Arizona republican., 1917-04-10

Children are not afraid when watch ing a storm from the safe shelter of their fathers house The rains may descend and the floods come and the winds blow and beat upon that house, but it does not occur to the children to question the stability of the struc- ture in which they find themselves. Similarly, the scientific Christian can look out upon the tossing waves Of error from his abiding place in the con- sciousness of harmony and remain, un- afraid because he has learned some thing of the presence and power of Truth and the consequent unreallty Of error. The moral courage which comes from spiritual understanding is always in demand It behooveS every right eous, or right thinking man and woman to ponder Mrs. Eddy's searching state ment made on page 228 of Science and Health with Key to the Scrip tures," the Christian Science text book: "There is no power apart from God. Omnipotence has all power, and to acknowledge any other power is to dishonor God" No one really wishes to "dishonor Cod and so this word of warning will be readily taken to heart. When we assume that a cer tain temptation is too strong to be successfully resisted, we play an un- vitting part in dishonoring God. When symptoms of disease make their ap- pearance and we concede that some law or necessity is at work producing physical discord, we once more risk lishonoring God. When we tamely submit to any injurious activities of the elements, to So-called laws of na- ture that ultimate in destruction or devastation. we acknowledge another power besides God, we admit the so- called power of evil-and again we dis honor God, the only real power.
 When Jesus was confronted by a de- structive phenomenon called a storm He spoke the word of peace, be still" into it, and there was a calm. Did he possess an exclusive right to act in this manner and are not those who are obediently following in His footsteps equally. entitled to still the raging forces of the carnar mind? Jesus for gave sins, i e., He destroyed them; thus proving that there was no real power in sin. He thereby honored God the only real power. May not his fol- lowers also forgive sin by making it unreal to the sinner, i. e., delivering him from his belief that there is pleas ure in it or that it has power or pres ance? Jesus swept aside the Elusive
 
 even when it was called incurable, and so again hOnored his Father, from whom he had received his calling and mandate. Shall not Christians, then, also submit the same proofs as he did Of Gods Omnipotence by making unreal the mesmeric bondage called diseas SC :? With joy unfeigned those who have been healed by Christian Science can look forth upon the surging error that once affrighted them. Safe in the shelter of their Fathers house, in the consciousness of God -with-us, they wonder that the empty fury of sin. dis ease, or storms could ever have seemed to be power With hearts full of grati- tude they have been privileged to watch the clouds roll away, the thun- der and lightning fade from hearing and sight and so to sta,id as having authority, clothed with dominion de- rived from Principle.
 If humanity at large were to acquire today the spiritual discernment that spells safety tomorrow, we would wit ness 9 sudden decrease in crime insan- ity, physical disease and all other hu- man ills. The prisons. asylums and hospitals would begin to empty them selves, and the churches wherein such 1 spiritual discernment is preached. and
 
 | ing. Harassed by the fear of foes, visi- ble and invisible, humanity spends a great part of its available time and energy in devising means of escape or at least of mOmentary protection In | early childhood this training begins with mysterious warnings from anX- | ious parents and teachers. and every step onward is accompanied by an ed ucation in fear. Modern inventions that are hailed with joy as harbingers ! of safety are constantly being followed by apprehensions that neutralize the good the inventions were expected to accomplish. Every material device for saving life seems to contain within ltsef likewise the seed of destruction; every theory of material medicine i'm plies some new and unexpected peril to human life.
 Christian Science teaches and proves that there is no real safety in any ma