Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1915-11-17

out this same essential connection be-
tween Life and Love by the statement
In her work "The First Church o.
Christ. Scientist. ana Miscellany
(p. 1857. 'Life Is the spontaneity o.
Love, inseparable from Love"
To conceive OF Love as being spon
taneous Immediately brings the con
cept Of Life into thought. There
fore the consideration Of God frst a.
Mind. without an opposite mind, ther
as Life without life In matter. lead.
directly and inevitably to the gloriou.
perception OF God as Love. as uni
versal and impartial In character and
incapable Of being perverted with
jealousy, hatred. or the desire foi
revenge. In this understanding OF
God as Love humanity may rest with
the full assurance that this definition
Is final and all inclusive. More can.
not be asked Of the power govern
ing the universe. Of the creator. OF
the Father-Mother. OF the original
source OF all being. than Is comprised
in the word Love.
Since God Is Love. there Is no need
to dread the past or fear the future,
Since God Is Love. sin. sickness. sut-
fering. want and woe. apprehension
and tyranny. cannot be OF His crea-
ton. They cannot be true. real. or
in His eternal realm, They
must be mistake. illusion. error. and
Hence they are not obli-
gatory. They are not enforced by
divine law. They are illegitimste.
and abnormal. and belong
to the realm OF nothiagness. not OF
reality.
The realization OF evil as unreal
does not mean ignoring evil or ne
glecting to handle Its claims. but 1t
gives mankind the clue to Its des-
The human tendency is to
personalize evil. to call 1t somebody.
"a man or woman. Christian
Science teaches that evil Is not per-
son. but only a false claim. void. In
valid. and unreal In Gods universe.
Christian Science furthermore
teaches that evil has no prin-
ciple. 1t may seem to display
Intelligence. but that seeming
intelligence is self-destructive and
only spells its doom In the presence
Of Truth. Evil cannot really think.
II does not know or understand real
lty. It Is not the cause or origin
Of anything real. It has no real
history. displays no real quality or
quantity, but Is emptiness. vacuity.
it deals only in vain babblings and
boastings which cannot substantiate.
The practice of Christian Science Is
natural result Of its teaching. Since
God is Mind. Life, and Love. and man
is made in His image and likeness.
the real man manifests the divine
Mind. eternal Life. and imperishable
Love. When the physical scientist
desires to ascertain of what elements
the sun or any star is composed. he
takes an instrument called the spec
troscope and analyzes a ray of the sun.
By reading off on that instrument GER
tain markings called spectral lines he
Is able to declare that certain ele-
ments are to be found in the sun.
Much in the same way the student Of
Christian Science is able to analyze
the nature OF Gods man by consider
ing the nature Of God Himself. Let
the sun symbolic God; the ray pro-
ceeding from IT. man; and the spec
troscope, that understanding OF God
and man which reveals their true
natures, namely divine Science, or
Shristian Science. Then by looking
into Christian Science the student is
enabled to declare the attributes Of
God. and hence OF the man OF His
Man Indispensable
Just as the ray is an indispensable
of the sun, dependent
upon the sun and inseparable from
Il, so the real man proceeding from