The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-06-18

ter is an expression of though
Christian Science agrees with thel
in saying that matter is an expires
sion OF thought, but points out tha
matter is an expression not of RICH
thought but Of wrong thought; tha
all right thought, Gods thought, res
thought, must partake of Gods ma
ture, and Is therefore spiritual, nc
material and is expressed in spirit
ual things, not material things. TIL
whole material universe, with all 1t
sin, sickness, and death, is just tn
sense OF the opposite,-the sense O
the absence of that which God made
Suppose man had never had hi
sight, and sight came to him Will
he was in dark room. He woul,
not know that he had his sight, no
would he know that he was in tn
dark, for 1t is impossible for one t,
gain a sense of darkness without frs
being conscious of light. But lie
him be taken into the light and h,
would see. Then when he was re
turned to the darkness he woult
sense it as darkness,-the absenc,
! of light. So it Is Impossible fol
there to be sense of darkness ex
cept as there is first a consciousness
of light. This is equally true O.
strength and weakness. 1t Is JUS
as impossible for there to come s
sense of weakness, except as there
Is first consciousness of strength
II there had never been a conscious
ness of strength as part of what Goo
created, there would never have beer
a sense of weakness.
So the moment when God said
"Let there be light" which is EQUIV.
alent to saying, let there be strength
and let there be health, and let there
be holiness, was the first moment
wherein there could have come a
sense of darkness, and weakness, and
sickness, and sin. For every good
and perfect thing which God has
made, there has in like manner come
sense Of it's absence,-an opposite,
lie, without reality or substance.
When God said, LET us make man
in our image, after our likeness" so
that man was made in His likeness,
spiritual and perfect and immortal,
there came sense of the absence of
that spiritual and perfect and immor-
tai man; and the sense of the alb
sence of spiritual and perfect and
immortal man would be material
and imperfect and mortal man; that
is, a mortal mind and a mortal ma
terial body called man.
The New Testament calls this ma
terial or mortal mind the "carnal
mind" or mind of the flesh. We are
distinctly told that this carnal mind
and it's manifestation, carnal body,
lis enmity against Cod; that "fiesh
and blood cannot inherit the king
DOM; that they that are in the
flesh cannot please Cod So it is
plain that God did not make the NOR
tai body, for His own thoughts, His
own ideas, cannot be at enmity with
Him.
Now this material body cannot do
anything of itself, but is simply the
of the conscious or un-
conscious thought of the mortal hui
nan mind. Investigation proves
hat all sickness is mental, that is,
t Is sick thought made manifest on
he body; and when we are well it
s well thought which is made mani
,est on the body. Every function,
every action, every condition of the
body, is the expression of what we
ire consciously or unconsciously
linking from one moment to the
lext.
If a man were hungry and food
which was placed before him had
about it that was exceed
ngly unappetizing, it would appar-
,ntly be his stomach which protest
ID, because the thought which he en-
ertained about the food would be
made manifest on his body; but what
would his stomach know about the
God? Absolutely nothing! If he
believed that the food was all right,
his thought would be made manifest
n proper activity of the stomach;
md If he had eaten food believing
t to be all right and had then dis
covered that it was all wrong, his
hanged thought would be made
manifest in changed function-in
lausia, indigestion, and so forth.
In like manner, to believe that
old or wet could harm us would be
ust as disastrous to the lungs or
he throat as to believe that unap-
'etizing food could make the stom-
ych sick.
1t is not necessary to know each
PARTICULAR mortal belief, or so-called
aw, in order that we may appropri-
tie the sicknesses and troubles they
tand for, because we have accepted
he false belief that man Is subject
o all manner of diseases, the nature
II which he is unaware. and this
,elief insists that we may have any
ort of trouble to which flesh has
laimed to be heir.
AS we see that both sin and sick
less are simply manifestations of
Mortal thought, thoughts of imper
ection, we also see that by putting
he thought of the perfection of God
md all that God has made in place
# this wrong thought, we shall rule
tut the wrong thought; and with no
wrong thought there can be no
wrong manifestation. The Bible
makes this identical statement when
t says "Put off concerning the form
r conversation the old man, which
8 corrupt according to the deceitful
usts; and be renewed in the spirit
# your mind; and put on
he new man, which after God is