Arizona republican., 1920-11-08

which they have over other people is to be found solely in what they have gained of the true Science of life and living, through the study of Science and Health with Key to the Scrip tures," and other works written by Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science.
 What is this Science2 Do the theories of prevailing educational systems in dicate or reveal it? All theories of gen eral education of life and it's possibili
 ties are indicated upon the certainty and necessity of sin, disease and death. Such theories are self f-contradictory. They have been accepted and tried for centuries utterly in vain. With cir cumstances all in their favor, and SUD-
 ported by the overwhelming consensus of human faith and education, they have utterly failed. Under such beliefs, and uninstructed by Christian Science, living is tantamount to mere physical endurance and final chaos. Christian Science takes issue with all such theo- ries and conclusions. It appeals to the
 higher nature, to reason and logic, and
 educates US in the Science of Life, the
 greatest need of the race.
 If we are living at all (and we are),
 if there be any action, energy, oppor- tunity, availability, originality or vo- lition; if men and women exist at all, and can think or do anything at all, then there is science for all this, and it is commensurate with all that may be required of it. We are living and thinking, and we have got to go on living and thinking in order to accom- plish anything whatsoever. The evil dence of our senses gives us no hint Of what Life really is, and when from tnls standpoint we think anything about | life we indulge in mere speculation, unless Christian Science comes to our
 rescue and gives us the right idea Or dinarily, human life is considered to
 be mere chance, manifesting the whim and caprice of instinct or desire. We
 have been taught to look out for our material needs, and we have been in structed in some of the sciences which
 are supposed to aid us in administering to those needs, but our thinking, which | Is the most important part about us, has had no science to govern or exalt | it. but has been based upon and fost- | cred by education which assumed and inculcated the theory that matter gov erns man. Christian Science reveals the fact that thought governs or ms governs mankind, as the case may re, including the body, and that as we ap-
 
 health and safety of the body are pro- portionately secure.
 The science of true living and true | thinking is thus drawn from a higher
 source than mere ordinary human ex- pcriences. To investigate 1t requires research of the most unselfish, pains | taking and persistent nature. Such
 was the research that Mary Baker Ed
 dy entered upon and carried on for lyears. It eliminated in tho discovery of that science which she named | Christian Science. She saw the vast I importance of distinguishing betwee T the true and the false, between the real and the unreal. She observed the per- l manent nature of divine facts and this lied her to the conclusion that sucn racts constitute immortality. How to under stand these facts Was noe so difficul' | for her as was the problem of teach | ing others to understand them We who are the beneficiaries of thi: Science, in common with the whole o. mankind, can scarcely realize what I must have meant, especially fifty year: ago, to awaken the world to the con- sideration of religion as a science, anc of real science as religion. All the ore. | judices of sectarianism were instinc lively arrayed against sucn a proposi ton, and yet it promised nothing les'
 than complete redemption for the hu man race. Even now. after all of Mrs Eddy's great work. Christian Science i not universally accepted; but the sign: of the times are portentous and hope full Why should they be otherwise for Christian Science fu1fills the hope of the Christian world.
 Does not its declaration that God i Infinite Cause, Intelligence, Sphii ' N
 Principle, the source and substance o
 all being. tally with our ideals of wha
 constitutes the omnipotant. omnipres
 ent and omniscient God cf the Bibl
 and Of all Christendom7 If it does
 then your ideals may, through Chris
 tian Science, take on practical value
 they may be brought out of the realr