Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-26

to perfect harmonious living, tc
bring about Gods kingdom on earth
Salvation Through Mind.
''In working out our salvation we
must first see that salvation or de.
Hverance from evil is a mental pro
cess, takes place in mind; that it is
a transformation through mind and
is both ethical and philosophical.
THE bible declares that to be
carnally minded is DEATH but to
be spiritually minded is life and
peace
''All will admit that evil is primar-
lily mental; that evil aims and pur-
poses, all misjudgement, hatred,
envy, jealousy, are mental, and that
the correction of these mental condi-
tions must be mental. through edu-
cation and experience, the awaken
ing and establishment of right
thought.
I'VE are all familiar with the ply
steal effects of fear, anger and other
strong emotions. Such effects having
a mental cause obviously can be
healed mentally and Christian
Science teaches that all sin and di-
has mental origin and is a mental
phenomenon, an experience of the
mortal material human mind, which
is healed by the divine mind. In
'Retrospection and Introspection'
Mrs. Eddy says: During twenty
years prior to my discovery l had
been trying to trace all physical eff
fects to a mental cause; and in the
latter part of 1866 l gained the
scientific certainty that all causatiOn
was Mind and every effect a mental
phenomenon
Regarding Material Causation.
christian Science teaches that
matter and material existence are
of the mortal. material,
finite mind, a concept of existence
obtained through the physical senses.
a misrepresentation of reality held
by human consciousness when unin-
by Science, an appearance
instead of an actuality. 1t is simply
from a finite, dimensional, mortal
basis.
Now it is not the appearance but
only the origin that has power. in
telligence and substance. The mani
festatiOn of growth, action or being
in matter is but a material concept
of spiritual facts.
The objects, action and power
expressed in a moving picture are
nor in tho Dicture op5 vva do NOT nc
sociate them with the picture, but
with the original which the picture
reproduces. Similarly, life growth,
action, power, substance, law, ct Get
era, are not in matter. physical eX-
istenCe or the material conscious
ness; but in divine mind, the only
cause and principle of being, and
should be so thought of.
when we recognize God as the
only mind, the only cause, truth is
reflected in consciousness and ex-
silence is harmonious. When we /
believe causatiOn to be material or
n mortal mind, we put our trust .
nd dependence in a shadow, false .
,elief, and existence. so called, is
iiscordant, liable to disease. disaster,
leath. In order TO work out our sal /
alton we therefore need to under
tand causation.
Matter a ScnSc-ImpreSSiOn
Everything that we know or see
n believe, all our thoughts, acts, or
experiences go to make up our uni
-erse, our sense of existence, our
Consciousness.
e As we gain our concept of eXis-
ence largely through the physical
auses, it is very important that we
re able to weigh and sift their tes-
imony. We all know how decep-
i've these senses are. The distant
-Ouse is not actually small because
t seems so, neither does the sun
move because it appears to move.
so also hearing, taste, touch and
nell are infalIible. In fact, the
received by the senses
nd recorded mentally require ex-
lanaCion and rectification to make
hem coherent and Ineligible
These senses bring to our con-
ciousness only impressions. from
-hich we form concept of things. /
+ therefore the testimony of the
hysical senses is so unreliable and
unsatisfactory it is apparent that :
aese senses cannot be true and re-
able.
What is the true nature of sub ,