Arizona republican., 1917-02-19

cepts Of the words heaven and God
and then observe the result. Instead
of theories or beliefs one then gains
spiritual facts which from their very
nature are in heaven, and which, when
they come to you and become your
own, constitute heaven in you. The
truth is that heaven is a word which,
like the word God, has no value at
all if you associate absence with its
meaning. Happily there is no proper
definition of either given among men
that justifies such an association.
Heaven unquestionably includes and
requires health. General religious
belief promvlgate the theory
that the way to heaven is through dis
ease and death, when the fact is that
heaven is attained just in the proper
ton that disease and death cease.
LIFE
Heaven cannot mean more than
eternal existence with perfect happi-
ness. This implies uninterrupted life
Ordinary ethical systems and the COM
monty accepted theories of medicine
and religion predicate the inevitable
/ triumph of disease. They declare that
I however much man may struggle and
however much he may know or gain
in knowledge, yet finally he will be
. oNeTcOIIle ny evil. ATTiStldn science,
on the other hand holds out the allur-
! ing hope and establishes the divine and
! demonstrable assurance that man.
meaning every person, shall eventu-
ally triumph over all evil and awake
! in that dominion which the Bible says
God gave to him.
We are not only alive, but we want
to live. Practically all of us would be
willing to live forever if we could
only be sure that we could be happy
forever. So common is this instinct
or desire to live that it is expressed
automatically. self preservation is
the first law of nature" Humanity
speaking, it is not a law, it is only a
desire, yet so universal is it. so i'm
measurable. so without beginning OF
end, that ii must indicate a perman
ent fact. This permanent fact is fun
damental to all things. 1t must be
Life, for without Life there is nothing
Such thoughts show why Christian
Science is right in teaching that God
divine Mind, Principle, is Life
Even the human sense of life has
never been found in matter, however
industriously sought there. To sup
pose that il could be so found is sc
manifestly illogical and so clearly i'm
D
thousands OF devoted and learned mer
and women have spent untold years il
the vain endeavor to locate in matter
the unreasonable, uncomfortable Prn.
ciple. life God
tLife is eternal now. Nearly all re.
ligious doctrine has been TO the effec
. that eternal life would come afte
. death. Such theories utterly ignor,
the meaning of eternality at the sam,
time that they claim to teach it,
Postponed eternality is no eternalit!
. at all. Creation is not something tina
begins or ends. When the Bible il
read spiritually instead Of MATERIAL,
it. Enthusiastically shows that the onl,
thing which ever begins is not crea
, ton. but "a human beings conception
of it t,terna; life is unquestionabl,
TO be attained by enlightenment an,
demonstration. Life is the basic Prin
ciple of Being. which needs to be ant
can he humanity proved through Chris
, tan Science by eliminating the de
struc;ive fears and beliefs called sil
aad disease.
d Mind Not Dependent Upon Brains
The only thing that ever lives is Mind
: Take away all Thoughts or conscious
ness and matter does not even appea
To live. The fact is that matter neithe
= lives nor thinks. ard this is true not
, withstanding the general belief tina
| brains, as matter. constitute a thinl<in
! organ. This belief is so universal tina
it overwhelms the whole race, so tina
r when an injury happens to the brai
; the mind Of the person is affected I'M
2 less he be Rescued by Christian Scicnc
= from that universal belief This is no
] TO say that a human being could &c
Y along here without brains. The object q
/ Christian Science practice is not I
} nave him get along without brain:
t but to- have him get better brain.
g which he will do in the proportio
= that he learns in Christian Scienc
\ and proves by means of the fact
: which constitute this science. tina
Mind is God, for by so doing fear /
!. removed. and fear is the only thin
: that is the matter with anybody
:. brain.
INVISIBLE POWER THE
ONLY POWER
, Thoughts alone constitute education
! The consequent Improvement of ma
terial things, together with all othe
visible evidences of human progress,
Is made possible only by improve
thoughts, which. though invisible ar
I thus shown to have tangible bein
I and evidence After all. materis
tangibility is comparatively unimport
h ant 1t is merely the outward an
! temporary sign of something far NOR
[ enduring and tangible. All scienc
: consists of thoughts. and so to tn
$ thinker who looks for Cause in tn
;. world and searches for its Law
p thoughts are the phenomena of frs
q Importance. All science. art and re
o lieion consist of thoughts. Even tn
. science of mathematics is invisible i
2 principle and rule. Can it be sal
;. on that account that it is not tangi
!, Bile? Music and poetry consist {
! thoughts. No art is possible withou
: ideas, and they must indeed he of
! very superior nature to justify tn
use of the word art in relation [
them.
The greatest things of the worl
are all invisible. which does not i'm
ply that they are intangible. Though
4 though invisible. constitutes all educa
!. ton and does everything that tn
\ human race is said TO be doing Trut
] Is invisible. life is invisible. law
$ invisible; intelligence and mind ar
] invisible; the love which you have 70
2 your family is invisible: and eve
[ ones own character, which indeed t
V the extent that it is good is the onl
r thing about one that indicates tn
real man. is invisible. The divine like
! ness is thus humanity indicated, thong
, not materially seen. w
Integrity and honestly constitutin
reputation, all invisible. are so tang
ible in business that. if they be i
: evidence. one may borrow money o
them at the bank when he could no
borrow a dollar on his visible body