Arizona republican., 1915-01-15

| healed by mental means is to dispute
| the practical application of spiritually
enlightened thought.
When the right idea of God as being
the one infinite all-good consciousness
enters the arena of our thinking and
reasoning capacity, the activity of
righteousness is allowed TO assert it.
self. and just as darkness is displaced
by the light, so are wrong thoughts
displaced by scientific or Cod like
thoughts The moment the true idea of
Mind enters individual consciousness.
rea! constructive mental work begins
therein This idea, operating through
law and as law. demands the perfect re-
adjustment of finite human conscious
ness. The divine idea is Minds true
and lawful representative. and Mind
has no other 1t is the only agent
that is clothed with power and au-
thority to carry out the purposes of its
Principle, God. Let us never forget
that the only real power in the uni
verse is divine Mind and is expressed
or reflected through its own idea. never
through changing human beliefs. In all
directions, far and near. We hear of
the continuous unfolding of this uni
versal idea of Mind. of the wonderful
healing and transformation of human
thought, of the peace and joy of hap
piness that have entered into the world
through its loving ministrations. and
We are led to eXclaim, is not this the
Christi"
THE CHRIST WITHIN
The world is fast losing its limited
personal sense of the Saviour of men
and is looking more to the Christ with
IN. 1t is present resurrection and
spiritual Life that Christians are most
~ deeply interested in Christian Sci
ence urges upon all mankind the neces-
sity of opening the door of conscious
ness to receive this king of glory this
ever-present saving Christ idea which
comes as of old with healing in his
wings" David cried, who is this king
of glory? The Lord strong and mighty
the Lord mighty in battle" This GER
talnly conveys an impersonal concept
of the Christ. Truth, a divine activity
or influence which is indeed mighty to
heal all our diseases Every human
failure to prove the power of good is
a failure to leave all for Christ When
ever human will surrenders to the di-
vine there is victory won on the side
of Truth, but not before The great
Teacher of mankind, whose conscious
ness was ever dominated by the Christ
idea, said. Il can of mine own self do
nothing" What d rebuke to pride and
human will power! If all who profess to
love the Truth could grasp the metaphy-
steal viewpoint of the great apostle when
he SAID, Il can do all things through
Christ which strengtheneth me-"
they would be in touch with the only
healing and redeeming activity known
to the world. This Christ idea speak
ing through Jesus said. without me
tseVered from mel We can do nothing"
This statement is of vital import to
the whole world, for severed from
the understanding of the true idea
through which the nature of divinity is
impaired to humanity. we would all
find ourselves in very sad plight.
without healing or salvation. AS we
stop to ponder the thought that good
can find expression only through good
ness. Love only through that which
loves. Truth only through that which
is truthful. we can begin to see the in
innate relationship between God and
His idea. They are indissolubly con-
nected. so that they never have existed
and never can exist separate and apart
from each other The Christ idea,
therefore, was never for one moment
separated from the Father. but through
the pure humanity Of Jesus it found its
normal and harmonious manifestation
in those wonderful works which are
today as never before attracting world
wide attention.
OUR SAVIOUR
In the experience of humanity a right
idea is always a saving idea When 1t
is seen that an erroneous concept of
God is really responsible for all the
evil in the world. it will naturally fol-
low that "a right concept of Deity will
be the only means of correcting such
evil. And this correction will take place
in human consciousness, where all be-
lief in evil must obtain. Thus we find
in Christian Science that the right idea
of good frees us from everything that
is unlike good; the right idea of health
enables ms to overcome disease: the
right idea of Love destroys all sense of
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