Arizona republican., 1920-11-08

of speculation into that of actual eN- pertinent and demonstration. These definitions of God, virtually accepted by the whole Christian world, consti- ute the fundamental facts of the science of true living as revealed in Christian Science. But they must be more and more clearly apprehended by the students of this Science, and con- sequently Christian Scientists are in volved in the same research which Mrs. Eddy carried on. She says that she found the ideas of true science in the spiritual teachings contained in the Bible. They may be found by anybody who, In the light of Christian Science, looks for them in that same place.
 Such work is not less scientific than that of sciences which have to do with material phenomena. In fact, to in- vestigate and understand thoughts and their nature and law is the highest kind of scientific research, and IS the most interesting and instructive or all studies. Besides this, there are i'm mediate results, visible and practical, | to be attained by such a course. They are often acknowledged by the general public, who do not hesitate to say that | Christian Scientists are generally happy and healthy class of people. In mentioning this am not claiming that all that can be desired in these direc- tions has been plished, but at any rate, thousands of people who are alive and we'll today testify that they were saved from death and their health re- stored through Christian Science.
 The apostle says, your life is hid with Christ in God" Christendom has accepted that saying. but it was not understood and could not be until the science of it was revealed, yet the whole Christian world agrees that God, the immutable creator of the uni verse, originates sustains and per petuates His own creation.
 The assumption that life is primarily | in matter is not basic enough to sat isfy the faculty of reason in man. It | limits life and at the same time calls 1t infinite. and fails to explain what life | is or how, according to such theories, | it ever got into such forms. The only philosophy that satisfies in regard to i life is found in Christian Science, be- cause Christian Science is not a | theory It shows that Life is and must be the self existent Mind, intelligence, being, which we call God. This real Life, permanent, necessarily perfect untouched by disease, sin or death, is the only Life of man. He does not need any other and could not have any other. The human being who recog- nizes this fact is gaining something by way of education that tends to both health and peace The Science of Life must be the science of living which the whole world has sought and sought in vain. Yet here it is, obtainable Dy any | person who desires to have it. and cost | ing nothing beyond the preliminary steps of equipping ones self with the books which teach 1t. sThese books are the Bible and "Science and Health witt Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy Like other books they are made up of ideas, and this science like othel I sciences, consists of ideas. The differ ence between this science and othel sciences is, however, that in othel sciences, ideas, by way of instruction pertain to material things, or actions or the employment or use of materia things and remedies, whereas 1T Christian Science, ideas themselve , constitute both the means and tn object of education, are the sol phenomena of this science, and the! are the only remedies used to restor' health and prevent disease.
 Now to the average person, accus } toned to rely upon matter. to speal of ideas as remedies for disease ma. . sound like mystery. and yet all reli } zion consists of thoughts or ideas, al science consists of thoughts or ideas all the great things of the world hay , their origin in education, which is at 5 tained by study and consists wholly o ideas, But beyond this and above 5 there is something still greater to D observed, and that is that the infinit l Mind, God which spake and all thlng Fl IItrnea1f fnrGVaT I { ideas. This being eo is there any thing extraordinarily mysterious, or 2 all mysterious, in the fact that Chris |, tian Science heals the sick through re : vealing, by means of thoughts or ideas ; the nature, the power and the presenc Il of God? If the ordinary human being expressed in his character, that Is, l his thoughts and education, should be considered incredible that the alvin Mind could reveal itself through II own ideas. and if these ideas com from God. who is Mind, is it extrava gant or unreasonable to expect enl1gnt enment, and even improved healti through their presence and law! mes questions might imply a dogmatic al titude, but I propose to Justlfy tnei
 right here, and to show that the an
 swers are not founded upon opinion
 but upon facts. Consider that eve ordinary systems of educaIlOil, anu VI
 dinary views of science, unite In de
 claring that the creation or universe
 immeasurable. Even those who thln
 it to be wholly material and who pt
 lieve. or profess to believe, that thougl can originate in and be carried on I T brain or matter, are at absolute agre'
 ment upon the facts of an infinite uIl
 verse. Now let me call your attentle | to the further fact that all phenomel
 or effects imply a cause. Our oose
 vation of the effects may be inadequa'
 and, indeed, must be so, when these
 fects are infinite, but at any ra'
 however we regard effects. they |
 evitably imply a cause. Now lmmea
 urable or infinite effects in quantl
 and quality not only demand but a tually require an immeasurable or l
 finite cause Religionists speak or IT
 cause to be God. Material sclentls
 think they are more scientific Wh
 they speak of the first great Cause
 energy or force; but neither the one n
 the other, however divergent th'
 views or expressions, can possibly de
 the infinity of that cause, and the l
 finite must be indestructible. For II
 reason religionists throughout all az
 even though they have not reason
 if out, have instinctively felt and ss
 that God is eternal, and the mat
 rialists, driven to the last ditch by thu
 own investigations, declare also tn
 what they call force or energy, in ord
 to be the cause of the universe, cam
 be conceived of as beginning or endir
 The eternality of God, the first gre
 Cause, is therefore universally adm