Rev. Harry Gaze

By his own report, Rev. Harry Gaze began lecturing on Practical Christianity in 1898, and through the years served in many Divine Science pulpits.  These included the Church of the Healing Christ in New York City after W. John Murray and before Emmet Fox, as well as the First Church of Divine Science in Denver in the mid-1940's before Irwin Gregg succeeded him.  Rev. Gaze wrote two well-known biographies of

How To Be and Have What You Want.

First, you should endeavor to learn to be as near the perfect reflection of your own idea of God as possible, in thought and action. It may seem impossible at first thought, to even approach such a goal, but reflection upon the thought that God made you out of Himself, because He wished to see and feel Himself in you, will help you to persevere. When you first began to learn to read, no doubt you felt in your childish way that it would be wonderful to read as well as the grown-ups could; you kept on trying and then you read. Perhaps you have a big desire which you would give your life to have fulfilled. In reality it is only necessary for you to give a few moments each day to earnest effort, in getting into the spirit of this idea of God and living in it every waking hour. Then endeavor to find the Spiritual Prototype for your desire. By this I mean inhibit all thought of the physical side of your desire.If you desire a true companion, close your mind entirely to all personality and physical being, and dwell in thought and feeling on the spirit of love and true comradeship, without reference to any physical person. The person is the instrument through which these particular qualities manifest, and not the qualities themselves, as we often learn too late.