The Alaska citizen., 1916-07-31

l i Truth, the light that lighteneth the
 world. is brought to bear upon it i by being reflected in consciousness
 through right. spiritual knowing
 This knowing of Truth is real i consciousness. the consciousness Of l tu, real man. Gods man. It is com
 muniOn with our heavenly Father l Mother God infinite Love. It is
 true Christian prayer. Not my will
 but thine be done" the almost con stant prayer of the Christian Sci
 enlist. and such prayer in His nane l is answered in healing the sick reforming the sinner and supplying i all our human needs.
 l A Necessary Discrimination
 Since Christian Science healing, which We now see to be scientific l Christian healing. involves the know i ing of spiritual Truth. the recogni- l tion of material error as error and ! tu' dpplIN lIloil lo llit tIiOI LII tue
 specific, antidoting, divine Truth which cOrrects and heals il. it is not i hypnotism. not mental suggestion not the mere influence of one hu- man mind over another, not mental
 domination, or the exercise of the | human will commonly called will i power; and for a right apprehension l of Christian Science healing this | fact must be clearly seen. I will ] illustrate: When a mathematician i corrects an error in computation it i is not his will which makes the
 truth which he knows and applies l to the error through mathematical
 understanding. The correcting pow CT is inherent in the truth itself
 not in the will of the mathematician
 Will has nothing to do with the
 result. and would stand in the way | if it were used. So, when a sin
 or an ill is healed through Chris i tian Science. it is not the will of
 the Christian Scientist that does
 the healing but the divine Truth
 which he knows and applies to the
 human error through his under
 standing of Christian Science. The
 correcting and healing power is iu- i herent in the Truth itself not in
 the will of the Christian Scientist l Will-power has nothing to do with
 the healing: it would stand in the
 way if it were used
 Jesus said: "Ye shall know the
 truth, and the truth shall make yon 1 treC:' for by knowing the truth we l tion in thought This definitely dis l tinguishes Christian Science healing i from hypnotism, magnetism, occu, 1 tism. or mental suggestion in any | form. The mental manipulation en- i deavOrS to secure control of the pa i ticnt's mentality. to dominate it and SuperimpOse upon it or inject into | it his own thought, will, purpose or desire; be it good or evil, right
 or wrong. This shows the great
 danger of that method Whereas the l Christian Scientist, knowing the na- | ture of God and the real man to | be spiritual and perfect recognizes ! the diseased and sinful conditions
 as false, mesmeric states of con
 sciousness; and he applies his un- | derstanding of divine Truth and l Love as the healing remedy; which | is always safe and can never iniure, l for divine Truth and Love can only
 bless Surely this infinite Love is
 adequate, is intelligent enough, lov- 1 supply all our needs; we have but
 10 know it.
 The Christian Scientist recognizes
 and knows the unreality of the ap- pearance called a sick man, as we'll
 as of any other discord, in precise
 ly the same way as mathemati
 elan knows that two times two do
 not make five. even though he sees { it written out; for he knows they
 make four, regardless of the ap-
 pearance. It is his business to know
 this as a mathematician. So the Christian Scientist knows that there is really no sick man there to be healed, but merely an erroneous con- cept or state of consciousness to be corrected; and it is his business to
 know this as a Christian Scientist for Jesus said very plainly: Judge not according to the appearance
 but judge righteous judgment" which
 means the judgment of Truth. Chris
 tian Science makes it possible for us to begin to do this, and we have never been able to do it before; for until Mrs Eddy discovered Christian Science, we did not know the nature of the divine reality and of the hu- man consciousness. that we might differentiate accurately between the appearance and the actuality. Chris tian Scientists are frequently criti- cized for not believing all that they see. They happen to know better, even as the astronomer who does