The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-01-25
"A LECTURE ON CHRISTIAN
SCIENCE
Continued from Page p

God is God,-making no effort to un
derstand His nature,-and insisting
that the sickness and sin which we Sc,
about us are in some way according t
His infinite perfection and holiness.
God as infinite Life cannot be made
manifest in death, nor can infinite
Life be made manifest in sickness
for sickness ultimates in death, anc
so in a relative sense is partial death
Infinite Life can only be made mani.
fest in infinite eternal health.
God as infinite Truth cannot be
made manifest in sickness, for every
truth is in absolute harmonious ac-
cord with every other truth, just as
one mathematical truth is in harmony
with every other mathematical truth,
and infinite Truth can tolerate no in
harmony, even though it calls itself
sickness and claims to be truth.
God as infinite Love cannot do less
for His children than to manifest
that Love and supply them with in
finite good, and infinite good does
not include sickness. What earthly
father as a manifestation of his love
for his child would bring sickness
if he could prevent it? '1f we then,
being evil, know how to give good
gifts unto your children, how much
more shall your Father which is in
heaven give good things to them that
ask him ?"
When we consider God as Principle,
that from which all proceeds, we
find it impossible to conceive of both
sickness and health proceeding from
this one infinite Principle; and yet
there is no other source from which
anything could come, for, as John
declares, without him was not any
thing made that was made"
When we consider God as Mind we
arrive at the same conclusion, for
the manifestation of Mind is thought,
and the thoughts of infinite Mind are
not sick thoughts, but perfect and
healthful and holy.
We all of US accept the statement
that God is wisdom, but it is better
to say that God is Mind, because wis
dom is never anything but the express
sion of Mind. If we admit infinite
wisdom, we must admit that it is
the emanation of an infinite Mind.
Let US illustrate the divine Mind by
using the ordinary conception of hu-
man mind as an example. You say
you know this because he has lot of
fine ideas which he expresses. You
have never seen his mind, but you
have known the expression of his mind
in ideas. If he never moved a mus
Gle, never spoke a word, you would
rightly conclude that there was no
mind there. So mind to be a mind
must be filled with ideas, and an idea
by virtue of being an idea must be
expressed 1t is impossible to conceive
of a mind filled with ideas, yet I'M
expressed, for a mind with no express
sion is not a mind but a blank.
Now we have evidence of infinite
wisdom in the universe, and the evil
dence of infinite wisdom predicates
an infinite Mind. The infinite num-
Der of ideas or thoughts which con-
stitue its wisdom. These ideas, be-
cause they are ideas, cannot be sep
arated from the Mind which contains
them, and it is the activity, the re-
Election, the manifestation of these
ideas which constitute man and the
universe. AS Gods ideas we exist
in Him,-perfect, spiritual, and i'm
mortal,-and because that SIN him
we live, and move, and have our be-
ing"
There is a further quality of an
idea that it might be we'll to consider.
An idea has no ability to do anything
or to be anything other than just the
idea of the mind in which it exists. 1t
cannot change itself or become more
or less or different than that Mind in
tended it should be, for it has no Volt
ton of its own, and must of necessity
express exactly the qualities of the
mind whose idea it is. Man is the
perfect idea of God. and as an idea
of God he has no volition of his own.
He cannot be sick or choose to do
evil, for if he could change from be-
ing Gods perfect idea he would be
greater than God, because he would
have spoiled the infinite design, frus-
trated the divine purpose. Now in
finite Mind is infinite Spirit and in
finite Life. In expressing the perfec
ton of infinite Mind, man expresses
infinite Life and infinite Spirit, and
as an expression of infinite Life man
must be eternal, while as an express
sion Of infinite Spirit man must be
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spiritual and not material. Man, then
as Gods idea, Gods image and like
ness, has all the qualities of God, and
not single quality which is not of
God: therefore he is healthful and
loly; spiritual, immortal, perfect.
Such a conclusion as this leaves no
.oom for a mortal, material, sick, and
sinful man. yet we have the problem
If materiality with its sickness and |
woes to deal with as false belief to
,e eradicated.
Nothing seems more real to the hu-
nan mind than does matter, though |
he most eminent physicists of the /
,resent day are quite atone in say
ng that it is impossible to prove that
here is such thing as matter. They |
av that matter is function of some
hing outside itself, the expression of /
Mercy; and this is just another way
f saving that matter is an expression
f thought. Christian Science agrees
nth them in saying that matter is an
IMPRESSION of thought, but points out
hat matter is an expression not of
ight thought but of wrong thought;
,at oil r-irht thOuVht Gods thOupht |