The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1919-03-05

uhIiy' Iney thnt worship Him." sal
: Jesus. must worship Him In spirit
and In truth" SO Mrs. Eddy wrote
tscience and Health, page 4Sl)
| Through spiritual sense only, maj
compreheDds and loves Diety." An,
again. (Science and Health. pag
2O9: Spiritual sense is a conscious
constant, capacity TO understand God
\ ! recently read q report OF a ger
mon ny clergyman on the subject
I"Wfll Christian Scientists 90 Il
Hcaven?" No Christian Scientise car
doubt that he Will be in heaven Jus
IN the degree Of his understanding o.
Jesus statement. For, behold, tn,
Kingdom Of God IL within you" God
and heaven are within the grasp oil
spiritual perception alone. ORTHODOX
views received q Just rebuke from q
little child who, when asked where
heaven IL. replied "Out In the grave
yard. by inescapable logic he had
concluded that if God and heaven
were reached through death, as he
had been taught. the cemetery must
be the gateway to the Kingdom. The
Christian Scientist to whose inquiry
the child responded, was able to show
him that since heaven 10 Gods home.
and God is everywhere. heaven must
be everywhere. She explained that
God In Love and God IL Good, and
therefore where love and good are
found there Ia God and heaven; so to
the child came the Joy of knowing
Gods eternal nearness. even His ever
presence
Christion Science has come to re-
store the right concept OF heaven. and
to reveal II to be spiritual conscious
ness. and there Is not one In this au-
dience but may yield his material
sense to that divine influence and
now and here enter the realm OF bar-
mony.
The restoration In consciousness OF
God as Spirit, or Mind, at once lifts
thought to "a higher contemplation OF
Gods creation--man., Maflkind's esti-
mate Of man has risen. of course. no
higher than his estimate of God.
False beliefs about God have result
ed directly In erroneous concepts OF
man. So finite. material sense of
the Creator hls been reflected In !
humanity's thought OF man as finite |
and material Christian Science
comes to show the falsity of such be- |
lief and to restore the concept of |
man as spiritual. the Image and like
ness OF Spirit.
\ Natural science declares man to be |
composed OF chemical elements and |
to be confined 10 physical body. II
recognizes an immaterial factor In
this man which II calls mind, but
which II limits TO brain matter hold
Ing that form Of matter responsible
Tor mentality. Paul terms this anima-
ted br in matter the carnal mind, or
the mind OF the flesh. and further
II as "enmity against
Sod" Since this so-called mind
'omes In with matter, is wholly de-
pendent on matter for manifestation,
md goes out with matter. Mrs. Eddy
'alls 1t mortal mind. and its personi-
she named mortal man. This
,rring. SHINING. dying, material con.
,ept Of man plainly Is not the man
iod made In His image and likeness,
or the likeness of Spirit could not I
'e unspiritual. the likeness of God
ould not be imperfect. Divinity is 7
lever less than spiritual, while matter |
5 never more than material. Spirit
nd matter are opposites In essence
nd qualities
Popular theology holds that man |
J both material and spiritual; that /
e has a material body and spirit !
al soul. IL will not help to argue |
hat man is both material and spirit =
al. since In that case. the destruction L
the material body would result in
,e partial destruction of man. Christ. 5
Ontn Too Spha - | n
nports, that the real man Is wholly n
ombination, described by physical i
on. deS"~'N~I theology, are false | !!
elicfs about man. Indeed the de- &
OF the physical body
e,rly shows II to be utterly unlike Il
,e infinite. imperishable Spirit. 4
Jesus furnished an illustration 81
9TH OF the real man and OF the un- h
,al nature OF physicality when, after p
owing Its unreal character by dis II
'garding and overcoming physical Ia
W. he separated himself from mat Il
r and disappeared. Does any one tt
laRine that In the ascension Jesus pi
as taken up as mortal, material al
an? What then became OF the ply. p
cal body when he ascended to the n,
ther? Ia II not pl,in that the real Il
sus was from the first spiritual and nj
at the material body was at all th
mes what he ultimately proved 1t
be. false concept OF finite sense Jt
,ich disappeared In the light of spir- hi
ial understanding? Hear the testi- 81
Dny of st. John: For all that IL re
the worlds Ia not of the Father. &C
t Is of the world. And the world III
sseth away. and the lust thereof; SO
I he that doeth the win of God ht
'deth forever" II "all that Is in si
e world" mortal man and the ply II
al universe, is mot of the Father" II.
lat claim can materiality have to at
ilitv7 II the world Is the author OF to
. things that are in the world, lie
"the world passeth away" as th
John declares, 1t Is conclusive tn
II God is not the author of the IN
lterial universe nor physical man. III
cause they lack a divine Cause, the -
terial universe and mortal man I'M
! have no reality. for without him Je