Arizona republican., 1917-09-10

God at hand The so-called ma terial senses entirely fail to ac- knowledge the fact; still it is true that God, divine Principle, is literal ly everywhere present in His ca pacity of Giver of all. And how does Christian Science reason on this question? Christian Science holds that God is infinite, that He is divine Prncple, creative Principle, and that man is the effect of this one infinite cause. Moreover, since Principle is infinite and consequent ly all-inclusive, cause and effect can not be disjoined. What therefore exists is perfect Principle constantly embracing it's own spiritual idea, and this spiritual idea is man. Thus it is that man, Gods spiritual idea is forever atone with Principle and Is therefore continually under protec- tion or providence of God. Surely it was the discernment of this union between God and man which en- abled Jesus the Christ to say, as Matthew records, Are not two spar rows sold for farthing? and one of the mshall not fall on the ground without your Father?" Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many SparroWs.
 In Christian Science the true rela- tionship of man to God is set forth and it is as this true relationship is seen and acknowledged that the prov idence of God becomes, as 1t were, translated into terms which the hu- man consciousness can grasp; that is to say, it is as the absolute is per- ceived and recognized as the real, in
 contradiction to the material or relative that human beings begin to enter into the enjoyment of the provi- dence of God Mrs. Eddy never hesi- tated in her language when she spoke of the absolute, of God and Of the reol man. On page 530 of Sci ence and Health she wrote: Tn dl- vine Science, man is sustained by God the divine Principle of being. It is a perfectly clear statement, ad- hitting of no doubt as to it's mean ing, that spiritual man, the man whom God created and therefore the only man there is, is at the present momnet sustaind by God
 This spiritual truth is without par allel in it's strengthening influence upon the minds of men. It is not the case that mankind, generally. is mo- 1 toriously separated in belief from God? What is the seeming reason for 1 | the error of belief that matter is real and that man is separated from God. God is infinite Spirit, therefore there i is. no reality in matter In conse- ] quence there is no reality in the be- l lief that man is partly material and | partly spiritual, controlled partly by matter and partly by Spirit, governed
 partly by good and partly by evil. | Christian Science teaches that there l is one cause, that this cause is in 1 finite good, and that so-called ma
 terial man is not a real effect at all but a flase conception or belief about
 man. It thus becomes humanly
 necessary to contradict with truth
 the evidence of so-called material
 sense in order that mankind may
 come to perceive more clearly the per
 feet man who lives and has his being in perfect Principle.
 The understanding of mans per
 feet relationship with divine Principle
 is of the greatest service to human ity. Human existence seems to be teeming with pitfalls. What men call
 accidents, for example, are not in- frequently happening, and sorrow follows upon the mortal footsteps be-
 gotten of a false sense of cause and effect. A false sense of law ends in an equally false sense of disorder, and 1 men thus find themselves too often the easy victims of the worlds be-
 lief in separation from God. Is there an antidote to the seeming disaster
 of moral mind? Is there a way
 which leads past acicdent and through
 human struggle and trial? Can a
 man lay hold of something which vii
 render him immune from the evi
 beliefs of the world? In other word
 is it possible for a man to expert
 ence not spasmodically and erratical-
 ly, but with the constancy of ab-
 solute stable law, the provdentia
 help of God? Christian Science say:
 it is possible. As Mrs. Eddy ha. written on page 424 of the Christian
 Science textbook. already quoted
 from, Under divine Providence ther,
 can be no accidents, since there i.
 no room for imperfection in per l fection.
 It becomes, then, :question o
 realizing the truth about man O l holding to the facts of spiritual be ing, and of refusing to be tempted to move from adherng to thes, spiritual facts. While a man i
 conscious of mans perfect unit, with Principle, the only substanc
 and cause there is, he is preserved l from all error can in such a stat , Of conscious understanding of Go would be under the government o
 spiritual law and would, therefore, b immune from accident of every de l scription. In a similar way the spir itual understanding of mans relation } shpi to God gives human beings on real consciousness, the consciousness of God or good. There is no in : harmony there. no discomfort there t no sickness there. Disease is on of the false beliefs of the carnal ma l terial mind. But a false creatio
 is not a real creation; and tn, l spiritual understanding of the req 5 and spiritual creation destroys tn t belief that any other creation ex 5 ists, and so destroys the error O s belief called disease. God has ere 3 ated all reality perfectly. He ha l established creation and governs
 through spiritual law; and this la, : provides for all His ideas as onl a perfect law can. The divine Min p is the Soul of man, and gives ma v dominion over all things" (Scienc . and Health, D. 307)