The St. Joseph observer. [volume] (St. Joseph, Mo.) 1906-1932, 1917-04-28

fore thee, to keep thee in the way,
and to bring thee into the place
which l have prepared For
mine Angel shall go before thee, and
bring thee in unto the Amorites, and
the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and
the Canaanites, the Invites, and the
Jebusites; and / VIII cut them off"
The office of the angel. evidently, was
to bring him who served the Lord
face to face with his enemies, to help
him to discover the evils about him.
And then, the promise reads. 81 will
cut them off" Not away from the
enemies. leaving them still possessing
the land, but directly to them, to dis
possess them, did their angel lead the
children of Israel on their way out of
| Egypt.
This, the student of Christian Sci
ence discovers, is just what is hap
pening to him. Mrs. Eddy, upon page
5S1 of the Christian Science text
book, defines angels thus: angels.
! Gods thoughts passing to man; spir-
| itual intuitions, pure and perfect; the
| inspiration of goodness, purity, and
immortality, counteracting all evil,
sensuality, and mortality" And the
| earnest Christian finds that as these
angels of spiritual understanding
come to him they unveil to him the
errors of human belief in general and
the errors of his own human nature
in particular. Peter of old, at his
fishing boats, found the first touch of
the Christ moving him to eXclaim:
| Depart from me; for l am a sinful
own distance from ChristIikeness and
was for the moment overwhelmed.
And today, he who seeks the divine
| Mind to govern motive and action is
at his early vision of perfection as
founded and perhaps disheartened, at
the uncovered error for the first time
written, Science and Health Up. 366D :
THE physician must also watch, lest
he be overwhelmed by sense of the
odiousness of sin and by the unveil-
ing of sin in his own thoughts" And
she has given the world clear knowl-
edge as to the way to eXterminate the
Christ, of Truth, would seem odious,
in the revelation that evil is all un-
real to divine Mind and that divine
Mind can be demonstrated as all
presence and all-power.
For it is the angel, let it be re-
membered. who leads us in the way,
and though that may be to come
squarely against the evil in our own
thoughts, to cast 1t out, can we fail
to follow? We want ease at once it
is true, but can we find ease until we
rid ourselves of the false beliefs which
breed disease? The angels of right
understanding are ever with us, as
we cherish them and associate with
them, and their first loving minis
tration is not only to reveal Truth,
but to uncover error. The angel
went before the Israelites to bring
them in unto their enemies. Our
angel too, brings us to battle with
our enemies; anad in its first reckon
ing with US teaches us that our enc
mics are never other people, but our
own wrong beliefs, our own sins,
Isicknesses and fears, our own false
sense of God and man. The office of
the angel Is to challenge sin, and evil
must be seen as evil in order to be
put out. True understanding Of God
and man reveals God as Spirit, Mind
divine Principle, maintaining man as
spiritual idea in the perfection of
Principle. And as this understands
ing dawns upon human thought Il
must inevitably expose the fleshly
man, heretofore supposed to be Gods
man, as the direct counterfeit Of the
spiritual man, and as an illusion to
be cast out by ceasiug to believe III
claims. Evil uncovered, I'VE know
is well on the way to destruction
while evil masquerading as good hai
thereby its only chance for contin
uance. So the merciful action Of tn,
spiritual intuitions. pure and per
feet" sets in motion that mental pro
cess of seeing evil as evil and beinl
done with it, which alone makes wa,
for good to appear. And it is to b.
noted in the Exodus text, that witt
it all. the angel leads them into tn
place which God has prepared.
The earnest student Of Christia
Science usually finds, when he be
gins to cherish spiritual understand
Ing, spiritually right thinking, tina
for the first time he is systematicall
and scientifically setting a watch up
on his own thoughts. With hi
quickened sense OF Christ, Truth, h
detects in himself heretofore hidde
and unsuspected inconsistepcie