The daily Alaska citizen., 1919-08-08

they have had of God. and the wrong , sense they have had of man, have , made them discredit the idea that d . genuine. applicable knowledge of God , or the Science of being. exists or ear exist. Yet Jesus said that with God |all things are possible
 POSSIBLE TO WHOM? All will Concede that all things would be possible 10 one having suf .fIcirnt life. to one who could live long enough, and who possessed adequate intelligence. power, love. and Oppor tunity for the accomplishment of them. All will concede that such an one would be thoroughly prepared completely safe, and absolutely eff cient Adam, for example if he had lived long enough, if he had known enough, and so on, could have accom- pliShed any of the things that have been accomplished since. But he did not, and others have not. Experience consequently has convinced mankind that all are limited in every way,
 limited as to life. and so in vitality, energy, endurance; limited in men tality. which means lack of pcrcep- ton, initiative, will; limited in pow er, and so in capacity and ability: limited in love, consequently in de vOtiOn, incentive, impulsiOn, endeaY- or, for il is love that is the incentive of all effort and of all achievement; limited in environment, which means opportunity for the employment of capacity, intelligence, will, and so on. Nor is il strange that these limita- tiOnS are accepted as absolute, final; that they are solid convictions. Are not all taught. and do not all believe that everything iS evolved from, is due to, or dependent on matter; that life is organic, physical, inherent in the body; that all the faculties also inhere in il: that intelligence is in the head or brain; strength, power, capacity, in muscles; love in the heart; that environment consists of d material world in which everything k again due to matter and not to God, the primordial essence or sub stance of all, in whom we live, and move, and have our being?
 Yet, every little while some one aC- Icomplishes something which eXpe- rience has shown to be impossible What happens in such a case? A human need cries and cries until some one is awakened to the recog
 
 i enough, intelligence enough, love enough to meet it, and that the Op- portunity to do so is always at hand It is not the believer in but the dis believer in present limitations that transcends them breaks them. The transmission of the force of a Niagara by means of a wire, the transmits sion of messages, even of the human voice, over continents and oceans | without wire the utilization for flight of heavierthan- machines, are sui ficently illustrative of this. Is not this all answer to prayer? Is it not all the result of appeal? Appeal to what? Appeal to the one only and last resort; appeal to the only power there is, intelligence, Mind.
 MAN AND MANKIND
 We have seen what was the power, the Life, the Mind, the whole reality or Truth, the Love that animated, en- | frightened, impelled, capacitated, and enabled the man Jesus. We have seen that it was omnipotence, om niscence, God, and that the eXpres sion of this made him the godlike and true man that he was.
 We have also seen the kind of power, life, mind, spirit, truth, and Hove that are expressed or manifested 1 by mankind or d kind of men. We have seen that this power, life, mind, spirit, truth, and love are all believed ito inhere in the flesh, matter, Is not this true?
 The man whom Jesus presented is spiritual, and spiritually minded, the real man The man that humanity insists upon as real, the kind that is really no man, is fleshly or carnally minded Yet Christianity teaches that ito be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the Carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be" To be the one kind of man, then, is to be the son of God. To be the other kind of man is to be like those of whom Jesus spoke when he said, "Ye are of your father the devil," and the devil he called "a murderer" that which is destructive, and "a liar" that in which there is mo truth.
 All Christians have certainly called Jesus their pattern and their guide; and he spoke of himself as "the way, the truth, and the life" All Chris | tldnS are also instructed, Let llllS mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus" If this teaching be correct, should not every Christian claim for himself and for others the spiritual power, intelligence, Life Truth, and Love which constitute the one true good of all, or the one true God, infinite, eternal, indestructlble incapable of impairment, loss, or lack? And should not every one dis claim a limited material power mind, life, truth, love subject to disease, decay, and death? Can one be Christian without claiming the form Ter and disclaiming the latter?
 THE BEGINNER
 Now let us take one who is learn ing to know this Christ-way, and be- ginning to walk in it. What effect has this upon him?
 He has been believing, like every one else, that he is a material or ganism with his life, health, strength intelligence, and love all inside of him. that all that he is and all that he has is limited by heredity and en- Niromment He knows it because he has been experiencing it. Of course he is unprepared for any emergency feels unsafe, is inefficient. It is not strange if he is discouraged, perhaps sick, dissipated. Now, the unheeded Christ, the spiritual idea of being, the Truth, comes to such one in Chris