Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-05-23

| "CREATlON, SPIRITUAL OR MENTAL
1T is evident to any one who has stud
sus declared God to be Spirit he was moi
| declaring God to be some indefinite alb
! straction, but he was revealing and de
| scribing the most certain, the most avail
/ able and the most stable entity thai
| could possibly be lima gtned Mrs. EDDY
has once and for all taken this word
Spirit out of the realm of mysticism and
superstition and placed 1t in the realm
! OF reason and science by explaining thal
| Spirit is really divine Mind, or is the
infinite Intelligence which knows, hao
knows divinely~or truly. 1t is certain
! that when Jesus used the term Spirit be
meant divine Mind. for on one occasion
/ he explained quite naturally to his lis
teners the words that l speak unto y e9l
In fact infinite Truth, which includes al
divine mentality, is Spirit, Christian Sci
ence, therefore, teaches that God Is d1'
vine Mind or Spirit and that divine
/ Mind is Love. AS God is everpresenl
| and omnipotent, the divine Mind which
is Love must be Omnipotent and ire
! sistible. Even if one did not believe II
the Scriptures and he reasoned logically
he would naturally arrive at these same
| conclusions. Material existence shows
that evil is destructive and that ma
J, terial conditions pass away. Therefore
being, to be eternal, must be spiritual
| and wholly good. Jesus in his teachings
/ frequently tried to show men that Spirit
could not produce matter, and he was
/ simply explaining the great metaphysi
/ cal and scientific fact that God Is the
only cause and that existence must be
| exactly like that cause and so wholly
/ spiritual, and not what the human sense
/ decla red~it to be when he uttered such
| a statement as That which is born OF
/ the flesh is flesh; and that which Is
/ born Of the Spirit is spirit John 8, g.
| Mrs Eddy has summed up the essence
| OF her teachings in a short statement
which she calls the scientific statement
/ Of being This statement is given on
| Health with Key to the Scriptures and
/ is as follows There is no life, truth
] intelligence. nor substance in matter. AL
/ is Infinite Mind and it's infinite NANTES
/ tation. for God is All-in-au. Spirit is
I immortal Truth; matter is moral error
/ Spirit Is the real and eternal; matter is
/ the unreal and temporal. Spirit is God
/ and man is His image and likeness
! Therefore man is not material; he Is
| spiritual AS time goes on 1t will be
/ OF all true Science, theology and medi-
/ cine
CONCLUSIONS FALL
UNDER THREE CLASSES.
Here then we have the following con-
clusions:-
I'D The physical scientist believes that
existence is finite and material and his
| thinking relates wholly to so-called ma
teriaI substances and their actions. The
Christian Scientist decla res that true ex-
istence is absolutely spiritual or divinely
mental. is wholly in and of God, or Spirit,
and his thinking relates TO divine facts.
20 The theologian of today, offers an
indefinite concept of God as a distant, in
describable Being. whose power and pres
ence are sometimes manifested in ex-
traordinary or miraculous ways TO deliver
men from evil or to plague them with evil.
and who Tanifests Himself through ma
teriaI conditions. Christian Science, on
the other hand, teaches that God Is divine
Mind and that this Mind is Love. Also
that this one Mind which is Love Is most
truly understandable and is ever avail
able to men through right mental activity
or spiritual thinking. Christian Science
further teaches that this one Infinite Mind,
God. forever operates through spiritual
thinking to deliver men from all that is
unlike Himself In fact Christian Science
teaches that the divine Mind, God, oper-
ates not through material conditions, but
to deliver from material conditions.
"(3) The material healing systems Of to-
day rely on nOnintelligent material drugs
for health, which drugs express the con-
trary of the nature of God, or Spirit, and
the effects of which are highly uncertain.
These healing systems also teach that
God or Spirit works through material
means. Christian Science, on the other
hand. teaches that disease is an effect OF
mortal thought and Of false medical laws
and opinions, and chat acquaintance with
God, the one and only Mind, brings into
operation the true healing law, the law of
Gnd, or Of divine Mind which frees from
the mortal mind and its diseased beliefs.
In fact, the three material systems deal
with both matter and Spirit as realities,
cooperating and coalescing. Christian
Science. however declares there Is but one
uauua1v Shirt Gnd dfvtna Mid
and its expression also that material
existence IS but a temporal falsity which
only seems real to the mortal or carnal
/ thought. Christian Science further de-
clares that an understanding OF God and
| of spiritual being VIII deliver from mortal
thought or from the carnal mind and from
| its dream, mortality. This absolute In
] variable understanding or spiritual think
1 ing is what the Scriptures describe as
the Mind of Christ or the Mind which
was in Jesus Christ.
THINKING OF SCIENTIST
/ ESSENTIALLY INTELLIGENT
/ Il would ask you to consider seriously
whether the Christian Scientist is less
I intelligent, less scientific, less cultured
I or less Christian because he devotes his
I time and energies wholly to the effort Of
attaining the Mind of Christ and to IN
I Outstanding the divine Mind, God, and
I His spiritual creation, rather than to
! the study Of heeting material conditions
which have no true science, no stability,
/ no actual law and no divine reality? ii
must be admitted that st is the lack Of
l this very spiritual thinking which has
caused mankind to wander so far from
I the understanding Of divine law and d.
vine realities. and to wallow in the nEiTe
Of material intellecrualism in which there
I is and can be no real Science, no divine
| theology, and no true healing. It must
also be admitted that IL is through this
constant study Of spiritual facts, or
/ through divine communion, that man
/ kind will be led out Of the by-wavs of
materialism and will be awakened to the
/ great spiritual and scientific fact of one
Infinite, ever present God, divine Mind,
/ and one infinite, indestructible creation.
absolute spiritual being, never beginning
/ never ending, but perfect and eternal as
/ the Father Himself. 1t is also in this
study that the truly wise man will find
I his solace and comfort, that the truly
/ intellectual man will find his Joy, and
/ that the true refOrmer will discover mans
infinite ability to help and to heal his
/ fellow men.
THE PRAYER OF
! CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.
How, then. is the Science Of Christ or
! Christian Science, which includes In 1t
/ self all true Science, theology, and medf-
4 cine. going to reveal to men the truth
/ of being which Science should reveal.
I the saving and redeeming theology which
alone can deliver humanity from sim and
I the healing grace whiCl alone heals One
/ OF the greatest aids t. the understand
/ ings and demonstration OF this Science of
| being, is prayer. What a wealth of deep
! and consecrated thought that word pray
/ er stirs in us all. As long as the word
prayer exists, human hope can never be
entirely lost. Then is the Christian Sci
enlist who depends so largely on prayer.
not in accord with humanity's purest and
| highest desires? 1t is true that prayer
has been so misunderstood and misused
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