St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-02-13
man as a spiritual, not a material

Does this sound strange? Is the ma
terial more real to You than the spirit
| ual? One must be real and the other
unreal. Both cannot be real and occu-
py being. If spirit is infinite, it must
be really everywhere present, and no
space remains for the material and
infinite. Jesus said: my kingdom is
not of this world" and moreover,
'heaven is among you," and
proved it by talking with God as
everywhere and ever present. This is
Jesus teaching, anG the personal senses
cannot in the least understand it, for
they see materiality which is myth of
their own creating, but they know this
not, and never will, for materially
fades to them only as they themselves
expire. When we thus separate the
wheat from the tares and understand
how 1T is that the spiritual is real and
the material unreal, as Jesus did, we
have the truth He knew and can do His
healing works on the same basis. And
unto us who have thiS understanding
will this promise be fulfilled: with
what measure We mete it shall be meas
| ured to you again." The sin Of the
world is the false sense of belief that we
are mortal and material. The belief of
mans fall is in the false supposition OF
material organ and existence, SEEM
ingiy traced back to a mortal and mate
rial parent. This is the serpent-lie to
which we are in bondage to matter, sick
that God is the only Father, Mother,
the only source of life, destroys the lie,
and so destroy its effects of disease ma
terlality and death (the last enemy.) If
we are not able to vanQuiSh death in the
present generation, the lesser works
that are done poiIlt to the defeat of this
enemy in the future. Following this
train OF reasoning, we can say, since
God is our life it cannot be that the ma
terial blood is the life, or that it sus-
tains life. The first idea, that spirit is
life, is true, the second thought, that
the blood is the life, must necessarily
be false. Even as Jesus stated: sit is
the spirit that quickeneth, the flesh
profiteth nothing" John vi, 90.
The False Belief
that blood is the life, or supports life.
produces sickness; the true IDEA that
spirit is life destroys the false thought,
thereby removing the cause of sickness
and bringing health to light. To heal
the sick thus in the understanding of
divine science is simple enough; but to
gain that understanding is no child's
play, and great sacrifice of material
unScientitic beliefs precedes it. These
must be given up to attain to the nee
eSSary spiritual discernment.
This discernment teaches us the ON
impotence of God, and we understand
how it is that "God is all in ALL" and
any material presence a myth. The
omnipresent actuaity of spirit sets US
free from the claims OF mythical matter;
and our lives become living demon
stration of Jesus promise. 1.-The truth
shall set you free" Free from the false
claims of death, sin and sickness; for
false they are, since God gave them no
actually nor claim to actually, as is
proven by Scripture, as follows: 1.-The
law of sin is death" Chen death is not
Gods law. I'VE are dead in your
SINS" hence sin is found in death and
not in life, that is, not in God. Il came
to fulfill Gods law" said Jesus,
and then babe the sick man,
Take up tiny bed and walk" thus
teaching health, not sickness, to be Gods
law.
AS long as man will insist upon cling
ing to mere words, or an understanding
of them which cannot do the works of
Jesus, he has no proof that the doctrines
Of Jesus are true. The proof of any
thing is in its practical application; and
until we gain such ideas of Jesus words
as will do his works, we have no proof
whatever that his. words or actions were
true. Certainly he said his words were
spirit ard life, yet as long as the use of
these words continue in us, sickness,
sin and death, they contradict this state
ment. But when they convey to us such
an understanding as will destroy this trio
OF evils, they prove him to be the teach
CT of truth. He declared himself to be
the Son of God, Zone with the Father"
and protested to do his work upon that
principle. But if we have only his
whether his miracles were not mes
merc, sleight of hand, etc, magnitied
as they were passed down through the
centuries. On the other hand the only
undeniable evidence that they were the
demonstrations of divine law is to gain
an understanding of the principle of
mans sonShip in God. or oneness with
the Father, and do these same works
From That Standpoint.
When the Master sent His followers to
preach the gospel, He stated that the
"signs following" would be the healing
of the sick. Not that healing sickness
is the OBJECT of Christianity, but it is the
effect of the actual destruction or sin;
and only when this healing follows do
we know sin is destroyed through divine
principle.
Finally, the Scriptures direct the sick
to call in the elders of the church, who
shall pray and anont with oil, and the
promise is that recovery shall follow
and the sin be forgiven. This command
is often complied with today in the let
ter, but no healing follows. Why? Is
not the prayer and the oil etfectual?
Was Jesus mistaken?
No! ana there is but one explanation
regarding the failure. The conditions
as to prayer and amounting with oil haV-
ing been fulfilled, the prayer must be at
fault. 1t is vain to deny this. What is
the fault in the prayer? 1t is without
understanding, which is the spirit, the
words being the letter. People say God
is all power and yet give medicine to
raise the sick. This proves they do not
believe what they say.
A few years since the whole civilized
world prayed for the recovery Of one
man. All the prayers were unanswered.
This was not certainly etfectual prayer.
1.-The fervent effectual prayer OF the
righteous man availeth much," but
here was the fervent prayer of millions
availiDg nothing. which proves there
was not one righteous Fright mind man
among them all.