Arizona republican., 1917-07-02
THE Christian Science Monitor)

When John wrote in the first chap
ter of his Gospel, "All things were
made by him; and without him was not
anything made that was made" he was
stating the truth that God is the Gre
ator of all that really exists. While
this is the case, care has to he taken to
distinguish between what the material
senses of men call truth and the abso
lutte truth, because what these So
called senses tell is never absolutely
true but is merely a superficial and
therefore erroneous appreciation of re-
atty. Unless the distinction be clearly
drawn. the unfolding of truth is an i'm
possibility. since the absolute and the
relative will remain indistinguishable
Christian Science, first and last,
makes this distinction. Christian Sci
ence teaches in the simplest Language
possible the truth about God so that
all who desire to know God Alright can
have no difficulty in understanding it;
and once they have caught the heaven
ly wisdom of creation as Christian Sci
ence reveals it, the unfolding of truth
proceeds in the ration of their fidelity
to what they already know. On page
sos of Science and Health, Mrs. Eddy
writes: "Undisturbed amid the Earring
testimony of the material senses, Sci
ence, still enthroned, is unfolding to
mortals the immutable harmonious di-
vine Principles unfolding Life and
the universe, ever present and eternal"
Now Christian Science refuses to adj
nit that God is limited in any way. 1t
declares that God is infinite Mind, Life,
Truth, Love, that God is infinite good
and that as such He is the divine Prin-
ciple of the universe. Because God is
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omnipotent. These are all statements
of absolute truth; but the human mind
questions every one of them. In belief
there seems to be a perpetual struggle
going on between the truth about God
and the beliefs of the SO-called human
mind. This mind. for example. believes
that matter is real substance, possess
ing presence of power. What does this
amount to? 1t is a denial that Mind
is infinite Again, the human mind be-
lieves that evil is real and that it also
has 0ower. What does this amount to ?
1t is denial that good is infinite. Sim
ilarly the carnal mind by believing in
death as a reality denies that Life is
infinite In short. the absolute truth
about God is seemingly contradicted at
every point by the finite beliefs of the
so-called human mind The first es-
sential step to the unfolding of Truth
must be the recognitiop of Gods all
ness as infinite Mind, Spirit, Life, and
Love, and the logical denial of the re-
ality of matter and evil Whenever
this recognition takes place. through
spiritual consciousness the truth be-
gins to unfold itself Material sense
does not unfold he facts of existence: ="
Mrs. Eddy writes in Science and
Health (p 95), "but spiritual sense
lifts human consciousness into eternal
Truth"
What a gulf between the material
sense of creation and the spiritual I'M
derstanding of creationl The one looks
upon all the objects of sense as real:
the other knows them to be counter
feits of reality. Spiritual sense gives
the assurance that. since Mind is in
finite creation consists in the unfold
ing of Minds ideas, that is in the ap-