::
39 1 thng regardless of appearances" and you wll be prosperous You cannot help t '{obody can keep t awa~; from you Your very own wll come to you and you wll have every good thng T hs s the fulfllment of the -promse and we fnd t n all our ways -;le fnd people demonstratng ths law every day everywhere; When they gve themselves up to the servce to the honesty and ustce and rghteousness and to that realzaton that all ~ ~~'" ~ ~ 40 "'-'"""-~_ ~ ~~~"~ ~ 'J~ ~ ; that the Father hath 15 m1ne UNTY SCHOOL OF CHRSTANTY UNTY ARCHVES