Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-12

into IL or be saved by mere belief or
faith, there would be far more. har-
mony on earth today.
The world is not willing to do what
Is necessary to attain harmony. 1t has
been taught that Saving faith" Is all
that is necessary and we have not
known the way to work out our sal
walton here.
However strong a schoolboys faith
may be in his teacher and however
firm his belief that the teacher has
solved and can solve any problem, the
pupil will not gain the mastery of the
subject without actually working 1t out
and so gaining the understanding for
himself.
If mere faith or belief in Jesus is
all that Is necessary for salvation, why
are so many promises in Revelation
made to him that overcometh," and
especially
''He that overcometh shall IN
herit all things; and I will be his
God and he shall be my SOM"
(Rev 21:7.)
1t is apparent that 1t would be much
easter simply to believe something and
receive salvation therefor than to work
out our salvation by earnest and long
continued effort.
Essentials Of a Saving Power
What are the essentials or require
ments of a power that is to free human
ity from it's misery? Obviously it
must be power than is able to reveal
the cause of this misery and then to
destroy that supposed cause. 1t must
ne power that will destroy evil, all
sin and sickness. 1t must be able to
make mankind honest just, kind, in
telligent. This means that 1t must not
only supply the principle and rules for
right living, but it must make 1t posi-
BILE for men to know and to put into
practice these rules and to overcome
the opposing. power or influence that
binders mans effort to progress. 1t
must deliver man from all evil and
bring him into the consciousness of
good through spiritual understanding.
1t is our aim to show that Christian
Science Is the science of salvation in
and through Christ; that 1t reveals the
principle of being and awakens that
spiritual understanding which en2bles
us to work out our own salvation prac-
tically and effectively; that it discloses
the cause and occasion of discordant
conditions here on earth, the nature OF
the bondage that holds us to evil; that
1t reveals the absolute truth of being,
the truth about God and his universe.
including man, and the modus operandi
by which we can proceed TO Tree our
selves from evil and attain true man
hood and womanhood, In "the liberty OF
the sons of God"
Salvation Through Mind
In working out our salvation we must
first see that salvation or deliverance
from evil is a mental process, takes
place in mind; that it is transforms
tion through mind. and that 1t is both
ethical and philosophical.
The Bible declares that "to be carna1-
ly minded Is death; but to be spiritually
minded is life and peace"
All will admit that evil is primarily
mental; that evil aims and purposes,
all misjudgment, hatred, envy, jealousy,
these mental conditions must be men,
tai, through education and experience,
the awakening and establishment of
right thought. Bad habit is mental,
hence its correction Is mental even
though physical punishment be used.
If we are suffering from mistake, we
must first detect the mistake and then
correct 1t. This is a mental process.
All will concede, too, that truth is
mental so also is good. intelligence,
law and its operation; that the correc-
ton or destruction of evil with good is
neutrality-suspicious., reformation and
regeneration are mental-therefore the
healing of sin is mental.
If law is mental, the supposed law of
disease must be mental. Therefore such
wrong law can be altered, corrected
and repealed by the law of truth and
right, the law of God. A law that re-
suits in discord, Disagreement, disease,
cannot be law of right or good, hence
cannot be a law of God. Such law
therefore has no inherent power and no
principle, II is indeed no law, but only
a false claim of law.
We are all familiar with the physical
effects of fear, anger and other strong
emotions. Such effects having mental
cause, obviously can be healed mental
ly, and Christian Science teaches that
all disease, whatever its name or ma
ture, has mental origin, and is
mental phenomenon, an experience OF
the mortal material human mind, which
is healed by the divine mind.
Objection to Giving Up Matter
This leads to the troublesome ques-
tom What shall we do with matter?
The world has always resisted strongly
the idealistic teaching of the supremacy
of spirit over matter, which is taught
leading objections to the Bible today Is
this: that many of its statements are
visionary and Impractical; in fact, the
endeavor has been made to discredit
Bible records of spiritual demonstration
and to explain them materially, or
fatty deny their reliability.
In "Retrospection and Introspection,"
Mrs. Eddy says:
During twenty years prior to
my discovery I had been trying to
trace all physical effects to a mem
tai cause; and in the latter part
of 1866 I gained the scientific cer-
tainty that all causation was mind,
and every effect mental phenom-
enon."
Tha i,,,xo,.ta moo of tra roen+aI factor
the power of mind in human affairs, is
being more and more generally con-
ceded, and the day is fastening on
when the truth of Mrs. Eddy's state-
ment will be recognized.
The world hesitates toN admit that
matter Is only mental phenomenon,
because such admission refutes matters
fundamental claim to be substance and
life. Especially is mortal thought dis
inclined to consider that the divine
mind and it's ideas alone are real, and
that human phenomena are merely pro-
jected human concepts, because this
means that large part of what the
human mind has believed to be true
must be classed as false.
The Tenacity of I'll is False Belief
Abraham Lincoln voiced a distinct
Characteristic of human sense when he
said, You can fool some of the people
all the time; you can fool all of the
people some of the time; but you can
not fool all of the people all of the
time" and we may be thankful for
this fact.-but there seems to be very
dominating tendency among mortals
to believe what is not true. and to be
quite willing to believe it.
We all recall with what determina-
ton the people held to their belief that
the earth was fiat and stationary and