Arizona republican., 1918-04-02

in the Bible, and the word which is , translated Almighty God, both had something of this same thought of motherhood; but this thought has been completely lost to us in the translation.
 No matter by what term we may think of God, whether it be as in- finite Life or infinite Principle, or in- finite Mind, a logical deduction as to the nature of man and the crea- tion will alwaysa bring us to the same point,-that of the eternal per- lection of all that God has made, and the unreality of sickness and all | that is contrary to His divine nature. The only way we can fail to arrive f at this conclusion is by simply saying l God is God-making no effort to ] understand His nature,-and insisting | that the sickness and sin which we
 see about us are in some way ac-
 cording to His infinite perfection and | holiness.
 Gods Qualities Manifest
 God as infinite Life cannot be made
 manifest in death, nor can infinite Life be made manifest in sickness, | for sickness ultimates in death, and
 so in a relative sense is partial death.
 Infinite Life can be made manifest
 only in infinite eternal health.
 God is Mind
 God as infinite Truth cannot be
 made manifest in sickness, for every truth is in absolute, harmonious &C., cord with every other truth, just as one mathematical truth is in harmony
 with every other mathematical truth,
 and infinite Truth can tolerate no in harmony, even though it calls itself 1 sickness and claims to be truth.
 God as infinite Love cannot do less for His children than to manifest
 that Love and supply them with in
 finite good, and infinite good does not include sickness. What earthly father
 as a manifestation of his love for his
 child would bring sickness upon it,
 or allow it to have sickness if he
 could prevent it? If ye then. being
 evil, know how to give good gifts
 unto your children. how much more
 shall your Father which is in heaven
 give good things to them that
 ask him?'
 When we consider God as Princi-
 pie, that from which all proceeds, we
 find it impossible to conceive of, both
 sickness and health proceeding from
 this one infinite Principle; and yet
 there is no other source from which
 anything could come. for, as John de-
 clares, without him was not any
 thing made that was made"
 When we consider God as Mind we arrive at the same conclusion, for : the manifestation of Mind is thought, ' and the thoughts of infinite Mind are not sick thoughts but perfect , and healthful and holy.
 1 We all of nS accent the statement l that God is wisdom, but it is better !; to say that God is Mind, because l; wisdom is never anything but the l expression of Mind. If we admit in-
 finite wisdom, we must admit that l it is the emanation of an infinite Mind.
 , Let us illustrate the divine Mind by } using the ordinary conception of a 1 human mind as an example, You say : your friend has a fine mind. Ior , say you know this because he has lot of fine ideas which he ex- presses. You have never seen his mind
 but you have never known the f expression of his mind in ideas. | . he never moved a muscle, never spoke word, you would rightly con- ' clude that there was no mind there l So a mind to be a mind must b. t filled with ideas, and an idea by vir e tue of being an idea must be ex t pressed. It is impossible to conceive f of a mind filled with ideas, yet un 0 expressed, for a mind with no ex = pression is not a mind but a blank l, Now we have evidence of infinit' n wisdom in the universe, and the evi V dence of infinite wisdom predicate Il an infinite Mind. The infinite Mind i filled with an infinite number o [ ideas or thoughts which constitute it
 wisdom. These ideas, because the, d are ideas, cannot be separated iron |, the Mind which contains them, am f it is the activity, the reflection. tn h manifestation of these ideas whicl l. constitute man and the universe. r Minds Ideas are Perfect a As Gods ideas we exist in Him. e perfect. spiritual, and immortal,-an If because we exist in Him the Scrip d lures declares that, 'FIn him we liv' e and move and have our being" e There is a further quality of a
 idea that it might be well to con
 slider. An idea has no ability to d e anything or to be anything othe r, than just the idea of the mind i ;e which it exists. It cannot chang e itself or become more or less or diff n ferent than that Mind intended = should be, for it has no volition ( d it's own, and must of necessity eS d press exactly the qualities of tn .o mind whose idea it is. Man is tn d perfect idea of God, and as an idle T. of God he has no volition of his owi l. He cannot be sick or choose to
 evil, for if he could change from be r, ing Gods perfect idea he would | ie greater than God, because he woul " have spoiled the infinite desig ) frustrated the divine purpose. No -h infinite Mind is infinite Spirit an le infinite Life. In expressing the pei le lection of infinite Mind, man c, r. presses infinite Life and infinii le Spirit, and as an expression of il in finite Life man must be eterna l. while as an expression of infini m Spirit man must be spiritual and n le material. Man, then. as Gods ide w Gods image and likeness, has all u Id qualities of God, and not a sing B. quality which is not of God; ther' m fore he is healthful and holy; spiri l. ual, immortal perfect.
 e. Mortal Ideas Unreal of Such a conclusion as this leav Is no room for a mortal, material, sic ed and sinful man, yet we have Il d, problem of materiality with it's sicl he nesses and woes to deal with as lis false belief to be eradicated. ne Nothing seems more real to | ne human mind than does matte he though the most eminent physicists Is the present day are quite at one en saying that it is impossible to pro nd that there is such a thing as matt' w They say that matter is a functi' le, of something outside itself the c re, nress;on of energy. and this is ju