Arizona republican., 1915-01-15

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A mentanty which has been thus
corrected by the right idea of good is
one mat is mentally alive or awake
TO metaphysical facts, and is dying
! DAILY to sense testimony. Wherever
the Christ activity has begun to find
expression in individual consciousness.
pehoid a better man or woman, one
VINO Is more practical, more honest.
more loving, more sympathetic, more
generous. more considerate, more cap
dpie IN every respect There is not a
single human activity that is not "
perlencing this leavening and healing
influence of the Christ idea today. Dis
! obedience to Gods law is what retards
normal human progress. while obedi-
ence to it leads Immediately to a pres
ent participation in all that makes for
the mental. moral and physical upiift
Of humanity.
MRS. EDDY
Mary Baker Eddy, the acknowledged
DlscoVerer and Founder of Christian
Science, was truly wonderful woman
Her genuine nobility of character, her
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bounded love for God and humanity,
her untiring labors for the good of
mankind, her sublime courage and
trust, made her one of the worlds
greatest of religious Leaders and
Teachers. The one dominating fea-
ture of her life was that she had
learned the meaning of Love and how
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alike. She claimed no infallibility nor
sought any personal ACKNOWLEDGMENT.
Those who knew her best affirm that
she was a wise spiritual counselor and
q true friend. The spirit of Christian
charity controlled her every thought
and action. When she was reviled she
reviled not again. She said of her for
mer church: 4 love the orthodox
church. and in time that church will
love Christian Science" (Miscellane-
Gus Writings, page ILL Christian Sci
ence did not originate in Mrs. Eddy's
human mind. 1t was the Christ idea
Of the oneness and allness of divine
Mind that found expression in her pu
rified mentality. She had reached
purified mental height which made it
possible for the Christ consciousness to
assert itself as the law and dominion of
good. She yielded willing and loving
obedience to this spiritual evangel, and
as a result of this obedience Christian
healing is again an established fact in
our midst. The Christian Science text
book. Science and Health. with Key to
The Scriptures" is the natural and logi-
cal outcome of Mrs. Eddy's unsettled
devotion and fidelity to the spiritual
idea. 1t is doubtful whether any one
of her followers has as yet been able
to feel or to express his full measure
of gratitude for what has come to the
world through the devotion and self
sacrifice of this noble woman 1t can
not well be measured by any human
standard. The dawning of the spiri-
tual idea in Mrs. Eddy's Love-chas-
tened consciousness is the greatest
mental phenomenon that could ever be
experienced by human being. Its
importance to the human race is be-
You'd comparison. 1t is the resurrec-
ton ard the life" to all who humbly
appropriate it and begin to live ac-
cording to its divine requirements.
LIFE HOW LEARNED
Nothing could be more fatal to ones
happiness and success than to enter
tain mistaken sense of life. The
Christ method of learning Life is m ade
plain in Christian Science. 1t is so
simple and practical that young and
old alike may readily adopt it. The
Master clearly defined eternal Life, and
Christian Science has adequately in
terpreted his words: This is life
eternal. that they might know thee
the only true God, and Jesus Christ,
whom thou has sent" In the light of
Christian Science it is evident that a
right knowledge or understanding of
God and His Christ makes us the in
heritors of Life eternal here and now
Such knowledge is absolutely depend
ent upon scientific or right thinking.
RIGHT THOUGHTS
The acceptance and adoption of right
thoughts or ideas inaugurates in ndi-
Vidual consciousness an activity which
dissipates all wrong thinking, and must
eventually destroy all belief in sin and
death. The advent of this mental awak-
ching in individual experience marks
our entrance into eternal life Every
Kind act on our part, every loving sac
rifice for the good of others, means
just so much of deathless Life for us
here and now; in other words, the more
permanent becomes our sense of Life.
Malice. envy and hatred, all sinful
thinking. brings suffering and death
into the world. Right thinking brings
health and peace and joy and life As
the apostle expressed it: ITO be car
nally minded is death: but to be spiri-
tually minded is life and peace" The
deathless Christ-idea spake through
Jesus: Il am the light of the world:
he that followeth me shall not walk in
darkness, but shall have the light of
life. How shall We follow the great
WayshoWer except as we begin to
think as he thought? His whole life
was one continuous service of thinking
and doing good. His mission on earth
was to abolish from consciousness all
thought of death. and to bring life and
immortality to light through the gos-
pei" Could this have been done through
any human power. mind or intelli-
gence? No, Jesus wrought through the
divine idea which forever expresses Gi-
vine wisdom. power and intelligence.
Without the operation of this divine