The times-herald. [volume] (Burns, Harney County, Or.) 1896-1929, 1919-06-21

what you ana | want in our daily
life and all its relationships. for uni
versal harmony excludes all evil, dis
cord, sickness. and woe. Christian
Science presents, interprets. and dem
onstrates this law of good 80 that all
who will may presently enjoy its un-
limited blessing
Consciousness Aud Being
Whatever may be our shade OF re-
ligious thought Se can readily agree
that we are, that is that we exist and
have being Life is fact to us be
cause we think and have conscious
ness. Our consciousness is our life
realm
Since we can all agree that we are.
that Is that we have consciou9ness.
let US next consider what Is the origin
ard cause OF mans consciousness. An
answer to this important question
must be an answer to the question.
~
and his consciousness are one.
Reason tells us that the cause Of
man must be intelligent, that intel
ligonce iRdeed must be it's primary
quality A moments consideration
shows Us that intelligence Is found
only In Mind, IL the native substance
and essence of Mind Indeed Mind
and intelligence are inseparable. syn
onymous; and it Is therefore tntelli-
gence, or Mind, that Christian Science
accepts as the rational and primal
cause of maa. Wisdom of course
characteri2es Intelligence or Mind and
fti entire expression, or creation.
This statement leads US 10 see that
goodness. unity and harmouy-the
expression Of wisdom-must charact-
ertae Mind and its expression. Evil.
d1sccrd, and distress betray absence
% wisdom or entire unrelatedness to
real Mind or intelligence. Erring
human thought ~ not real intclligen-
ce, and bears no relationship to God.
Man The Expression of God
II God be devine intelligence or
the altogether good Mind what Is the
true status Of mar? We all know
that Mind is manifest only through
* ideas. Therefore. the true statua
Of man, the creature OF intelligence.
is the 'doa Of Mind, the individual
etrressiou Of God. the offspring Of
irtalligeDce, or the son OF Cod, as
tb" Bible puts IT,
The real man is not physical
organism that Ike TO a jack-in-the-
bgc appears and disappears. He is
the creature of Mind. Matter is
@lad'3 opposite. never It's partner nor
m 'dium. Man does not live because
of matter but. in spite Of it. Matter
is not the creator. destroyer, or arbit-
or of his being Man does not live
b, ,ufferance 0 t evil but by decree of
COT.
Yo arc tie temple" that Is. the
o'aaciou5ra5s Or expression, "of the
wing God" sad raul. You and /
aHd All idcns OF life are the only a.
selcy Of divine expression. We can
not charge nor abandon our function
nor relinquish our responsibility
Matter Opposed TO Spirit
cooking into ihe. cpu3ciou3ueas of
~ rtal mar We find o very different
co. cent o5 God creation, and man
tinn thal wuieh-we have been con
sitariRs MIS- concept makes matter
70 De cause from which man seems TO
b" evolved BY material mind which
onerates through matter. Man is a
creature ot flesh, sinful, corrapt and 7
pcrishabie instead OF the expression /
OF Cod, perfect, pure and eternal. In
tina corrupt, material concept Ia
fnund division strife, sickness, grlef,
fear, Injustice and hell This mortal Z
scnoe Of creation which makes mat
ter its god would subordinate divine
Intelligence TO mortal ignorance, sup \
p'iat ali-powerfu good with ALI
mighty evil supersede the ever-pre-
'cnoe OF good which is heaven with
BE ever presence OF evil which Is
'aii Whioh OF these concepts of
Il creation ia Lrue. the mntnrial or