The St. Joseph observer. [volume] (St. Joseph, Mo.) 1906-1932, 1916-04-15

en- TO make Him after the image OF
mortal man. Human beings have
trusted the evidence of material sense, !
believing such testimony to be real, ,
and so have failed to make use Of
spiritual sense, which alone can enable !,
them to know God Alright and which
alone can show how to use the knowl. |
edge of Truth for the destruction OF
error. Amongst these fallacies is the
belief that spiritual healing comes
about through what men call the per-
sonal Intervention of God Some may
believe that by kind of prayer of
entreaty some law may be set aside, |
some sin forgiven that is not repented
of. or some benefit received that may
not be deserved. Now. nothing is !
more certain than that such beliefs
are based on the feeblest credulity.
Christian Science brings in their place
to mankind a scientific or accurate un-
derstanding of God. correct explana-
tion of so-called disease, and a spirit
ual understanding of health such as
all who possess the understanding
may put to the test of practical ex-
perience.
What happens when child forgets
the multiplication table in working out
question in arithmetic? He falls into
mistake; his answer will be wrong
What would happen if financier add
ed, subtracted, divided, or multiplied
his figures out of accordance with the
| law of numerical relationships? The
financier would make a mistake in his
calculations which might throw him a
long way out and have far-reaching
consequences. IL either the child, the
financier, or any other. made SINH
lar blunder, there is only one way of
rectifying it. and that way is by know
ing and applying the truth about the
numerical relationships with which
they are dealing. Error will never cor
rect error. and truth alone can can
eel or rectify an erroneous result. 1t
is exactly the same when you turn to
spiritual questions.
Christian Science teaches that God
is Truth. And here. as in all else,
: Christian Science is in perfect agree
ment with Jesus the Christ, who him
self instructed men to worship God
"in spirit and in truth" God is in
finite. Hence God is infinite Truth.
Christian Science teaches further that
God is infinite good. What does this
last statement imply? 1t implies that
| harmony, health, goodness, peace, joy
fulness, every attribute of perfect be-
ing is omnipresent. Since God is in.
, finite good, good alone is real in the
I absolute sense, and whatever seems
| to be the opposite of good cannot he
real Thus the knowledge of Truth is
the knowledge of good. But whatever
is not good is not of God; in other
= words, is not of Truth. What then OF
Y disease? Can anyone say disease is
Y harmonious condition? Can any
Q stretch of imagination maintain thai
g sickness of any description is an efect
@ produced by a cause which is abso
e lutely good? To state the question /:
surely sufficient to show the absurd
ity of attributing evil in any form t.
God Because Truth is infinite" Mrs
= Eddy writes in Science and Health (p
, 36T, error should be known as moth
= ing. Because Truth is omnipotent il
goodness. error, Truths opposite, ha
no might"
What then is sickness? Christian
4 Science has proved time and again b
4 healing all manner of disease that
is an erroneous mental condition
| Without the aid of material mean:
~ through the realization of omnipresen
-, Truth alone, sickness is being col
iS stantly destroyed in the human col
I sciousness. The destruction of sin O
the healing of sickness is strictly al
alogous to the correction of an erro
mentally, and the adjustment of tn
10 figures comes about as natural s.
, quence. Bring to the sufferer the spi
~ itual understanding of Truth, of ha
many or health, and the result is mad
g manifest in what mortals call SCUM
body. The Psalmist said: He sci
his word, and healed them, and deli
to cred them from their distinctions
n And "the word of God" is the spiri
ne ual idea of God, Truth. The healir
ed power of Truth is evidenced throug
n, out the whole Bible Every proph
e. knew it to some extent, to the extel
of his knowledge of Truth; and.
. Jesus had the greatest understands
of Truth of all men who have lived {
earth, Jesus was therefore the grei
est metaphysical healer the world h