Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1920-03-22

( enduring, the good, and the true, d.
vorced from all unlike God or good
| To understand fully what glorious
thing the liberty of the sons of God is,
one must understand that the word
real as it is used in Christian Science
means always God. and that which is
| like to Him, and per contra the word
unreal" means that which seems to
be, and Yet, because it is changeable
and decays, sins, and dies, does not
manifest God in any way. So when
YOU hear a Christian Scientist say, or
when you read in Mrs. Eddy's writings,
statement to the effect that sin,
disease, and death are unreal, the
meaning meant to be conveyed is that
they are unlike God. 1 am sure all agree
that God does not sin. does not get sick,
and does not die. When we have this
| point of view we readily see the spirit
of the statement in Corinthians 1922,
''As in Adam (the man of sin and mat
/ ter, and therefore unlike God) s.ail die,
even so in Christ (the sinless image
and likeness of the changelessly good
| God or Creator) shall all be made
alive" In other words. a right know
! ledge of God dispels the Adamic mist
and dream, and reveals God as the One
altogether lovely, and who is 'of purer
eyes than to behold evil, and canst not
look on iniquity" (Hab. 1:13).
| To many who read Christian Science
seem to be contradictory statements,
even as they seem to exist in the Bible,
but none exist, as matter of fact.
We are not capable of judging any
statement until we can reach the view
point of the one making it. Science
and Health with Key to the Scrip
lures like the Bible, on which it is
wholly founded, discusses and eluci-
dates all subjects from both the human
and the spiritual viewpoint, because in
this manner only can the spiritual real
ity be separated from the material I'M
reality, and mankind taught how to
worship God in spirit and in truth.
Salvation
When we have gained a right sense
of God, we find We have begun 10 un-
derstand what salvation is and from
what we are to be saved. Fundament-
ally, salvation is having our thought so
regenerated by a right spiritual sense
of God that We know there is and can
be no such thing as a power apart
from God. When we have learned that
God is Mind we find we are no longer
in bondage to a finite, corporal mis-
apprehension about Him. and we cease
our effort to idealize the so-cailed hui
man man and call it God. In other
words, we stop striving to find a God
made in the image and likeness OF a
human aeing, and turn our thoughts in
an endeavor to find the man made in
Gods image and likeness. Salvation
means a complete cleansing from all
thoughts or deeds which seem to JUS
tify sin, disease. and death and
mounting up on the wings of faith I'M
til the vision of the all mighty God I'M
folds in us. faith ripens into under
standing, and the translation OF man
and the universe into the realm of spir-
itual reality is accomplished.
If a person seems to be sfeened in
the sin of immortality what will ac-
complish his salvation? The keeping
his thought full of that which is pure,
lasting, and real, the knowing there is
no pleasure in doing wrong. He cam
not do wrong unless he first thinks
wrong, SO right thinking is his saliva
ton. This elucidates the fact ,nat
what we need salvation from is wrong
thinking. But, it may be asked. what
has thinking to do with sickness?
Everything. The only avenue or chan
mel through which discord seems -
come to mankind is the belief in the
past, in heredity, or in wrong think
ing Mankind has been taught from
generation to generation to honor the
teachings of our Lord and Master only
in regard to sin. and to offend God
unwittingiy by taking human history
and theory literally, and ourselves as
its helpless victims.
a prominent physician recently said
there had never been any progress in
the practice of medicine until. Hip
pocrates separated it from religion. He
made this statement in bitter attack
upon those who oppose vivisection. His
fondness for Hippocrates. who was a
horse doctor. would explain his strong
belief in the torture of animals, but,
frankly speaking. it seems to me that
the only progress made is retrogres-
sion, and that the addition of thousands
of diseases to those formerly believed
in, is proof that the separation of heal
ing from religion was a well might fatal
mistake. The religion of our Lord
and Master heals all the sick to whom
it is applied, and all the medicine
needed is the right knowledge of God
which Jesus eXemplified.
He was the Great Physician. and He
never made a mistake in diagnosis. nor
did He ever lose a patient. AS a mat
ter of fact, the discovery by Mrs. Eddy
that all religion had been left out of
the practice of the healing art and
that the overcoming of sickness was
not progressing because of that very
fact, led to the successful establish
ment of the healing knowledge of God
as the universal panacea" ((Science
and Health, o. 144), made religion dom
inant over all the ills to which the
flesh is heir, and established the ahil-
ity of every man to be his own prac
titioner in proportion to his willing
ness to give up his own way and to
find Gods way. and abide therein.
Because of long years of intimate
association with the practice of Chris
tan Science / make the unqualified
statement that religion as taught and
demonstrated by Christ Jesus always,
and often instantaneously, heals the
sick 1t did this when Jesus practiced
it. when the disciples practiced it, and
for about three hundred years after
Jesus was on earth. and the healing
efficacy of the religion of Jesus the
Christ continued until Journalism and
personal opinion acted as a mist to
hide the full radiance of the truth 1
The revelation through Mrs. Eddy has
dispelled this, and the glory and power
of God again stands forth IN IT'S al
the immanent and eternal
Truth Medical practice had existed
thousands of years before Jesus was
born, and the then generation doubt
less felt it to be as advanced in ac-
complishment as has each generation
since that time. Had the material
method of healing the sick been Gods