The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-09-19

from which all proceeds and by. which
all exists.
Mrs. Eddy has also given us the
term Father Mother, by which there
Is brought to consciousness the com.
pleteness of the creator, the mother
hood as well as the fatherhood OF God
and also a larger thought of God
as Love. When we think Of God as
Father, our thought Of Him is apt to
be limited by our earthly sense OF
| fatherhood, which, no matter how
complete, is still lacking in the full
ness Of those qualities of love and
tenderness which the mother thought
expresses.
No matter by what term wo may
think Of God, a logical deduction as to
/ the nature Of man and the universe
will always bring us to the same point
THAT of the eternal perfection of ali
| that God has made. Following this
| out a thinker must of necessity rec
/ ognize the unreality of sickness and
all that is contrary to His divine ma
| ture.
God Is Mind
Let us consider the fact that God is
Mind, the only Mind, for to the de-
gree that we recognize this great
1 truth shall we be able to get rid of
| sickness and sin.
Perhaps not all have been in the
habit Of thinking Of God as Mind al
though most anyone admits that God
\ is wisdom. The word wisdom has
generally been defined to mean a de-
gree Of knowledge so that infinite
INSTRUMENTATION without degree-and
infinite Mind are the same.
We may illustrate the divine Mind
by using the ordinary conception of a
human mind as an example, for al
| though the human mind Is not real,
in certain finite ways it counterfeits
the divine Mind. 49,. 49,
You say your friend has a fine
mind. You say you know this be-
cause he has many fine ideas which
he expresses. You have never seen
his mind, but you have known the
expression of it in ideas. If he" never
moved a muscle, never spoke a word,
you would rightly conclude that there
was no mind there. So a mind to be
called a mind must be filled with
ideas. and an idea by virtue of being
an idea must be expressed. 1t is i'm
possible to conceive of a mind filled
with ideas yet unexpressed, for a
| mind with no expression is not a
mind, but a blank. You would say
that a rock has no mind and no ideas
simply because 1t has no expression,
for where there are ideas there is ex-
preston. The. infinite Mind there
fore Is filled with an infinite number
of ideas or thoughts which must be
expressed, and the activity, the re-
Election, the manifestation of these
ideas constitute man and the uni
verse. Gods ideas express Him 'in
countless spiritual, FORMS These
ideas range from the infinitesimal
to infinity, and the highest ideas are
the sons and daughters Of Cod"
(Science and Health, p. 503.) AS
Gods ideas we exist in divine Mind,
and are perfect, spiritual, and i'm
mortal,-and because we exist in God
the Scriptures declare that "In him
we live, and move, and have our be-
ing"
There is a further quality of an
idea that we must consider. An idea
has no power to do anything or to be
anything except as an idea, of the
Mind in which it exists. 1t cannot
change itself or. become more or less
or different than Mind intended 1t
should be, for 1t has no volition Of it's
own and must Of necessity express
exactly the qualities Of the Mind
whose idea it is. For example: If you
have a thought Of love for your
reighbor, this idea cannot get away
from you and change itself into. a
thought Of hate. In like manner the
ideas in Mind must express exactly
what Mind intends they should ex-i
press.
Man is the perfect idea of infinite
mind, God and as such an idea has
only divine volition. He has therefore
no .volition to choose to do evil, or to
be sick, nor, can he become separated
from the Mind which contains him.
Man, then, Gods idea, Gods image
and likeness, has all the qualities Of
God and not a single quality which is
not Of God; therefore he is healthful
and holy; spiritual, perfect, immortal.
g, What is the nature Of God which
man as Gods idea must manifest?
God is Love-, and infinite Love can
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 a person may man
ifest is a mental, not a physical ex-
preston. Likewise his power or po-
tency is but the expression Of thought
either on his 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 oninscience, omni-
potence, and omnipresence are Gods
qualities because God is Mind. Mind
is omnnpresent, manifesting omnipo- !
tence to the exclusion, of every belief
in any other power, and expressing
knowledge-to the exclusion of every
material belief Mans existence is
within the infinite Mind. He mani
tests only that Life which has within
1t no element of sickness or death. |
He is kept in that Love which pro-
vides health and joy for its ideas, inl
infinite abundance. He is spiritual and
not material because he dwalIs in
everpresent Spirit.
Mortal Ideas Unreal
The recognition Of the fact that |
God is Mind, and that the real and
spiritual man lives within this mind
leaves no room for a mortal, material, !
sick and sinful man, yet we have the
problem OF materiality with its sick |
nesses and woes to deal with. Let US
see If we cannot deal with them by /
means of Christian Science.
Nothing seems more real to the I
human mind than does matter, yet the |
most eminent physicists Of the pres |
ent day are quite at one in saying that |
it is impossible to prove that there is |
such a thing as matter. They say that |
matter is function OF something out |
side ITSELF the expression OF energy; |
and this is just another way Of saying
that matter is an expression Of |
thought Christian Science agrees /
with them in saying that matter is an |
expression Of thought, but points out /