The Bismarck tribune., 1919-04-04

fundamental fact which is the, basis
OF all right thinking and living.
namely, that when God made all that
is and pronounced it very good,
He made man in His likeness = and
that nothing has since happened or
will ever happen TO unmake or undo
Gods perfect work. The writer of
Ecclesiastes said: Il know that. what
sOeYer God doeth, it shall be for ever ::
nothing can be PUT to it. nor any thing
taken from it, And on page 557 OF
Science and Health Mrs Eddy says ::
Divine Science rolls back the clouds
of error with the light Of Truth. and
lifts the curtain on man as never
born and as never dying, but as CO.
existent with his creator .,
According 10 Christian Science the
putting on Of Immortality is not neces-
sarily deferred until after passing
through an experience called death.
but may begin now and must con-
tinuc until the perfect recognition Of
the Immortality and supremacy Of
Life displaces al belief in the exist
ence of something which is the ,Opp0-
site of Life-in sin, disease. death.
Christian Scientists admit that to
human. or mortal sense, evil and mat
ter appear real, but Christian Science
agrees exactly with the prophet
Habakknk, that God is "Of purer eyes
than to behold evil" It explains that
man as the perfect likeness of God can
not know something which God does
not know. And Christian Science shows
that the Mind which is God, infinite
ak<s-, ,s/.@ L.
evil any more than light can include
darkness. 1t explains that evil is CON
trary 70 the viii Of God, who is always
good In purpose And in manifestation.
Thus it induces the sinner to abandon
his belief Of satisfaction An sin and eli,
ables him to win: forgiveness by for
saking sin. II is, therefore. mis-
take to suppose that in teaching the
unreal natural Of sin, Christian Science
encourages the Indulgence of sine The
fact is that it awakens its students to
the absolute necessity or gaining
love for goodness that will enable them
TO abandon, willingly and gladly, not
only the more fragrant forms Of i'm.
morality and vice, but also the more
subtle phases of evil. And Christian
Scientists realize the need Of recogniz-
ing sin or evil as a claim, or false
belief Of the carnal mind in order that
it may be demonstrated in human ex-
perience to be pOwerless and, in the
absolute sense, unreal. For one is
not likely to correct moral error
without first seeing it for what it is
or what it claims to be, any more
than he would correct mathematical
mistake without first recognizing III.
And just as mathematical error is not
disposed Of by ignoring it. SO one can
not free himself from sin by ignoring
it, Christian Science, therefore, shows
the need Of handling sin. or evil. as
error as mistake, and of correct
ing it with Truth. Furthermore it
shows that true forgiveness Of sin
consists in it's destruction in the proof
Of it's unreality OnNpage 497 of Sci
eIlce and Health Mrs. Eddy says, We
acknowledge Gods forgiveness Of sin
in the destruction Of sin, and the
spiritual understanding that casts out
evil as unreal. But the belief in sin is
punished so long as the belief lasts"
Matter viewed in the light of Christ
ian Science is seen not to be sub
stantial, for II is not the manifesto
is incapable tof decay 1t is contendetl.
by some that matter is, directly or
indirectly, the creation Of God, who is
admitted by them, to be Spirit. But
il should be plain that God, who is
Spirit and Life, could not possibly Gre
ate that which is capable of disea Sc,
decay, and dissolution. \
: To the physical senses matter seems
real and substantial. But Christian
Science shows that these senses can
not be depended upon to testify to
the existence of that which is, in the
best sense, real. Paul said "the nat
nral man" cannot know the things Of
God, for they are Spiritually dis
cerned." And he also said: "The
things which are seen [cognized by the
sensesl are temporal; but the things
which are. not seen [by the sensesl
are eternal" So Christian Science
shows that matter is in fact tenn
poral, destructible, illusive, while the
things Of Spirit-the ideas of God, or
divine Mind-alone are really sub
stantial and enduring.
The teaching Of Christian Science
that matter exists only as belief, as
concept of the human or Garnal
mind, enables one to deal more In
telligently, hence more successfully,
with disease than was possible without
such knowledge For 1t enables one
to see more clearly than he was for
merly able ito see that pain and sur
fering are not material but mental.
Ordinary experience shows that pain,
is difficult to locate. The senses often
make pain appear to be where it is
not. Christian Science says that pain
Is never in the body but always in
thought or belief. SO the Christian
Scientist IN his treatment Of sickness
goes directly to the seat Of the
trouble. His endeavor Is to correct
or remove through righteous prayer,
OF right thinking, the raental cause Of
de disease. &.