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 Principle. Mrs. Eddy discerned that
 everything that really exists has a
 Cause or Principle. This Principle
 produces and controls the object, this
 Principle gives to it's object both
 function and identity, it is to be
 found always in the presence of it's
 object and is inseparable from it.
 The wonder of Christian Science is
 that as one grasps the fact that Tod
 IS divine Principle. one loses the
 false belief that He is an object, yet gains the sense of His nearness, His
 eVerpresence. As it becomes clearer
 that God is God at hand, one c-n
 reach out and utilize His power. Be-
 cause He is Principle, God becomes available for ones needs, hence the ability of Christian Scientists to de-
 monStrate God.
 DIVINE UNITY OF GOD AND MAN
 Mrs. Eddy's employment of the
 word Principle for Deity aroused in- evitable dissent from those whose l thought included only a finite con- 1 cept of Principle as one of a num- Der of material laws and forces, sec ondary and derived, yet she boldly
 proclaimed God to be Principle. She recognized Cause without effect to De impossible, and so she concluded that God without His creation, man
 and the universe, would be impos-
 slble. Therefore a fully descriptive
 term for Deity must convey also the
 thought of Gods handiwork. Prin- | clple, as it Is used by Mrs. Eddy. in
 cludes both Cause and Effect, both
 God and man.
 Very early in the chapter Recapit- | ulation, in the Christian Science textbook. Science and Health with
 Key to the Scriptures, page 465. Mrs. Eddy has asked and answered a I question which fully expresses the l basis of true science, theology, and
 medicine. The question reads, 'Is l there more than one Mind or Prin- 1 ciple?" The answer follows, There
 is not. Principle and it's idea is one, ] and this one is God, omnipotent, om-
 msclent, omnipresent Being, and His reflection Is man and the universe"
 If God is omnipotent, if He possesses i all power, He must be that power i itself, otherwise there would be a
 source outside Himself from which
 to derive His Power. Paul says: 1 There is no power but of God" 1 (Rom. 13:1) If God is omnipresent. and He must be everywhere, for He
 is the infinite One. then He must be
 the eternal presence. Where shall I l flee from Thy presence" cried the l He knows all, He must Himself be
 the infinite Mind. Job declared: ''He
 is in one mind" (Job 2S:13). God is l thus the one Being or Principle, who 1 is the only power, the only presence, l and the only Mind.
 I Mrs. Eddy's exposition of God to | be Principle brings to the student the
 recognition of God and man insepar- l able, and the unity of God and man
 becomes to him vivid reality He I realizes why Christ Jesus so boldly asserted: T and my Father are q one, ,-one as Father and Son, one .l as Cause and effect, one as Mind and
 idea Failing to comprehend Mrs. T Eddy's use of the word Principle,
 some critics might that this point cry: "Ah, Mrs. Eddy is a Pantheist!" Let us see, Pantheism, simply stat ed, is the teaching that God is quan- titatively His creation. that God and
 creation are synonyms. that God is is to be admitted that many religious
 beliefs, some under the banner of Christianity, do so defy things. and even man, for do not some teach that Jesus the man was God? Does Christian Science properly come \ within such category? Emphatically
 no, Christian Science alone of all the denominations, teaches the one
 ness, plus the distinctness, of God | and man. Is it not clear that an idea is the product of Mind? It is the result of creation, of the func-
 tioning of Mind. Now an idea is not
 Mind, nor is there quantitatively any . part of Mind in an idea. If Mind : was quantitatively in it's ideas, Mind would deplete itself by thinking l QuaIititatively Mind is in it's idea, and l the idea is always in Mind. Can you ,.i imagine an idea outside of Mind, a | mindless idea, any more than ar l idealess Mind? Neither is possible Then does it not become luminous T what Paul meant when he quoted 2 ''For in Him we live and move and { have our being" thus expressing the [ unity of God and man? Paul disposed of the shallow charge of Pantheisn :. by adding: For we are also His off s spring. thus stating the distinctness 2 of God and man. Paul knew thai critics would say, "He is a Pantheist '. he teaches that we live and move
 and have our being in God, that mar I is part of God" How conclusively Paul refuted this accusation by thu declaration: For we are also Hi offspring" and how divinely guided was Mrs. Eddy when she made plair the oneness and yet the distinctnes!
 of God and man by the use of Prin' , ciple and Mind as synonyms of Deity The pantheistic dogma that Jesus was God is based on nothing strong CT than his own declarations: T ant my Father are one" If that be helC ; to prove that Jesus was quantita lively one with God. then 1t woult follow that all Christians are God for Jesus said of all believers: An, 3 | the glory which Thou gavest me l l have given them; that they may b ) 1 one, even as we are one" The one s ness to which Jesus referred was no | quantitative, but qualitative. Eve 7 as the ray of light is one with tn sun, yet no part of it, so in qualit, man is one with God, as idea is on ? l with Mind which creates and mani s fests it, yet holds it forever within it's own being.
 f Man then is mental, not physica' l | That is made plain by a simpl |, illustration. No doubt everyone i this audience has loved ones. Wha - is it in these loved ones that call s forth this special regard? Is 7 physique? Primarily no, for phy g sicality is relative, and one who's
 body might be imperfect. who's
 physical beauty might fall far shor l. l of the standard, is often loved nor than an Adonis. If it is physicalit l which constitutes man, it were wis . to select the physically perfect upo . whom to bestow affection, but to D often such perfection cloaks an un l loyabIe personality, while the invali : or physically deficient may have f noble character. No, plainly, on = loves something above and beyon S the physical, and that object of lov . can be only the thought, the idea c
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