Norwich bulletin., 1916-05-08

dissolution, calamity, and catastro-
 phe. Death itself is the direct result
 of the belief of life in matter. This
 belief is the root of all fear, all strife
 mad ambition, pride, envy, jealousy
 revenge. It sustains the f1esElly pas
 sions and appetites, and accounts for
 idolatry, personal worship, personal
 domination, and so-called personal or
 magnetic attraction. It is counter
 felt sense of life which bears the fruits
 of tyranny and superstition. Cain,
 who rose up to slay his brother Abel,
 typifies this belief of life in matter
 But the realization of God as life
 prepares the way for the brotherhood
 of man. If there is only one real life,
 EecauSe God is infinite and therefore
 the one and only life, then in reality
 all men have that one life. Then sup pose court room in which seemingly
 opposing interests are contending for
 the mastery. There is the plaintiff,
 and there the defendant. Each has
 his own lawyer, pleading from oppo-
 site points of view, and for opposite
 results. Placid above the contending factions is the judge, weighing the ev- l idence in the balances of truth. Ac- cording to the estimony of the physi- cal senses the court room is the scene of a contest, a struggle for suprem- acy.. There may be more or less feel | ing of hostility displayed. It is hu-
 manly inevitable that there must be some evil in consciousness, whether expressed or suppressed.
 Now let a right idea come into this | mental atmosphere, an idea which we will designate as the spiritual under standing that God is the only life of l man. Perhaps it reaches the conscious
 ness first of the judge. as he watches | from an impartial and unbiased point of view the struggles of both sides for
 self justification. The perception dawne upon him that, no matter what the ap- pearances may seem to indicate, in l reality there is but one life, and that I in reality. therefore, plaintiff and de- ] fendant alike, with their more or less numerous adherents. have the same life, for there is not other.
 Now suppose this perception passes | from one person to another in the
 court room until it has become spirit ua1ly discerned by them all, namely that in reality they are all manifest | ing the same life, that therefore their | interests are mutual, instead of being antagonistic, and that in settling the pending difficulty equitably they would be safeguarding the rights of all men could be promptly reached and the case dismissed from the docket? The spiritual perception of God as life
 tends to make human beings solici- 1 tous of one another's rights and to l perceive that in upholding their owr rights in an equitable, just, and kind l ly manner they are really upholdins the rights of all men, and are not l therefore acting in a selfish but in a I scientifically Christian manner.
 The retaliation of God as life shuts out not only the false sense of strife sl but also that of the material body witt it's sin and sickness. This is the ex- perience alluded to by the apostle Paul I when he spoke of being willing rather I to be absent from the body, and to bS present with the Lord" In Science
 and Health (p. IA Mrs Eddy has de.
 scribed this same experience in tho
 words. Become conscious for a singll l moment that life and intelligence arl