Arizona republican., 1920-11-08
B5ckneU Young, c. s. B.

enjoyment of excellent health. None | of the afflicted who have been healed or who are seeking healing in Christian Science have ever accused us of max | ing too much of the Christ healing.
 The power of God which character ized Christ Jesus came to him not Tn the realm of matter, but of understand ing. That is where all true power comes to man. That is where all true education fits us for life and equips us with courage and wisdom to meet the difficulties of human existence, includ- ing disease How necessary it is for us to awake to the full value of true thoughts and pure education, which constitute real beingi What would man be without the power to think? Salvation is the main object, it is even the object of all education, although that object is not mentioned in the cur ricula of schools and colleges. We are all seeking salvation, consciously or unconsciously, for we are all striving for satisfaction. Everybody wants
 heaven, though many appear to be
 searching for it in strange ways, for
 heaven is nothing more or less than
 real permanent happiness, satisfaction.
 On page 291 of Science and Health, Mrs. Eddy writes: Heaven is not a locality, put SLdI6 or M1nQ which all the manifestations of Mind
 are harmonious and immortal, because sin is not there and man is found hav- ing no righteousness of his own, but | in possession of the mind of the Lord,
 as the Scripture says" It follows that | the way to heaven is a way of educa ton, in the highest sense of that word. We must think our way into heaven,
 and nothing can deprive us of or excuse
 us from that exalting and redemptive
 necessity. This is being saved through
 the blood Christ, the life of Christ
 Heaven is natural and constant to God ! and must be the same to man in his image. We need only gain that like ness in ourselves in order to be in
 heaven. Jesus said, s"The kingdom of God cometh not with observation:
 neither shall they say, Lo herel or, To, there! for, behold, the kingdom of God | is within you" Jesus knew that the
 Science of Life will heal the sick. and acted in accordance with that science.
 He proved that the Science of Life nat urally produces the phenomena of Life, and that health is indisputably one of 1 the phenomena of Life.
 l Divine facts constituted his mentality and made him the Christ, for they had their being, and they still have their
 being in God. It was what Jesus knew 1 that made him different from all other | human personalities, but he placed no restrictions upon that knowledge, and | we should not place any if we are his l followers. He was anxious that every one should know and have the power to prove the healing. saving Christ. This divine Christ, Truth, is to be born within us, and there. in the realm ot consciousness, or thought, 1t is to carry on it's redemptive mission according to the example of Christ Jesus
 Does this take away any of the re- spect and reverence which mankind Il justly feels for him who spalke as never man spake? Was it not on the contrary this constant dependence upon Mind God, that gave him the title of Chrtsi Jesus, and is 1t not a corresponding at
 titude on our part that gives us tho right to be called Christians. and that
 persisted in, will make us better Chris . tians day by day? He declared thai
 life is not dependent aupesn matter, but !. upon knowing, which Is characteristic . of Mind, God. And this fls life eternal that they might know thes the only true
 God. and Jesus Christ. whom thou has
 sent"
 ] We have learned to re @gniZe Lift eternal, and we insist upo maintain ing the fact ia spite Of all Aidence t the contrary. We woy not b' worthy of the name either C yhristian . in the ordinary sense, mU less o Christian Scientists. if we ed to d. so, for any theory of life #ltrary ts , eternality involves death, " Nch is tn
 exact opposite of life.
 If you desire to go to given poin you will follow the direction in whicl ! that point lies. You will not eurn you { back to that direction and 20 in al l opposite one. All the ways thst human
 education have devised or -heorize' , about in reference to health md If are headed in the wrong direc ion ant , lead away from either or both. A heal f Ii ing system is intended to produc 2 health, which in it's turn tends towari
 life How Is 1t possible then that s healing system be founded upon the oo
 servations of disease?s The opposit
 direction in this case Is the right direc f tion What is it? It is the direction c l reason, the direction of pure logic, tn direction of divine revelation. It show f unmistakably that creator who is Lif = never introduced any death into Hi
 creation, and that means, as we hay already seen, that He never conceive
 of a destructive element such as dis
 ease, has never known it, does no : know it now, never will know 1t. Wha : does this mean to you and me? 2 means that in proportion as we ge 2 out of the old education and get int the new, what we call our minds an U U our lives will be entirely different fror
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