Arizona republican., 1920-05-17

stimulates power and Truth in matter. l does this as lie declaring itself, that mortals' faith in matter may have the effect of power; but when the whole fabrication is found to be a lie, away goes all it's supposed power and pres tige."
 The ancients attributed mystical properties to various objects. such as amulets, charms, searabs, and sacred symbols. Even today, among certain class of people, in spite of all our hoasted civilization. we find many who are superstitious enough to believe that a rabbits foot, or some particular coin, which they term a lucky piece when carried about with them. will af ford them protection from evils opera tions. There are those. too. on the other hand, who will violently object to walking on the opposite side of a post which is being passed; who will not begin any new task on Friday: who will tell you that a black cat is sign of bad luck. Others believe in still more preposterous superstitions than those which have been mentioned Why 1t may be asked, do such foolish notions persist in trying to find lodg ment amongst thinking men? It may be answered that people spend more time in thinking about thinking than in doing the actual thinking for them selves.
 Whatvere really and truly is. is just as it has always been. Then chance and change are not resident in Gods universe. For that reason they must be purely hypothetical. iiiusory; the l inevitable result of accepting some thing as true. which is untrue; the ef- | feet of reckoning something to be. which never was nor can ever be. In | that Illuminating article entitled. "A | Good" tpage 26). Mrs. Eddy has Good say to Evil, in the closing argument. You mistake. O evili God is not your authority and law. Neither is He the author of the material changes, the phantasma. a belief In which leads to such teaching as we find in the hymn verse so often sung in church:- Chance and change are busy ever, | Man decays and ages move; But his mercy waneth never 1 God is wisdom. God is love.
 Now if 1t be true that Gods power l never waneth. how can it be also true that chance and change are universal factors--that man decays2 Many or dinary Christians protest against this i stanza of Browning's, and it's senti- ment is foreign to Christian Science If God be changeless goodness, as signs another line Of this hymn, what place has chance in the divine econ omy2 Nay, there is in God naught fantastic. All is real. all is serious. The phantasmagoria is a product of human dreams"
 The great difficulty with most peo- pie is that they seem ever so much more willing to accept evil as inev- itable, than to know that the universe of God is filled with goodness. Man. Gods idea, is always doing just ex- actly what divine Mind would have him do- Christ Jesus proved this l when saying, sI must be about my Fathers business" Man then can never be in bad luck neither does he ever need to have aught 10 do with the tricks of the human mind, except to exercise his dominion over them.
 Matter is but evils eoncoction- evils attempt to make itself known and felt. When it is known for what Mrs. Eddy declares it to be when she says Matter is an error of statement" (Science and Health. page 277) it will be utterly impossible to attribute to it any miraculous properties. such as SUI perstition would have us give it. God alone is all powerful, and that which He make and knows, reflects all-power 1 everywhere.
 Man is always secure from evils witehery. Divine Love keeps him for ever safe, and thus renders the wiles and snares of superstition impotent to create and instill fear of any kind in him. He is surrounded by good. l IOQ. on every side. because he lives in Him. Man then never has need of any protection other than Gods. All of evils attempts to make him believe that there is either pleasure or pain in matter-to believe that there is some thing, somewhere, which has the abil- ity to do what God Himself cannot and would not Go. are futile. Good alone is present everywhere. The only ! fortune that man can have. is the right understanding of what good God. sub stance is. Then man can never he without the good fortune which divine Mind has conferred upon him. He needs nothing to bring him luck for there is nothing which he can ever possibly have need of. that he does not | already possess, for he reflects the divine All-in-all.
 Those who keep their thoughts filled with ideas of goodness need never fear anything, anywhere. God good. has in reality. no opposite, Then chance and change only seem to exist to that mind which is in reality no mind. but merely the supposititius opposite to Mind, God. Just as that which really is expresses exactly this one and only Mind, so that which is seen and known to this would be mind is exactly like it in every way It therefore has no place in Life. Truth. and Love The
 only thing that can ever happen to
 man is that which has always hap pened, and must ever continue to hap
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