Arizona republican., 1917-09-22
THE VITAL TRUTH

look upon evil as a stubborn fact that
 nothing but material means can affect
 The teaching which reveals the infinite
 presence and power of God-and clari-
 fies the revelation with practical proofs
 by healing evil in thousands of forms,
 has indisputably come to stay Chris
 tian Science, as explained in Science
 and Health, is the logical seQuent of
 the truth given by Jesus, and it's pres
 ence and works are the fulfillment of
 his promise to mankind that the Christ
 would be with it always, even unto
 the end of the world The inevitable
 nature of the action of Truth, and the
 true inward meaning of Jesus utter
 ances, coming, in this way, to lighta
 show that the present works accom-
 plished by Christian Science, great and reassuring as they are are only the
 first infantile steps taken in the un- derstanding of infinite Science
 Because Christian Science reveals
 the truth, the spread of it, on healing wings, is as assured as were the word/ og Jesus, and it's works of healing are accomplished on as sure basis. Every case that is healed, he it one of sin ol{
 sickness, is healed because health and not sickness is true. uprightness and not sin is true. Health and uprightnesS are part of eternal Truth which Sci ence, or true knowledge, reveals A human being is healed through Chris tian Science of some complaint; be- cause man ms made in Gods likeness, and because sickness belongs to a false sense of man IS material born, ana dying in the flesh it can be destroyed It can be seen here how far reach
 ing is the vital character of the truth. about man. Today men are being healed redeemed and comforted be- cause they have cought a glimpse of mans relation to God. and are accept ing the fundamental fact of the truth of revelation as stated in Genesis. that l God created man in his own image. i in the image of God created he him ' l Thus by going back to the very begin ming we find the statement of truth
 regarding man and God. Then centuries after, the Bible shows Jesus the Christ | healing the sick and overcoming every
 materiau condition. including death, l through mans oneness with the Fla | ther; and now we have Christian SciI l ence prOclaiming God as infinite divine i Principle. and man as his perfect like 1 ness, and once again.-behOld the signs are following, This Science also shows 1 the cOrrelative truth, that as man is 1 Gods likeness, he is not the likeness l of the carnal mind and that only fal ie i education and false belief give a seem . ing life to a wrong concept of ma,k l The discovery of the lie concerning 1 man is to mankind today, necessary part of the revelation of Truth for
 without this uncovering mOrtals would continue to believe that material man | is man. conclusion which creates a deadlock. where all the sickness, sen suality and sin of the material uni
 verse seem to be real Te vital truth the truth that can never be overthrown and which the Bible and Science and Health proclaim. is the fact that God is infinite. On that the whole of Chris tian Science is based. Mrs Eddy says 1 on page 267 of Science and Health:
 Every object in material thought will
 he destroyed, but the spiritual idea ! whose substance is in Mind. is eternal The offspring of God start not from l matter ar ephemeral dust. They are in l and fSpirit. divine Mind, and so for ] ever continue. God is one. The allness
 of Deity is His oneness"