New Britain herald., 1921-03-21

simply an individual state of right mindedness always thinking in accord with God, the true mind He is "the compound idea of God, including all right ideas" (Science and Health, D. A75).
 Concept Of Man Refuted
 Isaiah sought to turn the thought of his people away from this errone- ous mortal concept of man with the admonition. Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for wherein is he to be accounted off" tIsaiah 2:22). Tn other words, stop thinking of the mortal material sense of man as the true man, for there Is absolutely oway to &C., count for him as a creature of God. In Romans 9:S Paul makes the per fectly explicit statement, "They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God" and elsewhere he speaks of the i'm peratiye necessity to put off the old man, which is corrupt and put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness" (Ephesians 4:22-24)
 Christian Science not only presents the true concept of man but shows that it is attainable in some consider able measure right here and right now. It shows that in each and every one of us, and there is no exception, no, not one. there is a natural ability and competency to mentally work our way out of the wilderness of material beliefs, out of the net of material selfhood into our natural unity and agreement with ever present good, HA xuh fc our real life and being. The process is wholly mental. as Paul indicated when he said, Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind" (Romans 12:2).
 Applying Christian Science.
 Well, then, how does one begin to apply the teachings of Christian Science? First of all he begins men tally to resist evil. He follows the Scrtptursl advice to resist the devil. which his study of Christian Science has taught him is but the counterfeit sy'A mind which tries to operate through evil thoughts projected into hks consciousness. or through the physical senses. He learns to become Q sentry at the door of thought and to reject every thought or suggestion which is not good, is not an express sion of God, the one real Life, for he has taken his mental stand for what God has made him to be and he is de- tormined to assert and prove his mental and living unity with the Mind and Life which is God, knowing that it is natural and right for him to do so and that God has endowed him with the ability to do it.
 Healing.
 r~n is to make whole. to restore to orig inal integrity. Christian Science alone among the healing agencies of the present day accepts this word at its full meaning. Christian Science not only heals the mental or physical dis order but sets in motion those pro- cossos of thought which result in evitahly fin the restoration of man to his original integrity as the individual expression of God.
 Only forty years ago the first Christian Science church was organ- izod in Boston. Since then nearly eighteen hundred organizations have beon formed throughout the world Christian Science is offering to the world today a volume of testimony as to, the efficacy of its healing work un- excslled in the history of therapeutic systems. From business men, educa- tors. lawyers, judges. physicians, min isters. and men and women of all trades and classes it is offering evil dence of health and happiness re- stored to the individual.
 Prayer.
 It has already been pointed out that the practice of Christian Science involves mental activity, an effort to think fin accord with God, the good mind. This right mental activity is true prayer and is the one way by which individual man can cast off the shades of hell and abide in heav- en. The Bible admonition, Pray without ceasing," is then seen to mean to think rightly always. It is right mental activity based on a true concept of God and man. This is true prayer. a vital, living, thinking activ- ity.
 It is all a mental process. Every individual must sooner or later, here or hereafter. learn to pray alright, for only in this way does he learn to live alright. When one really discerns what prayer is, his prejudices give way and he perceives it to be the highest joy and privilege of man. for