The Glenwood post., 1915-11-06
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rum tAr DcAlci VI Lie IN uAtttr
spriag all the ills of which flesh .
heir, all sin, sorrow, sickness, decay,
dissolution, calamity, and catastrophe.
Death itself is the direct result of the
belief of life in matter. This belief is
the root of all fear, all strife, mad an
bition, pride, envy, jealousy, revenge.
1t sustains the fleshly passions and ap-
petities, and accounts for idolatry, per-
sonal worship, personal domination, and
so-ealled personal or magnetic attrac-
tion. 1t is a counterfeit sense Of life
which bears the fruits of tyranny and
superstition. Cain, who rose up to slAy
his brother Abel, typifies this belief
Of life in matter.
But the realization of God as Life
prepares the way for the brotherhood
of man. If there is only one real Life,
because God is Infinite and therefore
the one and only Life, then in reality
all men have that one Life. Then sup
pose court room in which seemingly
opposing interests are contending for
the mastery. There is the plaintiff and
there the defendant. Each has his own
lawyer, pleading from opposite points
of view, and for opposite results. Placid
above the contending factions is the
judge, weighing the evidence in the
balances Of truth. According to the
testimony Of the physical senses the
court room is the scene Of . contest, .
struggle for supremacy. There may be
more or less feeling of Hostility dis
played. It is humanity inevitable that
there must be some evil in conscious
ness, whether expressed or suppresse !.
P11lDC9 GOD AID P1RTDC1 lGAN
Starting from the eternal basis Of .
perfect God and perfect man, humanity
can work out its own salvation FROM
matter to Mind, from the flesh to sp:r-
it, from sense to Soul, from person to
Principle, from death to Life, from es-
ror to Truth, and from fear and hate
to Love, unvarying and inexhaustible.
Armed with spiritual understanding,
humanity is protected against the belief
Of . mind apart from God or of life in
matter. Minds many cannot success
fully urge their claims of material ori.
gin material law, and material disso-
luton upon the afflicted, the sorrowing
and the bereaved, when the latter turn
for help to spiritual understanding.
The recognition of God IS the only
Mind makes unavailing the tempta-
tions Of material medicine, material re-
ligion, or material science, SO called
All indictments to envy, hatred, and re-
venge fall harmless before the con-
sciousness that admits the existence of
one Life only, and that one Life wholly
good and beneficent. Not even the
subtler mental suggestions proceeding
from human willpower can deceive
those who seek their inspiration and
guidance in the one Mind. No self twill,
self-love, or selfindulgence can be in
culcated by such processes in those who
are safe Sin the secret place of the
most High"
Sheltered and protected by divine
Love, the progress Of humanity, repent
ant from sin and recovering from sick
ness, is safe and steady. The hosts of
the redeemed are marching on to GER
tain victory, under the guidance of
Life, Truth, and Lcye.
The realization of God as Life shuts
out not only the false sense of strife,
but also that of the material body with
its sin and sickness. This is the exp,-
rience alluded to by the apostle Paul
when he spoke of being "willing rather
to be absent from the body, and to be
present with the Lord.'' In Science
and Health Up. 14) Mrs. Eddy has de-
scribed this same experience in the
words, "Become conscious for a single
moment that Life and intelligence are
purely spiritual, in nor of
matter,-and the body will then utter
no complaints"
Here, therefore, we have the explana
ton of the healing of disease as well
as of sin by the natural mental and
spiritual method of turning from the
untrue, unreal, and non-essential, to the
truth about God and man, to the reality
of being. This is the method taught
by Christian Science. Man being =
conscious thinking being, has control
over his own health and happiness
through the realization of the truth.
The Scriptures express this fact in the
statement, "As he q man) thinketh
in his heart, so is he." The commonly