The Alaska citizen., 1916-07-31

tial recognition of the demands made by our Masters teachings upon our life and conduct. reveals their su- preme importance, and their re
 demptiye greatness. Hence these questions mus; appeal 10 all thought full Christians Is it possible for Jesus teachings to be obeyed to day Are they true or not? If not true. where is the basis of Christianity If true. why are not their healing demands fulfilled? May il not be because they are not un- derstood?
 Believers in the Bible cannot fig nore the fac; that spiritual healing
 was accomplished during Jesus time by himself and by his disciples. an@
 later by his followers for several centuries Admitting that this heal | ing occurred, We can but see that il must have been effected through the operation of some law. and that 1 there must have been a Principle and a Science back of it. Moreover it is very evident that if this Prin- ciple and Science were known and applied today the same healing re
 suits would follow.
 | Non. believers in the Bible and in what are called miracles are con | fronted with the fact that this heal | ing is taking place today in the.r very midst and through purely spir- itual means. which fact can be de. termined by any sincere investigat- or: yet they deny the availability of spiritual power over material things because they do not understand spir-
 itual law and the Principle which operates in Christian healing,
 Healinq Done Spiritually
 Let us then consider this Science
 of Christian healing, its Principle
 and rule, and see how these may be applied today At the outset We l should recognize the fact that a
 careful study of the gospel records shows that Christian healing was
 effected through spiritual and not material means; therefore, it can be understood and practiced only spiritually; that is on a spiritual basis. which means a metaphysical basis, a basis beyond physics, and therefore apart from matter. Here is where the trouble lies. for it IS very difficult for most of us to see how physical results can be obtained through spiritual means. To the materially minded matter and ma terial law are supreme, and they
 have little belief in any power be vond physics or apart from matter and vet less understanding of it Metaphysical or spiritual power is thought O. as belonging to the @n pernatural. which many intellectual people reject, associating it as they do with mysticism and superstition They do not believe in the efficacy of prayer for they fail to understand
 how a mere mental effort can bring about physical change. They either deny the spiritual healing of the early church or declare it to nave been a mere phenomenal eX- hibtion of divine or superhuman
 power, and they therefore make no effort to relate spiritual power to present human needs.
 One cause for this difficulty is the failure to apprehend the rela- tionship between the inner world or
 thought and the outer WOrlC or phenomena and thus to grasp the mental nature of existence. This Is due mainly to the prevailing belief in matter, which is conceded 10 De the greatest stumbling block to an understanding of Christian healing ! and to belief in the Bible itself. 1 Let us then cOlSlutl IillS du'"tloi' though very briefly, and first, from
 the viewpoint of the physical sci ences.
 kinetic Nature of Matter
 To the student of nature, it be comes very evident that there is
 an intelligence operating through law, which explains the marvels of
 mineral, vegetable and animal for nation, that there is a power or
 creative force which is materially interpreted in adhesion, cohesion ano attraction,-that there is law whose activities are intimated h
 growth, atomic aggregation structur-
 al formation and other phenomena
 of the world about us. Thus to
 human sense there is creative,
 governing, controlling power or ln-
 fluence called force, and a substance
 called matter, in which this force
 seems to inhere and through which
 it acts. Indeed, matter seems to pc
 that which is actuated or brought
 into evidence by force; they seem