Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1913-02-07

true God, and Jesus Christ whom
thou has sent These sayings of the
Master and others which might be
quoted imply a distinction between
the reality OF life and its semblanee,
and they imply that regeneration and
salvation consist in gaining and
realizing the truth OF being
The failure to perceive this vital
fact has perpetuated the ancient and
fatal mistake that the fulfillment of
human hope and faith depends on
dying. Even now the majority of
Christians appear to regard the king
dom of God or kingdom of heaven as
n situation TO be gained, partly or
wholly by dying. They expect to be
ushered into the fulness of life by
means of death. When you consider
this as an original proposition, such
a belief is like saying that one
moves toward an object by going In
the opposite direction. The only con-
nection that death can have with
abundant and eternal life is that it
is one of the negations of being, or
evils which must be overcome in
order to attain complete heaven or
harmony. Such is the teaching of
Christ Jesus.
THE New Testament shows that
he referred 10 his message or teach
ing as The Gospel of the Kingdom,
and of this kingdom of God or king.
dom of heaven, he said much in para
BILE, but several things explicitly. He
said 1t is at hand Chat ia to say,
it is present and within reach) he
said it is within us (Which is to
he said it comes upon you as devils
or evils are cast out; and he prayed
for his followers, not that they
should be taken out of the world,
but that they should be kept from
the evil.
According to these sayings
heaven is not tn sequence of DEATH
ii is an active and living state of
goodness. 1t is gained not by dying.
but by right living. 1t must be at
t1ined by expelling evil from human
Consciousness so that the individual
may reflect the life that is God. I'M
mortality is the manifestation by
man of the divine life 1t is the re-
Election by man of the divine mind.
st. Paul stated the necessity of the
case when he said, Let this mind be
in you which was also in Christ
Jesus
From these premises the conclu-
sion follows that the way to heaven
is not through death, but through
spiritual development and mental
embodiment. Salvation is progressive
and its day is now. To be born again
is to awaken from the dream of life
in matter 1t is to forsake material
belief and gain spiritual understand
ing or divine consciousness. 1t oc-
ours and goes on as the darkness of
evil is dispelled by the light of truth
and love until the mortal element of
the so-called human mind is COM
pletely displaced by the divine idea.
Our present situation was stated
by st. John in these words, 'Belov ID.
now are We the sons of God, and it
doth not yet appear what we shall
be- He did not mean that we shall
ever be different from what we real
ly are. He meant that we are now
the sons of God though the reality
of being doth not yet appear. He
did not foresee loss of identity; he
discerned the realization of true
identity. With entire consistency
Mrs, Eddy has said The real, ideal
man appears in proportion as the
false and material disappears. Nor
tails will disappear, and immortals,
or the children of God, will appear
as the only and eternal veritus of
man. (Science and Health, PIP. SO,
476.)"