Arizona republican., 1920-10-18

divine Love, or Spirit reflects this Love and Is now and always has been, spiritual. All that is unlike God is self-destroyed, in the exact measure | of our ability to assimilate the great | truth that all of the characteristics of | Mind are included in the generic term nan. and constitute his consciousness. | This consciousness of man is God bestowed, infinitely present, all power ful, and including all knowledge or Science. It behooves every one, there fore, to recognize his identity and in- dividuality as the image and likeness of Mind, and to see that there can be no time place, nor circumstance. when he can be less than this likeness.
 Every case of disease, of accident or of sin is in itself a denial of minds 1 presence for 1t is merely an argument that something is present in lieu of God and His Christ. Christian Sci ence. the practical application of the divine law, replaces these false be- | liefs with the right idea-the perfec- | ton and presence of Mind and all that exists in His universe. and of nothing | else. Christ Jesus and his early fol- lowers realized and demonstrated this ever-presence of God, who is Life, in all of their healing works. This was well illustrated in the raising of Lsaza- | rus. For here we find that Jesus
 thanked God that he had heard him, even before Lazarus had come forth, declaring: "I knew that thou nearest
 me always" He knew that the truth
 that made him free was always pres
 ent to heal and to save.
 It was the same realization of
 Minds presence that enabled the Mas
 ter Metaphysician to cleanse the leper,
 and to raise the widows son. He knew
 that there could be no reality other
 than Mind and its idea, spiritual and
 perfect man, and that, in consequence,
 there was in truth, no leper to cleanse
 and no dead man to restore to life.
 Christ Jesus uniformly refused to be
 allured into believing that evil. sin or
 death had the ability to assert them
 selves. For he knew, as never man
 knew, that the only true existence is
 Mind and the infinite idea in Mind. and
 that this reality lives from everlasting
 to everlasting. The healing works of
 the Master have been vainly explained
 as a special dispensation, now ended.
 Yet this contention is in direct contra
 diction to Jeus' own promise that wna,
 he came to teach would never cease to
 operate when rightly applied. He
 never WdNGFcQ III lnlS COItNACllOH tAa
 Fhis words, the truth he had revealed tC
 humanity. would be ever available
 For he said: "Heaven and earth shall : pass away, but by words shall not pas: :, away" And he furthermore declared that those who emulated his example e would do similar works, and that ever Il greater works than these would b' a performed by his followers.
 Thus 1t will be plainly seen that 'I tuil understanding of Minds ever s presence includes all of Christianit, 1t and its ministry of healing. This i e Christian Science, the truth concern -e ing mans coexistence and coeternalit > with God. divine Principle For Mrs
 Eddy says in Science and Health, pag l. 3S: Immortal man was and is God m image or idea, even the infinite ex Is pression of infinite Mind, and immor 1t tai man is co-existent and co-eterns y with that Mind. He has been foreve pr In the eternal Mind, God; but infinit r. Mind can never be in man. but is re a, flected by man. The spiritual man d consciousness and individuality are re le factions of God. They are the ema = nations of Him who is Life. Truth an e. Love. Immortal man is not and neve or was material, but always spiritual an of eternal"