Arizona republican., 1921-11-14
Christian Science Lecture Dr. John M. Tut, c. S. B.

ouires at last what is termed a mind Rut from first to last human exis- tence. when unleavened by divine Science. is a mortally mental pro- cess, rising no higher than the limits
 of it's materially mental selfhood.
 Christian Science has come to make education divinely mental. thus rais- ing mortal selfhood above itself, leav-
 ening the race with true Science. and
 putting to an end the kaleldoscopic| round of material life.
 Although recent higher attainments
 in mans conquest of matter have
 been far in advance of the atom, the
 atomic theory, though disproved, con-
 tinues to be the practical working
 basis of physical science Just so,
 matter, exposed by Christian Science
 as merely human belief continues to
 be the practical working basis for
 the present state of human life. This
 explains why Christian Scientists are
 consistent in continuing to employ
 o-called matter in Its various use-
 full forms. We eat, wear clothes. heat
 our houses, conduct ourselves much
 IS others do. But the effect of Chris
 tian Science at this period is to
 break down the sense of limitation
 by which mortal mans endeavors are hedged about. The Christian
 Scientist is therefore putting off daily
 the old, the inadequate. the material,
 and is putting on the new, the spir1-
 tual. Meanwhile he does not in-
 crease his dependence upon matter by making added concessions to ma-
 terial laws. The Christian Scientists s motto is not more and more, but less
 
 way in Christian Science is the way
 of overcoming material dependence,
 and fewer concessions to matter is the mark of the Christians progress.
 The vanishing point of matter is foreshown in mans always increasing
 dominion over it. Inevitably there will come a day when. in the words
 of Isaiah, '"The earth is clean dis solved" Qsaiah, 24:19.)
 THE HEAVEN IN THEOLOGY
 ''The proper study of mankind, :"
 said the poet, "is man." and that IS metaphysically true. Had the poet
 been a Christian Scientist. he might
 have declared further the proper
 study of man is God, his Master. The
 great barrier to human progress has
 been ignorance, ignorance of God, ignorance of man, Christ Jesus said
 to the woman at Sychar, "We know
 what we worship Thereby he sep
 arated all other religious beliefs from
 true Christianity and indicated both
 the possibility and the necessity to know God. To know God is to know
 man, for man, the Bible says, ts Gtd s
 image and likeness.
 Because of ignorance. the earliest concepts of God involved fear. taboo and penalty. The basis of scholastic theology was God as a punisher of man. Whatever the concept of God He was always a terrible. being to he feared and hence to be. if possible
 appeased. This prevailing bslief was perhaps no greater in the pagar priest offering sacrifices of blood to an offended deity, than in clergy Dlan I used to know. On a Sunday morning after society event of the l night before, at which many of his l congregation had indulged in cer- l tain prohibited amusements this
 dear old sain. levelled his finger al 1 his shamefacel, ], though unrepentant i flock, and solenlnly exclaimed. "Oh l you had better be elad I'm not Godi
 How far above his creed that mar
 was compelled to live to be 9. Chris tiar! Into the concept of God as :
 runisher of His offspring no element [
 'ove in fear. Because of the proscric- | tion of love, some of the blackest I crimes in history have been commit ted in the name of Deity. The prae- 1 tice of religion has always tended 1 toward discipline, toward the citation I to. love, obey and serve God throuSf l the exercise of fear of punishment I In consequence of this false belief O 1 Deity, men have had little faith 1T l good, In health, and well-betng a: the natural sequence of events under I Gods care and government, but nave 1 shown unbounded and everpresen l expectation of evil. Why do no | people expect naturally the unfold Il ment of good in their experience l It is because of the human mind \ educated belief that the supreme Il power, God, is a wreaker o l vengeance, a visitor of iniquity Il False gods have ever been jeal- ,l ous gods, visiting iniquity upol
 their hapless worshippers. Fear of
 punishment never made men good , yet the very meaning of the word God is good. Christian Science is changing the human thought of God ,. from fear to love, and Christian Sci } entists are coming to expect at the r hands of a loving Father the gifts oi love- We are coming to expect with confidence, the destruction of sir
 and sickness, and to realize the con- sciousness of health. Thus fear is l disappearing from human lives be- 7 cause it is going out of human con
 sciousness. In the absence of fear we can always see good. We art ' gaining the higher concept that Goo f is divine Love, ever responsive tC human needs, ever mindful of His 1 t1r@@ al, I,1, D When I recall the terrors of my
 childhood, my fears of the very dark. F ness, my constant expectation of 6ii. Q vine displeasure. and of the terrible administration of His supposed law. u of disease, and then observe the com. D parative fearlessness and freedom O. f the children of today, I thank Goo z from my heart for Christian Science . which has in one generation so trans I formed human consciousness. Christ. . ian Science teaches men that God i.
 a God not to be feared. not merely : to be worshipped, but a God to bt loved and lived and understood.
 | THE TRUE GOD
 I Since time and mortal man began
 men have tried to know God materi
 ally, to worship Him materially. anC Il to attribute to Him all material phe esl nomena; yet Jesus words are true | God is Spirit, and they that worship . Him must worship Him in Spirit an( v in Truth" The human mind has al . ways turned to a power outside itsel in times of stress, thereby acknowl
 edging it's own insufficiency. but it gods have been merely human con
 cepts and have taken material forn
 and nature. Yet even idolaters bow z ing down to images conceive then | to be representatives of a power no : material. The false gods of mortal
 are just false beliefs about Diety