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

II cannot be readily imagined thai
Jesus was sent to annul or destroy
Gods law. This would have been an
impossibillty, for Gods law, we are
repeatedly told in the Bible, is ON
nlpotent. Furthermore, OF what bene.
fit would 1t have been to humanity
to Jesus or TO God, for Jesus to sci
aside Gods law for the mere space OF
a moment, even we're he capable OF
so doing, in order to perform his mir
acles? Could there be any other ex-
PLANTATION OF Jesus mission than II
was for the express purpose of re-
lieylng mankind of the burden OF
self-imposed, so-called laws of mat
ter, In submitting to which they have
subjected themselves thruout the
centuries TO conditions OF sin, sick
ness and death?
Christian Science and Matter
Christian Science has received its
inspiration from a pure, spiritual in
depreciation OF the Scriptures from
Genesis to Revelation. Bible teach
ings constitute the warp and woof OF
Christian Science and In its some
what startling assertion that the
spiritual Is the real and eternal and
matter is the unreal and temporal, II
points to the Bible, to the words and
works Of Jesus and to its own ac-
complishments in substantiatlon Of
the truth thereof. Christian Science
is proving itself to be the truth by
proving the Bible true.
Christian Science shows us that
matter Is the veil of understanding
thru which mankind have been la
boriously peerlng thruout the CEN
turies. and that underneath this COW
ering of mortal unreality lies s-all the
sin, sickness. misery and unhappiness
to which humanity has been ever
subject.
What then, shall we do with mat
ter? BY what process Of reasoning
shall we begin Its elimination? Je-
sus said 1T is the Spirit that quick
eneth; the flesh profiteth nothing"
and Jesus never uttered an idle word.
We are further admonished many
times and in many ways In the Bible
to have that mind In us which was
also in Christ Jesus" The book of
Proverbs tells us that as a man
"thinketh in his heart, so is he" and
on one occasion Jesus said, in reply
to the question as to.the whereabouts
of heaven, "The kingdom OF God COM
eth not with observation; neither
shall they say, 10 here or 10 there;
for, behold, the kingdom of God is
within you." These Bible passages
show clearly that the whole problem
OF salvation from materiality is
mental one.
Christian Science teaches that
matter is nothing but mortal mind or
human thought objectifled-that- bs, !
hind every material expression there
lies a perfect, spiritual idea of God
governed by Gods law and subject
alone to God. The whole operation,
hen, of salvation from matter and
It's so-called laws of sin, disease and
ieath. involves establishing in con-
,ciousness the God-idea, or spiritual
reality, in place OF this counterfeit
For the be carnally (mor=i
ally minded is death" says Paul,
but to he spiritually minded is life
md peace" And he goes on to say.
Because the carnal Tor mortal
mind is enmity against God; for 1t
5 not subject to the law OF God
leither indeed can be- So then they
hat are in the flesh cannot please
iod. But" he concludes, "ye are notd
n the flesh, but In the Spirit, II so :
e that the Spirit Of God dwell in ,
ou," That is, II so be that the spir- ,
tual fact of being dwell In conscious ,
ess to the complete exclusion Of all :
lse =
Footsteps .
This journey out of a sense of ma Q
sriality, Is. to be sure, not an easy S
ne to travel. To attain the spiritual e
ltimate at a bound Is an impossi- c
ility. Christian Science is a stern, o
10 loving, taskmaster and its de. S
lands are as distinct and as clearly 7
efined as are the rules and laws OF y
There must be be- b
inning along most elemental lines, n
ach step in progress must be in n
roof of an advanced understanding n
God and His law. Before the high Il
demonstrations of spiritual law G
IN come there must be the putting s,
to practice of what we understand d
a small way. Before We walk we ft
ust creep. Before we raise the n
,ad we must heal the sick. One step Il
llows another. Il
If then, the material universe Is
ereIy concept of the mortal mind, pl
GENERALIZATION, to human con al
lousness, of mortal thought, and II
e true or spiritual creation is the la
lbodiment of ideas of the divine Ii
ind, OF which mortal thoughts are III
e counterfeit, must not our task OF al
tting off the false and putting on hi
e true, consist In plucking out and lie
one by one, those erron- te
us concepts that go to make up to
called material universe, and In al
ace thereof plant the true spiritual aC
cas-? And is 1t not clear that In lie
this work we must be- re
a with the more simple problems? of
lat was the way Jesus started, and Sc
len he had cast out the last ele- or
snt of mortal belief he found him tn
If at the Mount of Ascension, where be
materiality fades into its native ca
thingpess and the true, the spirit til
| and eternal, were his forever. To lei
place hate and malice with love, to tn
place dishonesty with honesty, i'm tr
rlty with purity, jealousy and re- yo