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| A strange anomaly meets ms IN nre-
senting this scientific Truth. Chris
| tians, devout and earnest who have
STUDIED the Bible prayerfully and low
insly' are surprised that we should
deny the reality of sin. disease and
death. We do not deny that they are
very real to the carnal or human mind.
but as the Christ Mind DESTROYS them
they must be illusions of the material
senses. IL is difficult to understand
| ms tenacltN in holding onto this false
evidence of the senses for the reality of
tne unseen and spiritual is not only
christian. but it is in accord with the
! tnought or the greatest philosophers
anu poets that have glorified human
genus and progress from Socrates to
the German Observation-Disclosures. Elmer
son and Carlyle. 1t is the Christians
sweetest privilege TO look not at the
seen and temporal, but ut the unseen
ana eternal The apostle declares
faith, mental condition. to be Sub
| stance, the Substance OF things hoped
Ior the evidence OF things not seen"
! rms is plain statement of Christian
! Sclehce or Christian metaphysics; we
! nave tailed to see its force and beauty
because we have not understood the
meaning OF the word Substance as
Paul understood it. in its true original
sense. Sub-stans. that which is the
cause OF, true phenomena. y more lit
erai translation of faith as Paul gives
! II Is conricfion of unseen realities. This
/ is Wesley's and Canon Farrars trans
lation of cridcncc OF things not seen and
tnis CONNECTION of unseen realities is the
! Christian Science understanding of
| this text. The conviction of mans un-
seen perfection in God is the Substance
or cause of the glorious phenomena de-
scribed i'll the 1lth chapter of He
orews-this chapter on faith. "By Ghis)
| iaith Enoch was translated that he
should not see dcath.-by faith the
walls of Jericho fell down. by faith
they subdued kingdoms. wrought right
eousneSS. stopped the mouths OF lions,
Iuenched the violence of fire, escaped
! the edge of the sword.-women received
their dead raised to life again. If
this mental condition called faith is the
Substance or Cause of this glorious
phenomena. does it not seem that this
same conviction should bring about the
| terizc an Christians? This faith is
more than blind trust. it is the under
standing of the infinite Perfection that
includes all reality-thc recognition OF
an eternal Principle governing all and
holding man forever perfect in His
Mind.
This divine idealism brings into prac-
teal manifestation in the ..uman mind
and body and environment. harmony.
health. Immortality. We are told in
the Epistles that it will change this
vile body into tho likeness of His Elori-
our body" it rcvcrscs material evil
dcnce, denies physical causation, and
turns our gaze and coutcmpla ton to
the pure ideal in Mind. While we
look not at the things which are seen.
hut ut the things which are not seen;
for the things which arc seen are tenn
poral. but the things which arc not seen
are eternal" Must ii not be Christian
to recognize the evcr-prcscnt Love and
Life. their omnipotencc and omni-
science. and deny all that denies them,
no matter what the material evidence
may be? This is what Jesus did when
he raised the little maid. and when he
said. "shc is not dead. she sleeps. they
laughed him to scorn."
Yet this one thing so clearly taught
In the Scriptures. and illustrated by
Jesus. is the one thing that the mate
rialism of this age finds it SO difficult
In accept. We read that the Messiah
was to come Ito Judge not by the hear
ing of the ear nor the seeing Of the eye
but to Judge righteous judgment"
Jesus rcproached the Jews. "Yc judge
after the flesh" 'Dou you judge ac-
cordnE To Appearances" was Paul's
reproach TO the philippians.
The only possible explanation Of this
glorious healing is in the Christian
Science statement. All is Mind and it's
manifestation. The divine or Christ
Mind embraces within itself all true
phenomena, immortal, harmonious man
and universe. The carnal or sinful
human mind expresses itself in matter.
sonal sense that Jesus declared to he
as "A lie liar. and father OF lies"
Plato said. What thou seest that thou
bc-cst. The Scriptures declare that las
a man hintrH in his heart so is he
Christian Science is the Science of di-
vine thinking-t thinking Lovc--thinking
discriminating hcalth-good harmony.
! And as we have seen that Non9ht.
faith, is Substance. we know that this
dirnc thinking or kmoming God is eter-
Mis- a
word of Love and Life will heal i'll one
age, it surely will in another. il must
he an eternal Christ Science or knowing
| Good Jesus taught so clearly that the
wrong thought WAS as sinful as the act.
for the act was the manifest M0nght:
the wrong thought or NOTICE is the sin,
and makes the sinner
Think truly and thy thought
| Shall the worlds great famine feed,
| Live truly and thy life
Shall be n grand and noble deed
The divine thought produces the
| health that is holiness and the holiness
| that is health. and there really is no
other, the sinful thought or basis pro
| duces discord and disease. We thus
! see that Christian Science healing and
| teaching is the very foundation stone
! of all ethics. Which basis shall we
| choose? This deep ana spiritual sense
| of the omnipotence Of Love and Truth
| is only reached through practical de-
monstration. III YOU will do the WILL
ye shall know the doctrine" The heal
| ing is not the end, it is the means to
the end: The divine knorinG by proof
that cool is aH. II may be interesting
10 hear OF Il recent simple case of heal
| ing in my experience. y lovely young
| girl came to me for treatment of her
eyes. She had been in charge of one
! of the most distinguished ocuists of
| this country for several years. for
| inflammation.
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