Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-01-24

man to keep him in all his ways.
Isaiah sought to turn the thought of
his people away from this erroneous NOR
tai concept Of man with the admonition,
Cease We from man, whose breath is
! in his nOstrils: for wherein Is ne to be
| accounted Off" Isaiah > :22). In other
words, stop thinking of the mortal ma
terial sense of man as the true man, for
there is absolutely no way =. to account
for him as n creature of God. In Romans
0 IS Paul makes the perfectly explicit
statement They which are the children
of the flesh, these are not the children
Of Cod and elsewhere he speaks of the
imperative necessity to put off =.
the old man, which is corrupt and
4. put on the new man, which, after
God is created in righteousness" (Ephes-
ians 4:22-24). The Bible depicts the ma
terial creation and material selfhood
only to show its falsity and the way to
It's overthrow through the understanding
Of true spiritual being
! The fact Is as the Bible makes very
plain that the one true and enduring
man, Gods man, is as stated in the first
cnapter OF Genesis made in the likeness
Of God, that is he has the character and
nature OF God. and why should this not
De SO! Does not cause produce an
elect Ike itself? Jesus made it plain
thdt TINS IS the fact when he said, II and
my rather are one John 10 :30l one
that is, in quality and nature Often he
Teierred 10 the Father which dwelt in
MN, II other words the Mind of good
or God which was his consciousness, and
TO Phulip he said, 7 am in the Father
ana the Rather in me" John IA no. Man
Is predestined TO be the living witness
| or evidence Of God, His expression and
CONSCIOUSNESS, even as the sunbeam is
/ ever the witness and evidence OF the pres
:, &c OF the sun. Gods one agency of
expression is the spiritual universe and
| spiritual man
christian Science not only presents the
/ rue concept Of man but shows that it is
| d tLSIuaole IN some considerable measure
| t4sHL mere and right now. IL shows that
IN each and every one of us. and there
IS no exception, no, not one. there is a
natural ability and competency to men
| IeLy work our way out Of the wilderness
| or material beliefs, oug or the net of
material selfhOOd into our natural unity
| and agreement with ever present good
/ Mind, the consciousness which is God
our real life and being. The process is
/ Wlouy mental, as PauI Indicated when he
/ said, BE ye transformed by the renew
| Ing OF your mind" (Romans 1920
! APPLICATION OF
! CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.
Well, then, how does one begin to
apply the teachings of Christian Science
| First of all he begins mentally to resist
| evil. He follows the Scriptural advice 10
resist the devil, which his study of Chris
! tian Science has taught him is but the
counterfeit evil mind which tries to Oper-
are through evil thoughts projected into
MS consciousness, or through the phvsi-
cal senses. lie learns to become a sentry
| az the door Of thought and TO reject
! every thought or suggestion which is
not good, IS not an expression Of God,
the one real Life, for he mas taken his
/ mental stand for what God has made him
| to be and he is determined to assert
and prove his mental and living unity
with the Mind and Life which Is God
knowing that 1t is natural and right for
hlm to do so and that Cod has endowed
him with the ability to do 1t.
peace OF body and mind as persistently
as our soldiers have fought physically
for peace among human government
The real and final battle ground OF hu-
man progress IS the consciousness Of in
/ diyidual man.
The mental attitude which 1t IS neces-
Sary for one to adopt in the practice Of
Christian Science is indicated IN some
/ measure by the mental attitude which
an actor must assume in order to be
successful IN his part. He must be will
ing 10 put of without reservation his
every day sense Of selfhood and think
/ and act only as the character be IS to
represent. II he tries to be half his
| ordinary self and half the character he
Is depicting he viii only be a failure.
There must be a complete surrender in
/ thought Of the one seifhoOd and a com
plete acceptance OF the other. He must
/ think. move, act, and De only the char
/ acter he is representing.
/ So il is when we use Christian Science
must DauuOn the old concept OF self
/ hood and put our whole heart Into think
! ing and living as Gods man. In place
/ Of selhshuess we must be unselfSh aud
kind for hate we must substitute love,
/ for self-will we must express humility,
for impurity we must think purity. A
good thought must take the place OF
! every evil thought. Unlike the actors
part this change is not for a moment
I old man Of matter, earth and mortality,
and are putting on the new man, the real
man Of God making our true selthood.
/ The point we need % remember IS that
we can't play two parts, as the devil is
ever trying to get us TO do. AS many
as are led by the spirit Of. Cod says
I Paul, they are the sons Of Cod (Ro-
mans S:14). We viii have to choose be-
tween the spirit Of God and the spirit
Of evil.
Now Of course we do not get out Of the
meshes Of false material education in
day. But we must begin II we are 70 at
tain. Emerge gently from matter into
Mrs. Eddy's counsel. The difficulty Is
that some lay so much emphasis on the
gently that they fail to emerge.
REALITY AND
! UNHEALTHY.
Enough has perhaps been said to show
that Christian Science sets up n different
/ standard than that accepted by the
world as 10 what is real and unreal. It
does not accepE everything as real just
/ because q claim is made that q thing Is
/ real any more than we accept everything
as true which is told us. Only that is
/ regarded as real in Christian Science
which can be attributed to God, for since
+ He is the only real cause there can be
no real effect from any other cause.
Judged from this standard one can see
/ why 1t Is that all evil, discord, sin and
disease are regarded by Christian Science
to be unreal They have no relation with
: God or His perfect creation. The effort
Of all mankind to be rid Of evil shows
that we instinctively repudiate 1t in our
| thought as being unnatural and so In
the last analysis unreal. Christian Science
does not say that sin, sickness and dis
cord are not very real to the material
light Of the spiritual sense Of being
which overrules and trunscends material
sense they are seen as false claims about
true life and existence. Nor does Chris
tian Science ignore such conditions. Bath-
er does it show men how 10 destroy them,
for being negative and false they are to
/ be overcome by replacing them in thought
with the concept Of what is diviuely true.
/ he who believes that evil Is real and that
I God sent ii has no business at all trying
to get rid Of i.
/ II. then, evil is not real, what is It
you may ask? It is false belief. IS
for every fact you may suppose its CO
pOsite the lie about it, so the sum of [ Il
is the lie about God. universal good. L
is a bastard lie and ceases to have any
recognition or place when the truth is
/ realized. Jesus made this plain when
he spoke of evil as n liar In which there
/ is no truth and pointed the way to mans
[ liberation from 1t in the we'll known
( statement "Ye shall know the truth, and
The truth shall make you free" This
| brief statement summarizes the whole
/ process Of Christian Science practice and
Is the law that defines the line Of march
for all human progress.
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