Arizona republican., 1917-12-03
BELIEF

CThe Christian Science Monitor).
 Exception has frequently been taken :0 the use, In Christian Science, of the word belief, to classify all disease and suffering. When man is sick, that sickness seems to him anything but fancy; it.i decided conviction, cor roborated by all his senses. But what is this sick mortal, and whence arises his conviction of suffering? Is a sick man conceivaby any part of Gods creation and can man in the image and likeness of God he convicted of sin and disease? What is it but the fundamental error of belief iG ar ex- istence apart from Gou that makes a man seem to himself mortal? The Scriptures declare of the real man and of his relation to God, Tn Him we live, and move, and have our being" Commenting upon this Scripture, Mrs. Eddy asks on page POS of Science and Health, What then is this seeming power, independent of God, which causes disease and cures it? What is it but an error of belief--a law of mor- tai mind, wrong in every sense. en- bracing sin, sickness, and death? It is the very antipode of immortal Mind, of Truth, and of spiritual law"
 Man made in Gods likeness is never sick, for he is not subject to errors of belief. He is the intelligent, spiritual reflection of the all-knowing Mind, or divine Principle. What Is it then that believes in sickness and sin? Matter cannot believe" as Mrs. Eddy says on page 4S7 of Science and Health, "and Mind understands. The body cannot believe. The believer and belief are one and are mortal" Now a mortal believer and belief are, manifestly. outside of immortal being, that is, unreal or nothing. All that exists is included in divine Principle and it's idea; naught else is God is All; there is none beside Him. Erroneous be- lief originates, then, not in real intel iigence. but in a wrong supposition of life, intelligence and substance apart from God, in false mo- tion that man has g. dual material and spiritual nature, and that mind can be evil as well as good. All the | graduations of belief in sin, disease and death, spring from this fundamen- tai error of belief in a carnal mind | separated from God, and are the sub- 1 Jective conditions of that unreal mind l Therefore Christian Science logically | insists that suffering of every kind must be treated as a false belief o1 l the carnal mind and not as reality II IL IS 10 De overcome
 There is but one thing that car destroy erroneous belief and that is manifestly, the truth about that con- corning which a false belief is enter tained. When the testimony of ma. terial sense wields to the evidence O spiritual understanding, the manifes tation of the false belief which ha. | seemed real, disappears, and a nor, harmonious condition is experienced as result of that spiritual perception It Is the unassailable position of Chris ton Science that any one can prov, this fact for himself Let any mal turn from @ material 10 a metaphysi cal basis in his consideration of caus and effect, and he can prove in ever, instance, in just the degree of hi spiritual understanding that the be
 liefs of the human mind and the mani festation of these beliefs, disappea when consciousness abides in tn
 truth of being. It was upon this basi I of the supremacy and allness of Spirit God, that those signs of Gods powe which are called miracles in the Scrip lures were performed. Unto thee
 was shewed," Moses reminded tn people, that thou mightest know tha
 the Lord he is God; there is none els
 beside Him."
 Mortal mind. which is a counterfei
 of divine Mind, believes that there
 something beside God. and it name
 the object of it's belief matter. It at . tributes intelligence and sensation
 matter, and then believes that thi
 sentient, intelligent matter can in tur
 control man, enable him to ejo
 through the senses, or cause hir
 through the same senses to suffe
 pain and death. Mortal mind itsel
 changes its beliefs, and these change
 appear as fluctuating conditions c
 matter. Mortal mind formulates 1. consensus of opinion which it name law and with which it proceeds bind mortals. What was considere material law yesterday is replace
 by another belief called law toda,
 and with these changes of beliefs, tn manifestations. or physical sensation