The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-21

are translated mind are rom great variety of words, none of which seem to have the exact meaning which we give to 1t. JOHNS UNDERSTANDING OF
 TRUTH
 The Apostle John had an unusually clear understanding of the Masters
 teaching We find that he begins his Gospel with a statement of the funda-
 mentals of Christian Science, and all though the word mind Is not used. his argument is that all that is real is mani les tation of thought He says, Tn the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was
 God" This term the Wqrd" Is from the Greek Logos, which means ,l) an idea or concept, and CD the expression
 of that idea Now no idea could nave existence apart from mind, so that
 Johns statement coincides exactly with
 Mrs. Eddy's statement that All Is in- finite Mind and it's infinite manifesto ton" (Science and Health, D. 46S)
 Moreover John specifically denies that i matter is of God when he says tnat
 without the Logos was not any tning
 made that was made" This word made | is used hundreds of times in the New
 Testament and never in the sense Of
 "to make" or ito create,' but means | present activity; that is. to come, or, l to come to pass. The divine mani1esta-
 tion is then simply the expression or spir-
 itual ideas and must of necessity be alto- gether spiritual. Isaiah corroborates tnls lconclusion by saying, "All flesh Is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field; The grass with-
 ereth the flower fadeth; but the word or | our God shall stand for ever" Not flesn'
 but Gods spiritual idea, the word, is
 real and endures. And the Master wnie
 maintaining that the Kingdom Of Goa IS
 within you--that heaven is a state or onsciousness-also maintained that fiesn | and blood could not enter. 50. then, spiritual consciousness excludes matter. l. It is quite frequently maintained that | Christian Science denies the divinity or
 the Christ, although this Is aosoiuteiy contrary to the fact. Consistent witn ies
 teaching that God is Mind ana that man Is Gods perfect idea. it. maintains i that the Christ is "the divine manifes- | tation of God, which comes to the flesh to destroy incarnate error" Science and 1 Health. D. 5S3) John defines the Christ in the statement, "the Word was made ] flesh" The .'Word'-that is the divine | idea-"was made flesh" not created fiesh. | for this word made" is never used m l that sense-but come to the flesh, Chris tian Scientists heartily agree with this thought they gratefully acknowiedss | that Jesus manifested the Christ. the ui- vine idea, revealing in his words anu works the true nature of God and man. We can all manifest in some degree the divine idea which Jesus manifested, TOT "of his fitness have all we receiveu.
 To the degree that we really understand God do we demonstrate the Christ in our daily living, fulfilling Jesus prophecy. | "Tbe works that I do, shall (ye) do also
 Throurh patient faithful effort we shall eventually come unto the measure of the
 stature of the fitness of Christ
 | The slightest amount or spirtuai S un-
 abundant results, and faith as a grain of mustard seed Is sufficient to remove mountains of error
 Two very noticeable things about stu dents of Christian Science are their daily ] study of the Bible and the frequency With which they pray. Most of those wne are
 ssen reading the Bible on railroad trains I or in other places are Christian Scien-
 lists. and they are reading not to De
 seen of men, but because it's pages have ibeen ifIumined to them through the study 1 of Christian Science, and they allow notn- h ing to deprive them of their reading.
 PRAYER
 b Many times a day student of Chris
 tian Science finds opportunity ana necessity for prayer. If. as has been
 maintained, Christian Science is con- ' lter. it will be found not only that the
 nraver of the Christian Scientist con- I forms logically with it's teaching put .s absolutely in accordance with the Instructions of the Master. He gave Ito his disciples a prayer and in addi- tion very definite instruction about l praying for those things which they desired. The Lords Prayer understood
 heals the sick When we realize that there is no other kingdom-that is
 that God rules over all and that sin and disease have no power-then the lprayer, For thine is the Kingdom. ana the power. and the glory" will heal | the sick, not because we simply say these words but because we say them land understand that they are true.
 1 In the Gospel according to Mark the Master says, What things soever ye
 desire, when ye pray. believe that ye receive them. and ye shall have them" The Revised Version puts 1t, What 1 things soever ye desire. when ye pray
 believe that ye have received them,
 and ye shall have them" The attitude
 of the revisers has been to make
 changes only when the previous trans
 lation was manifestly wrong. so we l should be able to accept this latter l translation as correct. especially when
 we consider the fact that it is a meth
 cd of prayer which was probably nos l familiar to those who made the trans- lation and no doubt many people who
 are numbered among the followers of Christ would scarcely understand how they could consistently offer such a prayer To the Christian Scientist is l the definite confirmation of his method of prayer. We have previously brought out the fact that God is Mind and that