FOREWORD
Agnes M. Lawson
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The Colorado College of Divine
Science
Denver, 1920.
There are
two ways of intelligently reading the
Bible. One is the very reasonable method
of modern scholarship, which gives us the
authorship, growth, compilation and
literary values of the Scriptures
together with their historic
background.
The other is
to read in order to discern the
revelation which God made of Himself to a
“peculiar people”--peculiar
in their supreme desire to know God; to
ascertain man’s relationship to
that God and for the inevitable
consequence of this appropriated
knowledge, the uplifted
consciousness.
The first
way is the method of scholarship and has
high cultural values, the second is
spiritual and is revelatory of the will
of God.
There is
another Bible than the printed page, it
lies deep in the true nature of Man.
Eternal life is man’s only as he
becomes the living Book. God’s
purpose in man is His own self
expression.
When each
can say with conviction of its Truth,
“He that hath seen me hath seen the
Father,” we shall have found
Religion itself, the one great Idea which
is able to weld into one all of the
children of men. True education is the
subtle combination of the intellectual
and the spiritual, a union which alone
can break down the middle wall of
partition which false religions have
erected between man and the vital
thing--the discovery and revelation of
Jesus Christ.
Divine
Science is the straight and narrow way to
freedom of intellect and power of Soul.
The Divine Science College desires to
make this royal union and present it to
man to a degree that is not surpassed by
any institution in the world. So it is
with joy that I dedicate this book to the
corps of noble workers of this College,
and to its president, the Reverend Nona
L. Brooks, and acknowledge my gratitude
for the absolute consecration of her life
and work.
At one with
this desire of the Colorado College of
Divine Science, I desire to present to
the world a religion that is narrow alone
in its perception of the definitions and
accuracy of Truth, but as broad and ample
as the needs of man in its applications.
The world is ready for such a new
presentation of the age old Truth that
Jesus demonstrated and taught.
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