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its manifestation, as Mind and its
ideas-perfect and harmonious
Hence he understands the unreality
OF matter and evil and knows that
man is not sick but that the patient
is simply suffering from a false mes.
meric belief From that standpoint
he proceeds to correct the errors
and thus established harmony on a
spiritual. scientific basis.
THE patient is not improved
merely physically, but morally and
spiritually as well. because the di-
vine Mind. God, has reached his con-
scionsness. His belief i'm matter, sin
and disease is lessened and the un-
Outstanding and love Of God. of His
Christ, and of the Bible is greatly
increased. He has begun to let that
mind be i'm him which was also in
Christ Jesus, the sound mind which
st. Paul declared God has given us.
Thus it is seen that it is not the
human mind that does the healing,
but divine Truth which is brought
to bear upon the case by reflection.
Truth is reflected by knowing. The
human mind reflects Truth by know
ing Truth, knowing God Alright.
This is cardinal point in Chris
tan Science healing, that it is God,
divine Mind that does the healing
and not human thought In Chris
tan Science healing the human
sense serves only as a vehicle for
Truth. 1t is the Truth alone that
effects results.
Cause Of Sickness and Sin.
sickness is the result OF mes
merism, illusion. The sick are
asleep i'm the mesmerism of material
sense and need to be awakened to
mans true existence as Gods child
Christian Science shows us the way
to do this.
$50 also sin and all evil are mes
meric illusion. Sin is INDUCED in be-
cause the sinner believes that there
is some good or pleasure in it, some
advantages to be gained by indul-
SeHCe. MS Dtlitl Ill eVli 5 realty
and the pleasure ii promises is its
only strength, and when Christian
Science reaches the thought OF the
sinner and convinces him that sin
confers no pleasure and is but an
illusion, and that Indulgence in it re-
suits only in suffering and bondage,
the foundation of his belief is broken
and through the Christ love he
awakens TO new life and is healed.
If God is the infinite alf is Omni,
potent, omnipresent, omniscient good,
as the Bible teaches, evil can have
neither power nor existence.
Jesus said of evil simply 1T is a
liar and the father of it., and he
evil in the only way it can be
solved, viz. by denying and destroy
ing it. al
Two-Fod Process in Healing.
Another cardinal point in Chris
tan Science heading is that it works
from the standpoint of the unreality
Of matter and evil and thus proves
the allness and supremacy of God.
1t includes the knowing and atfirma-
ton of Truth: the recognition and
denial of error.
Some people do not understand
why it is necessary TO deny matter.
The reason is simply this, that the
belief in the reality of matter seems
so strongly established in human
consciousness through heredity, en-
vironment and education that the
mere acknowledgment or declara-
ton of the allness of God does not
always beget the conviction of the
unreality of matter; and the specific
denial of matter aids in destroying
or lessening this claim in the hn-
man consciousness.
Mrs. Eddy Loved and Honored.
1T is not to be wondered at, in
deed it is inevitable, that Christian
Scientists should love Mrs. Eddy for
having brought to the world this
Science of Salvation, the true knOwl-
edge of God and His Christ, the
spiritual understanding OF the Holy
Scriptures which enables them to
know themselves and to demonstrate
that saving faith" which alone
leads to heaven.
I'VE love her not only for the
revelation of the demonstrable
Christ Truth, which is contained in
her wonderful book, Science and
Health with Key to the Scriptures
and her other writings, but for her
conservation and devotion to the
great religious movement she inaug-
urated. leading on her great Cause
in its stately progress.
Those of us who have known her
personally and who have had the
great privilege Of being under her
supervision realize in some degree
what an extraordinary woman she
was.
Her spirituality, her love to God
and her desire TO be Obedient only
to Him, and to follow the example
Of the Master-these characteristics
made her such a great Leader.
Mrs Eddy did not simply state
her discovery to the world; she first
demonstrated it and then offered it