Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-05-18


on Christian Science by John W. Doorly,
9. S. B., member Of the board Of lee
tureship of the mother church, the First
Church Of Christ, Scientist, is given to-
day.
Continued from yesterday
So also Christian Science. reasoning
from the basis Of perfect Cod or Mind,
and a perfect creation. or existence,
wholly good and wholly mental. or spirit
ual, declares that mortal existence is no
more real from the divine standpoint
than is the dream we entertain at night,
although this existence seems real TO
m0rtals even as the dream does 10 the
dreamer. Christian Science teaches that
this suppOsitiOnal existence, mortality.
is only the false sense that there is an
opposite 10 infinite Spirit. or Mind.
This false sense is what the Scriptures
describe rs the carnal mind and what
Jesus described as "A liar, and the father
Of it,
This liar, or lying sense, the carnaI
mind, declares that finite matter, the op-
posite Of Infinite Spirit, has life. sub
stance, and intelligence, when the fact Is
that Infinite Spirit is the only Life. sub
stance, or intelligence. When. however. it
Is seen that the ShOle of material exist
ence, or the flesh. Is only a false belief
in a suppOsitiOnal creator. the carnaI
.
called mortality, or is in fact a lie. then
we begin TO comprehend clearly how the
truth about God and His creation. being
present and therefore Ominpotent and
operating witt infinite intelligence. can
destroy such lie. or false mental con-
dItlon. as mortality.
SALVATION
DIFINELY MENTAL.
In fact Christian Science teaches that
salvation is divinely and scientifically
mental frnF no
from mOrtal ity, and since God is divine
Mind and is infinite cause. this must
necessarily he so. This salvation is as
liked and sure as God Himself. as exact,
simple and scientific as the mathematical
IabIe. and vet as deeply spiritual and as
exalted as Gods eternal law must ever
be.
To obtain such salvation can one per-
~c-Stently believe that sin. disease. and
death are real and that matter or NOR
t2lity is substance. and then hope TO
&c Tree from mortality and its pails 4
nc -c9n not He must remember every
minute or his existence that happiness.
lealIn' harmony, all that IS worth hav-
ing, IS Of God, and is therefore spiritual,
or dlv1nely mental. and can only be
obtained through a right mental con-
clifton or through spiritual understand
ing.
This consciousness Of true being would
mevlt2bly free the mortal from every
oiscordant material condition, or from
every LalsE mental condition. and SLOWLY
nut surely the mortal who adopts this
habit Of aCquainting himself with Sos
on all occasions viii ind himself Iiv-
Ing. moving, and having his being in
Cod, or abiding in the one Mind which
IS Lie, Truth, and Love. Sin, disease
and death. poverty and disaster, have
no place in this Mind
In fact, he comes out of the carnaI
mind or mortality. with all its delusive
pains and pleasures into the freedom
end harmony Of the divine Mind with
Its eternal joys, and he does this sim
piy and naturally through spiritual IN
Outstanding, or through a right mental
condition
SALVATION As TAUGHT
BY SCRIPTURES.
The Scriptures are a progressive rec
ord Of how the Truth. or the spiriturl
fact about God and about existence. was
r1nealed TO men who refused to accept
sFrhe testimony of their physical senses
as reliable, but persistently relied on
their spiritual understanding Of God
and or existence, or to men who thought
diyiuely and not humanity.
These revelations eliminated in the
experiences Of Christ Jesus and his fol.
lowers who were so clearly conscious
OF the divine facts OF being that they
proved every MATERIAL or mortal. con-
ditiOn TO be wholly an illusion of the
physical senses, having neither reality
nor power.
In our consideration of certain facts
ings Of Christian Science. it would be
well for us TO comprehend clearly what
the Bible is, for there has undoubtedly
been more superstition and ignorance
connected with the study Of the Bible
than Of any other book in the world.
Christian Scientists regard the Bible
as invaluable to correct understandin 2
Of God and OF salvation. and in fact
the first tenet Of the Christian Science
church states that "as adherents of Truth,
we take the inspired Word Of the Bible
as our sufficient guide 10 eternal Life
Science and Health, p. 40T.
We recognize, however. that the Bible
IS an Eastern book written in Eastern
manner with multitudes of parallels and
a great deal Of sym bolism and metaphor
through which the Fastener always
spoke.
The Bible records how certain men.
belonging to the Hebrew race more
especially, became conscious Of the eter-
nal and unaiterable facts about God and
about existence.
These progressive views Of God are
intermingled with the historical record
OF the Hebrew race, in which not only
is the correct nature of God recorded.
but in which the idOlatrous tendencies
and constant falling away from God by
the people Of these periods are also rs-
lated. Christian Scientists in no way ae-
cept any such superstition as that every
woFd in the Bible was specifically COM
manded by God but they recognize that
and about existence as this truth was re-
vealed TO various men in various ages.
PROGRESSIVE
REVELATION.
In the first chapter of Genesis the
~$ecord begins of the truth about God
and about existence, as it was revealed
to some spiritually minded man. The
hrst chapter Of Genesis is usually err
roneOusly supposed to relate how God
created the material heaven and earth.
but upon closer examination it will be
found that this first chapter of Genesis
and the first five verses Of the second
chapter relate how the eternal facts of
being, which never began and could
never end, were revealed to some spirit
ually minded man by seven progressive
" clearer views which he described as
seven days. This record is followed by
a second and different account Of crea-
ton, beginning at the sixth verse of the
second chapter of Genesis in which the
Lord God, not God as is declared in the
first record, but the Jewish tribal Jeho
yah. the Lord God. is supposed to have
created nan from the dust of the ground
and to have bTeathed into his nostrils
the breath of life This second account