South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-11-14
Christian Science


iON III BEARD, I. :. Is.
/ ne would have spoiled the infinite
design. frustrated the divine pur-
pose. Now infinite Mind Is infinite
spirit and infinite Life. In express
I ins the perfection Of infinite Mind
man expresses infinite Life and in
: finite Spirit. and as an expression Of
/ infinite Life man must be eternal
while as an expression OF infinite
Spirit man must be spiritual and
not material Man, then. as Gods
+ idea. Gods image and likeness. has
all the qualities Of God. and not "A
single quality which not of God.
! therefore he is heal1hful and holy;
, spiritual. immortal perfect.
/ Such a conclusion a. this leaves
I no room for "A mortal. material,
sick. and sinful man, yet we have
/ the problem Of materially with its
/ sickness and woes 20 deal with as
Ia false belief 10 be eradicated.
Nothing seems more real To the
\ human mind than does matter.
! though the most eminent physi-
I cists Of the present day are quite
I atone in saying that il is impos-
I sible 20 prove that there is such a
/ thing as matter. They say that
matter is a function of something
/ outside itself the expression of
I energy; and this is just another way
! Of saying that matter is an express
sion of thought Christian Science
agrees with them in saying that
matter is an expression Of thong MT
but points out that matter is an
/ expression not Of right thought but
of wrong thought. that all right
| thought, Gods thought. real thought
must partake OF Gods nature, and
is therefore spiritual, not material.
and is expressed in spiritual things.
not material things. The whole ma
! terial universe. with all its sin,
sickness, and death, is just the sense
OF the opposite.-the sense of the
absence of that which God made.
Now this material body cannot do
anything Of itself, but is simply the
expression of the conscious or un-
conscious thought of the mortal hu-
man mind. Investigation proves
that all sickness is mental. that is.
il is sick thought made manifest on
the body; and when we are we'll il
is we'll thought which is made man
ifest on the body. Every function,
every action. every condition of the
body. is the expression of what we
are consciously or unconsciously
thinking from one moment TO the
next.
As we see that both sin and sick
ness are simply manifestations OF
mortal thought. thoughts of imper-
lection, we also see that by putting
the thought of the perfection of God
and all that God has made in place
of this wrong thought, we shall rule
out the wrong thought; and with no
wrong thought there can be no
wrong manifestations. The Bible
makes this identical statement when
il says Put off concerning the for
! mer conversation the old man,
which is corrupt according TO the
! deceitful lusts; an6 be renewed in
the spirit OF your mind; and
put on the new man. which after
God is created in righteousness and
true holiness"
the study OF Christian Science the
nOthinsness of the material man is
the most difficult proposition TO ac-
Cept. The logic of the argument of
the infinite perfection of Mind, God,
and the spiritual creation. seems
clear 70 most OF us. but the equally
logical and correlated argument of
the nOthingness and unreality of
the material creation causes us
more trouble. This point will be-
come clearer as our spiritual per-
Ception enlarges, for in the proper
ton that the spiritual creation be-
! comes real 10 us, the material loses
its reality.
+ have often been asked the ques-
ton. If this mortal material body
is not of God-if it isn't so-what
am 1 going 20 do about it? what
5 am L going 10 think about it?
Well. don't try 10 get rid OF il all
/. at once. Be content for today to
get rid of the very worst things you
know about it.-those things that
are SO obviously unlike God, so con
trary to the thought of His perfec-
ton. that YOU can detect, no matter
/ how small your understa nding that
j they are not His making. and hence
have never been made. As YOU
: deny their reality and assert what
, YOU know TO be Gods perfection,
3 these conditions viii disappear; and
though YOU will still have a mate
rial body 20 deal with. IL will be a
r better body, made better and strong
2 en- through the application of Gods
I law of health.
II is the putting of OF the old man
and the putting on OF the new,
. through the applications of the
TEACHINGS of Christian Science. that
constitutes the healing. The
thoughts of sickness and sin are
ruled out of human consciousness
by the understanding and declar-
= alton of the perfection of that
which God has made