Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-04-15

hour of trial, is the question. The
Scriptures declare that God is too
pure to behold iniquity, and that a
falsity cannot be beholden by the
divine Truth is now quite apparent
Then if God, Spirit, cannot be seen or
approached through the material sens
es, through what human avenue can He
be reached and His infinite blessings
be bestowed? The answer to this pre-
eminent question should now be more
simple. If God, the divine Mind, is to
be reached through thought only, IS
many believe, what other channel of
thought exits after the material has
been eliminated?
SPIRITUAL SENSE
There is scarcely a normally mind
ed mortal who holds not daily some
thoughts of truthfulpess, sincerity,
faith, hope, courage, affection, purity,
honesty; in other words, some un-
selfish thoughts, which cannot be
called material, but which point
higher to universal good. Every one
knows that these and kindred thoughts
bring satisfaction and happiness and
lead to better things. Turning away
from matter and self, moved by some
motive for the universal good, is to
touch the divine Principle of being,
and is to gain some sense of Spirit, or
God. This sense, which all normal
mortals possess to some extent, even
though they may be ignorant thereof,
is known in Christian Science as
spiritual sense, and it is the way
through which man knows God, and is
known by Him. Christian Science
serves to awaken these thoughts and
motives, and by means of them to edu-
cate and encourage until the spiritual
sense of things is diScerned and begins.
to be demonstrated or proved by over
coming the false evidence of the ma
terial senses, especially when that
evidence is in the nature of fear, sin,
and disease. Spirituality or spiritual
sense, may be thus awakened and
may become a very common or gen.
eral sense. In fact, the true sense of
Spirit is real common sense, even as
the sense of matter is found to be
nonsense, and Christian Science is but
another name for this common sense
law of life. Mrs. Eddy defines Chris
tian Science i'll her fundamental Di-
vine Science" Up. u as "the law of
God, the law of good, interpreting and
demonstrating the divine Principle and
rule of universal harmony"
DIVINE PRINCIPLE
The apostle John, than whom no
disciple of Jesus made clearer the
spiritual rules of life, said, God is
love- and he that dwelleth in love
dwelleth in God and God in him."
He that dwelleth in love, purity, hon
esty, unselfishness, knoweth God and
is expressing Cod whereas he whose
thought is channel for "the lust of
the flesh and the lust of the eyes,
and the pride of life, is not of
the Father" as John declares, "but is
of the world. And the world passeth
away, and he lust thereof: but he that
doeth the will of God abideth for ever"
This will of God" is known in Chris
| tian Science also as the will of Prin-
ciple, the will of the one Mind, Truth,
Life, and Love, for if the will of mat
| ter or flesh is proved to be an erring
sense forcing mortals into tormenting
| fears, inceSsant troubles, subtle sins,
distressing disease, and direful DEATH
| then the will of divine Principle,
when properly proved, produces
| the opposite results, and awak-
ems mOrtals to moral courage, increas-
ing purity, Astounding health, unlim-
tied harmony, and eternal Life.
| ITS PRACTICAL APPLICATION
| Granting then, as all Christians do,
that God is the one infinite Spirit, or
Mind, the omnipotent All-in-all, the
question arises, that all-absorbing
| practical question which vitality inter-
ests all mortals. How is this divine
| Principle of the allness of good to be
| applied in the lives of mortals? How
is it to save us from fears, wicked
ness, and suffering continually exper-
fenced in mortal life? Christian
Science answers that as the means is
plain, the method is equally so. To
begin with, the reference already
made to the pupil applying the princi-
pie and rules of mathematics to over
come error, is a fair illustration of
how God and His spiritual laws should
be applied in the mind of mortals to
overcome there the errors of existence
The truth about the principle of
mathematics dawns upon the striving
thought of the pupil, and in this ratio
the error disappears; just so, the
truth about the infinite Principle of
Life, God, the truth that Spirit is in
finite and omnipotent, dawns upon the
receptive thought, and exactly in the
same ratio do the discordant and false
material beliefs of life in matter van
lsh. In mathematics this is called
demonstration and it is called the
same in Christian Science To dem
onstrate the allness, omnipotence, and
perfection of divine Principle, there
fore, becomes the whole duty of man.
kind, and in proportion as this is done,
the lives of mortals are brought into
harmony with God, and salvation and
perfection are attained. No move
ment should be made, no work under
taken, no thought should be given to
the body, no thought projected into
consciousness, before it is first
weighed by spiritual Truth and Love
| and not found wanting.
PRAYER
| This method of believing and affirm
ing with absolute certainty that God
is just what the Bible implies Him to
be, namely All-in-all, and believing, as
Jesus taught, that the things one
righteously asks for shall come to
pass. indicates something of the true
nature of prayer according to Chris
tan Science. Proving the divine Prin-
| clple of his being in the destruction
| OF sin, sickness, and death is a prac-
teal and certain illustration of true
prayer which should appeal to every
| earnest Christian. Instead of being
prayerless, as some have imagined.
Christian Scientists, in so far as they
| practice their Science, live lives of
continual prayer. They pray morning.
noon and night: they DRAW hefnre they