Arizona republican., 1918-04-02

first consciousness of light This :, is equally true of strength and weak | ness. It is just as impossible for | there to come a sense of weakness, | except as there is first a conscious ness of strength. If there had never been consciousness of strength as part of what God created, there would never have been sense of weakness. So the moment when God said, Let there be light" which is equiya- lent 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 | a sense of it's absence,-an opposite | a 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 1nan; and the sense of the absence of spiritual and perfect and inn 1 mortal man would be a material and ! 1 a mortal mind and a mortal, ma l terial body called man.
 | The New Testament calls this ma l 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 God" that flesh l and blood cannot inherit the king | don;;" that they that are in the flesh cannot please God" 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.
 Thought Expressed on Body
 Now this material body cannot do i anything of itself, but is simply the
 expression of the conscious or un-
 conscious thought of the mortal, hu-
 man mind. Investigation proves that
 all sickness is mental, that is, it is
 sick thought made manifest on the
 body; and when we are well it is
 well thought which is made mani
 fest on the body. Every function,
 every action, every condition of the
 body, is the expression of what we
 are consciously or unconsciously
 thinking from one moment to the
 next.
 If a man were hungry and food
 which was placed before him had
 something about it that was exceed
 ingly unappetizing. it would appar-
 ently be his stomach which protested,
 because the thought which he enter
 tained about the food would be made
 manifest on his body; but what would
 his stomach know about the food | hCN Al h1 hn1. J that the food was all right this thought would be made manifest in , proper activity of the stomach; and if he had eaten food believing it to be all right and had then discovered that it was all wrong, his changed
 thought would be made manifest in changed function-in nausea, indiges- tion, and so forth.
 In like manner, to believe that cold or wet could harm us would be jus, as disastrous to the lungs or the throat as to believe that unappetiz- , ing food could make the stomach } sick.
 [ It is not necessary to know eact ' particular mortal belief, or so-calle6 2 law, in order that we may appro- ' priate the sicknesses and trouble. Q they stand for, because We have ac. ! cepted the false belief that man i! subject to all manner of diseases, tn, 6 nature of which he is unaware, ant this belief insists that we may hay, any sort of trouble to which flesl :. has claimed to be heir.
 Right Thought Brings Health : As we see that both sin and sick ness are simply manifestations O 5 mortal thought, thoughts of imper I ] ofa l1., s the thought of the perfection o J God and all that God has made il n place of this wrong thought, we shal d rule out the wrong thought; and witt e no wrong thought there can be n wrong manifestation. The Bibl
 makes this identical statement whel
 it says, Put off concerning tn = former conversation the old mar d which is corrupt according to tn - deceitful lusts; and be renewed i B. the spirit of your mind; and. .pu
 on the new man. which after God i created in righteousness and tru l. holiness
 - To those who are just beginnin :, = the study of Christian Science tn = nothingness of the material man i ,0 the most difficult proposition to ac :, cept. The logic of the argument ( ,s the infinite perfection of Mind, Goo and the spiritual creation, seem !. clear to most of us, but the equall n logical and correlated argument ( v the nothingness and unreality of tn ~ material creation causes us mor i, n trouble. This point will becom ,o clearer as our spiritual perceptio "a enlarges, for in the proportion tha "a the spiritual creation becomes re; ~ 7, to us. the material loses it's realit -, -, 1 have often been asked the quet ,r tion, If this mortal, material body ~ not of God-if it isn't so-what am going to think about it?
 ta We'll, don't try to get rid of it a
 at once. Be content for today :, get rid of the very worst things yc .o know about it,-those things that al st so obviously unlike God, so contraI " . to the thought of His perfection, tn; ,c you can detect, no matter how sma io your understanding, that they al ee not His making, and hence ha' !. never been made. As you deny the
 reality and assert what you know
 be Gods perfection. these condition o, will disappear; and though you W |, still have a material body to de n' with, it will be better body, ma, le better and stronger through the al plication of Gods law of health.
 It is the putting off of the old m; ,o and the putting on of the ne ,r through the application of the teacl as ings of Christian Science, that col ;a stitutes the healing. The though ,.a of sickness and sin are ruled out " human consciousness by the unde an standing and declaration of the De ~ v" lection of that which God has mao A. Deception of Counterfeit