The Monticellonian., 1916-06-08

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way threfor Please remember that
| have given one brief answer, name
/ ly, that if one shall explain this di-
vine process in overcoming any phase
of sin, then the explanation thereby
has been given in respect to any
| phase of physical discord for the rea-
son that Jesus always used success
/ fully the same process in dealing with
sickness which he used in respect to
sin. Let me follow this with another
| brief answer, which also is true as far
as it goes. When Jesus said the works
were the works of the Father that
was equivalent to the statement that
the process is one of infinite intelli-
gence. From this it follows that we
must rest content with our learning
and understanding enough of it to
realize his promise and to obey his
command in respect to healing the
sick, even though our finite intelli-
gence may not fully grasp an the
seeming mysteries of the process.
And that is no more than just what
we are doing every day in respect to
nearly all the processes about us.
From time immemorial, men have had
to learn that they must accept fact
as a fact, when sufficiently proven to
be fact, whether they do or do not
comprehend it. They have had to
! learn that fact is not invalidated or
falsifed because of any failure on
their part to understand it, either in
whole or in part. For example, the
great electrician, Edison. admits that
he even cannot define just what cleo
tricity really is. A valuable instance
to bear in mind in this connection is,
that when wireless telegraphy was
first talked about seriously, few
years ago, even educated electricians
secuted it as impossible. They did
this too ineautiously, however; for
wireless telegraphy is now a proven
and accepted fact. And no one denies
it to be fact merely because there
are some seeming mysteries about it
which are not fully explained.
And now let us see how far we can
get in seeking to comprehend the di-
vine truth-cure which was taught by
Jesus for overcoming physical disease
as well as moral disease
What are we talking about when we
talk about sin? We are talking about
phenomenon of the human mind.
Paul termed this human mind the
@carnal mind" in order TO make his
viewpoint clearer; Mrs Eddy terms it
mortal mind" to make her viewpoint
clearer. Sin is a phenomenon of the
human mind. or carnal or mortal
mind, through its separation from the
truth of being For sin is not truth
of being; else, we must say that God
creates sim which would be contrary
to the Bible and our highest reason,
which say that God is good and that
Gods creations and resultants all
must be good likewise. Sin, then. is
the absence of divine truth And what
| have said about sin, | wish to say
about sickness. The human mind. car.
nal mind. or mortal mind. declares
that the body is sick The body is
incapable of declaring itself TO be
sick. Take the human mind away
from the human body. and that body
is incapable of declaring that it has
rheumatic pains. That declaration is
made by the human mind. Jesus over
| came sickness as well as sin with the
truth because the statements of sin
and sickness both come from the sep
aration of the human mind from the
consciousness of truth. When a per-
son says. 4 am SHINING" and when he
says, Il am sick" in both instances
alike he is really saying that he is
separated in his consciousness from
Truth. The right consciousness of
God, that is, of Truth, can have no
sense of either sin or sickness.
Neither of them is any part of Gods
creation or government Truth knows
nothing of either sin or sickness
Hence, Jesus destroyed both sin and
sickness with the consciousness of
Truth.
How do you proceed to correct a
mistake in addition? You know that
correctly. You know there is no rule
for adding them incorrectly, and that
If you add them incorrectly it is be-
cause your thought is separated from
truth. And your remedy is to restore
the truth to your thought Your mis-
take is the absence or negation of
truth 1t will not help you in the least
| to study the magnitude or quality of
your mistake by understanding and
J obeying the affirmative truth in the
rule of addition. Suppose the must
| clan evokes discord from his in
strument He is aware that there is
no rule or law for discords, and that
they are mere negations of the truth
or rule of harmony. So he wastes no
time on the discords. Indeed. he
avoids doing so, because that could
only tend to fix the discords in his
memory and consciousness, and there
by make him more liable to their rep
etltlon. So, instead of studying the
| dlscords, he fixes as firmly as he can
IN his consciousness the harmony he
desires to express from his instrument
Sin and sickness are negations of
Truth or God. These negations, like
all presentments of evil, have no
truth. law, nor government behind
them or sustaining them How shall
we proceed to correct them? Not by
studying and dwelling upon their
MAGNITUDE or quality. any more than
the musician studies and dwells in his