Arizona republican., 1916-04-12

stand pure Christianity in a wholly spiritual way and to live and demon- strate this understanding increasingly in daily life.
 It is evident from many of Jesus sayings that he knew that the truth which he taught about God would be hidden from the world for a time but would again appear as the Spir- it of truth" guiding men into all righteousness. This Spirit of truth" which was discovered by Mrs. Eddy in the year 1866, revealed to her the truth about God and His relationship to His creation, and also showed to her what the understanding of this truth would do here and now for humanity. After receiving this revel- ation she searched the Scriptures for many years. and as she searched, the exact and scientific knowledge of God came more clearly and more concisely to her waiting thought, and she knew God through spiritual sense and in spite of the evidence of material sense. relying for her conclusions wholly on reason and revelation. not at all on human wisdom or prevalent theological views. Mrs. Eddy has giv- en to us in her text-b book, Science and Health with Key to the Scrip lures, complete and final state ment of her revelation for all to un- derstand and to practice This book is read at all Christian Science ser vices in conjunction with the Bible, and is also studied daily by Chris 1 tian Scientists in many cases with the result that while studying this book they have been healed of life l long diseases and sinful habits. l Through the study of this book Chris i tian Scientists have also been enabled to heal others in proportion to their understanding of it's teachings about God. As result of this revelation, Mrs. Eddy undoubtedly discovered the | true Science. the Science of spirit ual being; the true theology, the word of God. the same yesterday, to- day, and forever, and the true medi- cine, the consciousness of Loves ever presence. delivering men from sins and sicknesSes.
 The keynote of Christian Science teaching truly is it's demonstrable ex-
 
 can ever be accomplished for the good l of mankind must be as result of knowing the one infinite God, good
 God Not Perceived by Physical Sense
 To understand God alright in Chris tian Science, one must be prepared to judge mot according to the appear ance' and not by the testimony of physical sense, but to judge right eous judgment" and one must also be prepared to look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen" The ne- cesSity for this must be quite appar- ent to any one who will consider for ! one moment that he cannot hear see touch. smell. or taste Spirit, God in fact. that he can never know God through the material senses. Is it not therefore through spiritual sense alone and in spite of material sense testimony that Deity can be known? | Have you ever realized that Jesus of Nazareth became Jesus the Christ be- l cause he refused to accept the teSti- mony of the very senses through which the ordinary man hopes to un- derstand God? Therefore, as long as we are prepared to regard the testi- mony Of material sense as absolute and final we can hardly hope to know God alright or to have the Mind of Christ
 God as Known in Christian Science Christian Science declares that be- cause man and the universe exist there must necessarily be a cause for hot ;rta tl,;., eternal must be wholly good, for if this cause contained any element of evil it would contain something that was destructive and therefore not eternal; consequently there would be a time when some part of God must be destroyed, which is of course un- thinkable. It is evident that most people either consciously or uncon- sciously admit the fact that God is infinite good, since practically all re- ligions teach that life eternal can be attained only when mankind has at tained to infinite good and every from consciousness. Mankind claims to believe in God as the creator. but if popular beliefs about God were true, He would not only he the ere ator but the great destroyer, sending pestilence and calamity on His ere ation. Christian Science however, recognizes that God is infinite good. and that He is without destructive element of any kind.
 An important revelation of Chris tian Science is that God is Mind, or as Jesus declared, Spirit, and when an inquirer begins to perceive this vital fact even in the slightest de- gree, he at that moment begins to understand somewhat of Christian Science.
 To be intelligent, God must be Mind, for if He were not Mind He would be intelligent or mindless. and since there is but one God. there can be in reality but one Mind. Such a statement may not agree with hu- man theories, yet the important ques- tion is not whether such a statement CT it is true and what this state ment will do for humanity if under stood and practiced in daily life.
 As there is but one God or cause, this cause must necessarily be Omni- presence, that is all presence: omni : potence, that is all power; and om- niscience, that is all Science or true knowledge, for if the one and only cause were not omnipresence Omni , potence and omniscfence, then there would be a time when being would