Arizona republican., 1917-05-22

teriality cannot get better, it can get less. and under the action of spiritual law it does and will grow beautifully less, until it is finally eXterminated by the full understanding of spiritual be- ing, of the power and presence of God. So Christian Science does not encour- age faith in human nature, but faith in God. It Coes not ignore nor attempt to improve evil but puts it out and off. It challenges the hidden claims of evil to come out to the light of spiritual understanding, to measure strength against spiritual understanding, if need be, and to fall before the appearing of God as All-in-al' Human good, has never matched human evil; divine good alone is equal to the destruction of evil And Christian Science does this great service to the World-it makes plain that the will. the plan, even the faith in God of the unaided human mind, may fall helpless before the human minds belief in the power of evil; but that the spiritual understanding of the law of God and how it operates to save from evil, is the saving presence, the saving angel by which the world may be got rid of it's evil For God being infinite, His law is infinite, and the scope and operation of His law is in finite. Christian Science is not here, mark you. to make material bodies comfortable, to pad material incomes, to flatter and pamper finite vanities and desires. Christian Science, reveal ing the law of God in it's eVer-ava ila ble infinitude, is here to release your en- tire career, routine. and destiny from every entanglement of suppositional evil law. If your neighbours, every body's. If everybody's, the nations and the worlds The destiny of every living thing under the law of Spirit and the law of Spirit maintains holi- ness, happiness, and life everlasting for the universe which it sustains and governs.
 Now how is the presence and power of God, and the corresponding power lessness of evil to be demonstrated in the career and destiny of men and nations except through the understand ing of God. expressed by man? Man. the image and likeness of God dWells now and eternally as spiritual idea in infinite Mind. already saved intact and immortal in infinite good The finite material mortal is a poor and sad coun- terfeit of this royal and radiant man and manhood which is the real man. and which is no part of the counterfeit ing mortality and materiality falsely called man. Flesh and blood" is far 1 from being man. But even as a counterfeit of man it comes under the 1 protection of spiritual understanding as the material belief which claimed i to govern it discordantlv is silenced. 1 The world battle is a battle against world -carnality. Nothing less than Christ, or the manifestation of divine | Mind, can yanquish carnality. And only as the Mind of Christ is reflected
 in your understanding, your neighbor S understanding, does it act at the point where you, or your neighbOr, needs it This can be your contribution. and your neighbours, to the present need o1
 the world. You can spend every avail
 able moment knowing that in reality
 evil is not power: that because divine
 Mind is everywhere present. and evil is
 never present to divine Mind, the clain
 of evil to force and being must yield | and yield, and yield, to divine Truth until the world is purged of it's presen wrongs and their attendant agonies Your contribution and your neighborl need never cease to flow out from tn
 5prings of spiritual understanding. T,
 understand why and how good is powe
 and evil is powerless, and to kee1
 thought constantly alive to the point. i
 to offer true and righteous prayer
 Surely, you and your neighbor can b
 as active in the duty of right praye
 IS the other soldier is with his fiel.
 duty, the duty of his hands and feet
 If We possess a grain of spiritual un
 derstanding and would serve the worl
 with it. we must, to use a homel phrase. keep ifworking We must kee
 1t bright in actual service "at tn , front James wrote, The effectua | freVent prayer of a righteous ma
 availeth much" And James meant yo and your neighbor.
 Do not wait till tomOrrOW-PhOn