Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1917-02-26


Christianity. 1t is the religion of
Christ Jesus. 1t is the understanding
of Truth, and the application of this
understanding to the problems of
everyday life. If the epistles of the
disciples of Jesus and those of Paul
be studied, it will be found that
throughout every one of them runs
the admoniticn to be practical, to
apply tie truth as one receives it, to
put ii to uses at a talent lent by
God Re We doors OF he word, and
not hearers only, deceiving your own
selves" is now James makes the de-
mand: and Paul gave to the Corin-
THAN church with exquisite tender
ness the injunction: BE perfect, be
of good comfort be Of one mind, live
in peace; and the God of love and
peace shall be with you" Christianity
in theory is wonderful; Christianity
in practice means the healing of the
sick, the regenerating of the sinner,
the destruction of the belief of death;
in short, Christianity in its highest
sense is the proving that man is the
spiritual idea of God.
The founder OF Christianity. Jesus
! of Nazareth, was the most reasonable
/ Of men. He was not mystic nor
! dreamer. he was the most practical
taught mankind about God, he taught
them for a practical purpose. With
him theory and practice became iden-
teal Jesus knew hat what the
world neeaed was absolute knoWl-
edge, accurate knowledge of God He
knew that the worlds theories and
speculations. no matter how eminent
! the authority from which they
! originated were Of no permanent
value to the human race. because
/ they were based on fundamentally
wrong premises. And so he set him
self to elucidate the Christ or Truth,
( thereby revealing the absolute or
scientific knowledge OF reality, which
he referred to as his Father, God. A
man. instructed by Christian Science.
finds a glorious revelation of God in
the gospels; he finds the truth there,
stated so positively that he is able to
heal the belief of disease through it
as he craps it. But the difficulty
for men before the discovery of
Christian Science was to find for
themselves ir the bible the truth
which heals. =. One OF the aims OF
Christian. Science is to bring to man
kind the key which will open the
gospels to them. open indeed the
whole bible to them. for the revela-
ton OF God was not the work of any
one man or of any single period. IL
has been a gradual evolution. stead l.
lily growing perception of the Christ
10 human consciousness. But Jesus
the Christ stands out as peculiarly
the master metaphysician, in that he
to an extraordinary degree, under
stands the perfect union which exists
between spiritual man and God.
Christianity. hen. is Impossible
without scientific knowledge OF God
The divine principle, God, must be
! known: and the extent of the knowl-
edge man possesses of divine prin-
| cipie is the exact measure of his
Christianity. Mrs. Eddy states the
position exactly, when she writes OF
page Ill If Science and Health
The principle of divine metaphysics
is God. the practice of divine
metaphysics is 'he utilization of the
power of truth over error; its rules
demonstrate its Science" Goo, then
must be known; and Christian Science
caches that God is infinite in ever.
one Ct the attributes of His divine
nature. Just reflect what this means
II is a declaration of the truth that
&C cd is omnipresent. that Truth Is
omnipotent that life Is etc., mai, tha'
the divine principle. love, is the only
cause 1t gives a human being some
work to grasp but slightly the sisni-
ficance Of even one of these everlast-
ing facts. But the grasping of then
and the putting of them into practices
is Christianity. Take the truth tina
God IS infinite good. Does the ma
terial world believe that? Does j
not appear as though the bulk o
! humanity was convinced that so
called evil often occupies among mel
IA larger sphere of influence thai
good? There is no doubt that mel
believe evil to be as real and al
powerful at times as good. II is tn
express purpose of Christianity t
DESTROY the belief of evil; but TIN
. simply cannot be done scientificall,
, and radically until individuals com
to spiritually understand that God. o
good. is infinite. without an opposit
in reality: that good is the only poWe
! in existence The human mind ma
been so educated along speculative
lines that ii is continually question
, ing spiritual truth. and man has
a rule to DE convinced through prac
teal example or demonstration. ina
I Is a reasonable way; and II Is nov
Christian Science proves to the hu
e man consciousness that the knowl
. edge of good destroys the belief Q
= evil.
d Suppose a man felt himself expose
9 to an outburst of malice. seeming I
come from a personal source. HOY