Arizona republican., 1920-01-26
'One Master''

twritten for The Christian Science
 Monitor)
 If a government or political organi- zation of any kind should proclaim far and near that the truth of the multiplication table were non-exlstent and void. it would be no more absurd than the phrase: No God; no master And yet this saying is being used as a watchword by multitudes of persons in some parts of the world
 Every moment of the conscious existence of the one who thinks and speaks thus is the starting point TOT him, If he but knew 1t, Of absoiute proof that there is a God. He cannot turn his back this truth any more than he can evade the veritieS Of the multiplica ton table. The very fact that anyone can stand in the market place and think and utter aloud the words, There is no God is proof that he is conscious, and therefore con- sciousness is And this consciousness is the cause of his being conscious, Of his living. And this fact is more appar- ent when a man finds that ne mas un : derstanding apart from the physical senses whose testimony make up the so-called material world. When a man thus perceives that he thinks and reasons without the use of a single one of the five senses, he shows forth the certainty that spiritual consclous- ness exists, and that is all that he can prove The instant he reaches tnls step. and thus sees that matter IS a supposition, he has, to that very eX- tent drawn nearer to God and has made certain that Principle is tangible and real, and is the originator or man.
 Tn just that proportion, moment by moment, that a man understanuS Una he has apprehension, independent or the physical organs of seeing, hearing, eli iy,0 is able to know his existence without the use of these suppositional lnstru- mentalities, he so far demonstrates the presence and allness of spiritual divine consciousness. or God. Some thing of this Mary Baker Eddy writes on Dage 59S or Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. She says: "One moment of divine consciousness, or the spiritual understanding Of Life and Love is a foretaste of eternity This exalted view. obtained ana re- tained when the Science of being IS understood, would bridge over with life discerned spiritually the interval of death, and man would be in the full consciousness of his immortality ana eternal harmony, where sin, slckness' and death are unknown Thus, the student of Christian Science is not bothered by the assertion contained Tn a political catchword, or in the argu- ments of some of the worlds learned men that there is no God, because the truly scientific student is able to verify logically that divine intelligence IS the only cause of all actual effect. He IS able to furnish verification that there is a God.
 Undoubtedly, for the hard-pressed man, who has joined others in an organization using the defiant phrase "No God,v there may be some eXtenu- ation for his refusal to acknowledge the divine. in that he may have expert enced a religion and a concept of God that are of the cruelest sort. Some Of the worlds religions have leaders who have taken it upon themselves to act in the place of God. and in doing so to conduct themselves in a way more consistent with the practices of a sup positional opposite of the Divine Being. Tn this way systems capable of much good have become purely enormous political machines actuated by an intention to swallow church and state in one vast human monopoly But whether or not there be apparent reason for anyones repugnance to the knowledge of Principle as the one God governing all His spiritual creation, such a ones denial of the divine Mind as the one ever-present power affects nothing at all. Neither the political system masquerading as a religion nor the individual or individuals re- pudiating Truth have any effect what soever upon what really is, upon the unyding, undeniable continuity oi Principle
 Mrs. Eddy. in two different places in Science and Health. sets forth this point. On page 29s she writes: As : cloud hides the sun 1t cannot sxiin-