Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-09-28

oei1ef of heredity. knowing that men
arc heirs of God, and joint heirs with
christ and that Gods child inherits
Only the good things of God. He sees
clearly that Man the expression of his
Maker, cannot consume away because
man is understandable and immortal
he denies all unfavorable SYMPTOMS.
Knowing that they are not God crea ted
but are false, mental pictures imaeed
forth OF the body. He knows and de-
clsres that the man is we'll always
mas been and always will be, and that
no false mental state can bar his con-
seriousness from that eternal fact. and
If the practitioners thought is in
splred of God, is aflame with the love
which comes from God the patient is
healed. But there may be instances
when the healing may seem slow. be-
cause time may be required to change
the thought of the patient Should
this be the case the patient should
still trust God and not yield to dis
couragement. The true practitioner
continues to point the way of life TO
such one and encourages him to
persevere until his thought is awak-
cred and the light appears.
FALSE EVIDENCE OF coRPoREAL
SENSES
Everyone Is familiar with the de-
ccptive nature Of the testimony of
the five physical senses The whole
trend of true education is to teach the
child to correct, by higher intelli-
gence the false impressions of physi-
cal sense evidence. A monkey and a
child both see a figure five, for in
stance; the child, by higher intelli-
gence. grasps the idea back of the
symbol; the monkey sees the symbol
accepts the sense evidence and is as
definitely shut off from the idea five
as though it had never existed.
SIN, DISEASE AND DEATH NOT
NECESSARY
Paul warns US against accepting the
limitations of the physical senses and
calls us to rise to the understandings
OF spiritual things, which renew the
inward man day by day. He declared
that in our true individuality, 1--WE
look not at the things which are seen
but at the things which are not seen;
for the things which are seen are tenn
poral; but the things which are not
seen are eternal" UI Cor. 4:1S.)
But men throughout the ages have
believed in the supposed necessity for
sin, disease and death. Accepting the
deceptive evidence of the corporeal
senses they have reasoned that since
in their experience and observation
these evils have operated without him
drance they are therefore inevitable
Nc greater fallacy, no more cruel de
ception ever imposed itself upon tho
human race. We must therefore have
the courage of our convictions to deny
these evils, knowing the scientific
basis upon which We deny them, il
we ever expect to overcome them
Perhaps these statements may seem &c
be somewhat visionary to some. but
they are not visionary, because Chris
tan Scientists in hundreds of thou
sands of instances have demonstrates
them by healing all manner of dis
eases on the spiritual basis that man
is perfect, even as his Father in heav-
Ell is perfect; that man cannot be
mortal and material, and that since
sickness. sin and disease are destroyed
through spiritual understanding the
conclusion also follows that they have
no actual reality.
TESTIMONY OF CHRIST JESUS
In this connection I wish to call ia
your attention the life of the great
Master, Christ Jesus. Did he accept
the verdict that men are mortal, the
victims of sin and diseaseo Did he
submit to the fiat that death is inevi-
table? BY no means. He thrust aside
these human Illusions and proved for
all time the divine status of men as
the perfect sons of God. forever free
from mortal ills, One demonstration
of the power of divine Mind to heal
men of disease is sufficient to show
that 1t is possible for all men to de-
stroy disease through spiritual under
standing. One demonstration of over
coming death through the power of
divine Mind is sufficient to show the
fallacy of the last enemy and the
nothingness of the greatest fear that
besets men. Jesus destroyed disease,
raised the dead burst for himself the
bonds of the tomb, and thus pointed
the way of spiritual freedom for all
men. What a world of woe and de-
spair he lifted from the hearts of men
by his glorious career and what en-
couragement and inspiration he gave
us by his words, Il am the resurrec-
ton and the life; he that beleveth in
me khaN never die. (John 11:25)
With the record of centuries OF SUI
fel'ng behind us is it not time thar
we cease to listen to the siren voices
OF the material senses which argue
continually for the permanence and
reality of evil and instead give earnest
heed to Christian, which teaches us
the way by which Christ Jesus de-
stroyed sin, disease and death, and
how we, too, van destroy them ii we
follow faithfully the path he blazed
fJl us.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE AND THE
WAR
Now. what is the attitude of Chris
tan Scientists toward the great up-
heaval that has convulsed the world