The Delta independent., 1915-03-26
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mental TRANSPORTATION progresses, dis
ease, sin, sorrow, poverty and the linn
itations of old age will disappear and
the spiritual, real man will begin to
appear. When this Transformation
shall have been completed we shall
then see man and the universe as
wholly spiritual as they now appear
to God and as they have always ap-
peared to God, for God has never seen
His children nor His creation through
mortal eyeglasses. He has always
seen us as spiritual, and hence to Him
we have always been perfect. In that
day we shall know, as in fact we have
now learned, that nothing that God
made is material or ever needs to be
healed, and that the only thing that
needs to be healed is our own false
concept of that which He has made
perfect.
II all this were only a theory peo-
pie might be justified in refusing to
accept it. but Christian Science prac-
titioners are proving daily in all parts
of the civilized world that by holding
the perfect man in concept, by know
ing that man is spiritual and perfect
and by arguing steadfastly from the
standpoint of the reality of good in
stead of from the standpoint of the
supposed reality of evil, the sick are
~ nd In inn.
prove.
Christian Science. therefore. is prov
! ing step by step that the declaration
made by Jesus is true. and that in pro-
fills human consciousness. driving out
error and false beliefs, men and wo-
men come into the possession here
and now of their God-given domain.
Mental causation
! know how difficuat a thing ii is
for people who are unacquainted with
the teachings OF Christian Science to
understand what is meant by mental
causation. Humanity has been ac-
customed through so many centuries
to consider that all causation is vested
7 in matter. that when we begin to
discuss the subject of mental causa-
tion We are dealing with something
that rs unfamiliar to many. When l
first turned to Christian Science. ! did
SO for physical healing. and ! was
healed under circumstances that ad-
Z - don haf \ ha hAa
healed !, therefore. became deeply
convinced that Christian Science must
be the truth, because 1t had wrought
in me SO great a change. When l was
itelligence or sensation in the human
body, said that the thing was so
manifestiy absurd that no intelligent
person could believe in II for a mo-
had been healed through Christian
Ccience, came very near turning my
back upon it. Instead of doing so.
however. determined to make an
what Christian Science meant by the
statement that there is no intelligence
or sensation in the mortal body.
/ had not proceeded very far before
j found that the statement was true
and then l found that II was necesar'
lily true. and then ! began to wonder
why / myself had not thought of II
long before. because 1t appeared sc
perfectly plain and obvious. II was
pointed out to me that this body
which people worship and fear. and
which most people get down on their
knees before every day and say to
III, "Oh, body, what can do for you
today. TO keep you from hurting me?'
is composed of something over 20 pei
cent of water. and that the balance
of II is chalk. lime starch, potash and
a few other things-that 1t is matter
Just as truly as the ingredients of the
!. dirt and wood are matter.
then learned that there could be
no more intelligence or sensation In
matter when in the form Of flesh
bones and nerves than when in the
form of dirt or stone. which fact Is
proved whenever an opiate is given &c
a person and the human mind is put
to sleep. The body may then be cut
and gashed and the nerves lacerated
without the slightest indication of in
teiligence or sensation.
thus learned that sensation and in
telligepce do not reside in the human
body apart from the human mind.
Some day all mankind will recog
nize the immeasurable service that