Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-04-27

| ment, as we'll as in all other things.
Christian Science has revealed the
correct concept of God. 1t asks the
question squarely, what is God?" and
gives an answer that is satisfying.
God is Love, Spirit. Lift, Truth, Soul,
| Mind, Principle. Perhaps the word
! Principle as applied to God has aroused
more opposition from the critics OF
| Christian Science than any other. They
| insist that to speak of God as Prin-
| ciple robs Him of personality, takes
away His Fatherhood, tenderness ana
other human attributes. Christian
| Scientists believe that II is time the
world was getting away from the idea
| of an anthropomorphic God, sort of
superman, as Mrs. Eddy says IN
Science and Health. page 249, Human
philosophy has made God msn-like.
Christian Science makes man Godlike."
Principle is without beginning or end,
is continuous, is perfect is immovable,
| is inviolable, is ever active. Principle
1 is not moved by the breath of praise
or flattery; nor by entreaty or threat.
In the thought of God as Principle,
| Christian Scientists have abandoned
the idea that God interferes in human
Iaffairs, at the behest or entreaty Of
this or that one or that He intsrieres
with His own law, and causes The TN
natural or supernatural to be hapnen-
! ing in the affairs of men. Christian
Science shows that Gods creation is
already complete and perfect, conse
quently the true mission of scien .ific
Christianity is to reveal this fact to u.s.
and then to show us how 10 o fcrcone
| in our lives and experiences, all those
| things which are unlike Gods Crea-
ton. We will suppose a man to be
sick, and he desires the help of God
and turns to Christian Science to be
made well. There is no specific or
individual action required of God, that
this mans condition may be righted,
but the treatment or prayer of the
Christian Science practitioner would
! be clear realization that God has
made all, and made all good. God has
created man in His own image and
likeness, therefore, the real man being
made in Gods image, cannot be what
God is not, and certainly God cannot
be sick. God has made only good,
therefore He never made any colds, few
ers, aches or ills OF any kind, and as
God is the only power, no other power
has made these ills or aches, conse-
lquently they have not been made and
man cannot have them, because they
do not really exist.
l. To persons accustomed TO use ma
terial remedies in case of illness, such
a system. of course. only briefly and
iinadequately indicated here, might not
be considered scientific or beneficial l.,
iyet the actual experience of anyone
who will test it according to the prin-
ciple and rule of Christian Science will
prove that it is both scientific and ben
ieficial. or course, starting from the
standpoint of perfection, there is in
reality no sick man, and therefore, no
man In need of healing. When the
human consciousness becomes spirit
,ualized through right thinking or know
| ing, and man is revealed as the per-
| feet manifestation of spirit, not of
matter the divine Mind is reflected,
land man is governed by God. Mrs.
Eddy says, God will heal the sick
! through man whenever man is gov
erned by God" tScience and Health,
page 1851 AS the light of this healing
truth is carried into that conscious
ness which is darkened by mortal be-
lief it banishes all sense of error, even
sickness as well as sin, and illumines
lit with love. Mrs. Eddy in speaking
of Jesus treatment OF sickness says on
pages 476 and All OF Science and
Health, Jesus beheld in Science the
perfect man, who appeared TO Him
where SHINING, mortal man appears to
mortals. In this perfect man the Saw
Jour saw Gods own likeness, and this
correct view of man healed tho sick
God, as an infinite power, eternally
continuous, is always at mans service,
but man must bring himself into ad-
justment with that power, before it is
available for him. Mans access to
Gods power for the healing of sick
ness or any other discord, is by means
of prayer. Not wordy petitions or fer
ivid appeals as though addressed to
some earthly potentate. but, as Mrs.
Eddy says, AN absolute faith that all
things are possible to Coda spiritual
understanding of Him (Science and
HEALTH page l. To be made whole,
Imam must, through prayer and right
understanding be brought into har-
Imouy or adjustment with the divine
Mind: he must realize his atone ment
with God.
But" says a friend, why try to tell
Inc that ] am not or cannot be sick,
when | know my back is aching" No
one could be found in the world who
would have more loving consideration
for those suffering with disease and
,pain than Christian Scientist. Chris
ltian Science Is not an admonition to
bear suffering patiently, or to endure
lit stoically, but is on the contrary, a
scientific system by which disease and
pain are TO be overcome; and it shows
ANY person who earnestly studies and
pra ctices it, that the-evidence of the
senses is all there is to any suffering,
land if this evidence be changed or
!overcome, the disease or suffering dis
iappears. Have you ever observed how
the physical senses are SO easily and
commonly mistaken and deceived? One
of the most ordinary examples is that
of sitting in a railroad train that is
still. and have train on the adjacent