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

I ffy. Wnen a man thinks rightly he Is ex-
pressing his true being as the likeness of
God, divine Mind. Spiritual thinking Is,
therefore, really Emmanuel, or God with
us. Just as soon as a man recognizes
that HIS constant right thinking and right
living or his right mental activity, that
is his true consciousness, is indeed I'm
manuel, or divine Mind God, with us,
he at rnat moment begins to understand
why true prayer Is infallible and is in
finite in its ability 20 reveal divine facts
or having the Mind of Christ, is attaining
somewhat to man in Gods image, The
true and only man, the man God mace,
the man who is forever an expression or
emanation of God, to whom belongs do
minion over all material things.
Prayer is as infallible, as certain, as
definite and as Irresistible as God Him
self, for 1t is God, divine Mind, with us,
expressing Himself through the Mind of
Christ, or through spiritual thinking.
Such prayer knows no failure and no
fear. 1t honors God in a way that a
poor attempt to change or influence God
can. never do. Prayer recognizes and
abides by Gods all-ness and evils moth
ingness. This Is the prayer Jesus de-
scribed when he stated, in accord with all
true Science, all true theology, and all
true medicine, we shall know the truth,
and the truth shall make you free
John viii, 32) Prayer demands abso-
lutte lifelong conservation of thought,
desire, activity, intellect and purpose to
spiritual law and divine facts. 1t teaches
US to acknowledge God in all our ways,
and to recognize no other source or
cause. Prayer demonstrated is heaven
here and now and within us, for it in
cludes in itself all health, all holiness,
happiness, peace and assurance. Such
prayer is Gods law to every condition,
for it is the very presence and power or
divine Mind. God.
THE PURPOSE
"OF TRUE PRAYER.
at might be we'll to explain that
Christian Scientists make much of the
healing of disease for the same reason
that Jesus did, and that is because the
healing of disease through spiritual
means is accepted as a clear and indis-
putable proof of Emmanuel, or God with
US. AS a matter of fact, Christian Sci
ence teaches that what humanity really
needs to be healed Of primarily, is Its
faith in things material, or of its ma
terial thinking. Every sin. every dis
ease, every sorrow, every material CON
dition. every catastrophe. every phase
of heeting mortality, Christian Science
declares to be but an effect OF material
thinking, or OF the carnal mind, and
Christian Science therefore proposes to
heal the individual and the world Of
these things by first correcting their ma
terial thinking, or their false material
theories. with the Mind of Christ. or with
spiritual thinking. The real mission Of
Christian Science, therefore, Is to destroy
mems false faith in things material by
demonstrating beyond a doubt the all
ness and supremacy Of Spirit or OF the
divine Mind, which is God.
Let me remind you that the Christian
Scientists prayer does not succeed be-
cause of merely intellectual attempt to
know the Truth at the moment of prayer,
but it succeeds because of his lifelong
struggle TO understand God and spiritual
being. and TO utilize Science in every event
of life. Even the casual thinker will see
that there Is no connection between such
prayer which understands and demon
strates the infinite presence and power Of
the Mind which is God and the pitiful at
tempts of mesmerism, or Of hyppotism,
IT, heal men. Christian Science healing
dispels the mortal or mistaken sick or
SHINING sense which claims to bind man,
and proves the divine fact that God, divine
Mind, is the only Mind, and that this
Mind alone governs and controls man.
"CHRISTLIKENESs IN PRAYER
"OF 7EHBISTIAN SCIENTIST.
enlist Jesus, the master Metaph ysician.
when he made the statement, GREATER
love nath no man than this, that man
lay down his life for his friends John
XIV, 49,, gave an exact rule by which men
could prove their Christlikeness, or their
willingness and ability to demonstrate
divine law. Christian Science, therefore,
teaches that In proportion as man I'M
derstands the allusss and the Infinite
reality of Spirit, God, divine Mind, ana
the temporal nature of material existence,
in proportion as he strives to lay down
his false sense OF life as material and
finite, and 10 attain his true life as God s
expression. wholly spiritual or divinely
mental, in that proportion is he truly adj
herring to Christ Jesus teaching. In fact,
as a man hanishes from his thinking the
qualities of the carnal mind such as idol
airy, hatred. wrath, and many other
phases of the carnal mind all of which
(Gal. W, and he attains In his daily
life those qualities of thought which
Paul describes as the fruit of the Spirit
(Gal. w., then he is truly laying down
the false sense of life. This process OF
spiritual thinking and living demonstrates
the infinite Mind, God. before which the
so -called carnal mind, with its false
gives place. Paul further says the fruit
OF the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long
suffering gentleness, goodness, faith,
meekness, temperance tGal. W. and he
adds, against such there is no law
(Gal. ". Christian Scientist, there
fore finds that he strives TO let his
thinking and his life express these divine
qualities. or as he strives to gain the
Mind Of Christ. the qualities of the So
called carnal mind and their effects, sin
disease and death lose their suppositionaI
presence and power in his thinking and
in his life.
EFFECT OF PRAYER IN
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.
1.-The Christian Scientist recognizing
that disease Is always the effect of false
mortal law and Of false thinking destroys