Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-05-23

disease through spiritual thinking or
right thinking about God and about His
creation. This spiritual thinking, COM
bined with the desire to know God and
TO overcome the qualities Of the carnal
mind In our thoughts and lives, const1-
tutes true prayer, and this prayer reveals
to men the Science of the Christ which
includes all true Science, theology and
medicine. Furthermore, as man under
stands this Science Of the Christ and
strives to live 1t, so that he may demon
strate 1t both for himself and for his
fellow men, he is obeying Jesus COM
mand as given to Peter, Feed my sheep
(Johu XXI. III, for it is only through
the understanding of divine law as re-
vealed in the teachings OF Christ Jesus
that men are going TO De delivered from
evil. Humanity does not need to be fed
any longer on the huskS OF mareflal
theories, for it has already been overfed
on them but 1t does need to be fed on the
divine facts which Jesus revealed to men
and demonstrated for their benefit. These
facts lived and practiced in their purity
and Science must eventually deliver man
kind from all evil
at is sometimes objected that Christian
Scientists are establishing an unnatural
antipathy between the flesh or the ma
terial, and the spiritual because they
teach the infinite allness and supremacy
Of Spirit, God, divine Mind, and the
temporal. nature of materlality. To such
statement that the flesh lusteth against
the Spirit, and the Spirit against the
flesh and these are contrary the one to-
the other:' (Gal. Y. 10. Mrs. Eddy, how
ever, although teaching the allness OF
Spirit, particularly states that Christ Is
the friend of mortal man (Science and
Health, p. 433), and this because Christ
saves mortal man from himself by ne
vealing mans true nature as the son of
God. The effect Of prayer In Christian
Science is not to deprive men % any
thing that is worth having, but to remove
materiality and its effects sin, disease 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 spiritual think
ing.
FEAR CAST OUT BY
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.
"Christian Science handles all mortal
discord with divine law. If the mortal
discord be poverty, If 1t be accident, If 1t
be worry or sorrow, II Ii be human trou-
BILE of any kind, the Christian Scientist
recognizes that these things can only
afflict the mortal mentality, because the
body without a mentality would be I'M
conscious of any of these things. Recog-
nizing that these are all troubles of the
carnal mind or of mortal thought, he deals
with them through divine thought or the
MINI Oh GuElHk. he WISE 0uIlSN4hn SCI
enlist in his prayer or his treatment, Will
always deal resolutely and unfailingly
with the human belief OF fear. AS he
gains experience in Christian Science
healing he will find that fear is an active
agent in nearly every human Ill, and in
most cases If he succeeds in removing and
casting out the fear from his patients
mentality he will heal him of his trouble
at once. Since God, the only presence
and power, is divine Love fear can have
neither presence nor power and the Chris
tan Scientist through understanding the
allness of divine Love proves that per-
feet love Tor Cod casteth out fear
Il John Nv. 49,.
Spiritual thinking, thar is a right un-
Outstanding Of God and OF existence or
spiritual idealism, is not only the way OF
salvation for the individual, but humanity
as a whole owes every step 1t has taken
out Of materialtsm TO this very process Of
spiritual thinking As humanity has
turned thought actively and unreservedly.
not to the things which are seen, but 10
the things which are not seen, and which
are divinely real, then 1t truly has prayed
and this prayer has to some extent de-
livered from mortality and from the eff
fects OF mortality, sin, disease, death and
limitation of every kind. Since salvation,
however. is individual, the important fac
tor is the consecrated thinking of the in
dividual.
LAW AND GOVERNMENT
las REVEALED.
"All thinking people recognize that we
are today living at a time when human
ity's sense Of divine law has not suftced
to deliver II from war from bolshevism,
from class hatred, and from other danger
Gus tendencies. The fact is that human
lty IS still working on the old basis Of
the Mosaic law, which says an eye for
an eye, and men have not yet begun to
perceive and TO demonstrate the law of
Love WHICH Jesus declared and reiterated
time and time again TO be the only way
Of freedom from human unrest. Mrs
Eddy has revealed 10 her followers that
just as hearth and holiness are divine
facts which the individual must obtain
and retain for himself through spiritual
thinking. so also law is a divine attribute
which every individual must demonstrate
for himself. Thus the community viii
obtain law and government based. not on
human opinions, but on universal obedi-
ence to the one divine Mind. God. Mrs
Eddy was so certain Of the fact that true
government is based wholly on spiritual
thinking and not on human arrangements
that in her own Church. which she con
sidered 10 be all-lmportant. since she
knew that II was destined 10 bring the
ldealism of Jesus to humanity in a
clearer and more practical way than ever
before, she established a form OF govern
ment from which she had removed every
possible human equation except a Board
of Directors Of five people. These Direct
ors she did not expect TO govern her
Church. but they were 10 transact the
business Of her Church. The government
Of her Church she left 10 the attainment
and demonstration Of divine government
by the individuals comprising that