The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-04-27


name shall they cast out devils, they
shall speak with new tongues; They
shall take mp serpcnts and if they
drink any deadly thing, it shall not
hurt them, they shall lay hands on
the sick. ana they shall recover"
Commenting ON the universally OF
divine grace, Jesus said Before
Abraham was ! am" Now Jesus did
not mean by that statement that he,
the man Jesus, had literally lived
ON the earth prior to Abraham, but
he did mean that the Christ is the
divine, evcrprescut manifestation OF
Cod forever ready TO heal and save,
and Sc it has been proved through.
out the whole history OF Chris tan
ity.
The DisoOverer and Founder or
Christian Science
In 1866, Mrs. Eddy was instantly
healed OF the results Of a serious &C
cidont through the spiritual under.
standing Of a passage in Matthew's
Gospel. The light that burst upon
her consciousness in that hour Of
need was the result Of many years
prayer, meditation, and study Of the
Scripture. The world Of the nine
teenth century in which Mrs. Eddy
made thi, discovery, was stepped in
nqtcrialism and there was ten
doncy to base reasoning upon mat
ter and physical science. Mrs Eddy
discovered that all is Mind, God;
finite manifestation, for God is All.
mall" (Science and Health, p. 1861.
IN other words, that the universe
has spiritual cause and not a ply
sical. Her researches led her to dis
tinguish between the divine Mind.
its qualities and IDEAS, and the phe-
nomena Of matter and evil, which
she termed mortal mind, or-to use
st. Paul's term-carnal mind. She
saw that the two were opposites. One
only can he true. She saw that
evil, matter, carnal mind, human
mind, We're mortal beliefs, misconcep-
tions wholly foreign to the nature
of God. Mrs. Eddy saw also that
the cXactness, order, continuity, and
law Of God was the only real Science,
which she named Divine Science OF
Christian Science. When she grasp
ed the mighty fact so fruitful with
blessings TO the whole human race
that God is the only Mind and
Cause,-she saw that her mission was
to pierce with spiritual vision the
dark clouds of matter, mortality, fear,
and sin, to disperse these clouds with
the reflected light Of spiritual under
and to reinstate in human
the Science of the one
Mind.
One Mind and That 0mnipOtent
How can it be known that there
is but one Mind? Since God is the
divine creator, the source Of all in
and wisdom. He knows
all things and nothing that is real
can he thought or conceived outside
the range Of His all.inclusive intelli-
gence. The conclusion is logical,
therefore, that there is and can be
only one Mind, God. Mankind, for
centuries, have believed in the exis.
tence of many minds, but the Bible
and Christian Science make clear the
omniscient oneness of the divine
Mind and the impossibility of many
minds. Man has no mind Of his own
separate from his Maker. He re-
fleets the Mind of his creator. When
this fact is grasped by the individual
he begins TO express the holiness,
purity, and wisdom of
the divine Mind, and to be healed
Of the sin, sickness, and sorrow
which come from believing in many
ruling minds, or from believing that
mind or power can exist separate
from God.
Her Search for the Principle
of Mind Healing
Mrs. Eddy was well fitted for her
great work of making clear to the
world the all.might of the one Mind.
Of Puritan ancestry she was reared
in the atmosphere OF n Christian
home, From childhood she had been
deeply religious. AS her thought went
forth IN longing desire to know God.
she inevitably came in contact, and
later into collision, with human sys-
toms which purported to interpret
God or sought to usurp His power
ls the healer Of cur diseases. Her
first struggles were evidently with
scholastic theology. theology which
she had sounded to its depths and
had found inadequate to supply the
great human need, for the reason
that 1t attempted to explain God
from Il corporeal standpoint and was,
therefore, bereft OF healing power.
''Flesh and blood cannot inherit the
kingdom Of God" Paul said: neither
can n theology based on finite con-
coption attain the Science Of divine
healing. She had also investigated
the systems Of medicine, the seeming
action Of drugs, the allopathic and
homeopathic methods Of treatment, as
we'll as spiritualism, mosmerisn and
various other mental theories. She
found that all lacked the divine unc.
tion Of Spirit and failed to bring
healing or mental enlightenment. Fin.