The weekly true Democrat. (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1905-1912, 1905-05-19

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divine Principle, He Is expressed active
ly and operatively in divine ideas. These
must be sought and entertained until
thought is transformed.
MAN.
II the facts which have been declared
in reference 10 God are admitted, then
man, His image, must be something
more than that which we ordinarily see.
Christian Science denies that the evil
dence Of the five material senses can be
accepted as absolute in reference TO
man, his real being, his health or his
life. Generally speaking, man is thought
TO be both material and spiritual. II Is
declared that he il mortal that is, that
he must die-and yet that he is the inn
age and likeness Of God; or, in other
words, the image and likeness of inn
mortal life When he il dead it is sup
posed that he will begin 10 be immOr-
tai Christian Science shows that such
theories do not reveal the truth about
man. II declares that man is not ma
terial, and that mortal cannot be the
image and likeness Of God, who is inn
mortal, but is only the pr .sentatiOn Of
the evidence Of the senses. Mans inn
mortality and real being is discerned in
HCleUCt, tHTIbLihU DCltuCtt LleItlOItg
looks away from materiality in cOnsid-
cring man, and declares that the image
and likeness Of God, or Life, must be
spiritual and everything. Man must be
like Good 10 be like God, like Truth,
like Love; he must be the likeness of
the divine Mind, the image Of divine
Principle. This true likeness dlscerned
in Science is the true self that all men
should seek, and they should not mani
fest any other self. Such a course
means health and harmony to those who
follow IL.
THE EVIDENCE or THE SENSES
We are all more or less familiar with
the-truth that even physical science dis
Germs facts above the evidence of the
senses and contrary thereto. AS for the
realm Of thought which we characterize
as religious or spiritual, it would not
even exist II one we're to accept merely
the evidence of the senses. Faith the
substance Of things hoped for, the evil
dence OF things not SEEM according 10
st. Paul, receives no encouragement
from the testimony Of the senses, for,
according to that, man Is material and
and his life between the cradle
and the grave Is all there Is Of him.
According TO this same testimony, mat
ter is all, and Spirit, or God, Is a myth.
But nobody, not even the most materi-
ally minded, accepts the evidence Of the
sense without reservation. Not a prayer
II uttered on earth that is not virtual
declaration against such evidence.
Christians rise above it continually, and
should do 30 still more. Christian Sci
ence shows how TO accomplish this. II
hg In ~ "a rat
K eat Cause, but II IN vastly more diff
cult not 10 do 30. II may be difficult TO
conceive Of God as Spirit and man az
spiritual but II this be not true there
Is no God, no Cause. Indeed, all that
relst - 70 God Is contrary to the testi
mOny OF TIE senses.
II II clear, therefore, that we do
nothing unusual in denying the evil
denCes OF the senses. but Christian Sci
ence IL unusual In making this denial
when anything exists or arises
that Is contrary to the harmony OF man,
NO DENIAL OF EXISTENCE.
An erroneous notion prevails that
Christian Scientists deny the reality of
things. They do no such thing. They
affirm the external existence of all
things. including man and all the func-
tons Of man. Christian Science, how
ever, does resolve things into thoughts
and dec lares that all exist in their per-
feet individual reality and proper order
In the divine Mind Conversely il de-
MES the materially Of things, and In
that denial, includes all the discordant
conditions that material things mani
fest. Christian Science shows how the
body II controlled by mentality, con.
sciOusly or unconsCiously. all the time.
The object OF It's practice IL TO establish
consciously the control of the divine
Min = over the body through the declar-
alton Of the Truth and the denial Of all
that In unlike IL az revealed in Christian
Science. This process demands the
highest morality and spirituality on the
part OF the practitioner in order to be
successful. Christian Scientists are
endeaVoring to purify the sense and
self and yet il is sometimes said that
they have no baptism. They are en-
deavoTing 10 commune consciously and
constantly with good, with God, and
yet II In said they have no communion,
Why, Christian Science practice in
wolves both baptism and communion in
the highest sense.
COMPARISONS WITH OTHER SYSTEMS.
Various systems Of healing are ex-
tant. They are all more or less ma
terial except Christian Science, which
represents more and achieves proper
tiOnately more than any other because
II Is purely metaphysical, resting upon
a spiritual basis. II has healed almost
every diReaRe known 20 humanity and