Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-10-14

the sunbeam is ever the WlInoSS dHu
evidence OF the presence of the sun
Gods one agency of expression is the
spiritual universe and spiritual man.
Christian Science not only presents
the true concept of man but shows
that it is attainable in some consider
able measure right here and right
now. 1t shows that in each and every
one of us, and there is no exception,
no, not one, there is natural ability
and competency to mentally work our
way out of the wilderness of material
beliefs, out of the net of material self
hood into our natural unity and agree
ment with ever present good, Mind,
the consciousness which is God, our
real life and being. The process is
wholly mental, as Paul indicated when
he said, BE We transformed by the
renewing of your mind" (Romans
1921.
APPLYING CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
Well, then, how does one begin to
apply the teachings of Christian
Science? First of all he begins men
tally to resist evil. He follows the
Scriptural advice to resist the devil,
which his study of Christian Science
has taught him is but the counterfeit
evil mind which tries to operate
through evil thoughts projected into
his consciousness, or through the
physical senses. He learns to become
sentry at the door of thought and to
reject every thought or suggestion
which is not good, is not an express
sion of God, the one real Life, for he
has taken his mental stand for what
God has made him to be and he is
determined to assert and prove his
mental and living unity with the Mind
and Life which is God, knowing that
it is natural and right for him to do
so and that God has endowed him with
the ability to do it.
We must learn to fight mentally for
peace of body and mind as persistently
as our soldiers have fought physically
for peace among human governments
The real and final battle ground OF
human progress is the consciousness
of individual man.
The mental attitude which it is
necessary for one to adopt in the prac-
tice of Christian Science is indicated
in some measure by the mental atti-
tude which an actor must assume in
order to be successful in his part. He
must be willing TO put off without res
ervation his everyday sense of self
hood and think and act only as the
character he is to represent. If he
tries to be half his ordinary self and
half the character he is depicting he
Will only be a failure. There must be
a complete surrender in thought OF
the one selfhOod and a complete ac-
ceptance of the other. He must think
move, act, and be only the character
he is representing.
So it is when we use Christian
Science we must abandon the old con-
cept of selfhood and put our whole
heart into thinking and living as Gods
man. In place of selfishness we must
be unselfish and kind, for hate we
must substitute love, for self-will we
must express humility, for impurity
we must think purity. A good thought
must take the place of every evil
thought. Unlike the actors part this
change is not for moment but fol-
eternity. We are putting off the ole
man of matter, earth and mortality
and are putting on the new man, the
real man of Gods making, our true
selfhOod. The point we need to re-
member is that we can't play two
parts, as the devil is ever trying to gel
us to do. "As many as are led by the
spirit of God" says Paul, they are
the sons of God" (Romans S:14). We
will have to choose between the spirit
Of Cod and tho Cririt r quill
Now of course we do not get out oil
the meshes of false material education
in day. But we must begin if we
are ever to attain. Emerge gently
from matter into Spirit" (Science and
Health, page 4S5), is Mrs. Eddy's
counsel. The difficulty is that some
lay so much emphasis on the gently
that they fail to emerge.
REALITY AND UNHEALTHY.
Enough has perhaps been said to
show that Christian Science sets uI
different standard than that ac-
cepted by the world as to what is real
and unreal. 1t does not accept every.
thing as real just because a claim is
made that thing is real any more
than we accept everything as true
which Is told us. Only that is regard
ed as real in Christian Science which
can be attributed to God, for since He
is the only real cause there can be nc
real effect from any other cause
Judged from this standard one can see
why 1t is that all evil, discord, sin
and disease are regarded by Christian
IN no L
relation with God or His perfect crea.
ton. The effort of all mankind to be
rid of evil shows that we instinctively
repudiate it in our thought as being
unnatural and so in the last analysis
unreal. Christian Science does not
say that sin, sickness, and discord are
not very real to the material sense
but it does say that judged in the light
OF the spiritual sense of being which
overrules and transcends material
sense they are seen as false claims
about true life and existence. MOI
does Christian Science ignore such
conditions. Rather does it show men
now to destroy them, for being mega
tive and false they are to be overcome
by replacing them in thought with the
concept of what is divinely true. He
who believes that evil is real and that
God sent it has no business at all try
ing to get rid OF it,
EVIL IS A FALSE BELIEF
If, then, evil is not real. what is il
you may ask? 1t is false belief. As
for every fact you may suppose its
opposite, the lie about it, so the sum
of evil is the lie about God, universal
good. 1t is bastard lie and ceases to
have any recognition or place when
the truth is realized. Jesus made this
plain when he spoke of evil as a liar
IN which there is no truth and pointed
the way to mans liberation from it in
the well-known statement, I'VE shall
know the truth, and the truth shall
make you free" This brief statement
summarizes the whole process OF
Christian Science practice and is the
law that defines the line of march for
all human progress.