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

such ignorance. We can now know
the truth about God and about Christ.
and the Bible tells us we must know
this in order to attain everlasting Life.
Among the most illuminating things
Mrs. Eddy has written in Science and
Health are the synonyms for God.
These synonyms so bring out the ma
| ture and character of God, so COM
pletely prove that He everlastingly is,
| so bring out His glory and majesty,
! that obedience to the command to wor-
ship Him in or Spirit and Truth
becomes natural, and we innately be-
come better men and women because
we know how, spiritually. If Chris
| tan Science revealed nothing more
than this, it would eventually heal and
save all mankind.
In considering these synonyms we
need to realize that Christian Science
| teaches that there are not two kinds
of love- one material and one spiritual.
but claims that all the real Love there
I IS, eternally exists; and it is in this
manner that Mrs. Eddy uses all the
synonyms.
God is Life,-Life that has no begin
ming and no ending. 1t is the manifes-
nothing to do with Life, and must be
changed in order to grasp LIES reality
as God manifesting Himself as activity
and as creator 1t is what all
strive for, and shall the more nearly
attain as we cease to look for it in
matter and find it in Mind.
God is Truth. We know that with
out Truth nothing could exist. To know
the truth about Truth does away with
every imperfect. untruthful or ungodly
thought or deed and it's penalty, and
discloses the path leading to salvation,
u L -I,r.
want TO go astray. God and Love are
one. 1t is this right sense of Love
which makes the sunshine within, no
matter how dark and drear- the human
environment may seem. BY 1t we are
taught how to seek our own in an
others good. and to love our neighbor
as ourselves.
Perhaps it seems very abstract to
say that God and Principle are one. and
yet it is true. Christian Science teaches
us the vital necessity of taking spiri-
tual reality out of the abstract in order
to make practical use of ii in meeting
our daily needs. 1t reveals the imnlu-
liability OF spiritual law. proving the
changelessness of God, and consequent
ly a changelesS man; creator and Gre
alton always in agreement; changeless
Love, changeless Truth, changeless
Life. and. therefore, no hate, no lie,
and no death. This teaching is a radi-
ma and creed. We need no human
opinion or belief to find the Way" In
Christian Science we have no creed and
no dogma, but we are taught to follow
the Lord and Master in not only His
words but in His works. Only coE;-
plete and absolute following of Jesus
constitutes real. pure dominant, SELF
less religion. that which satisfies and
reaches us in every human need, en-
abling us to stand and to see the glory
of God revealed. even in the so-called
physical man and universe.
God and Mind are one. These has
been much controversy amongst those
who do not call themselves Christian
Scientists over this basic statement in
Christian. Science, though why there
should be is incOmprehensible. Mrs.
Eddy has advanced no new fact in this
statement, but has put into modern
language the fact which John speaks OF
in his gospel. The first two verses in
the first chapter of John are as fol-
lows: I'm the beginning was the Word.
and the Word was with God, and the
Word was God. The same was lin the
beginning with God" A simple anafy-
sis will show the correlation between
this quotation and Mrs. Eddy's when
she says that God and Mind are one.
What is the Word? 1t is the express
sion of the thought which precedes it.
And what is thought? 1t is the express
sion or activity OF the Mind which
thinks it. And SO we can state that it
logically is as correct to say. in the
beginning was Mind, and Mind was
with God, and Mind was God. The same
was in the beginning with God. When
we are willing to accept the fact that
God and Mind are one, then we let
that Mind be in US which was also
in Christ Jesus (Science and Health,
o. 497), and the result Is the accomp-
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told us to do. We cannot think wron 8.
and consequently cannot do wrong,
when we know that the Mind (which
was also in Christ Jesus" does the
thinking. If we let it. II we hold all
the time in thought the meaning of
reality. as. it is taught by Mrs. Eddy.
we will realize our ability to think real
or Godlike. truthlike. or lifelike
thoughts, because we are clothed and
in our right Mind, and the result is that
we find salvation has come into our
midst.
We often hear it said, My fathers
religion is good enough for me-" but
this stand is not the stand that our
took. The occupation OF
this continent by civilized races was
begun by body of people who left
home and country because they saw the
need of q higher and purer sense of
God. n clearer realization that religion
in it's observance is quite as essential !
on week days as it is on Sunday The /
revelation which Mrs. Eddy has named I
Christian Science is the fculhination of I
devout, pure desires to know God as /
He is Christian Science in the few
years since Mrs. Eddy wrote Science /
and Health with Key to the Scrip I
lures" has grown to be the great fac {
tor ii Is in the religious world because
It satisfies. with the works that follow
INC rracfice of IL the longing for the