Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-05-22

cepliOn or Deity. 1t viii be seen that
that which is infinitely good is also
loving, tender, steadfast mereiful and
unutternbly kind miscellaneous
Writings, p. Sl2). That which is Love
itself must be not only loving and
good, but impartial, universal,
and enduring. That which
Is Life. the one creative Principle, is
not only good and loving but also
eternal, indestructible, incorruptible,
self-eXistent. That which is infinite
Truth, Spirit or Mind, is not only
good, loving and eternal, but must
also be conscious, active, omnipotent
and omniscient.. Thus through using
some of these definitions of God and
of His qualities or attributes, We find
that we have greatly amplfied our
sense OF God. Not that words can
adequately describe the infinite and
eternal, not that the employment Of
terms or phrases can change God;
hut the proper use Of these terms can
help us better to comprehend the di-
vine. nature.
God Is Infinite.
According to Christian Science this
infinite God, divine Love. eternal
first and only cause or creator Since
there Is but one cause. which is inf
mite and good, there can be but one
kind of effect or manifestation. which
must also be good and infinite. As
the effect. or manifestation of crea-
tor that is infinite Spirit or Mind, we
can have as creation nothing less than
the sum total of those spiritual ideas
h. a. ss.t..
Therefore, we learn in Christian Sci
ence that the only real, enduring in
destructible universe is mental or spir-
itual and exists as the result or eff
feet of the one infinitely good causd
This throws new light on the Scrip
tural declarations that God made all
that was made" John /. - and
God saw everything that he had
madoA and. behold, it was very good
(Gen i, 81.
The universal, complete expression
of divine Mind comprising all that
exists by way of creation, necessarily
includes individual spiritual man.
This man reflects perfectly the inf
mite being called God. And this state
ment accords with the description Of
creation in the first chapter of Gene
sis, which says that God made man
in His own image" and after His
likeness. If God made man in His
image, it is certain that man must be
exactly like his creator When we
recall that the one only cause is d.
vine Mind, Spirit, Life, Love, then we
see that man in the image of his crea-
tor must he spiritual, eternal. loving
and good, like his divine Principle.
Reviewing our discussion from this
point, we see that we have, first, Il
perfectly good God who Is infinite
Spirit or Mind. Next, we have a per-
fectly good universe which is spiritual
or mental and consists Of those ideas
that are good and true. Then we
hive a perfectly good man included in
this spiritual universe as the reflec
ton or image of his infinite Father
Mother, divine Mind.
But, you say, what of a material
universe and mortal man? What of
the existence into which mortals seem
to have been born and out Of which
they appear to pass into an uncertain
and indefinite future state What of
sin and suffering and sickness and
death What of evil, and matter?
We shall not ignore them, although
We have already seen why in the best
sense they cannot be real for the SIM
Pile reason that they are not good. We
have begun with n good cause, which
made all that was made. Effect
must be like cause. Evil is not like
good. Matter Is not like Spirit There
fore evil and matter cannot reasona-
bly, be attributed to the one good spir-
itual cause.
unreniity of Evil.
Christian Science, in explaining the
unreal nature of evil, first declares
that matter. being non-intelligent,
cannot be conscious of evil. 1t can
not of itself sin or have the impulse
to sin 1t cannot be hateful, dishonest
or afraid. What. then, sina? God
cannot behold or look upon evil or in
Equity He cannot have created evil.
He cannot know or be con-
sclous of 1t. Christian Science con-
sequently makes the positive assertion
that evil, being utterly opposed to
good and totally unlike good, does not
exist in God or as the manifestation
or effect of God. Christian Sclen-
fists do not, however, ignore the claim
of sin to exist as part of human ex-
perience. They understand that in
false belief. to be repented of and for
saken before il can be demonstrated
to be what It really is---nothing. They
that the scientific forsak-
ing Of sin and its forgiveness, or de-
struction, comes through Christ, the
true. spiritual idea of God as being OF
'purer eyes than to behold evil (Hab.
/. 13.)
Iinreaiity of Matter.
Closely associated with the thought
of evil IS the thought of matter. In
deed, they cannot be ASSOCIATED.
Where one is, the other will always
be found. Mrs. Eddy's teachings that
matter is unreal and that what APP
pears to be material substance is but
the concept of the human mind. Is
slowly, hut surely, being recognized
by material scientists to be correct. 1t
has been said of what is called matter
that 1t is "a suppostional vacuum IN
Il Hypothetical medium" TINS "hypo-
thetical medium" is known as ether
of which il has been recently written
by Edgar Lucien Larkin, The most
refined experiments ever made, those
by Nicholson, failed utterly TO detect
the existence of ether" Rather in
definite and unsatisfactory as me-
dunn, is 1t not?
A noted Englishman, Mr.. Batour
at the London Congress of the Nat
ural Scientists of Great Britain. is
credited with having said: THE ma
terial sciences are now explaining
matter by explaining 1t away" Those
who have explained matter away,
leaving nothing in its place but an
indefinite hypothesis, have not done
as well as Mrs. Eddy the discoverer
and founder Of Christian Science, for
she has explained the unreality of
matter ana of its supposed cause by
revealing the one infinite, indNis-
tt.l. atfbsfap.a Ia. divine Mind and