Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-11-19

what mind intends they should ex-
pr"Fs
Man Is the perfect idea Of infinite
7 mind cod ana as such an idea has
. only diyin" yOlitIOn. lie has there
. fore no NUlitlOn 10 choose 10 do cviI,
. or 10 h" sick. nor can he become sep
afHiod from the mind which contains
him. Man. then. Gods idea, God =
image ana likeness, has all the quail
tics "r GOd and not "A single quality
which is not ~ God, therefore hf =
, h"aithful and holy. spiritual, perfect.
/ immortal
what is the nature OF God which
man as Gods idea must manifest ?
God IL love, and infinite love can
nave within II no thought OF fear or
evil God is life, having within It
no element OF sickness or death. God
is spirit, and there can be no matter
wher1 all In spirit
We say that God IN omnlscient,
omnip0tent and Omnipresent. but
often with little thought OF what sue h
statement means Whatever Of
science or knowledge person may
manifest is n mental not a physical
expression. Likewise his power or
/ potency In but the cKpreHslon OF
4 thought either on his body or In
other ways. and his presence liz felt
, through his thought and action by
th0s" who have never 80 much as
seen HIS person.
Few OF w have seen the President
Of our country In the flesh. yet most
OF M have felt In some measure his
knowledge and power, and his pres
encc in the nation These qualities
ar" mental, and Omnisciense, omnip-
Ot"ncc. and OmnipreSencc are Gods
qualities because God liz Mind Mind
IN omniprcscnt, manifrs'ing omnipo-
tcnce 10 tho exclusion OF every belief
In any other power, ana expressing
mnlscience---all science or true
knowledge--to the exclusion OF every
material belief Mans existence Is
within the infinite Mind. lie mani
fests only that Life which has within
II no element of sickness or death
lie is kept In that Love which pro-
vldes health and JOY for It's ideas In
Infinite abundance. HH Is spiritual
and not material because he dwells
In evcrprescnt Spirit
Mortal Ideas Unreal.
The recognition Of the fact that
God In Mind. and that the real and
spiritual man lives within this Mind
lenves no room for mortal, ma
terial, sick and sinful man, yet we
have the problem OF materially with
its sickness and woes to deal with
Let rs see II we cannot deal with
them ny means OF Christian Science.
Nothing seems more real TO the
human mind than does matter. yet
the most eminent physicists OF the
present day are quite at one In say -
ing that II IL impossible To prove that
there is such a thing as matter. They
say that matter is-a function OF
something outside itself. the expires
sinn Of energy. and this IL just an
other way OF saying that matter II
an expression of thought Chris
than Science agrees with them in say
ing that matter Is an expression OF
thought but points out further that
matter Ia an expression not OF right
thought nut Of wrong thought; that
all right thought. Gods thought, real
thought, must express Gods nature.
and IL therefore spiritual. not ma
terial and is expressed In spiritual
things. not material things. The
whole material universe, with all Its
sin, sickness. and death. Is Just the
manifestation OF this wrong material
thought which counterfcits the
spiritual
The sum total OF these material be-
liefs Mrs Eddy has named mortal
mind. 1t includes the belief in mat
ter, all the so-called material laws
evil, disease. and death: material
man and the material universe. These
various beliefs are not or God be-
cause they are contrary to His Ma
ture. The material man manifests
sin, sickness, and materiality. which
are the very opposite OF the qualities
of health holiness. and spirituality
which the spiritual man must inev-
itably manifest at the image and
likeness OF God. The material man
is therefore but a counterfeit----an eX-
preston OF material belief and not
OF that Truth which is God.
The New Testament calls this ma
terial or mortal mind the "carnal
mind" or mind of the flesh. We are
distinctly told that the carnal mind
and it's Manifestation. carnal body,
"is enmlty against Cod; that flesh
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
mortal body. for His own thoughts.
His own ideas, cannot be at enmity
with Him.
lnOugnt f.NDFfSStu on ttOuN.
Now the material body can HdD
nothing OF Itself. but Is simply the
expression OF the conscious or un-
conscious thought of the mortal,
human mind. The conclusion OF the
philosophers OF our day, that matter
is simply an expression OF thought.
carries with II the added conclusion
that every mortal condition must be
and expression OF thought-hence
that disease is an expression OF
thought when we are sick, 1t is
sick thought made manifest on the
body; and when we arc well IT Is
we'll thought which IL made manifest
on the body. Every function, every
action, every condition OF the body is,
from one moment to the next. but
the expression OF human belief, un-
less such belief be corrected by
Christian Science
II man were hungry and food
which was placed before him had
something about II that was exceed
ingly unappetiLing. IL would appar-
entity be his stomach which protest
ed, because the thought which he
entertained about the food would he
made manifest on his body. butt
what would his stomach know about
the food7 Absolutely nothing! II he
believed that the food was all right, +
this thought would he made mani-N
fest in proper activity OF the stom-
ach: and II he had eaten food be
lievlnE II to he all right and had