In his address on Supply, Mr. Greenwood states, “Wealth that is capable of being lost is not truly possessed, for man’s real possessions cannot be separated from himself. The means by which one may gain these permanent riches are not those of the market or the factory or the stock exchange, for they are the natural heritage of every son of God — that is, of every man. They are incapable of loss, for they are the man himself. God’s creatures are not at the mercy of chance events or changing circumstances, for they have access to those infinite resources in which there is neither lack nor loss.”

In his outstanding address, The End of the World, he tells how the present chemicalization signifies the end of the material world, with the breaking up of the materialistic forms of government, economics, business, and religion, in order to make way for the “new heavens and new earth” being brought to light by Christian Science. He writes, “It has long been a settled conclusion that the world we now live in will sometime be done away with, but the destruction of a material planet is plainly not what Jesus meant by the ‘end of the world,’ but rather the end of the material ages, or the old making way for the new. The prophets looked forward to, and in their spiritual vision saw, the coming of a better view of God’s creation — or the new heaven and earth and man.

“When Jesus said, ‘In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world’; and when Mrs. Eddy writes in the textbook, ‘The powers of this world will fight,’ they were not referring to a material planet, or to anything which God created, but to ‘the world of error’; or to that general system of things which rests upon so-called physical laws and phenomena. In other words, it is what we could define in Christian Science as the world of material thinking.

“The dominant factor in this world of materiality is physical sensation, as comprised in the five bodily senses, through which or by which mortals receive their impressions, and upon whose evidence is based the teachings of the schools. This world of sensation has ever been the battleground whereon evil seeks to overcome mankind, and to hold them captive in a bondage which is immeasurably greater than that of the Israelites in Egypt. It is this world which is in such general commotion and distress, chafing to be freed from its bonds, not knowing where to look for deliverance, and which the Bible says is to come to an end. Speaking of the conditions through which the nations have been passing, and of the signs which are to precede the end of the world as we now know it, Jesus said: ‘So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.’

“Ever since the nature of evil was exposed in the Garden of Eden, and the prophecy of the destruction of the serpent was given utterance, the world has been moving towards its end, because the concept of life and man which was evolved from the belief of matter, carries within it the seeds of its ultimate decay and disappearance.

“For a time the pure monotheism which Abraham sought to establish was maintained by his descendants, more or less intermittently, until they succumbed to the mesmerism of pagan idolatry and were carried into its captivity. There they came under the influence of standards of economy, law, and government which were entirely foreign to those given them by Moses and the later prophets.

“The twenty-five centuries of pagan domination announced by Daniel, and which Jesus referred to as ‘the times of the Gentiles,’ has come to an end; and we are now in the period between the old and the new dispensations, spoken of by Mrs. Eddy in the textbook as ‘the breaking up of material beliefs,’ the disturbances of which are to ‘continue until the end of error.’” He goes on to explain how Christian Science will be the answer to this chemicalization taking place.

In The Open Door Out of Materiality, Mr. Greenwood emphasizes the need to live and demonstrate Christian Science in daily life — not merely theorize about it. He writes: “We have become so accustomed to observing physical phenomena, that we are apt to unconsciously admit the belief that there is something we call matter, that there is something there to feel and taste and smell. Christian Science teaches that there is no matter at all, absolutely none; and we should not lose sight of this fundamental fact of right metaphysics. The belief which outlines itself as material objects, laws, and sensation, is nothing more than mesmerism, and it should be recognized as such if we are not to be victimized by its delusions.”

In Heavenly Citizenship, he tells us: “We are all more or less particular about the clothes we wear. We would not be happy to go around in rags, or in unsightly garments; but what would we think if we saw ourselves going about, dressed up in the errors we have consented to have attached to us? Would we feel smug and comfortable with nothing to hide our moral blemishes? Would we not get something more becoming to wear as soon as possible?

“The pity of it is, that we could get rid of this inner unsightliness, if we gave the same attention to making the in¬side, the physically unseen, as presentable and attractive as we do the outside. You all know that this is true. You know that if you were called upon to appear here just as you are, with your moral defects and spiritual deficiencies exposed to each other, you would all go into hiding. Then is it not time we made ourselves more presentable, so that we may stand unabashed under the searchlight of Truth!

“I am not saying these things by way of criticism or condemnation, for to some extent we are all involved in them; therefore to some extent, we all need to cultivate a heavenly discontent with the things of the flesh — with the merely sensuously beautiful as well as with the sensuously ugly.

“I do not mean that one should neglect his outward appearance, for no right-thinking person would be satisfied with a shabby exterior. What I mean is, that we should be even more dissatisfied with a shabby mentality. Our pride of character should be as exacting as our pride of person. To that end, honesty demands that we consult the mirror that will show up our temperamental and moral defects, and make the needful correction with as particular thought and care as our physical personality receives.”

