Evening star., 1921-01-16
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strated, when understood. Christ
4 Jesus proved his sonship with the
1 Father. and demonstrated his
\ dominion" over the belief of death,
1.-The dominion" which God be-
i slowed upon man, whom He made
| in His own image" and likeness.
! Genesis i. 2O.
+ The truth Of scientific being, as
taught by Christ Jesus, and in this
age by Mary Baker Eddy; is the
| understanding of the supremacy
of. divine Mind. Truth is working
;, through universal consciousness,
|stirring the claim of evil to the sur
! face
4. The foam and fury Of illegiti-
| mate living and of fearful and
doleful dying should disappear on
the shore of time; then the
waves of sin, sorrow, and death
| beat in vain-Mary Baker Eddy
I (Science and Health, p. zo3).
1 Truth is soaring on pinions Of
Hight and love. fulfilling her mission
! Of purifying and uplifting the great
world of humanity: She is destroy
ling the hallucinations, which be-
cloud the reality of mans true be-
ing, his oneness with his creator.
The, understanding of the Science Of
being. or divine metaphysics, called
by Mrs. Eddy Spiritual mathen,a-
tics" is inspiring this generation
with higher ideals. It is moving
men to holier aspirations, and to
the contemplation of their oneness
with creative Principle, eternal Life
and Love,-God.
Mind, Spirit, operating through
the ideal man, bursts the bonds of
finite sense and reveals the glories
of infinite Mind, the supreme intelli-
gence, in whom I'VE live, and move,
and have our being This is to
dwell ''in the secret place of the
most High" and to abide under the
shadow of the Almighty" psalm
xci.).
To those whose life, is "hid with
Christ in God" verify "the Son of
God is come" and gives the under
standing that Life is eternal, and
that man is immortal.
In this hour, humanity is meeting
the question, by which influence
are you governed, by Truth or by
error, by the spiritual senses, or by
material sense-for as man think
eth in his heart so is he'?" The
humble Nazarene, whom all Chris
tians in this era profess to follow,
denounced the false thought, the So
Icalled carnal mind, which results in
sin and death, and declared he came
to destroy the works of the devil
He further pronounced this devil a
lie from the beginning. "He [so-
called carnal mind] was a murderer
from the beginning, and abode not
in the truth, because there is no
truth in him When he speaketh a
lie, he speaketh of his own: for he
is liar, and the father of it." Uohn
viii, AZ. Christ Jesus earth mis-
sion was to arouse humanity from
the influence of this lie, or Adam
dream Of life and intelligence in
matter, to the truth of being, Mind,
Spirit, God, and man as Gods idea
or child He healed the sick, cast
out evils, and raised the dead, with
the Word. or spiritual thought
force, with which God endowed
man. OF the woman who was help
less, he said that Satan had bound
her, 30, these eighteen years" :"
| Luke xiii, 10.
| sd. 3.
If theologians had followed Christ
Jesus example, and had rendered
unto Caesar the things that are
caesars, and unto God the things
that are Gods" humanity would
Fhave resisted the fetters that have
bound all to sin and death. How
much we might have escaped of the
sin of idolatry, of self-love, of self
ishness. personal pride, malice.
hatred, resentment. revenge. envy,
liealousy, the result of which is
physical and mental suffering,-how
much agony we would have been
lspared, had we understood our refa-
ton to God, and the falsity of the
belief of life in blood, sensation in
nerves, sight in the eye, hearing in
the ear, and intelligence in brain,
to which, in the past, we have all
yielded. until at times life seemed
a blessing not worth possessing, and
death eonsummation greatly to be
Fdesired." - >'.'.<5 -, p
In Jesus age mortals had other
gods, as now they have. There were
heathen then. as there, are today.
The words: Thou shalt have no