Arizona republican., 1920-01-05
PROHIBITION
Christian Science Monitor

Christian Science Monitor)
 With the present day increase oI scientific understanding of God, and Of the nature of the divine mind. it
 was inevitable that prohibition, as that
 term is used in rela ton to the liquor
 traffic. and other evils, should gain in strength. And it is just as certain that it will continue to be cXren0eo and to be powerfully enforced, as spir- itual knowledge increases. The reason for this is that men cannot gain q perception of spirit without losing their suppositional sense of matter and experimenting that spirit and it's ex- pression is the totality of existence, thus being the absolute elimination of any belief of any other existence whatsoever. This dropping away of materialism in the world, as men draw nearer to discernment of infinite prin- ciple, takes place in entirely natural ways, even though with some tumuIt and upheaval. Thus it comes about that in this human scheme prohibit ton is simply a milestone on the mar row, but yet in reality infinitely broad, highway out of carnal mindedness into the understanding of eternal spiritual consciousness as the only life.
 Of course, in absolute science, the forbidding of evil is not necessary, be- cause good is the one presence and power. a fact which results from di- vine mind and its pure manifesto ton boirG infinite and knowing no element of destruction. But in the affairs of this world, men must put into effect in whatever way seems nearest right to them this truth about principle, just in proportion as they understand it. This statement by Mary Baker Eddy discoverer and founder of Christian Science, covering thls point. Is found in Miscellaneous Writings" CD. 2bU): Mind ipnDnp6 with this nf healing, is a law unto itself, needing neither license nor prohibition; but lawless mind, with unseen motives, and silent mental methods whereby it may injure the race, is the highest attenuation of evil.''
 Here and there it is being said and perhaps the wish bege,s the thought, that interdiction will go no further than the alcoholic abuse, and that other evils will go on. and possibly that the forbidding of theu SC of alco- hol will sometime be overturned. But such propositions as these betray an ignorance of true prohibition. which, to repeat, is the activity of principle which has eternally declared it's veto on all error. Liquor is merely one branch of the suppositious tree or cause, named mortal mind This tree has other branches, for the effect of the carnal mind claims to be infinite in variety, including medicine super stition, sin, disease, death, and so on These different branches, or forms, of the effect of mortal mind are being cut away very rapidly nowadays. but the mighty attack upon this seerrsrr trees is that which is undermining it's foundation, and this is being accom- plished by the word of God the ex- precision of omnipotence. Mrs. Eddy writes of this on page 37 of "Miscel- laneous Writings" where she says: Christian Science lays the axe at the root of the tree. It's antidote for all ills is God, the perfect mind. which corrects mortal thought, whence com eth all evil. God can and does destroy the thought that leads to moral or physical death. Intemperance inn purity, sin of every sort is destroyed by truth
 With Principle more and more per- ceived, the enforcement of laws against interdicted material practices must become increasingly rigid and and yet unfolding to mankind infinitely true freedom. Prin- ciple, the one cause, originates only good, which it sustains and upholds with the knowledge that the perfection of Mind is the allnesS and and oneness of being. Spirit knows but one un- fettered boundleSS law, or activity, pro- ceeding from itself perpetually, always effective and never evaded or mocked. A man can be calm and confident in the face of any seeming attempt at law1essness, or absence of law, and assist in eliminating the phenomena by knowing of the supremacy of Mind. experience in. seen in the -closinS.-or