Arizona republican., 1921-11-14

. mand, secure in the assurance. "For it is God that worketh in you" It is evident that the desire to sin or the ability to sin cannot be present with the realization of mans divine unity with good, for sin is a depart ure from good. and could be present. even in belief, in the supposed ab- sence only of God. But Gods omni- presence is evils never presence. Thus the learner catches a glimpse of the infinite possibilities of man at one with God and he strives hence- forth to be like Him, to have the di- vine likeness. Gods everpresence is the everpresence of Good, and where God is, there is man also.
 And so because God is all Being. and has within Himself the qualities of Being, we Christian Scientists are striving to be like Him. Because God is Spirit, we are working to be- come spiritual in thought and deed. Because God is Truth we must be truthful. Because God is Love. we should be loving, lovabIe, lovely. Be- cause God is Principle, we are en- deavoring to be principled in all our ways. Christian Scientists are no longer satisfied with former stan dards of honesty, we are learning that man may be sincere and earn est and yet have little apprehension of Principle. The future of mankind under the government of Principle is foreshown in the progress of Christ ian Scientists today. Let me illus trate how the leaven of Principle is working in human lives. Two Christ ian Scientists boarded a train at the dinner hour and passed at once from the Pullman to the diner. Their des- tination reached, they discovered that their tickets had not been taken up. Now in the old way of think ing these men would doubtless have torn up their tickets. saved them for future use or perhaps sold them, but they had come to know God as Prin- ciple and man as the expression of Principle, and so they couldn't rest until they had acted to their highest sense of Principle. They decided to send the tickets. in to the general of- fices of the railroad, with letter of explanation. Some weeks later, a letter came from the general man. ager of the road. thanking them for assistance in correcting a defective method of handling tickets on that train.
 CHRIST JESUS THE WAY
 Is it sacriligeous to claim ones unity with God? Paul tells us that Christ Jesus, whom all Christians ac- cept as the exemplar being in the likeness of God, thought it not rob- bery to be equal with God" lPhil 1:16.) Jesus made the atonement he proved his unity with God, and sc become worthy to bear the title Christ. "The divine manifestation ot God" (S. & H., p. 5s3-1O) His vic arious sacrifice was complete self denial, utter renunciation of material self hood, or life in matter. with its false pleasures and pain, it's sin. dis ease, discord, and death. The way of the cross was the way out of mat ter, out of personal sense. And or that day of days when Jesus had taken every human footstep along the way and stood triumphant ovel matter, the world the flesh, and al evil, his was the leavened lumI wherein no grain of materiality re- mained, wherein the consciousness o1 spiritual selfhood was complete. And so the real Jesus ascended to thS Father, found his true being in Spirit Thus he worked out a full salvation from sin, disease, and death, ana thus Christ Jesus became The Way for all mankind.
 Contemplating the example of Je- sus and considering his command If any man will come after me, lei him deny himself" the Christian Sci enlist obediently enters an utter de nial of physical selfhood and endeav- ors to be the man God made in thu image and likeness of Spirit, not O matter. He strives to follow the in junction of his inspired Leader
 Thou shalt recognize myself a' Gods spiritual child only" (Mis. P IS. line 14)
 The working out of the false hu man sense of life in matter is prob lem fully demonstrated by Jesus, ana | for which he has laid down for us ; theorem genuine as any geometrica proposition. This theorem Johl i stated: Beloved, now are we tn sons of God" a declaration which h l qualified only so far as to acknowl | edge that to human sense it dotl not yet appear. Christ Jesus achieve ment was final The truth of tn l theorem stands revealed in his ex ample. Truth needs only to be prac ticed. When the geometrician ar rives at the proof of his theorem D. l taking up and establishing each ste of the right process, he writes upol his finished work the letters 70. < D" that which was to be demonstrat ed. If we are to follow the exampl of the Wayshower and write our tri umphant Q. E. D. on life's problem: l We must adhere to the Principle an abide by the rules of Divine Sci
 ence. No mystery attaches to tn | passage from sense to Soul" (S. H., p. 567) Aspiring pilgrims hay
 pressed their feet upon that pat ( n 1 step. since time began, we see tn
 steady gain of man." Right think
 ing begets right acting, and so ste
 by step We shall win our way
 right conclusions. We are persuade
 that ultimately we shall Hay asid
 every weight, and the sin that dot
 so easily beset us7 and prove tn
 liberty of the sons of God. Wine
 Principle shall have wrought it's per
 feet work in human consciousness
 the idea of God will be manifest an
 the new creature will stand reveale
 man in Gods image and likenes
 bearing His name, possessed of H
 qualities, and unlimited in any dire(
 tion of good. And it shall come. 1
 pass that in the place where it wa
 said unto them, Ye are not my peC
 pie, there it shall be said unto ther
 Ye are the sons of the living God (Hos. 1:10)
 SIGNS OF THE TIMES
 Do you doubt that Christian Sc
 ence is the leaven at work in the hI
 man concept of theology? Recent
 I read in the official organ of an ol
 thodox denomination an editorial CT
 titled: "The God We Worship" TT
 theme was expressed in these word.
 '"The last solution is that evil is a
 an illusion, that it only exists bt
 cause we think it does" Tell it n,
 in Gath, publish it not in the stree
 of Ascalonl Here we have orthC
 doxy upon the platform of Christia 1 Science. How much of the old th.