Arizona republican., 1919-09-03
About Truth Healing

indicate the ease and certainty with which scientific healing in Christian Science should come when the divine requirements are complied with. The beginner reading these inspired state rients, perTaps as yet to him unreal ized. may be tempted to cry out, like Paul. Who shall deliver me from the body of this death?r But the very next words of Paul are a powerful corrective of any suggestion of de- spair, for he says in the succeeding breath: T thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin"
 What Is it to serve the law of God with the mind2 Is it not simply to know rightly and to think rightly? Thus right doing is attained. ''Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free,' definitely stated Jesus, and his promise was to all who believed on him. Mankind in the past have missed the real point of Jesus words. It was not mere desperate oe-. sire, imploring prayer. the willing by a human being that such and such re- suit be immediately forthcoming; if was not anything like this that Jesus intimated in that oft-quoted saying: his conclusion was, It is "the truth" that shall make you free. If it is the truth itself that makes free, then noth- ing else can. Mortals turn to mater ial modes and methods and what do they receive? Faith in matter may produce a temporary belief that they are benefited, but where is the man who. after years of dependence upon material methods will uphold their in- variable reliability as "a very present help in trouble?"
 The very unchangeableness of God and His law that quality of fixity which named Him "the rock of my salvation,r which led the apostle to write of Christ, Gods idea, as being s.the same yesterday, and today. and for ever." which caused Mrs. Eddy to adopt that wonderful term for God divine Principle-this very unchange- ableness which is very far indeed from being fully realized even by the most conscientious students. may ap- pear to be a stumblingbIock in the path of the beginner. That God, good is unchangeable is a most important point in Christian Science It is in deed a fortunate thing for mortals that God is unchanging good, and even a faint perception and acceptance of this fact, accompanied by the faithful practice of what one does understand, will remove the stumblingblock and open the way to wider demonstration of the healing power of everpresent divine Love. For it should not be overlooked that Christian Science brings also the understanding that Principle and Love are one. These are interchaneeable names for God un- changing good, the divine Principle which is also, Love, and likewise Truth, never abstract nor cold, but the 1 Life of Christianity and the real man.
 Mortals have so long admitted and followed changing standards that it at first looks utterly beyond reason to attempt to prove human thinking by an immovable, unchanging Principle. But without such a standard there is no real Science, and 1t is only as spir- itual sense is awakened and the seeker for Truth comes to see the real man, the image and likeness of God, atone with the divine standard, only as his thinking becomes more nearly stseientific, right thought" that ne may rightfully expect Gods promises and the statements of Christian Sci- enee to be fulfilled in his daily living. Moody, tickle, mortal thought is not atone with the Principle of right thinking. Indeed even right thinking according to mortal standards, possi- bly, far in advance of former lower thought models, must, from it's trtLn- sitory nature, still be the antipode of the Mind which was in Christ Jesus.
 Sometimes it is said by beginners in Christian Science, If I only had the intellectual bent of So-and so. then I could grasp so much more of Christian Science;" which implies that the intellectually proficient are those who progress the fastest in Christian Science. But this is not the case. Worldly knowledge is only too often cumbersome baggage to the man who would advance Spiritward. As Mrs. Eddy herself says (Science and Health, p. 505) Spiritual understand ing unfolds Mind,-Life Truth, and Love,-and demonstrates the divine sense, giving the spiritual proof of the universe in Christian Science. This understanding is not intellectual, is not the result of scholarly attainments; 1t is the reality of all things brought to light. Gods ideas reflect the i'm mortal. unerring. and infinite." Jesus. we remember. knew letters having never learned. and he was the best