East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-01-29

> isupersede all so-called physical law
thereby proving matter and its law
to be unreal and not OF God. henc
powerless?
It cannot be readily imagined tina
, Jesus was sent to annul or destro!
, Gods law. This would have been al
impossibility, for Gods law, we are re
peatedly told In the Bible, is omnipo
tent. Furthermore, OF what benefi
would II have been to humanity. Il
Jesus or TO God. for Jesus to set aside
Gods law for the mere space of {
moment. even were he capable OF Sc
doing, In order to perform his mir.
acles? Could there be any other ex.
lplanation Of fiJeBus' mission than that
IL was for tho express purpose of re-
Elieving mankind OF the Burden Of self.
timposed,y sOrcalled laws Of matter. n
Submitting themselves throughout the
Icenturies 40 conditions OF. sin, sick
mess and death?
Christian Science and Matter.
Christian Science has received its in.
spiration from pure. spiritual inter-
probation of the Scriptures from Gem
esis to Revelation. Bible teachings
constitute the warp and woof of
Christian Science and in its some
what startling assertion that the spir-
itual is the real and eternal and mat
ter the unreal and temporal. 1t points
to the Bible. to the words and works
OF Jesus and to its own accomplish
ments in substantiation of the truth
thereof. Christian Science is prov
ing itself to be the truth by proving
the Bible true.
Christian Science shows us that
matter is the veil Of misunderstand-
ing through which mankind have been
laboriously peering throughout the
centuries, and that underneath this
covering OF mortal unreality lies all
the sin, sickness misery and unhappi-
ness to which humanity has been ever
subject.
what then. shall we do with matter
BY what process of reasoning shall we
begin its elimination. Jesus said "It
is the Spirit that quickeneth; the
flesh profiteth nothing" and Jesus
never uttered an idle word. We are
further admonished many times and
In many ways in the Bible to have that
mind in us (which was also in Christ
Jesus" The book of Proverbs tells
us that as a man "thinketh in his heart, |
SO is he.'' and on one occasion Jesus
said, in reply to the question as to the
of heaven, 1.-THE kingdom
of God cometh not with observation;
neither shall they say. 10 here! or, 10
there; for, Behold. the kingdom of God |
Is within you" These Bible passages
show clearly that the whole problem
Of salvation from materially is n
mental one.
Christian Science teaches that mat
ter Is nothing but mortal mind or hu-
man thought objectifIed-that behind
every material expression there lies
perfect. spiritual idea of God governe
by Gods law and subject alone to God.
rhe whole operation, then, of salvation
rom matter and its so-called laws of
;in, disease and death. involves estab-
ishing in consciousness the God idea
,r spiritual reality, in place of this
concept. For to be car
,ally (mortally) minded is death"
ays Paul. but to be spiritually mind
ID is life and peace" And he goes on
O say. Because the carnal Cor NOR
all mind is enmity against God: for
/ is not subject to the law OF God
lelther indeed can be. SO then they
hat are in the flesh cannot please
sod. But he concludes. eye are not
n the flesh. but in the Spirit, IL so be
hat the Spirit Of God dwell in you"
that is, II so be that the spiritual fact
4 being dwell in consciousness to the
omplete exclusion of all else"
Footsteps Ii
This journey out of a sense of ma
eriality. is. to be sure. not an easy +.
ne to travle. To attain the spiritual
Ultimate at bound is an impOssibility. ,
christian Science is a stern. though
owing, taskmaster and its demands ,
re distinct and as clearly defined as
re the rules and laws of mathematics. {
here must be a beginning along most 3
lemental lines. Each step in progress 8
aust be in proof of an advanced un-
of God and his law. Be I
ore the higher demonstrations of III
pIritual law can come there must be I
he putting into practice of what we /
nderstand In a small way, Before
re walk we must creep. Before we !
aise the dead we must heal the sick. I
me step follows another. I
II then. the material universe is |
lerely a concept of the mortal mind, t
n LIBERALIZATION, to human con- l
ciousness. of mortal thought. and the t
rue or spiritual creation is the em- I
odiment of ideas of the divine Mind, G
( which mortal thoughts are the l
must not our task of put G
ing off the false and putting on the 1
rue, consist in plucking out and re- 8
loving, one by one, those erroneousf $
onrepts that go to make up n social t
d material universe. and in place l
hereof plant the true spiritual ideas? Z
nd is it not clear that in undertaking Z
his work we must begin with the more t
tmple problems? That was the way I
esus started, and when he had cast |
ut 'the last element of mortal belief I
e found himself at the Mount of AS {
ension, where all materiality fades 5
lto its native nothingness and the =
rue, the spiritual and eternal, were 9
is forever. To replace hate and
aalioe with love, to replace dishonesty '
18th honesty, impurity with purity, q
ealousy and revenge with foregiveN I
os. errocd apd salfIshnass with char. Z