Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-09-11

forever linked to God as idea is linked
TO mind, for God is Mind and man is
Minds idea. The real man. being
mental and spiritual. cannot be, and
therefore is not, materially, physically,
or MORALLY conditioned; since such
conditions are temporal, not the off
spring Of eternal Mind, but OF its OPP
posite, mindless matter. Man as idea
cannot fail away from or be. separated
from God. for God is his intelligence,
his life. his substance: nor can God
abandon. oyeriook. or forget man, for
He cannot be separated from His
manifestation. Mans life, health, and
well being are therefore always mat
ter of divine concern. This unity of
man and God is most essential point
In the teachings Of Christian Science,
for without some intelligent grasp OF
original cause and his rightful rela,
tionship to that cause. man is without
a guiding star by which to chart his
way out of the wilderness of earthly
woe. j
The Atonement. IL.
Since God cannot evolve anything
unlike Himself, man must possess the
same quality and substance as his
creator. Jesus said, Il and my Father
are one" If we fail to recognize the
relationship between God and man
here indicated, we fail to grasp the
basic truth of being, the vital part OF
Christianity, the very key to the saliva
ton of mankind. This oneness OF
man with God in quality but not in
quantity is indeed the doctrine. of
atonement as Christian Science ex-
plains it, or the doctrine Of atone
ment. Seen in the light Of Christian
Science the doctrine OF atonement Is
no longer human doctrine but a spir.
itual fact. namely, mans natural and
eternal oneness with God, divine Mind.
Man separated from God would be like
a number severed from mathematics,
or tone separated from music, or a
ray OF light separated from the sun
He would be a non,entlty. As the
number is one with plathemat ies., as
the tone is one with music, as the, ray
of light is one with the sun, SO man
Is one with God. So long as God is
man is. They are eternally correlated
In thought and action, a relationship
clearly defined by Jesus when he said,
"As the Father knoweth me, even SC
know / the Father
The christ-idea
In place of an obscure, mysterious,
or doubtful concept of God and His
creation, Christian Science unfolds, as
we have shown, the true idea or sci
entific concept of God and man, which
is the cornerstone Of right thinking
and living and the way 10 Christian
healing. The coming of this true idea
of God and man in your consciousness
and mine, is the coming of the Christ
that Is to free US from the bondage
of evil and destroy all disease. 1t is
important that we understand just
what is meant by the Christ. Christ
is defined on page $50 of the Christian
Science text book, Science and Health
with Key to the Scriptures by Mrs.
Eddy, as sthe divine manifestation OF
God, which comes to, the flesh to
destroy incarnate error. Christ then
is the true idea of God and man which
comes to displace the wrong concept
of existence enshrined in human con}
seriousness.
This true idea, the spiritual idea, of
God and man, taught by Jesus, Is
what Christian Science makes plain
to the world today 1t is the Christ
which shows the coincidence and spir-
itual agreement between God and man.
The Christ.idea is indeed the pearl of
great price, the redeemer, the savior.
1t comes to each of us to lead US out
of evil into good, out of error into
Truth, out of ignorance into intelli-
gence, out of matter into Spirit, away
from earth to know God.
Theologians have for many years
confused the Christ7idea with the COR
poreal man Jesus. Christian Science
makes plain the distinction between
the personal Jesus and the Christ, the
true idea of God, which must come to
each individual consciousness and
resurrect it from false sbeliefs. To
cling to a corporal savior IS to ,wor-
ship a fleshly concept and Jesus said
that the flesh profits nothing. Jesus
was a human perscn. Christ is the
true spiritual idea Of life which Jesus
understood and sxepplified better
than all, others but which lis KNOW
able and nnd stsndsble BY each of US.
This true idea must be individually,
understood before man can know God.
This idea lives through the ages and
is the saving importation Of God, the
emanation Of His. love and goodness,
ever extended to him who, tired OF the.
husks OF mortality, would return to
his Fathers house and seek for higher
and better things.
False Concepts
When we begin to lay hold of the
true sense Of being, actually to realize
in spite OF all the conflict and distress
of mortal existence that there is in
deed God who is altogether good,
who is all-wise and aii-powerful, and
who is now available to help US over
come and master evil just as soon as
we turn to Him, then our thinking be-
gins to change. We begin to seek for
and to get acquainted with God. to
obey the Scriptural command, "Ac-
quaint now myself with him, and be
at peace
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