The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1918-04-26

tai mind, operating without the realm
OF fixed law, 1t necessarily follows that
the underlying cause of all phenomena
evidenced by these senses must be the
product OF that same mind. Any OF the
so-called inharmonies Of man mani
tested by a disturbed physicality must
necessarily be the result of the same
mind or cause underlying physicality
Consequently, the remedy for all SO
called physical inharmonies lies In the
correction of the false sense OF law OF
cause, the result of the mind RESPONSE
BILE for these inharmonies. This, obvi
ously, cannot be accomplished through
mortal mind, the mind that creates
these inharmonies, for mortal mind op
crates by virtue of no fixed law OF
God to give its permanency or author
ity in any new condition which Its
whims might create. Certainly then
we have but one source of correction
and that is the divine Mind, or God
which is perfect. which knows no in
harmony, neither variableness MOI
shadow of turning, but which is "tht
same yesterday, today and forever"
This corrective process lies in dis
placing these false concepts OF crea
ton, of man and the universe, and the
multitude Of conflicting mortal laws
supposed to govern their relations to
each other, with the correct under
standing Of God and his creation and
the laws governing 1t. In his work OF
demonstrating powerlessness of the so
called laws of matter the Christian
Scientist has only to deal with so-called
mortal mind and the divine Mind. Mat
ter and its accomplishments do moi
constitute least part of his consider
ations as he recognizes matter as
merely a phase of mortal thought
The Christian Scientist recognizes the
divine Mind, or God, as true and NOR
tai mind as the lie about the Truth
There must be truth underlying every
lie. A lie cannot be told about any
thing but the truth. Therefore, the
only problem before the Christian Sci
enlist is that of replacing the lie with
the truth. In his remark "Ye are OF
your father the devil, and the lusts OF
your father we will do. He was 6
murderer from the beginning, anc
abode not in the truth, because there
is no truth in him. When he speaketh
a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he
is liar and the father of it," Jesus
clearly shows that mortal man with
his sin, sickness and death constitutes
the lie about the true man or the mar
of Gods creating. and, incidentally
that the only devil there Is Is the NOR
tai mind which Jesus here states to be
lie. When we truly perceive that this
entire operation Is a mental one anC
that the mortal evidences OF sin, dis
ease, are illusions of this mortal minG
then the enormity of any situation. nc
matter how apparently grave, assumes
less formidable proportions and the
possibility of deliverance and ultimate
complete salvation spurs on our eff
forts to more certain achievements.
Prayer
Have you ever heard It said thai
Christian Scientists are a prayerless
people-that they do not believe III
prayer? You probably have; have
DO you know what a real Christian
Scientist does from the time he awak
ems each day to the time he goes tt
sleep at night? He prays! If there
Is any one thing that the Christian Sci
enlist finds will bring him peace
health, prosperity and happiness, IL is
prayer, and he finds that the more he
prays the more of peace and health
and prosperity and happiness are his
Therefore, the more of these desirable
qualities or conditions he manifests the
more you may be sure he prays.
have gone to some length in an en-
deavor to explain to you the cause Oi
humanity's slavery. it's sickness. It's
want and woe, and | have endeavored
In way, to make plain to you hu
manity's remedy for these ills as
taught in Christian Science. Now, IL
may be asked, by what means Is this
remedy to be intelligently and effec
lively applied? How Is one to start
out to prove that man in Gods image
and likeness Is not subject to the laws ,
of matter. the laws OF sin. sickness and
death, when seemingly all one knows
OF existence embraces a knowledge OF
these evils? My friends. you start out
by praying, you continue praying and
you never case praying.
True prayer is one OF understanding
1t comprises a knowledge of the facts
OF existence. even though family dis |
cerned at first, and 1t finds expression
in that mental attitude which claims
for oneself that God bestowed freedom
vOuchsafed 10 all of Gods children
mans birthright Of dominion over all
the earth--over all evil and materiali |
ty. AT the tomb of Lazarus Jesus ex |
emplifled true prayer I'm the statement
Father, thank thee that thou hast
heard me. And know that thou hear |
est me always" whereupon Lazarus |
who had been four days in the tomb |
walked forth.
True prayer engendered from an
earnest, honest longing to be God.like |
rejects as any part OF Gods kingdom
that which has to do with the ills OF |
the flesh and proclaims the omnipo |
tence and omnipresence of the law OF |
good-the law of God. Prayer con.
sists Of knowing the truth about God |
and man. When this truth is mental. |
ly understood and consistently clune
to regardless of the evidence of the |
senses, then will begin to break |
through the clouds of darkness the |
CLEANS of light which presage fuller |
radiance as the sense dreams are van. |
pushed, and then will begin a more
comprehensive apprehension of the |
meaning of that passage in the PRAYER |
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