Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-05-01

statement the more it becomes appar-
ent that it is necessarily true. When
there came to Jesus the man who
had been born blind, and who had
grown from infancy to mature years
without the perfect organs of sight,
Jesus healed him instantly. He
looked through the material veil and
saw the real man, who, in every case,
is perfect Jesus knew that God had
never created one of his children
without sight. God never made an
imperfect man. Man being perfect
has perfect spiritual senses, and by
seeing the perfect man, Jesus pulled
away the mask, and allowed the per-
feet condition to appear. When the
paralytic was brought to him, Jesus,
by seeing the real man, pulled away
the mask created by the material be-
liefs Of the carnal mind, thus allow
ing the real condition of harmony
and perfect being to appear and the
man was instantly healed. Since the
real man is perfect in every case,
when the imperfect material beliefs
are destroyed by the operation of the
Christ Truth human beings can not
fail to manifest improved conditions.
Jesus also knew that since man
was not material and did not live in
matter, he could not die in matter.
He knew this so clearly that he was
able to call Lazarus back after his
body had been in the tomb four days.
Jesus knew that the real man, be-
ing spiritual, can never die, for God
is his life, so that when he stood be-
fore the tomb of Lazarus he knew
that the only thing that had taken
place there was that certain human
beings, who were governed by the
carnaN mind, had accepted a changed
belief concerning Lazarus. They be-
lieved that he had lived in matter
and was material, and hence that he
had died in matter. Jesus looked
through the mask and saw the real
man who was alive all of the time,
and by seeing the real man, Jesus
destroyed the false concept, and thus
made it possible for the real condi-
tion of life to appear. Having seen
the real man, who was alive every
instant, all that Jesus needed to do
was to say, Lazarus, come FORTH"
and he came forth, alive.
Man is Governed BY Spiritual Law.
Jesus also knew what was true
about law. He knew that the only
law that has any legitimate authority
over man is the law of Spirit. He
likewise knew that the carnal human
mind believes that matter possesses
power and intelligence apart from
God, and, therefore, that matter has
power to make laws to govern human
beings He desired to teach man
kind the truth about this, and, for
mis- purpose, he selected what is called !
in the present day the law of grevita-
tion. He walked on the water in
strict opposition to the law of gravi-
tation. He knew that the carnal hui
man mind, because of its materially,
was incapable of comprehending spir-
tual law, and could only conceive of
aw as created by matter. He knew
that the so-called law of gravitation
was the carnal minds false concept
Of law, and that this counterfeit mind
believes that Jaw is material for pre-
cisely the same reason that it be-
ieves that God is material person
Atty sitting upon a material throne,
md that Heaven is material place.
All of the works of Jesus were done
n opposition to material laws. He
proved that the law of Spirit is SUI
)reme and has power to annul every
material law, and it was this knowl-
,dge that gave him power to walk on
he water, to heal the sick, and raise
he dead, contrary to material laws.
Christian Science asks those who
believe in the reality and power of
laws, from what source does
natter derive its power to make
avs? Since matter has neither life,
nor volition, how can 1t
make laws? Has God abdicated from
lis high position as the governor of
he universe, and turned over to in
ensible matter the power to make
avs that shall govern and destroy
lis own children? Manifestly not.
This theory is neither rational nor
probable. Yet the human carnal
mind is so material that people go
light on blindly believing that ma
erial laws have more power to de-
troy them than God has to save
hem. In spite of wide difference of
,elief as to what are material laws,
When once a person believes some
hing to be a material law it becomes