Arizona republican., 1916-04-12
THE PRAYER OF UNDERSTANDING.
 MESSAGE IF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ~ SUBJECT OF DOORLY'S LECTURE

were found to vary rom the Stp- ulated specifications in many details. The measurements given, however, as 9 mental proposition did not and could not vary, but were theoretically forever accurate; and in fact the en- gineer stated that the only absolutely accurate thing about the whole tran Saction was the order, which was purely mental The measurements only varied when materialized. Thus it is seen that absolute eXactness or accuracy. which is a quality of God can only be found in the divine Mind; and so it is with beauty health, holiness, etc, that to be real and invariable must be mental or spiritual because in and of this Mind.
 Even many physical scientists ad- init that matter or material existence i a thing of mortal thought, forever changing and therefore quite ineX- plicable and quite unlike God. and as has recently been said by one great thinker, MT Balfour, They have only explained matter by eX- plaining it away
 Definition of Evil by Christ Jesus and Christian Science
 To every one who has studied the teachings of Jesus it must be clear that he regarded matter, material laws and material existence as simp ly a false sense of being having nei ther reality nor permanence, although seeming to be real. and that he un- failingly overcame the resistence of matter and it's spurious laws and dispelled it's false testimony through his perception of true being. which true being he understood because he knew God. the cause of all being.
 Jesus pertinently declared that the flesh, or the material sense of be- ing "profiteth nothing, for it is the spiritual or true sense which quicken eth, and this is exactly what Chris tian Science teaches. It teaches that material existence is a false sense of ! existence and is the only hell there is, or can be. and that from this false sense arises all human woe. In fact, i Mrs. Eddy sums up the whole sub ! ject when she tersely declares in her i writings that matter is mortal CT ror'' (Science and Health, ?. 46S). i Christian Science is not engaged. however. in explaining this false sense of being.-for it is impossible to ex- plain what is not true,-but is wholly engaged in dispelling it through the understanding of true or spiritual be- ing, just as a mathematician dispels the belief that two plus two are five, by his understanding of the fact that [ two plus two are four, and does not waste his time trying to explain where the mistake that two plus two are five came from, or the nature of such mistake.
 Neither is Christian Science en- gagged in finding remedy for dis ease, or wrong thinking of any kind in material methods or in the action that there is no remedy for these woes but in the action of the divine Mind, or in right thinking.
 The effort to find a remedy for the diseases of the carnal mind, in mat ter Or' in the action of this same car nal mind, has only increased the list of sO-called incurabl diseases for il is evident that the more human thought knows about disease the more disease it will manifest, since as a man "thinketh in his heart, so Is he It would be well for the race if this were more clearly recognized at a time when certain material healing systems, not content with filling the minds of older people with thoughts
 of disease, are now bent on filling de af oh lcn xx-itI
 these same harmful theories. Jesus and his disciples healed diseases ir
 the only scientific and right way, not
 by knowing anything about disease
 but by knowing something about the
 antidote for disease. that is Gods
 eternal and spiritual law of healtf
 and harmony.
 Conclusions of Christian Science The conclusions of Christian Sci ence are therefore briefly summed up; that true being. or spiritual be
 ing, is in and of the divine Mind, anC is in fact the kingdom of heaver , here and now; while the false sense
 of being, or material existence, i' } wholly in and of the so-called carna l mind. St. Paul states this same fac } when he says that ito be carnall, minded is death; but to be spiritual! minded is life and peace" Christian
 Science explains that to be carnall! minded is to believe in the carna mind and it's effect, material exist
 ence as real while to be spirituall! minded is to understand God ant 7 spiritual being as the only reality