Arizona republican., 1919-12-15
FALL ENEMIES :


It was after the 70 had returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name,'' that Jesus uttered one of his most notable sayings. Behold | he said, T give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy and nothing shall by any means hurt you.' | It was statement staggering to human sense; and none but those whom | he had instructed in the knowledge of 1 God, divine principle, understood in the slightest what the words implied. It is fact, accepted by the followers | of Christ Jesus, that he went about Il continually doing good. As he declared | the truth about God to his fellowmen | the Master was constantly giving T demonstrations of the power of Truth; and these demonstrations took the form of the healing of all kinds of Il disease and sin and the over-ruling of the phenomena of matter which the human mind looked upon as the in evitable effects of irresistible cause i, For example Christ Jesus walked upon the surface of the water without sink ing, thus stultifying the so-called law of gravitation; and he similarly si fenced the storm by setting aside so- called meteorological law.
 Since the time when these wonders were done men have never ceased to speculate as to their meaning. Some have held that they showed Jesus to have been endowed with supernatural poWer which enabled him to set aside material law. But, as Christian Sci ence shows that position is plainly untenable, for law that can be broken is no law at all. And Christian science goes far beyond this to the very foundation of absolute cause. stating the nature of cause, and with loglcal precision showing at the same time what exactly is the nature of the effects produced by this cause and of the law through which these effects are produced and sustained,
 Obviously, then, the first thing to be Known is the truth about cause That is what Mrs. Eddy discovered to a degree never realized by any human being since Christ Jesus. What was the nature of her discovery? Mrs. Eddy found that God exists as infinite divine principle, that this principle is mind or spirit, and that creation, or real effects, is the expression of principle in perfect spiritual ideas The magni-
 tude of this discovery could not be surpassed, for in flash it solved the
 enigma of the ages-the problem of matter or evil. With the knowledge
 of the allness of principle before her.
 Mrs. Eddy reasoned, as will be found
 on page 475 of Science and Health
 with Key to the Scriptures" that "to
 infinite spirit there is no matter-all
 is spirit, divine principle and it's idea"
 Thus matter was declared to be unreal.
 And II matter be unreal, what about
 all the so-called phenomena of matter
 sin, disease, death, evil in every one
 of it's forms? Unreal also! No other
 answer can possibly be returned
 Admit that God is infinite spirit, and
 matter must vanish into total obliv-
 ion; then, one stands with clarified
 vision looking straight toward the re-
 alities of being. Spiritual ideas take
 the place of material beliefs, and as
 these beliefs disappear the restlessness
 and sinful tendencies of the human
 mind pass away.
 The enemy is material sense, the
 lie which suggests that principle E
 not infinite Mrs. Eddy defines it
 accurately when she writes "Materiar
 sense is nothing but supposition of
 the absence of spirit" Science and
 Health, p. 504). In this definition
 Christian Science is perfectly in accord
 with the retort given by Jesus to
 those Jews who came before him
 boasting of their descent from Abra-
 ham. Ye are of your father the
 
 eUn U father ye will do. He was murderer ~ ~ from the beginning, and abode not in ou the truth, because there is not truth sS; in him. When he speaketh lie, he all speaketh of his own; for he is a liar. II and the father of it." Whenever one lat begins to grasp what Christian Science III so explicitly teaches that devil" or iat evil, is the lie of material sense, try m ing to usurp the rightful place of Cn, SniTitII11 hat +ha l;a af ire material sense never has the faintest CTS trace of reality about it, he begins an to understand how dominion can be nd gained lover all the power of the ing enemy"
 yht To mankind evil sometimes seems to as be overwhelming in its power. Even in today, nearly two thousand years after or Christ Jesus uttered the truth that evil ac is lie, men continue to practice it
 and to believe in its power, often as if Ted they hardly believed that good existed the at all. They are believing in the reality ll," of matter, believing the false testi-
 mony of the material senses; and so
 long as that is done sin will result CTS There is no hope for the world along
 that line. Health is not found there; = strength does not spring from 1t; hap
 piness does not belong to it. Health
 and strength and happiness are to be
 Iounu oIlly dlOnS the straight line Ol ed- spiritual understanding.
 eii- Every one must make a start fol lsn himself and follow the line of truth ally He asks for guidance as to that lins us- of truth. It is to be found defined ex- with the greatest precision in Chris ssia tian Science. But if one would find i but there he must be prepared to take III
 the study of the subject without bias
 just as he would take up any othe
 study with which he hopes to mak
 progress. After her discovery o
 Christian Science Mrs. Eddy devote, of her time to showing how to make it ,,If teaching practical; and the wisdom o n,, her experience is embodied in all he os writings.
 ,o But after all, says some one, is no ,,n evil a very big problem to mankind ho They certainly believe it to be so; bu ,are belief never made anything true. s
 long as men continue to refuse t
 admit the allness of divine principl and the perfection of principles ex pression, spiritual being, they wi
 remain enmeshed in the tolls of fals
 or evil belief. The mesmerism of ev cial is broken only as the omnipotence C acts good is spiritually perceived an Ial- declared. It is exactly to the exter oil that a man understands the omnipo s of tence of good, the allness of spiri lted that he knows that matter is unrea int and evil absolutely nothing; and thu eri- does he have dominion over "all tn
 power of the enemy"