Arizona republican., 1917-10-29
The Way of F @@}ce
The Christian Science Monitor

of divine principle, and His creation. The human misconception Of God arises from the vain attempt to picture Him materially. Yet every one admits that God is spirit. If this correct thought of God is expounded so as to include principle and mind-whlch IS the basis of the sound reasoning Of Christian Science-you have the one and only true starting point by which to demonstrate the truth and apply that spiritual perception which is able to discriminate between the real of dl- vine rightness and the unreal of ma terial Wrongness.
 What this means of course is that in this warfare we are called upon to fight not persons but false beliefs.
 If under the illusion of mortal sense one is tempted to think that this is somewhat chimerical, on the ground that a person is tangible and belief intangible, it is manifest that to such a one matter is much more substantial than spirit, and the effort to reach a condition of peace would utterly fail. This is all the more obvious because to hold such a concept of matter car ries with it as a natural corollary a belief in the reality of all matters pro- ducts-all the fleshliness in fact that constitutes the sin of the world and is responsible for the personal and na- tional conflicts of the day.
 Peace" as Mrs. Eddy declares in The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" CD. 27S), in language simple and direct, 'is the promise and reward of rightness.' But has man kind ever known rightness to be built on a foundation of matter? The very fact that while a man thinks himself to be material-holds to the thought that he lives in his body-and practically sets aside the' spiritual idea, he is in constant trouble either physically morally or mentally, should be con- vincing proof that some radical change , of base is needed if one is ever to be ready to claim the legacy of peace which Christ Jesus left to all humanity Can there be any better way than to know that the man that God made is spiritual and perfect, that his birth right is harmony and peace, that thi. reality of being makes him delight 1T the law of the Lord.-the law which is : the government of right ideas, anC i never permits the presence of sin ol i sickness or death? In the light of thi. i sublime and fundamental fact, it i. 1 plain that all the sophistries of nor. I tai mind cannot cause a spiritual, alert man to entertain for a momen
 thought of peace which has not a it's genesis the supremacy of alvin, mind, and which does not include al
 understanding of the presence and DO tency of spirit That is precisely wha the Christian Scientist learns as h. applies his increasing faculty of men tai diagnosis. He knows that righ Judgment comes only as materialit yields to spirituality. or as the huma1
 IS suhordinated to the divine, and tha
 ms work as unit in the mass of man
 kind is to be so educated in the con
 scIousness of truth that he will reflec
 the peace that follows the realizatio
 or atone -ment with divine principle
 He therefore fully understands wha
 absolute truth there is in Mrs. Eddv'
 spiritual truism on page 279 of tn
 DOCK last quoted from: God is the di , vine mind. Hence the sequence: Ha
 all peoples one mind, peace woul
 reign"