Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1919-01-28


very pertinent and explicit state
ment made by st. Paul bearing ol
, this very point In his eplstle to tn
Romans, St. Paul says, IF ye liv
after the flesh, ye shall die; but II y
thru the Spirit do mortify the deed
Of the body, ye shall live. Mortify
! what does that mean? II mean
to silence" ito deaden." Thru tn
spirlt"-what does that mean? Tha
means, thru the understanding tha
all things are spiritual and that moth
ing is material. Now, what are tn
deeds OF the body" that Paul her
admonishes us to silence" or dead
en-" thru an understanding OF al
things as spiritual? Why, seeing
feeling, tasting, smelling, hearing
the testimony of the five physica
senses. These are the deeds OF tn,
body. These, In fact, constitute al
the known faculties of the fleshly o.
mortal man, and all that we know
of the material universe or ever will
know is cognized thru these senses
And we are told plainly enough b.
st. Paul that we are to "mortify" ol
silence" their testimony.
We have been living all these year.
reading and hearing read this pas
sage Of Scripture just quoted, thu
while we have been nursing the de
lusion that the five physical senses
furnish us the only evidence of ex
istence and consequently must bt
God-endowed. Yet this passage o.
Scripture is plain and is In strict ac
cord with all Of the teachings Of the
Master. 'If ye thru the Spirit dc
mortlfy the deeds OF the body, yt
shall live" That is, that not until
thru the perception and understand
ing OF God. man and the universe as
spiritual, we recognize the five physl.
cal senses as creations OF erring, NOR.
tai thought, shall we begin to expert
ence that life vouchsafed us by St
Paul in this passage OF Scripture.
Mortal Mind
Now what Is our authority for be-
lievlng, or thru what medium do we
believe, that the material senses OF
seeing, feeling, tasting, smelling and
hearing are real and God-giyen quail
ties? What Is 1t that makes these
faculties seem real and essential to
us? What is II that bears to US evil
dence OF their reality? Why, moth
ing but this mortal or carnal mind
which is back of all material phe-
nomena and which st. Paul tells us
must be put off. 1t is the human or
mortal mind, instead OF matter, that
sees, feels, tastes, smells and hears.
Take away the mind OF mortal and
what testimony can the five physical
senses utter? Completely silence his
mentality and all the argument in
the world cannot make man believe
that he sees, feels, tastes, smells or
hears. Nothing Of a material nature
impresses him. He is not even cog
nizant of the mortal body in which
he is supposed to reside. So 1t should
he perfectly apparent that the evil
lence OF the senses cannot correctly
inform us of the true qualities OF
man governed by an immutebl law,
Tor the five physical senses may be
silenced while law and its manifesto
ions can never be.
Physical Inharm0nies
Following this understanding, that
he physical senses, which furnish
he only evidence Of the physical
nan, are nothing but manifestations
4 the mortal mind, operating with
'ut the realm of fixed law, 1t neces-
arily follows that the underlying
ause of all phenomena evidenced by
hese senses must be the product of
hat same mind. Any of the so-call-
d inharmonies of man manifested by
disturbed physlcality must neces-
arily be the result of the same mind
r cause underlying physfcality. Con-
equently, the remedy for all social
physical inharmonies lies in the
orrection OF the false sense of law
r cause, the result of the mind re-
ponsible for these inharmonies
his, obviously, cannot be accom-
lished thru mortal mind, the mind
lat creates these inharmonies, fol-
Iortal mind operates by virtue of
o fixed law of God to give 1t perma-
ency or authority in any new condi- [
on which its whims might create, 1
ertainly then, we have but one !
,urce of correction and that Is the |
wine mind, or God, which is per. {
ct, which knows no inharmony, |
either variableness nor shadow of
Irning, but which is ''the same yes .
rday, today and forever" ,
This corrective process lies in dis J
acing these false concepts of ere /,
ion, of man and the universe, and .
70 multitude of conflicting mortal
ws supposed to govern their rela- J.,
ons to each other, with the correct /,
of God and his Gre :
ion and the laws governing 1t. In =
S work of demonstration the power i
ssness Of the so-called laws of mat a
r the Christian Scientist has only :,
deal with so-called mortal mind :,
ID the divine Mind. Matter and its
complishments do not constitute
asst part of his considerations as he =
cognizes matter as merely a phase :
mortal thought. The Christian 3
ientfst recognizes the divine Mind, Z
God, as true and mortal mind as .
e lie about the Truth. There must =
truth underlying every lie. A lie u
mot be told about anything but !,
g truth. Therefore. the only prob q
n before the Christian Scientist is il
at of replacing the lie with the u
ith. In his remark "Ye are of a
ur father the devil, and the lusts o