Arizona republican., 1917-03-20


sense, unspiritual and unlovely-uulike
and unrelated to divine Mind.
But" asks one, how are we to dis
pose of so-called evil and matter and
their laws and conditions? While it
may be said that these cannot be legi-
timately regarded as the offspring Of
omnipotent Spirit, Mind and Love, yet
they do seem to exist and to have pow
er. Did not Jesus himself take full
cogniZance of these things, and did he
rot have much to do with them?i
Mrs. Eddy shows how ID answer this
question satisfactorily. On page 275 OF
Science and Health she says: ITO
grasp the reality and order OF being in
its Science you must begin by reckon
ing God as the divine Principle of all
that really is" Now. since God is in
finite Spirit, Mind, Principle, and Love.
and since He made all that was made,
it is obvious that the universe, includ-
ing man, is the perfect expression of
/ Gods nature and character. To state
it differently, the entire creation is
spiritual and good embracing no evil
and no matter whatsoever. 1t was this
exact and scientific knowledge of the
| divine or spiritual truth of being which
! the Master was in actual possession Of
and which gave him absolute dominion
| over all the earth. Never for mo-
ment did he think, much less affirm
! that there was any power or presence
! besides God and His harmonious ideas
or manifestations. Never did he have
any "other gods" before the only wise
: God our Saviour" This was the Mas
ter ideally faithful and obedient to the
! divine demands upon him, and thus he
became the great wayshower on EE-
amplar of the race.
When the sick and the sinful came t
| Christ Jesus for healing and nelp. he
demonstrated conclusively that God. his
Father and our Father is not the Gre
ator or approyer OF sin and sickness
and that therefore they do not in real
ity exist, but are simply a mortal seem
ing or illusion. When what are demon
| mated material laws and conditions APP
/ peared before him as insurmountablt
obstacles, he held unwaveringly an(
unflinchingly to the absoluteness of di-
/ vine Spirit Mind, and 50 was able tC
| put these laws and conditions under
foot, thereby disclosing their impotence
| When death itself sought to gain The
| victory over him and others. he
through knowing the allness of Life
| and Love, VanquiShed this last enemy
most gloriously, thus exposing its de-
| ceptiveness, its nothingness. Finally
, when the Master had overcome tht
world, the flesh, and all evil, and wa.
about to rise forever above human
view, he bade his followers go among
all nations and teach them to 'ob-
serve exactly what he had commanded
them. And he said unto them, 49,
these signs shall follow them that be-
lieve THAT apprehend and apply the
scientific truth about God and Hi:
spiritual creation); In my name shall
they cast out devils: they shall speal
with new tongues; they shall take III
serpents and if they drink any deadly
thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall
! lay hands on the sick, and they shall
recover According to history, tho
commands OF the Master were kept il
| their entirety for about three hundred
years after his ascension. and the
! signs he had promised followed q!
q natural consequence.
The revelation OF Christian Science
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