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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 suppositional ! presence and power III his thinking and in his life.
 The Effect of Prayer in Christian
 Science
 The Christian Scientist recoSnizine | that disease Is always the effect of false mortal law and of false thinking i destroys disease through spiritual ! thinking or right thinking about God, ! and about His creation. This spiri- 1 tual thinking, combined with the de- sire to know God and to overcome the t qualities of the carnaI mind i'll our thoughts and lives, constitutes true prayer, and this prayer reveals to i men the Science of the Christ which includes all true Science. theology and medicine. Furthermore. IS man un- derstands this Science of the Christ and strives to live it, so that he may demonstrate it both for himself and for his fellow men, he is obeying Jesus command as given to Peter, Feed my sheep John xxi, 17) for it is only through the understanding of divine law as revealed in the teach ings of Christ Jesus that men are go
 ing to be delivered from evil. Hu-
 
 longer on the husks of material theories, for il has already been over
 fed on them. but it does need to be
 fed on the divine facts which Jesus
 revealed to men and demonstrated
 for their benefit These facts lived and practised in their purity and Science must eventually deliver man kind from all evil.
 It is sometimes objected that Chris tian Scientists are establishing an un- natural antipathy between the flesh or the material. and the spiritual. be- cause they teach the infinite allness and supremacy of Spirit, God, divine Mind, and the temporal nature of materiality. To such objections one i need only quote Paufs statement that
 the flesh Iusteth against the Spirit, | and the Spirit against the flesh; and ! these are contrary the one to the other" fGal v 11D Mrs. Eddy. how
 ever, although teaching the allness of | Spirit, particularly<states that Christ | is the friend of mortal man (Science
 and Health. p. 4s3). and this because Christ saves mortal man from him.
 self by revealing mans true nature as 1 the son of God. The effect of prayer | in Christian Science is not to de- prive men of anything that is worth having but to remove materiality and it's effects sin disea SC and death from
 their thoughts and experience and to
 establish in their thoughts true health.
 holiness and happiness which are eternally based on God. divine Mind,
 and are attained only through spiri-
 tual thinking.
 Fear Cast Out by Christian Science
 Christian Science handles all mor-
 tai discord with divine law. If the , | lxn s& l.e. cident, if ft be worry or sorrow, if 1t } be human trouble of any kind, the Christian Scientist recognizes that r these things can only afflict the mor- tai mentality, because the body with . out a mentality would be uncon- scious of any of these things. Recog- mixing that these are all troubles oi the carnal mind or of mortal thought he deals with them through divine thought or the Mind of Christ. The wise Christian Scientist in his prayer or his treatment, will always dea | resolutely and unfailingly with the human belief of fear As he gains ex- : perience in Christian Science healing : he will find that fear is an active l. agent in nearly every human i'll, and in most cases if he succeeds in re- \ moving and casting out the fear iron . his patients mentality he will hea n him of his trouble at once- Since . God, the only presence and power, i: divine Love, fear can have neither
 presence nor power and the Christian
 Scientist through understanding thu t allness of divine Love proves tha perfect love Cor God) casteth ou n sear:'' q John iv. 1S).
 Spiritual thinking. that is a righ understanding of God and of exist q ence or spiritual idealism, is not onl, r the way of salvation for the individ |, ual, but humanity as whole owe t every step 1t has taken out of mater T ialism to this very process of spiritua 5 thinking. As humanity has turne ,. thought actively and unreservedl, = not to the things which are seen, bu y to the things which are not seen. an g which arc divinely real then it trul 8 has prayed, and this prayer has [ . some extent delivered from mortalit - and from the effects of mortality. sir o disease. death and limitation of ever 1T kind. Since salvation. however, If individual. the important factor is tn e lconsecrated thinking of the individua # True Law and Government as Re e vealed by Christian Science 2. All thinking people recognize tha 'e we are today living at time whe l. humanity's sense of divine law ha 'S not Su1IlCRQ IO utllNeF IA IfOfn w.t. Ie from bolshevism, from class hatre'
 and from other dangerous tendencie l. The fact is that humanity is sti > working on the old basis of the Aosai al law. which says an eye for an eye, an '- men have not yet begun to perceiy ,- and to demonstrate the law of Lov l. which Jesus declared and reiterate 70 time and time again to be the onl y way of freedom from human unres ar Mrs Eddy has revealed to her fo m lowers that just as health and hol r. ness are divine facts which the in te dividual must obtain and retain fc 'h himself through spiritual thinking, $ of also law is divine attribute whic al every individual must demonstrate f6 B. himself. Thus the community wi pr obtain law and government based, nc Id on human opinions. but on univers' at obedience to the one divine Min q, God. Mrs. Eddy was so certain Id the fact that true government is base
 wholly on spiritual thinking and n' in on human arrangements that in ht
 own Church, which she considered [ f- be all important, since she knew ths 1t, it was destined to bring the idealis' s. of Jesus to humanity in clearer an is more practical way than ever befor 1- she established a form of governmer 1e from which she had removed ever s- possible human equation except l. Board of Directors of five peopi c, These Directors she did not expet
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