Arizona republican., 1919-12-22

m the effort to walk in the footsteps of the Christ. At the same time th- cross is not borne in completing a mans at-onement with Spirit, but in the hestitations, with resistance, the
 double mindedness, which seem to cause the struggle Surrendering the flesh is not as easy thing when the at
 tempt is made to accomplish it. That is why the human mind fought So
 strenuously and so bitterly for the ideal of hell and eternal punishment.
 It realized that if matter were to be sanctified, it must also be castigated. and that it was illogical to retain d
 sensuous heaven and deny a senuous he'll
 In winning the kingdom of heaven
 then, a man stands alone before Prin-
 eiple. His plea, the woman tempted
 ne, no matter in what form it is made.
 and it can be made in half a million
 forms or more, is certain of instant and complete rejection. The entire
 Gospels provide a substantiation or
 esus' warning that a man judges
 o shall he be judged. and that as he
 nc tes out so shall it be meted to him
 gain. It will prove no excuse that
 the individual acted on the advice of some one he felt knew better than himself. Personal responsibility can never be shifted in divine Science, and least of all can mental apathy or sen suous idleness be made an excuse for shifting it. Christian Scientists
 writes Mrs. Eddy, with tremendous import, on page 442 of Science ana Health, be a law to yourselves tha- mental malpractice cannot harm you either when asleep or when awake. What is this mental malpractice bu1 the wrongful suggestion of the human mind coming to the individual con sciousness? It is quite impossible to
 f% -,~-f1- wT7~ |. thought that, some one told me, or ! did not understand. in other words. the woman tempted me. Principle has no ears for such spacious argument and excuse. Before the individual, thS road is forever forking; the narrow way leads upwards to heaven. and is very straight, the broad way winds gently down to hell.
 Fortunately. mercifully. no one neea take the broad way, and eventually everyone will have to take the narrow. Still it is better to take it at once. to begin to fight off the flesh. and to find oneself in the vestibule of the king dom of heaven, which Mrs. Eddy has defined, on page 590 of Science and Health, as "The reign of harmony in divine Science; the realm of unerring, eternal, and omnipotent Mind; the at mosphere of Spirit, where Soul is supreme" Of old the Pharisees, in IIiclE tidtcIidlINys IilS very HliS~ take, which Mrs. Eddy here guards against. of divorcing heaven from the experience of this plane of existence. But when they asked Christ Jesus when the kingdom of God should come. he replied to them. 'eThe kingdom ol God eometh not with observation Neither shall they say, To here or To therei for, behold. the kingdom of God is within you,'' or. as the margin of the Revised Version permits, 'fn the midst of you" or among you." thus making it perfectly clear that the kingdom of God is everywhere, and that this will become apparent to every individual in proportion as that individual de terminedly sets his back to evil and to and strides forward. in the footsteps of the Christ. along the mar row way to harmony which is heaven.
 It is as man does this that he begins to discover how completely heaven is precisely what Mrs Eddy has explained it to be, on page 5S7 of Science and Health Harmony: the reign of Spirit; government by divine Principle; spirituality: bliss; the at mosphere of Soul" This is a present realiZable just as quickly as a man can forget his own materi- ality. Now there are, of course, just ways in which a begin ming can be made. These ways present daily and hourly. and the wise man is he who seizes every one as 1t presents itself, and whether he in holding to it or not at least makes the attempt. Gradually. as the days go by, a greater uniformity of success will begin to attend his efforts. and with the broadening of his success will come a sense of calm, and harmony which is nothing morc nor less than that peace of God which passeth all understanding. It is i'm possible that the human mind should it. for there is no particle of good outside of the divine Mind 10 which Principle can appeal It is indeed, only as this human mind is put off. and as the real man, made in the image and likeness of God, appears. that heaven appears also.