Arizona republican., 1921-03-30
JOHN ". POORLY, C.S.B.

resietible Even if one did not believe in the Scriptures and he reasoned logically he would naturally arrive at these same conclusions. Material ex-
 istence shows that evil is destructive
 and that material conditions pass away. Therefore being, to be eternal,
 must be spiritual and wholly good.
 Jesus in his teachings frequently
 tried to show men that Spirit could
 not produce matter, and he was sim
 ply explaining the great metaphysical and scientific fact that God is the only
 cause and that existence must be ex-
 actly like that cause and so wholly
 spiritual and not what the human
 senses declared it to be when he ut
 tered such statement as That
 which is born of the flesh is flesh;
 and that which is born of the Spirit
 is spirit" tJohn 3, 6.)
 Mrs. Eddy has summed up the es
 sence of her teachings in a short
 statement which she calls the "scien-
 tific statement of being" This state ,ment is given on page 46S of her text book, Science and Health with Key
 to the Scriptures" and IS as follows:
 ''There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter. All is in
 finite Mind and its infinite manifes- l tation, for God is All all. Spirit
 Is immortal Truth; matter is mortal
 error. Spirit is the real and eternal,
 matter is the unreal and temporal. l Spirit is God, and man is His image
 and likeness. Therefore man is not
 material; he is spiritual" As time | goes on it will be found that in this
 statement lies the crux of all true
 Science, theology and medicine.
 l The Conclusions of Human Systems And of Christian Science
 Here then we have the following conclusions:
 CD The physical scientist believes that existence is finite and material
 and his thinking relates wholly to
 o-called material substances and their actions. The Christian Scientist declares that true existence is abso- lutely spiritual or divinely mental, is
 wholly in and of God, or Spirit, and
 his working relates to divine facts.
 (2) The theologian of today offers
 an indefinite concept of God as a dis tant, indescribable Being, whose power and presence are sometimes manifested in extraordinary or mir
 aculaus ways to deliver men iron 1 evil or to plague them with evil, and , who manifests Himself througf , material conditions. Christian Science on the other hand. teaches that Goo ; is divine Mind and that this Mind i. Love. Also that this one Mind whicf is Love is most truly understandabl, and is ever available to men through right mental activity or spiritua . thinking. Christian Science further , teaches that this one infinite Mind l God, forever operates through spiri i, tual thinking to deliver men from al I that is unlike Himself. In fact Chris . tian Science teaches that the divin' 3 Mind, God, operates not througl l material conditions. but to delive from material conditions.
 7 (3) The material healing system l of today rely on non -intelligen : material drugs for health, which drug !. express the contrary of the nature 0 s God. or Spirit, and the effects o . which are highly uncertain. Thes : healing systems also teach that Go, { or Spirit works through material
 means. Christian Science, on tn |, ether hand, teaches that disease is a1
 effect of mortal thought and of fals s medical laws and opinions, and tha t acquaintance with God, the one am | only Mind, brings into operation tn e true healing law, the law of God, or o = divine Mind which frees from tn = mortal mind and it's diseased belief. t In fact, the three material system e deal with both matter and Spirit a d realities, cooperating and coalescins f Christian Science, however. declare = there is but one reality, namely Spiri f God, divine Mind, and It's expression t also that material existence is but Q temporal falsity which only seem d real to the mortal or carnaI though n Christian Science further declare it that an understanding of God and ( - spiritual being will deliver from nor 0 tai thought or from the carnal min k and from it's dream, mortality. ThI n absolute, invariable. understanding C h spiritual thinking is what the Scrip t. lures describe as the Mind of Chris ,s or the Mind which was in Jesu if Christ.
 As The Thinking of a Christian Seienti. t. Essentially intelligent
 st I would ask you to consider seriou, i- ly whether the Christian Scientist = less intelligent, less scientific. le: r. cultured CT less Christian because