Arizona republican., 1916-04-12

The fact that sin and disease are ef- fleets of the carnal mind, and can only be dealt with as such, was pointed out by Christ Jesus when he asked. How can one enter into strong mans house, and spoil his goods Chat is sin and disease), ex- cept he first bind the strong man (that is, the carnal mind) ."
 If we would be free from the sins and sickness of the carnal mind, we must begin by losing or giving up our belief in such a so-called mind that is, in what seems to be the strong man. by understanding that there is and can be no mind opposed to infinite Mind. Christian Science utterly repudiates the action of this so-called carnal mind in any direc ton, either as material existence. or as mesmerism, hypnotism theosophy, spiritualism. so-called mental science, suggestive therapeutics, or any other supposed healing power based on the action of this spurious mind. It shows that any seeming benefit derived from such action either through a material drug or as a so-called men tai proposition is simply a change of f human thoTgEt from belief of sick ness in matter to a belief of health i in matter, and this is in no way as sociated with the healing and saving action of Truth, or the divine Mind, whose action obliterates forever the 1 belief in either material health or
 material sickness. and replaces it with 1 the divine fact that the only health 1 is spiritual.
 The Prayer of Realization | When we begin to understand that l the truth of our being and of all be-
 ing is Gods idea, perfect and eternal
 we begin to think as Jesus thought
 or to let that Mind be in us which
 was also in Christ Jesus, the Mind
 before which sin. disease. and death
 disappear into their native nothing
 ness.
 We also spontaneously start to
 know and utilize the truth. or Gods
 law, and this knowing is forever one
 with Divine power As our under
 standing of true being grows clearer,
 through the clearer perception of
 what God is. then for the first time
 we begin to pray or to know truly, and such prayer is the holiest eXper- 1 fence that can come to any human ! being. It was through such prayer
 that Christ Jesus performed his won
 derful works when he refused to be-
 lieve in the carnal minds man, based
 on the evidence of material sense. but | ing and the truth of all being as
 spiritual and perfect because one with the Father; and he prayed, Father,
 that they may he one, even as
 we are one" that is one in essence,
 because in reality all true being is
 forever one with the Father.
 As this true sense of being grew
 with Christ Jesus, the false or mortal
 sense was put off and the truth was
 making him free: and this is true
 prayer and the only way of saliva
 tion for us. This recognition of the
 true nature of God, and hence of the
 true nature of man as His reflection
 is prayer in the highest sense; it is
 indeed the truth, or true conscious
 ness, which makes free and is the
 very presence and power of divine
 Mind which acts upon the human
 mind to make free from the mistaken
 sense that being is ever material or finite.
 When this great fact is perceived that right thinking about God and , His creation is Mind with us, and is } the forever activity of that which we
 call God and which Christian Science } reveals as divine Mind, true prayer will be understood, and it will be
 seen that prayer in the highest and holiest sense is constant right ! thinking about God and about all that He has made This is indeed know ing the truth. The infallible and sci entific nature of Jesus prayer and ot the works resulting from his prayer ; will then be fully appreciated; also Johns statement, Tn the beginning ; was the Word and the Word was . with God, and the Word was God. 5 will be fully understood and practi- , cally utilized. for it will be seen that l the Word of God is Mind or God ex- 5 pressed. and is the truth about Goo l and His creation.
 [ In her textbook. Science anC } Health with Key to the Scriptures ? (p 503), Mrs. Eddy speaks of Divine 5 Science, the Word of God " and hu- manity is beginning to appreciate
 that Divine Science is the Word O
 God as it has appeared to this age : revealing the truth of all being ThC l knowledge of true being which thi. Divine Science brings to us is indeed l prayer. scientific yet infinitely tendel I and loving, forever declaring Goo 9 aright; and this is abundantly mani s fest in it's results. for, as Mrs. Edd! l declares in the same book and on th' t same page, Divine Science, the Wort ' of God, saith to the darkness upoI ' the face of error, God is Allin All I and the light of ever present Low ' illumines the universe" This praye l is also beautifully described in verse from the Christian Science Hymna y by James Montgomery;
 l Prayer is the Christians vital breatf . l The Christians native air: