The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1918-11-23


tion OF these ideas constitute man
and the universe. Gods ideas express
Him lin countless spiritual forms
These ideas range from the intin-
Intestinal to infinity, and the highest
ideas are the sons and daughters OF
God" (Science and Health, p. 5O3)
As Gods ideas we exist in divine
Mind, and are perfect. spiritual, and
immortal and because we exist in
God the Scriptures declare that In
him we live, and move and have our
1 being"
There is further quality of an
idea that we must consider. An idea
has no power to do anything or to be
anything except an idea of the Mind
in which it exists It cannot change
itself or become more or less or
different than Mind intended it
should be, for it has no volition Of
its own and must Of necessity ex-
press exactly the qualities Of the
Mind whose idea it is. For example:
If you have a thought of love for
your neighbor this idea cannot get
away from you and change itself into
thought of hate In like manner
the ideas in Mind must express eX-
actly what Mind intends they should
express
Man is the perfect idea of infinite
Mind, God, and as such an idea has
only divine volition He has therefore
no yoltion to choose to do evil, or to
be sick, nor can be become separat-
ed from the Mind which contains
him Man, then, Gods idea, Gods
image and likeness, has all the quail
ties Of God and not a single quality
which is not OF Cod therefore he is
healthful and holy; spiritual perfect,
immortal.
What is the nature of God which
man as Gods idea must manifest?
God is Love, and infinite Love can
have within it 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
where all is Spirit
We say that God is omniscient, ON
nipotent. and omnipresent but often
with little thought Of what such a
statement means. Whatever of sci
ence or knowledge person may
manifest is a mental, not a physical
expression. Likewise his power or po-
tency is but the expression of
thought either on hiss body or in
other ways, and his presence is felt
through his thought and action by
those who have never so much as
seen his person,
Few of us have seen the President
Of our country in the flesh, yet most
of us have felt in some measure his
knowledge and power, and his pres
ence in the nation, These qualities
are mental, and omniscience, omni
potence, and omnipresence are God s
qualities because God is Mind Mind
is omnipresent, manifesting omnipo-
tence to the exclusion of every belief
in any other power and expressing
omniscience-all science or true
knowledge the exclusion Of every
material belief Mans existence is
within the infinite Mind He mani
tests only that Life which has within
| it no element Of sickness or death.
He is kept in that Love which pro-
yides health and joy for its ideas in
infinite abundance. He is spiritual and
not material because he dwells in
everpresent Spirit.
Mortal Ideas Unreal.
The recognition of the fact that
/ God is Mind, an dthat the real and
| spiritual man lives within this Mind
| leaves no room for a mortal materi-
al, sick and sinful man, yet we have
the problem of niateriality with its
sickness and woes to deal with. Let
us see ii we cannot deal with them
by 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 it is impossible to prove
that there is such a thing as matter
They say that matter is a
function of something outside it.
self, the expression Of energy
and this is just another way
of saying that matter is an ex-
preston of thought. Christian Sci
ence agrees with them in saying that
matter is an expression of thought
but points out further that matter is
an expression not Of right thought but
of wrong hought; that all right
thought, Gods thought. real thought
must express Gods nature, and is
therefore spiritual. not material. and
is exposed 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
counterfeits the spiritual.
The sum total of these ma eria
beliefs Mrs Eddy has named mor-ta
mind. It includes the belief in mat
ter. all the so-called material laws
evil, disease. aud death; materia
man and the material universe. These
various beliefs are not of God he
cause they are contrary to His Ma
ture. The material man manifesto
sin. sickness and materiality. whicl
are the very opposite OF the qualities
of health. holiness, and spiritualit.
which the spiritual man must in
evitably manifest as the image ant
likeness of God. The material maj
is therefore but a counterfeit-an eA
preston of material belief and no
of that Truth which is God
The New Testament calls this ma
terial or mortal mind the "carna
mind, or mind OF the flesh. We ar
distinctly told that the carnal min
and its manifestation. carnal bods
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