Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-11-08

Having a death.body and death-mind!
Does any one believe that God ever
created a death-man or gave him q
death-mfnd or a death-body7 And is
il not plain that so long as people con.
lceiye OF themselves as being mortals
or the mortal, or death-man, so long
win they continue to remain in part
nership with death. Christian Science
makes plain that men and women can
be ennancipated from that enemy when
they shall have learned the truth OF
their own being. and OF their own true
relationship TO God.
Christian Science teaches that man
is just what the Bible says he is: that
he is spiritual: that God made him
In His own image and after His own
likeness: that He made him perfect,
and that what God made perfect has
never possessed the capacity to be
come imperfect.
Christian Science is the only system
Of teaching, either religious or secu-
lar. that even makes an attempt to
explain the difference between man
and the Adafn-nian. and Christian Sci
ence does explain IL and make 1t per
fectly plain by pointing out that the
Adam-man-the dust-man 1.-THE mortal
or death.man, is nothing more or less
than the false mortal concept of man
the misconcept of man. II is pre-
cisely as though one should put on a
pair of green eyeglasses. He would
then look out upon green universe.
He might scrub and sc0ur some OBJ
ject all he pleased, but could never
remove the green from it, because the
green would not be in the object
though appearing to be there, for it
would be- in the lens through which
he looked at il. The only thing ne
cessary for the man to do in order
to translate the entire universe back
into its normal aspect would be for
him merely to take on the green
lenses through which he was looking.
In Like manner, the only thing neces-
sary for US to do in order to trans
late what seems to be q material uni,
verse and material man back into the
spifitualsis to take of the false, NOR.
tai eyeglasses.
Christian Science is making plain
in many ways that so long as people
continue to look through mortal eye
glasses, through lenses that are COM
posed of superstition, false beliefs,
human will, pride, self-righteousness
and the like, they will. continue to see
man and the universe as material in
stead Of spiritual; they viii continue
to see a deformed and diseased man
and a distorted universe. But when
they shall begin to lay aside the NOR
tai eyeglasses and shall begin to look
through the lenses of the spirit -
lenses that are composed of truth,
spiritual understanding, meekness,
humility, love, faith and purity-they
will then see a constantly improving
man and universe As this mental
transformation progresses, disease,
sin, sorrow, poverty and the limita.
stions 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 Ne shallrknow, 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 made per-
feet.
If 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 is governed by an ALLOWING God,
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
healed, and human conditions do i'm,
prove
4 christian Sciences JnefeIOr6s is. PROV
ing step by step that the declaration
made by Jesus is true, and that in
proportion as the knowledge Of the
truth fills human consciousness, driv.
ing out error and false beliefs, men
and women come into the possession
here and now of their God-given do
minion.
Mental Causation.
know how difficult a thing it is for
people who are unacquainted with the
teachings of Christian Science to uns
derstand what is meant by mental.
causation. Humanity has been accus-
toned through so many centuries to
consider that all causation is vested
in matter, that when we begin to dis
cuss the subject OF mental eansation
we are dealing with something that.
is unfamiliar to many. When I first
turned to Christian Science, did so
for physical healing. and was healed
under circumstances that admitted OF
no doubt that had been healed. /,
therefore, became deeply convinced
that Christian Science must be the
truth, because it had wrought in me