Arizona republican., 1921-01-31

For instance, if you stood at your front window and saw a man with a club in his hand approaching the
 house and knew from current report
 that this man would, if permitted to enter the house. maltreat it's occu-
 pants. would you sit down and with out resistance, suffer the mans as sault? Not at all: you would bar tho doors and windows and resist to the limit of your strength. Yet you doubtless permit all sorts of unhealthy diseased thoughts to enter your con- sciousnesS daily and hourly with little
 or no resistance. perhaps are not aware that you have d sure defense. To it. lustrate. almost daily one hears dis {, cussions and declarations of disease, lack envy, greed. and other undesir-
 able states of mind and body. More i frequently than otherwise the listen
 CTS to these discussions instead of
 discounting or denying their reality, ' admit them into consciousness as real
 and true; and thus are implanted seeds , that produce far more distress and
 suffering in their fruition than would f result from the assault Of the man
 with the club.
 A notable instance of suffering and 1 destruction resulting from this mental attitude is witnessed in the lives of
 ichildren There is a common belief
 entertained by a majority of doctors
 and laymen that all children must be
 the victims of certain so- called chil- - ldrens contagious diseases. Many eX- :. lcellent mothers in most respects are ' inever happy and satisfied with their . children until each child has expert- = enced every one of these children 2 z diseases. lest forsooth the child might sfr It f,, lt41A Fg l, with more pernicious effects.
 What a cruel and unnatural belief
 that our God who is Love would make
 a speciality of afflicting and destroying
 helpless and innocent children. How
 much more natural and helpful it ls = to know and understand that God wht S is the author Of good is never the aa- v thor of evil.
 e Thus we need to bar the door of oui
 consciousness against the admission
 of all such harmful thoughts of dis ease and evil Likewise we need u s know when the human consciousness - becomes spiritualized through righ T thinking and knowing, and man is re ~ vealed to be the manifestation o - Spirit. not matter the divine Mind I " reflected and man is governed by God
 Mrs Eddy says, God will heal tn Y sick through man. whenever man i -N governed by God (Science an' - Health, D. 495). As the light of thi ,' healing truth is carried into that con Y. sciousness darkened by fear and fig s norance, it banishes all sense of erroi - even sickness. as we'll as sin, and il ;, llumines that consciousness with ligh - and love Tn speaking of Jesus treat ,a ment of the sick during his earthl ministry, the Christian Science tex :. book says. Jesus beheld in Scienc 2, the perfect man. who appeared to hir - where shining mortal man appears | ~. mortals. In this perfect man th oe savior saw Gods own likeness. an S this correct view of man healed th = sick" Science and Health, pp. 4 ,e and 477)
 V God. an infinite. eternal power. ,s always present in the world to heal tn 1 world of all its sickness and to solv 1-- all its problems. He comes not | o Christian Scientists alone, but to a
 who approach Him through a spiritu; = understanding of His infinite powe s+ It is the mission of Christian Sclene of to help men and women to come int i the relation or understanding In whic
 they may recognize, 10 use a scientif
 expression, their at-one-ment vii dZ God. When a mans consciousne:
 l reaches that state Of understandin an he will be healed of any sickness ar ls whatever his problem, 1t will be solve 'lu In many Christian Science meeting an at the regular church services, and an tlectures. men and women do come Iy n realization and understanding thi on this power of God is present in the Sy lives and they are healed.
 to Man
 tt This brings me to a discussion ,as what man is. and of his relation
 if God Tn the hook of Genesis al ,r- found two distinct and dlssimilar a is- counts Of mans creation. Until
 studied the subject Of Christi' .be Science | never saw the distincti' m between these two accounts of cre' av ton. yet the yare quite unlike. arc In the first chapter of Genesis, Il 'n1. record runs. "So God created man -es His own image. in the image of Go nd created He him. male and female CT zno sted He them" Christian Scien lbsi teaches that this is the correct a i'm count of mans creation. It sets for ne the spiritual man. When Chrastn fbe Science says that man cannot be SIG
 of nor suffer. nor sin, nor die, retereh fhe is made 10 this real man, this Go nc created. this spiritual man: or. to U
 is q scientific term, this God idea.
 ov Christian Science teaches that ere ent tion is not the molding of forms c bat Of matter. but is the unfolding md spiritual ideas; that men and wom his are ideas of God. of infinite Mind. fine is fine mental and spiritual grow hey Co dwell in the consequences or m moil vav spiritual being and enc is led there
 us to see the force and truth of M we Eddys statement on page IA of Sciet nes and Health Become conscious for He single moment that Life and intel nan eence are purely spiTiiual--neither ess. nor of matter. and the body will tf the utter no complaints. If suffering fir or a belief In sickness. you will find vol see self suddenly well"
 he'd Other systems of religious instr de ten have likewise taught the peri nk- ton Of spiritual man, but they h.
 not made their teaching practi'