The clouds of war were gathering over Europe when he wrote his address, The Weapons of Our Warfare in 1938. In it Mr. Greenwood warns of the great need to live Christian Science to its fullest if we want to escape the suffering that will eventually force us to demonstrate over mortality. He writes: “Instead of furnishing the ground for a harmonious and peaceful life, which it would do if it were of God, materiality supplies the inducement and the opportunity for breaking every commandment of the Mosaic Decalogue, as well as providing the punishment thereof. Is it not strange, when each generation of mankind, down through the ages, has run the gamut of sin and suffering, and experienced the same failure of materiality to help them to something nobler, that we are found consenting to wait for the chastisements of suffering and disappointment before being willing to turn from the emptiness of life in matter to seek the fullness of spiritual life?” He then goes on to show how we can and must rise above not only the pain, but the pleasures, of the senses into the state of mind that can no longer suffer.

In Preexistence: Taking Possession of Our Birthright, he tells us that, as sons and daughters of God, we are here and now immortal ideas of the one Mind. Moreover, we have always been so. He writes: “It is taught by the Scriptures that God is Life; and by the same token, it can be said that in Him is no death at all. In eternal Life there are no blank moments, no unfilled vacuums, no absence of living, no dreary emptiness, no broken down lives, no beginning and no end. To be what He is, God must be universal in time and space; and in this divine ever-presence, all of His creatures live in freedom from death and danger; but it is not possible to grasp the truth of man’s preexistence with the Father, or to comprehend its significance and application on the basis of physical sense. We must turn absolutely from matter to Mind as the source and condition of being, if we would rightly possess the idea of man’s essential immortality.”

In Awakening to One’s True Identity, Mr. Greenwood states: “The identity, or selfhood, we have been accustomed to regard as ours is, by its own consent, held bound to and by its mental and material limitations. These limitations are not associated with any divine origin; on the contrary, they confirm the common belief, entertained from Adam down, that we are creatures of the dust, coming from it and returning to it. Christian Science presents the reverse of all this; and if we are taking our stand on its teachings, and imbibing their spirit, each passing day should see us being released in some degree from that false selfhood, and looking higher for our place in God’s plan.

“Do you find yourself definitely in accord with this, and fully alive to its demands and its rewards? Or do you? Just what does this physical ego mean to you? The thoughts of the average person cling to it tenaciously, as though he would be lost with¬out it; and yet it is only made out of what he grows in his garden, if he has one; or of what he buys in the market. Do not most of your fears spring from the assumption that, somehow, your life and happiness depend upon it? Would you feel alarmed if you awakened some morning and couldn’t find it? And yet Jesus said that we must deny this personal ego if we would be his disciples — that is, follow him in the understanding and demonstration of spiritual life. . . .

“Let us bear in mind a dictionary definition of identity; as ‘the relation which a thing bears to itself.’ Your identity is yourself reduced to practice — in other words, the expression of what you find in yourself. This brings it very close to your daily thoughts and lives. It is like your body; you cannot get away from it. Without it, you would be a blank; but a blank is impossible, and so you fill the blank with what you find in yourself — in other words, what you mean to yourself. This constitutes your present sense of identity.

“It is a matter of the utmost importance, not only to one’s present sense of identity, but to his harmony and progress throughout time, to discover plainly just what you do mean to yourselves. You will doubtless discover much that you are not proud of, and which wisdom will prompt you to put out of the picture. This is in line with our Leader’s injunction in Miscellany, “One should watch to know what his errors are.” No one should wish for, or be satisfied with, a false identity; yet I fancy we are altogether too careless as to the kind we are con¬tent to have, or at least to put up with. . . .

“‘The time for thinkers has come,’ writes Mrs. Eddy in Science and Health, and that refers to Christian Scientists as well as to others. The demand upon us is to be giving some intel¬ligent consideration to our individual places in the divine plan of creation. Nothing exists by chance. We have an abiding rela¬tion to the infinite source of things, for Truth does not waste time or thought upon things which are not good enough to remain permanently. There is no place for mental or spiritual idleness, when so many world problems are waiting for our attention, for we are part of that world, and cannot escape our share in its re¬demption. Before we can accomplish this successfully, we must know something of ourselves, for we can only work from the standpoint of our own enlightenment.”

He writes in his introduction: “The following pages are the outgrowth of Bible study, undertaken during the late years for the special purpose of tracing the rise, development, and course of that great spiritual movement spoken of in the Scriptures under the name of Israel, and at the same time of arriving at a better understanding of the relation which undoubtedly exists between prophecy and history, particularly with reference to the present period and events. . . . The footsteps of Israel, therefore, are the footsteps of humanity spiritually awakening to the facts of divinity.”