Arizona republican., 1918-04-02

material man as just the counterfeit of the spiritual, perfect man. This material man is so wonderfully made, they say, how can it be possible that God did not make him They feel that it is dishonoring God to disown the material man as His product.
 Material man does seem to Dc wonderfully made, but you will re- member that in the many better | baby shows that have been pre- | valent about the country, though the | best and post perfect babies are | entered, it is sometimes impossible | to find one that is one hundred per !! cent perfect. If material man is the | creation of God. it is not honoring 1 God very much to have to admit that more than ninety-five per cent of His creation could be vastly im- proved upon in the very beginning.
 Others maintain that God made man perfect. and gave him his own free will to do good or evil, but man
 chose to uo evil. and the evil brought sickness and other troubles upon him; or that man unknowingly trans
 gressed Gods laws, but that God is
 in no way responsible, because had
 man chosen to do right all would have been well.
 Suppose an architect put up a building and it fell down; would | that be the fault of the building? | Would you blame the building? It
 would fall only because it was so constructed that it could fall. Obvious i ly, if God made man so he could | fall, and he fell, it would be Gods | fault, not mans.
 Righteousness is Liberty
 It should be stated also, that those
 who hold to the belief that God made
 man free to do either good or evil
 are holding a belief that is directly contrary to Jesus teaching. He said: q came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me- q can of mine own
 self do nothing "Whosoever shall do
 the will of God, the same is my
 brother, and my sister, and mother" The Master everywhere taught that
 to do Gods will constituted freedom;
 for he told those who believed on
 him that if they continued in his
 word it's truth would make them free:
 and that whosoever committed sin
 was in bondage to sin. It has ever
 been bondage to be sick and sinful.
 and to stop being sick and sinful is
 to enter into "the glorious liberty of
 the children of Cod
 When the Master first appeared in
 the synagogue. he announced his
 mission by appropriating to himself
 that passage from the sixty-first
 chapter of Isaiah, which reads, The
 Spirit of the Lord God is upon me:
 because the Lord hath anointed me
 to preach good tidings unto the
 meek; he hath sent me to bind up
 the brokenhearted, to proclaim lib-
 erty to the captives, and the opening
 of the prison to them that are bound. " He who continually maintained that
 he could do only Gods will and not
 his own, came proclaiming liberty. Man was never given his free will to do right or wrong, for it has always
 been liberty to do good and bondage | to do evil.
 The Christ
 There are those who mistakenly maintain that Christian Science de- nies the divinity of the Christ. The
 divinity of the Christ is an unas- 1, sailable fact which is accepted and taught from cover to cover of the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scrip tures'' by Mrs. Eddy; but if We arc to accept the teaching of the Bible !, on the subject of the Christ, we shal have to admit that the Christ haC : been manifested in some degree a various times both before and since
 the full and perfect manifestation o
 the Christ which Jesus presented. Isaiah had some consciousness O | the Christ when he said, "The splri of the Lord God is upon me-" for i 5 he had not, Jesus could not have ! appropriated his exact words in stat U ing his mission as the Christ. Abra I, ham saw the Christ in some measure Il when he became conscious Of thu "King of righteousness" of whom th' Bible says that he had neither be D ginning of days. nor end of life but made like unto the Son of God. l. And we are told that Moses and tn e children of Israel were conscious O !, !. the Christ, for the Bible says, the, 't did all eat the same spiritual meat s and did all drink the same spiritua drink: for they drank of that spir
 itual Rock that followed them: an g that Rock was Christ" On page B e of Science and Health Mrs. Edd IS says. Abraham, Jacob, Moses, an l. the prophets caught glorious glimpse If of the Messiah, or Christ. which bap l. tized these seers in the divine na IS ture, the essence of Love,"-a fac y which may be verified by carefr If study of the Scriptures.
 e It is certain that Jesus follower e knew they were manifesting tn le Christ in some degree or Paul woul n not have said to the Corinthians, w It have the mind of Christi" nor woul al he have enjoined the Philippians y. let that Mind be in them which wa j. also in Christ Jesus In additio is to this Paul says, "The Spirit itse I beareth witness with our spirit, tha
 we are the children of God: and III children, then heirs; heirs of Go to and joint heirs with Christ" If W ,u are joint heirs with Christ we sha " the Mind of Christ, which Jest at manifested so fully in healing sicl Ill ness and destroying sin.
 re Gratitude
 ce Our thought of gratitude to u ir Master for all that he has done fl to us in showing us "the way" grow ns greater day by day as our growt ill in understanding enables us to s' al more clearly the full significance de us of his life and work. This grat D. tude can never be fully expresse
 except as it is continually expresse m It is but natural that we shou W, feel a sense of deep gratitude to MI h. Eddy also, because it is through h n- teaching that we are experienciI it's that which the Master taught. b of which we had not appropriated. Tho r. who have not experienced the bles IT. ings which Christian Science brin le. cannot understand the expressions