Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-11
IMMORTALITY SHOWN
IN TEXT BOOKS OF
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
SIMPLE LOGIC OF ETERNAL
LIFE is DISCLOSED
Mrs. Eddy's Revelations Shatter Sup
position That Decomposins Ele-
ments Can Have Origin in
Pure Source

The question of the Immortality of
man has engaged the worlds best
thought ever since the first awakening
of hope in the human mind. A theme
all-absorbing, it has held the attention
of sage and philosopher, poet ana
prophet, theologian, student and SCOT
fer. since the beginning OF history Inc
! individuals unquenchable desire for
! life has led him to hope for an exist
ence above and beyond the limited
scene of his present activities, and this
human hope has attained progressively
an actual knowledge of God which ex-
claims in spiritual conviction, Il know
that my Redeemer liYeth."
The Christian Science text book re-
veals to the world the simple logic OF
immortal life. and so lifts thought from
! its wearying speculations concerning
a future immortality, into compre-
hension and enjoyment of present
| knowledge of immortality.
Illustration Is Simple
A very simple illustration may be of
service: In mathematics, it is eternally
true that two and two are four So
! long as Mind shall think, two and two
by reason of basic law, must be four
At any period of time any mortal may
| believe two and two to be five, or seVen
! or nine, ana NIllIG ne IL 81 lS ellllB biC
| truth about two and two is hidden from
! his view in just the same way that i'm
| mortality is imperceptible to the NOR
! tai During this period of mistaken
| belief no mathematician would agree
with the ignorant one that two and two
are five, nor that they will become four
| when the blackboard bearing the fig
/ ures falls into decay, nor when the mis-
| take is corrected. Despite a multitude
of erroneous beliefs about it. two and
] two were, and will be, unchanged in
| their result, even while belief claims
! mistaken conclusion. The statement of
mathematics admits that If two and
two are ever to be four, they make the
| sum of four now and always. In just
| this way the religionist must admit that
! if man is ever to be immortal he is
| immortal now AS the truth about two
| and two needs to be discovered, even so
| the truth of being awaits recognition,
and as it is unveiled, it is seen that
erroneous believing never made man
mortal, any more than it has made the
sum of two and two, five.
Mans Immortality
| Again, it must be admitted that any
! portion of a man or manhood which is
some time to enjoy Immortality is i'm
mortal now. and that the mortal is just
! as untrue now, in fact, as it ever will
be. Even if it be argued that mortality
must die in order that the immortal
! shall survive and flourish, reason grants
that that which is to survive partakes
of the nature of the eternal now and
always, else it could not survive. That
which outlives the transient is not of a
| transient nature. To transcend the
passing error it must hold within itself
the vitality of immortality. And as the
| fact about two and two remains eter-
nally apart from the false belief about
| iself in like manner the immortality of
man never enters the dream of NOR
tality, but dwells serenely in its own
spiritual continuity, established in eter-
nal Truth.
The teaching of Christian Science
makes clear the fact that only the like
ness and image of God is immortal.
The passing and perishing mortal has
endeavored to claim for himself Gods
| fatherhood, but the translucent logic of
Mrs. Eddy's revelation to the world
skaters the supposition that the de-
! composing elements of mortality can
| have origin In a pure and perfect
source. That which expresses God, is
Gods likeness, and all which falls short
of manifesting the nature of God, is no
more His offspring than is the mistake
about two and two an outgrowth of
mathematical law.
Individual Requirement
| The individual requirement. then, is
this: The one who would find and en-
| joy something of Immortality today,
must busy himself in rejecting. in
thinking. in being and doing all that is
| like God. Whatever shows forth the
divine, enfolds within itself all that is
| immortal. Whatever IS carnal makes
for mortality. Paul had discovered this
when he assured the followers of Christ
at Rome that the wages of sin is
] r~sFN AF NA1 fu afa Il
! life through Jesus Christ our Lord
The good thought then, the unsettled
! impulse. the purified spiritualized de-
! sire, are immortal now; for they hold
within themselves that which lives for
ever; and they bear glad witness to the
bright shining of the ever-present king
dom of heaven which Christ Jesus de-
clared to be within" the thinking of
the pure in heart.
The pages of Mrs. Eddys book,
Science and Health, with Key to the
| Scriptures" hold loving directions for
each mortal who would begin today to
lay aside his mortality that immortality
may be brought to light To cease
from all wrong thinking, to open the
windows of thought heavenward that
| divine Love may flood its light into
every sim -darkened nook and Granny of
heshly instinct and impulse, is to rise
into ones immortality here and now;
and that this may be accomplished
| Christian Science has come into the
world. For this purpose and to this
end Mrs Eddy has labored and loved.
Mortality Wrongly Taken
So limited has been the scholastic
grasp of Christ Jesus life and teach
ing that mortality has been accepted
for earth. and immortality left for
future and far-away heaven. Locality,
! rather than a state of consciousness,
has been supposed to determine i'm
mortality.
The message of Christian Science has
been sorely needed by a stupefed
world which has waited for death to
usher it into life and Immortality Had
| Christian Science done no more for
mankind than to show it the incon-
sistency of trying to find Life by dying,
ii would have inaugurated an era of
freedom. It has. however, done more.
II has revealed step by step, the way
10 find Life by living, so that the
Frightening pathway to perfect immor-
tality now stretches its shining length
before the upward-toiling Christian
and CLEANS of the immortal find their
way into today, Here little and
there a little" the immortal appears,
the mortal disappears and Gods king
| -, oo,,,as shining aWaV the shadows