Arizona republican., 1917-08-27

In the Bible are to be found many verses relative to the desire, and in many cases these express the partial fulfillment of that desire. to see God. The simple performance of the many so called miracles by the prophets, and especially the teaching and prac
 tice of Christianity by Jesus and his followers, would make it a point be- yond question that in some manner and in some degree the ability to see God was possible, and, still more inn portant, is possible today. Whatever is once true is. of course, true eter- nally, and upon this solid basis mortals may build securely, albeit slowly, in the age-long effort to reach Truth. This effort will go on until the end of all materiality, for this is the only ob
 stacle there is to seeing infinite good Mrs Eddy, the discoverer and foun- der of Christian Science, has, with characteristic directness, pointed to the root of the matter on page 140 of her textbook, where she writes. That God is a corporeal being. nobody can truly affirm. The Bible represents Him as saying: Thou canst not see My face; for there shall no man see Me. and live Not materially but spiritual | ly we know Him as divine mind, as l life truth, and love. We shall obey and adore in proportion as we appre- | hend the divine nature and love Him | understandingly. warning no more oyer the corporeality, but rejoicing in the | affluence of our God.
 | It is a strange thing that the nature of God is now rarely contended, yet the methods of worshipping and the forms of obeying Him differ as widely as the human mind is capable of stretching between it's fictitious poles This mind abrogates to itself the riSh; of pardoning it's mistakes on the ground of the weakness of the flesh yet is itself responsible for all that constitutes the flesh, which. as St Paul reminds us, were wars against the spirit, immortal or divine mind What excuse, then. remains to the flesh? The only insubstantial excuse there is. is the belief in mind apari from God, who is. as Christian Science teaches and demonstrates. infinite life, truth and love" Because thi: right concept of God is gradually be
 ing accepted and proved to be abso
 lutely true in the experience of multl tudes the world over, God is being seen again as a very present help II trouble and as the only life of man.
 What caused the spiritual vision the prophets to fade out of the popu l pressing it at all. was the same erro
 which confronted Jesus in the estab lshment of permanent Christianity the same obstacle which Christian Sci ence has come to war upon and final. to make an end of, as promised by tn
 Master-the error of belief in the real
 ity of matter Starting from the fals
 concept of a corporeal God. mortals r
 bound to arrive at an equally fals
 conclusion, but while there is no au thOrity for such premise, there 1 ample Justification in the inspired ut terances of the Bible for repudiating il To furnish proof of this is hardly nee essary to the protesting Christian o today, nor vet to SubStantlate tn
 claim to Gods infinitude. From thes
 two facts Christian Science deduces
 logical system of reasoning. which |
 substance declares that spirit, mlne being infinite, is also ever present, an
 that matter and the physical sense are alike unreal. in fact, one and tn same thing-an illusion or the Adar
 dream. To awake from this dream re
 uuires faith and understanding, eve
 as the Psalmist so beautifully declare
 "As for me, I will behold thy face i 1 righteousness: I shall be satisfied
 when I awake. with thy likeness See | ing God, therefore. metaphysicall speaking. is spiritually understandin
 Him or discerning through spiritus sense the omnipresence of good. o
 that consummation Habakkuk prophe
 sled. For the earth shall be filled wit 1 the knowledge of the glory of the Lort as the waters cover the sea- Tn knowledge of the glory of the Lord ca be no other than divine science, fo science alone is able to destroy tn
 adamantine belief of material univers
 and reveal the substance of spirit.
 Jesus spiritual perception of tn Christ enabled him to restore the sens | of sight to the man born blind, an
 like this man who. though not full
 realizing what had healed him. replie
 to his questioners. Whether he be
 ~;nnar no. know not: one thing
 know. that. whereas l was blind. no I see," so does the one feel who ha
 awakened somewhat from materi;
 sense to the spiritual understanding (
 God through Christian Science. Where as before sin, disease, sorrow an