Arizona republican., 1915-01-15


of good and evil is in absolute need
of saviour is the first to acquaint
| himself with God and to be at peace.
LOVE FOR CHRIST JESUS
There are no people on earth who feel
and express more genuine affection and
| love for Christ Jesus than do Christian
Scientists. They do not only believe
but they understand why he is to them
the resurrection and the life They
reverently acknowledge him as the Sa-
| viour of the world and they are striv-
ing to keep his commandments. They
know only too well that something more
| than lip service is required to enable
them to follow in his mental footsteps.
| They realize that the whole plan of
| salvation is nothing short of a mental
and moral healing and regeneration,
whereby the so-called human consci-
| BUSINESS surrenders to the divine, which
as has already been stated, is cogni-
| zant only of the things of God" This
| being the case we must begin now to
| think our way into the kingdom of
| heaven. No one of us will ever reach
! this harmonious state without being
outside of or Independent of conscious
| ness. The apostle knew this when adj
monshing US to have in us the same
Mind that was in Christ Jesus He
knew that there was a mental cruel
fiXion and resurrection for us all to
pass through before we can become
conscious of good only. The Christ
idea of purity, operating in human con-
seriousness, offers to Christian Scien-
lists, as well as to all others the only
means of escape from wrong thinking
and its attendant discordant effects
Jesus taught las one having authority
and not as the scribes." What gave
him authority to speak as never man
spake and to do the works which the
scribes and pharsees did not and
could not do? Was it not his transcen-
dent sense of the naturalness of Spirit?
He recognized the sovereignty of gold
and Yielded uncompromising obedience
thereto. This very obedience endowed
him with power from on high, and in
the measure of our obedience to this
same divine Principle, which Science
calls God and which is no respecter
of persons, We too can reflect the same
power
Is it sacriligiOus for us to lay claim
to our divine inheritance. to think and
to act as if we possessed at least Il
measure of divine intelligence? Could
we very we'll do otherwise if we are to
I
GOD ALL POWER
one of the very first things which
the student of Christian Science does
after gaining even a faint glimpse of
the truth of his being is to give all
power to good and none to evil. The
door to the kingdom of heaven is open
ed to him the moment he does this.
Then he wonders why he spent so
many years in believing in two powers
while calling one of them omnipotent.
The inconsistency of such mental at
titude never before appeared to him.
II now sees where it was the main
barrier to his moral and spiritual
growth, This one point III metaphy-
sizes is so simple that multitudes of
processing Christians stumble over it.
They pray earnestly for deliverance
from evil. but never once does it seem
to occur to them to give all power TO
good by Withholding all from evil. They
may declare with the lips that God is
almighty, but they still believe that
there is an evil power. This bars the
door to the coming Of Christ. Truth,
TO the coming of that spiritual activity,
which corrects and destroys all mis-
taken belief in a good and evil power
When all Christian people are ready
to take Jesus at his word and to call
evil self constituted lie as he did,
they will comprehend for the first
time the true significance of omnipo
tence. and meekly. humbly and joyfully
begin to do the healing works which
he did. When referring to the divinity
of this very teaching Jesus said: "lf
any man will do his tGod's) will. he
shall know of the doctrine. whether ii
be of God. or whether ! speak of my
self" Do the harsh critics of Christian
Science ever go so far as to apply
the sacred rules of this Science before
proclaiming their false impressions OF
its teachings? If they did. they would
cease to condemn a religion which they
have failed to understand metaphYsi
cally. The omnipotence Of good is not
an argument it is a spiritual or super
sensible fact. and can be understood
only through the practice of good.
with signs following" Arguing against
its validity or practicability will never
repeat the works of the Master nor
help any one to understand his sacred
teachings.
HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS COR
RECTED
Some one is no doubt questioning as
to what it is that prevents our admit
ting and proving the supremacy of
good. Is it God keeping us away from
Himself? Impossible, Is it the con-
seriousness of good, or the supposed
consciousness of a power or presence
opposed to good? Evidently the lat
ter In its explanation of this very
point Christian Science has proved it
self more than friend to humanity,
for it not only makes clear to us our
weak points, but it also shows us how
to correct them. 1t leaves us in no
doubt as to changes which must take