Arizona republican., 1919-10-20
Christian Science Monitor. )

Christian Science is the science of
 being, the truth about God, the knowl- edge of reality. The understanding of spiritual reality has been a gradual
 revelation to the human race. Relig-
 ious history shows this. The human consciousness, perceiving little by little
 the truth of spiritual being, has gradu- ally come to acknowledge the power of spirit; and with the acknowledgment it has been forced to admit the falsity
 of the claim of matter to reality and to power. The Hebrew nation, having caught glimpse of the truth that there is but one God, endeavored through it's profits to reach the logical conclusion of this great fact. Some times they only got so far as to pro- claim the Almighty as the tribal God, Jehovah; but some of their prophets
 undoubtedly caught the vision which actually saw God the omnipotent cre-
 ator, the eternal and indestructible | One.
 | In Christ Jesus the ideals of the He
 brew race were fulfilled. The Prophet
 of Nazareth came in "the fitness of
 the time," to teach humanity the ab-
 solute truth about God. He revealed
 God as Spirit and as Truth, and en-
 pEasized continually Gods infinite love
 for His creation. Jesus put his teach i ing into practice. He demonstrated
 what he taught. Every one of the headings recorded of him in the New | Testament was proof of the power
 Of truth over the false beliefs of the
 human mind. In the light of Christian
 Science, it is perfectly certain that
 Jesus understood without shadow
 of doubt, that matter and all its phe-
 Iomena were unreal concepts of the
 human mind. Thus he beheld material
 law 10 be but the counterfeit of spirit ual law; and in consequence he could walk on the waters of Galilee and con- trol the tempest at sea. It was his spiritual understanding which likewise
 enabled him to heal all manner of dis ease. To the man who understood, as Il clearly as Jesus did. the allness of God the unreality of sickness must have
 hcen enc of the simplest deductions | He knew that the creative principle
 love, had made all that existed, and
 made all perfect; and that man, as the
 image and likeness of God, was Gods
 creation and was therefore perfect
 never in reality in need of healing. And
 it was this knowledge of spiritual mar which broke the illusion of disease fol so many of those who came to hin for healing while he yet sojourned by the shores of Gennesaret or in the
 cities among the hills.
 : Christian Science restates the trutt , about divine principle which Chris , Jesus referred to as his Father Mary , Baker Eddy in Science and Healtf with Key to the Scriptures and 1T all of her other writings, sets hersel the task of elucidating divine prin, p ciple. That she succeeded in a won derful degree is evidenced by the fac
 that a multitude it would be difficult tt
 number have been healed of all kind.
 of troubles. So-called incurable dis
 eases have yielded to the understand , ing of principle; evil tastes and habit as well as poverty have fled befor, ' the truths of indestructible being. An, n what is possible for one is possible fo i all. There is no limit to the power O i, principle. Principle is omnipotent f Writing on page 414 of Science an d Health Mrs. Eddy says: Keep il . mind the verity of being-that man i . the image and likeness of God, il r whom all being is painless and perma
 nent. Remember that mans perfec q ton is real and unimpeachable, where f as imperfection is blameworthy, unrea
 and not brought about by alvin
 love. There is the touchstone Divin q principle is perfect being, and all tha . exists in principle is permanent an ' indestructible. Man, being the imag of God, reflects perfect principle; i V other words, man is eternal
 2 Is not this the truth which humanit fr,- mt af rows and distresses and sins? Mortal s are blind to spiritual truth; indeed 2 blindness to principle is synonymou if with human suffering. Mrs Edd Il states the principles of mortals ex actly on page 295 of Science an 5 Health" "Mortals are not like immor = tals, created in Gods own image" sh Q wries, ''but infinite spirit being al 1 mortal consciousness will at last yie] ,r to the scientific fact and disappea "a and the real sense of being, perfet 'd and forever intact. will appear Thei \, must therefore come about the awaI .s ening of mortals; and the first ste |. in the process is the discernment of u 10 truth about divine principle Ever e human being must come to acknoy d edge that divine principle is infinit "a all-inclusive mind. omnipotent spiri 5 and then endeavor to carry the at N' mission to it's logical conclusion, nam,
 ", that matter is unreal.