Arizona republican., 1917-02-19
INTELLIGENCE DIVINE
AND PRACTICAL

serves to accomplish glorious mis-
sion for mankind.
INTELLIGENCE DIVINE
AND PRACTICAL
Intelligence is both a prerequisite
and concomitant of all legitimate
scientific and Christian endeavor. Its
nature is unquestionably infinite,
therefore primarily divine. In view of
this fact how utterly unreasonable to
dissociate God from science. Conse
quently, Christian Scientists, though
ardent Christians, are not less but
more scientific than other scientists.
When asked how Christian Science
heals they can truthfully answer
through intelligence. May they not
reasonably ask in their turn, is there
any other way of doing anything cor
rectly?
ENLIGHTENMENT REVEALS
DIRECT POWER
Now. the intelligence which heals is
divine and yet attainable. Christian
Science makes it so. and shows the I'M
mistakable way of attaining it. Ii is.
however, as true now as it ever was
that there is no royal road TO learning,
and it is equally true that there is no
mere material road to health. All ma
terial systems OF healing are based
upon the false superstition that there
is such road. They are vain attempts
to accomplish by material means that
which can be accomplished only by
such enlightenment as shall consti-
tute regeneration. To suppose that
the race may be permitted to think
and act contrary to Truth and then
be healed of its consequent sufferings
by applying something inwardly or
ont rfflN To 10 lG
worthy of either science or religion.
There is no such material short cut to
health or happiness. The road is
straight, and possibly it may appear
narrow to those who need to watch
their thought and conduct, but it is the
only way and when followed results
in more rapid and permanent, healing
than has ever been brought about by
any other method.
1t is uncomfortable that divine intelli-
gence. Spirit. could not do anything
directly that needs TO be done, and
| consequently not conceivable that it
could or would provide some indirect
means for healing the sick.
Theories predicated upon the neces-
sity for material remedies or methods
in healing are wanting in reason and
logic Now observe that the method
opposite to them. 1t illustrates the
, scientific ideal: for even in the me-
chanical world there has always been
the hope that some time or other
power would become available by di-
rect means and without waste OF
energy or loss in transmission. This
I idea has never been applied to the
! healing of the sick or the regeneration
| of mankind until the advent of Christ
ian Science.-sln this practice alone n e
( have il applied. and the ideal prac-
! tically realized and illustrated. The
/ power which heals disease in Christian
J Science is the divine Mind. 1t is avail
/ able only as Mind While the ordinary
! physician says that he believes in the
! intelligent use of drugs or other ma
| terial remedies, we say and prove that
we know how to rely upon divine in
/ telligence itself Where is the real
I thinker who can doubt that the lat
I ter system is far more scientific tAsth
/ the former?
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE DESTROYS
| EVIL AND THUS EXPLAINS 1T
Jesus illustrated the way of divine
/ intelligence, and Christian Science ex-
| plains his way of healing. and shows
/ that il was not only good but supreme
/ ly scientific also. BY considering uni
versally admitted facts one may see
/ that the conclusions of Christian
/ Science in this and other respects are
logically drawn We exist at this mo-
! ment, and yet our existence is not self
explanatory nor entirely satisfactory.
We are constantly endeavoring to i'm
prove it, but we could not exist at all
if there were no cause for existence.
Cause, in the universe, must be ad
mitted by any thinker. for no one could
claim that he is self created Further
more. effects in the universe are in
Vulnerable and unreasonable. Even
our limited powers Of observation teach
us that much.
Now, immeasurable and innumerable
effects are infinite effects. which fact
not only implies. but actually requires.
an infinite Cause. An infinite Cause
is without beginning or end. therefore
! not only religionists, but all scientists
of whatsoever nature and all phiioso-
/ pliers of schools however divergent.
have agreed upon at least one fact and
that is that the first great Cause be-
ing necessarily self existent, is eternal
/ The moment that one admits that God
| is eternal. in that same moment he
must admit that disease and sin could
never have any being in God. for
eternality cannot include that which is
destructive or destructible.
The Discoverer and Founder of
Christian Science was the greatest of
! all modern thinkers along purely
metaphysical and strictly philosophical
| lines. She was not only clear but
| fearlessly consistent. When other
| thinkers came face .to eface with the
| conflict between the ideals Of life which
! point to the spiritual facts Of being.
and the material everyday experiences
which conflict with such ideals. they
| yielded their ideals to the evidence OF
| the material senses. In the light of
| pure reason it is not strange that,
swayed by such inconsistency, they
evolved contradictory theories Of re-
ligion and philosophy Mary Baker
] Eddy. on the other hand, saw that
! spiritual facts. though contrary to the
| evidence of the material senses. and
; though humanity idealistic, relate most
nearly to the basic Principle and
| boundless Power which men call God.
| Consequently her scientific system of
| healing disease and overcoming sin
requires that divine facts when dis
! cerned shall be maintained even in the
face of any and all material evidence
| that appears to be contrary to them.
| This method is in accordance with the
methods Of the greatest investigators
| OF the world, although it was never
adopted by rnetaphysicians or philoso-
piers prior to her time. BY means of
this method, Original with her, divine
metaphysics became practical