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< The Spiritual /"
(Written for The Christian Science
 MonitorA

(Written for The Christian Science
 Monitor)
 "The one important interpretation oi | Scripture" writes Mary Baker Eddy
 on page 320 of Science and Health
 with Key to the Scriptures, the text | book of Christian Science is the l sDirituaI For example, the text, Tn my | flesh shall see God gives profound | idea of the divine power to heal the | ills of the flesh. and encourages nor 1 tals to hope in Him who healeth all ! our diseases; whereas this passage ls | continually quoted as if Job intended l to declare that even If disease ano worms destroyed his body, yet Tn the | latter days he should stand in ceIestal | perfection before Elohim. still clad ID
 material flesh an interpretation that 1 is just the opposite of true, as may
 be seen by studying the book of Job.
 In this passage from the textbook | Mrs. Eddy sets forth the great funda- 1 mental fact of Christian Science, | namely. the allness of Spirit. To the
 seeing eye. the operation of God, Prln-
 ciple. is seen everywhere because there | is no other operation. Now, Christian ] Scince teaches that what is called
 Spirit is divine consciousness. the only
 reality. while matter is mere bei1et | of suppositional mortal mind. In pro i portion. therefore. as reality, or Prln
 ciple, is discerned, it governs belief by
 the simple process of destroying belIet,
 and revealing it's own, only and ever l existence. To human sense, this pro-
 cess appears as healing of an errone- 1 ous condition. Actually. it is the re-
 vealing of the fact that such condi- ton never existed or obtained
 'In my flesh shall I see God h
 other words, in my apparently material i surroundings l shall see the operation l of Principle, that is, as matter gives
 up more and more its claim to exist
 ence Principle will be more and more 1 manifest. The ministry of Christ Jesus
 was a continuous demonstration or
 this great fact. In everything he said
 and did. those who had ears to hear
 and eyes to see could discern the op-
 erations of Principle. The tremendous
 part which healing, in it's widest sense
 occupied in Jesus work may be for
 cibly realized by turning to any of the
 gospels in the King James version ano
 scanning the sub-headings Of each
 page. Thus. take Matthew, for instance
 beginning at the conclusion of the ser
 mon on the mount, the sub headings
 at the top of each page run: Christ
 healeth the centurion's servant" He
 stiIleth the sea- "The sick of the pal
 sy" (healedl. Christ raiseth Jairus'
 daughter The demoniac cured"
 These are. of course only some of
 the signs which Jesus did. walking on the water, feeding vast concourses or men and women. procuring tribute l money from a fishs mouth and so on , At every turn. Jesus manifested the OpeFdNAOD Ol ITIlItlplts anu tiiAS CRNANN tion of Principle was always to destroy : the material so-called law. He proved
 that right in the very place where ma
 terial sense saw sickness. there was 2 health; saw madness. there was san = 1 ity; saw lack. there was abundance. K saw storm and tempest. there was a
 great calm: saw death, there was life e As Mrs. Eddy writes on pages 416 and y AT of Science and Health. Jesus be- . held in Science the perfect man. who if appeared to him where shining mortal IF man appears to mortals. In this per . feet man the Saviour saw Gods own s likeness. and this correct view of man
 healed the sick" Jesus. in other words.
 was always conscious of the operation
 of Principle and as a consequence. s this operation was made manifest. not IT only to himself. but to those round c. about him in what they regarded as a ,. material environment. Tn their flesh. $ they saw God.
 s- Now if for a moment reference be - had. once again, to the sub headings v of Matthew already referred to. il Will
 be found that. immediately following x the record of the healing of the de- e moniac there is this further record e Christ sendeth out his apostles. He | instructeth and comforteth them. l. Turning to these instructions. it is al i once found that their central point is d the injunction. to preach the gospel and is to heal the sick. cleanse the lepers
 raise the dead. cast out devils" That I, this instruction was not to be confined = to the apostles Jesus clearly showed iu
 his last talk with his disciples before
 his ascension. as recorded in the clos - ing chapter of Mark. where he states u explicitly that these healing works are the duty and privilege of them that 'f believe" the inevitable result that is X of understanding of Principle le Now this understanding of Principle y or the reality of things. is not some
 thing which can only be acquired to ie practical purpose after a long period of toilsome study. True. it is aS infinite o study. for it is the forever unfolding ol le sthe reality of all things. And yet the
 smallest glimpse of Principle is at once IS applicable and onstrable First and le last Christian Science rests on demon K stration. and just as the child who
 learns the simplest rule in arithmetic le can immediately begin to apply that ,e l rule. so anyone who diScerns the truth h of a statement of Christian Science T can at once begin to demonstrate that . statement; can at once begin to see in n his seemingly material surroundings ,t 1 the operation of Principle. Spirit is
 God" writes Mrs Eddy on page 46S Of
 Science and Health. "and man is His at image and likeness" Man, therefore. II reflects Life and so possesses health. 1f happiness and peace. abundant supply -- infinite freedom and ever present wis
 dom. Any evidence to the contrary of 1f this is false evidence. a false as the le evidence of the eyes that the sky and ls sea meet on tn horizon. or that the
 sun travels across the sky from east " to west Christian Science states this d and proves it. The rights of man are ar comprised in his infinite capacity to
 reflect Principle, and in proportion to ,e the faithfulness with which this right 70 is maintained by anyone will that one ', begin, in his flesh. to see God.
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