East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1921-05-04

were WlS0 To select the physically per- !
feet upon whom to bestow affection |
but too often such perfection cloaks |
an unlovahle personality while the in !
valid or physically deficient may have !
a noble character. No, plainly. one
loves something above and beyond the
physical, and that object of love can
be only the thought, the idea OF Mind. /
In this idea one finds hearts desire,
fitness, goodness all lovable qualities,
qualities enduring, dependable, ever
present Man is surely idea, and 1t is
this idea, not the mortal body, which
is the individuality and identity of
man.
UNITY DENIONSTRABLE
When a man begins to learn the
profound significance of the divine
unity, he begins to throw off the limi-
'tatlons of ignorance Man being in
diSsolubly linked by Science to His
Maker and possessing forever tho
qualities of the infinite Principle, the
learner sees that his achievement is
limited in no proper direction of
thought, that indeed all that the
spiritual apprehension of the great
fact of the oneness of God and man,
he sees how ii was possible for Jesus
to prove that unity, or at-one-ment,
and SO to make the atonement. So
also. in the degree of his spirituality.
he himself begins to prove for him
self this at-one-ment, thus working
out his own salvation in obedience to
| the Scriptural command, secure in the
assurances For it is God that work
eth in you" 1t is evident that the de-
sire to sin or the ability to sin cannot
be present with the realization of
mans divine unity with good, for sin
| is departure from good, and could
be present. even in belief, in the sup
posed absence, only, of God. But
Gods omnipresence is evils never
presence. Thus the learner catches
glimpse of the infinite possibilities of
man at one with God and he strives
henceforth to be like Him, to have
the divine likeness. Gods everpres-
ence is the everpresence of Good, and
where God Is there is man also.
! And SO because God is all Being
and has within Himself the qualities
of Reing, we Christian Scientists are
striving to be like Him. Because God
is Spirit. We are working to become
spiritual in thought and deed. Be-
cause God is Truth, we must be truth
full. Because God is Love, we should
be loving. lovable, lovely. Because
God is Principle, we are endeavoring
to be principled in all our ways.
Christian Scientists are no longer sat
! isfisd with former standards of hon
esty, we are learning that a man may
be sincere and earnest and yet have
little apprehension of Principle The
future of mankind under the govern
ment of Principle is foreshown in the
progress of Christian Scientists today.
Let me illustrate how the leaven Of
Principle is working in human lives
Two Christian Scientists boarded a
train at the dinner hour and passed at
once from the Pullman to the diner
Their destination reached, they dis
severed that their tickets had not been
taken up. Now in the old way of
thinking these men would doubtless
have torn up their tickets saved
them for future use or perhaps sold
them, but they had come to know Cod
as Principle and man as the express
sion OF Principle, and so they couldn't
rest until they had acted to their high
est sense of Principle They decided
to send the tickets in to the general
Offices Of the railuoad, with a letter
of explanation. Some weeks later. a
letter came from the general manager
of the road. thanking them for as
sistance in correcting a defective meth
cd OF handing tickets on that train.
CHRIST JESUS TIE WAY.
Is it sacriligeous to claim ones
unity with God? Paul tells us that
Christ Jesus, whom all Christians ac-
cept as the eXemplar being in the
likeness Of God, thought it not rob-
berry to be equal with God" CPhil.
1863 Jesus made the atonement he
proved his unity with God, and so be-
came worthy to bear the title Christ
The divine manifestation of God. ,"
(S. & H., p. 583-10) His vicarious
sacrifice was complete self-deniai, ut
ter remuneration OF material self hood
or life in matter, with its false pleas
ures and pain. its sin, disease, discord
and death. The way of the cross was
:he way out of matter, out of personal
sense. And on that day of days when
Jesus had taken every human foot
step along the way and stood trium-
phant over matter the world, the
flesh, and all evil, his was the leaven-
ed lump wherein no grain of material
tty remained. wherein the conscious
ness of spiritual sefhood was COM
plete. And so the real Jesus ascend
ed to the Father, found his true being
in Spirit. Thus he worked out full
salvation from sin, disease, and death,
and thus Christ Jesus became The
| Way for all mankind.
Contemplating the example of
Jesus and considering his command,
If any man will come after me, let
him deny himself" the Christian
Scientist obediently enters an utter
| denial of physical selfhood and en-
deavors to be the man God made in
the image and likeness of Spirit not of
matter. He strives to follow the in
junction Of his inspired Leader:
Thou shalt recognize thyself as Gods
spiritual child only" (Mis. p. 18,
line 40
The working out of the false hu-
man sense OF life in matter is a prob
lem fully demonstrated by Jesus, and
for which he has laid down for us
theorem genuine as any geometrcal
proposition. This theorem John
stated; Beloved, now are we the sons
of Cod a declaration which he quail