The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1919-06-26

world who would have more loving
consideration for those suffering with
disease and pain than a Christian
Scientist. Christian Science is not an
admonition to bear suffering patiently,
or to endure it stoically, but is, on the
contrary, a scientific system by which
disease and pain are to be overcome;
and it shows any person who earnest
ly studies and practices it, that the
evidences of the senses is all there is
to any suffering, and if this evidence
be changed or overcome, the disease or
suffering disappears. 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 rail-
road train that is still, and have a
train on the adjacent track pass you
going the other way. AS you watch
the moving train, every sense tells you
that you are moving, and your escape
from this delusion is to look away into
the opposite direction, and then you see
things as they are. So when the hu-
man senses tell us that we are sick,
we should look away from the things
of sense to God, and see and know the
real man as he is in Gods image and
likeness, and we shall come to know
that this real man cannot be sick or
discordant. In this manner of
thought, God becomes a living, vital,
ever-present power and influence in
our lives, and we can begin to realize
"For in him we live and move and
have our being"
This brings me to a discussion of
what man is, and of his relation to
God. l suppose every careful reader
of the Bible is familiar with the two
very dissimilar accounts of mans
creation, as detailed in the book of
Genesis. You will remember that the
first chapter says: $50 God created
man in His own image, in the image
of God created he him. male and fe-
male created he them" Christian
Science teaches that this is the true
spiritual man. When Christian Sci
ence says that man cannot be sick,
man cannot die, reference is made to
the real man, the spiritual man, the
God-idea. The possibilities for man
thus created in Gods image and like
ness are unlimited; such a man cannot
possess any qualities that God has not
and he must in degree, reflect every
attribute Of God. Other systems of
religious instruction have taught that
the spiritual man is perfect, but they
have not made this teaching practical
They have generally assumed that
man must first pass through the ex-
perience called death, and after that
be invested with the spiritual nature
They have scarcely dared to hope that
life could be other than the generally
accepted "vale of tears" Christian
Science shows that the truth concern.
ing the spiritual man, is scientific
truth, and through Christian Science
it may be understood, and become op
erative in behalf Of humanity. Chris.
tian Science teaches that Gods pres
ence in the lives of men is not {
theory, but an actual fact, that may
be, and should be relied upon in al
circumstances and under all condi
lions. It teaches that Gods Omnipo
tence, Omnipresence, and Omms
cience should be borne in mind by mar
as actual realities for his benefit il
every human survey and undertaking
This will be wonderful world whel
all men begin to realize their God
given heritage, no envying, no jeal
ousy, no fault finding, no Judging. NJ
coveting, where all is love, joy, peace
patience, gentleness, goodness. Maj
is the expression of Gods goodness
OF Gods love, indeed. Of all tn,
qualities of God; and it is only
through the perfect expression tina
we can know God. Was not this rea
man what Jesus had in mind when h,
said, BE We therefore perfect even a.
7 your Father in heaven is perfect?
Through the consideration of sucl
facts, we may begin to have some con
ception of the bigness and the joy an<
freedom of this Christian Science
teaching.
Let us turn now from this beautiful
picture to the account of mans forma
ton in the second chapter of Genesis
And the Lord God formed man of the
dust of the ground, and breathed into
his nostrils the breath of life; and mar
became living SOUL" and also the &C.
count of woman's creation, how Coo
caused a deep sleep to fall upon the
i man, and He took from the man E
rib and of the rib, He made woman
With these two irreconcilable account:
before you, why do you hesitate to pro
claim yourself and your race of the
true type, the real man with God
given dominion and power over ever,
living thing; for this power is als(
ordained by God in the twenty-eightl
verse of the first chapter of Genesis
Is not this in harmony with the prom
Use given by Jesus quoted in the be-
ginning of this lecture, "Behold
give unto you all power?" Does i
occur to you that perhaps Jesus hat
in mind this early ordinance of God
Then as he had found the worle
stepped in materialism he proceeds
to demonstrate by so-called miracle!
step by step, mans power to over
come all the power Of the enemy.
! This might be the subject of inouir,
at this time: what is this enemy
whose power we are to overcome
We find Paul saying, "The carnal mine
is enmity against God" It is. there
fore, this carnal or f7esh1v mind -,