Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-02-22

PdIhosC continuously, from the cradle
to the grave. - Christian Science show
that in the realm of reality, in tn,
universe of divine Mind, there can b,
no such thing as failure. Failure re
sulting from absolute Principle or from
the intelligent reflection of Principle
is inconceivable.
1t is, even in daily business expert
enee, lack of Principle that causes fail
ure. On the other hand those qualities
which insure true success are intelli
gent activity, energy, health, persist
ence, faithfulness, honesty, etc.
Christian Science shows that these
qualities, if enduring, are not personal
POSSESSIONS; they do not originate with
the individual and can not be monop-
olized by him. They are the manifesto
tions of divine Principle, the ideas OF
infinite Mind. They are, therefore, uni
Wersal and available to all alike. Ev-
''ery business man and woman knows
that next to humanity the quality
most needed in the business life is
wisdom. WISDOM" the Proverbs tell
us, lis the principal thing; therefore
get wisdom; and with all thy getting
get understanding
So after all it is not prestige or pow
er or money or any material thing that
ENSURES real success. 1t is wisdom and
understanding. And what the business
IMAM needs, first and last, is the under
standing of Principle, of Truth, of
Love. This understanding shows us that
man s real business as the son of God,
as the exact image-the conscious re-
fleetion-of divine Mind Is TO express
eternally, without interruption and
without limit, the might, majesty, do
minion, abundance activity, harmony
goodness, and perfection of his creator.
To be thus employed is to be truly
F'about the Fathers business - That
is man IS real business. That is your
real business. 1t is success. 1t cannot
fail. God never made man to be a fail
ure. The man of God S creating is the
very best kind of q success. Knowledge
of these facts constitutes real law and
power. This divinely bestowed under
acts as law in your present
human experience to annul fear, to re-
move limitation, to rightly direct your
affairs, and adjust your relationships.
And, remember that "however things
may seem, no good thing is a failure
and no evil thing a success.
The fear of criticism and of failure
are only two of the many phases of
fear from which Christian Science is
healing mankind.
In like manner Christian Science en-
ables one to overcome other kinds of
wrong thinking, such as envy, hatred,
revenge, greed, and avarice, through
understanding that these evil thoughts
do not emanate from Truth, the infin-
Ite, divine Mind; hence they are with
Dut real cause or existence.
FALSE LAWS ANNULLED
AS has oeen previously indicated, all
sickness does not, even from the Chris
5ian Science viewpoint, result from
Tillful sin or from conscious fear. Dis
Ease is frequently the effect Of gener-
ally accepted beliefs of the human /
mind which have mistakenly come to be |
egarded as laws. Among these will be
iound the so-called laws that appear to
control the effect of food, climate, con-
agion, and heredity. Christian Science
hows that these asserted laws which
lain to hold mortals in bondage and |
ause them to sickeu and die are not
cal laws. 1t teaches that these mortal
avs may be rendered void and inoper-
.tive,' through enforcement of the law
f divine Truth-which is the law of |
lfe and health. And it does not mat
er how long enc of these supposed |
avs may have been believed in or sub
nitted to, if it can be set aside in its
tperation in a single instance it is
roved not to be law. 1t is safe to say I
hat Christian Science practice has an
iulled every so-called "health law"
mot one instance only, but in many
instances. And Jesus, it will be re-
allied, healed the sick, raised the dead,
ed the multitude, and walked on the
5ater, not in conformity with, but in
bsolute disregard Of, so-called mater
ii laws.
From the Christian Science point of
lew the supposed causes Of disease
nd the diseases themselves exist, or
eem to exist, merely in the realm of
uman belief. They are, so to speak,
true, but absolutely false. In
bsolute Truth in the realm of divine
eality, there is no sickness and no
luse for sickness. But through over
Jning those beliefs which in human
sperience seem to ultimate in sick
ass and death, Christian Science is
leading its students away =
ON belief in and fear of death.
For, as Paul wrote in his cpistle to
le Romans, Z" to be carnally minded is
'ath; but to be spiritually minded is
fe and peace" What is meant by
sing carnally minded but to believe
the reality of those things which
e carnal-matter and evil And that,
lul says, is death. But to be "spir-
ually minded to understand the
ality of that which is spiritual and
life. This abiding sense of
fe is spiritual and comes to US
rough right thinking. Jesus said,
This is life eternal, that they might
low thee the only true God and Jesus
lrist, whom thou hast sent " To
low or to be conscious of God
rough reflecting those ideas that are
cd and true. is to live, and there
no other real life. Mrs. Eddy under
BOD this when she wrote (Miscel-
neous Writings, p. 3Ss):
lou to whose power our hope we give,
Free US from human strife.
ID by Thy love divine we live,
For Love alone is Life.
SCIENCE PRACTICEI
NOT MESAfERTSM