Arizona republican., 1920-04-12

| transitory. has reached that state o ! mind which is no longer satisfied witt materiality, and is therefore ready tc turn to the things of Spirit. How the
 widow was to sustain him. as Elijaf
 quickly learned, was through her re- captivity to the word of truth which 1 the seer must himself demonstrate. Ii
 was easy enough for the woman, al his request, to bring to him a vessel
 Of water that he might drink. but she
 must do more than this, she must give 1 him bread. This she was not unwil- | ing. but powerless in her poverty to | do. Elipah had, nevertheless. perceived the everpresence of spiritual supply, and that which is real cannot be sup pressed by material conditions; hence | his ability to reaSsure himself and the | woman. Her willingness then expand ] ed into effort to nourish the spiritual percention that had come to her, be- fore gratifying the physical hunger of ! herself and her son; and, as q result of giving preeminence to the spiritual demand, "she, and he, and her house,
 did eat many days"
 The journey upon which spiritual
 perception leads human consciousness
 does not, however, end when merely
 human needs are met. It stretches out
 along the whole distance from the
 belief that man is material to the un-
 derstanding and proof that Life is not
 fp, conditioned, nor ended by matter
 The widow, although somewhat liber-
 ated from material reliance. and hav-
 ing found the truth of spiritual supply
 had yet to be freed from the belief in
 material life. In the intensity of her
 suffering upon the death of her son
 and, convicted of the tenacity of her
 love for the flesh, her human affection
 cried out against the demands of spir-
 itual perception. To material sense
 the loss of the material is the end of all things. The material must. never
 theless. disappear before the spiritual facts can appear. Mere material loss
 considered from the standpoint of
 materiality and in bitterness. is of no avail. It is the love of the material that must disappear before man. in the likeness. of God, can be revealed
 The likeness of God we lose sight of through sin" Mrs. Eddy writes in Sci ence and Health, on page 315. which beclouds the spiritual sense of Truth: and we realize this likeness only when We subdue sin and prove mans heri- tage. the liberty of the sons of God''
 The widow overwhelmed with the loss of her son. the very essence of her love of the flesh, must now turn from the sin of belief that man lives in mat ter, and is therefore less than the i'm mortal child of God. Utterly must she detach her concept of her son from the binding belief of material origin. from her thought of him as he per sonal posse Seion. Greater than was her willingness. on that day when she first recognized and nourished the prophet, must be her effort now to the true identity of her son, not as the offspring of the flesh, but as spiritual idea. The spiritual fact of man must appear: she must sur render the child out of her mortal con- ception and affection. She must be- hold and love him spiritually. without a taint of human idolatry, and be will ing for him to be all that and only what God created him to be
 Elijah, who represented and demon strated, in this beautiful episode, the spiritual perception of the real, said to the woman, Give me thy son. And he took him out of her bosom and, carried him up into a loft. where he abode, and laid him upon his own oed.' When the illusion concerning 1 parentage, birth, growth, pos session. and death, had disappeared in | his higher dwelling place of illumined l and the chi.-s''s real 1 dentity was detached from material 1 when the woman's per | ,eption of man was purified from the | beliefs of the flesh. she received into | Ter bosom again, not the former mate | 'ial sense of her son, but the realiza- ion of son as the immortal likeness of | tod. ''See," the prophet said thy son | iveth.' And the woman said to Elijah, Now by this I know that thou lrt man of God. and that the word If the Ford in thy mouth is truth
 The beauty of Truth is that it is in initely applicable. Every son of | human consciousness. whether that on be expressed in the person of a hild or in any other form of cherished o1cept, needs to be detached from it's needs to be taken out of he bosom of mortal conception and ffection and seen in it's spiritual l eality, in order that the deathless per ection of that concept Nay De found n it's divine Principle. Elias truly hall first come" said Jesus. and estore all things" The true meanins if Jesus words is revealed on page S5 of Science and Health. where Mrs sddy writes: .'Ellias. Prophecy 1 piritual evidence opposed to material ense; Christian Science, with which an be discerned the spiritual fact of 'hatever the material senses behold. l1o ba sie of irs1r1orfa