The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1922-03-03

the Prefaee to Science and Health
Mrs. Eddy writes these significant
words: Ignorance of God is no lon
ger the stepping-stone to faith. The
only guarantee of obedience is a
| rightapprehension of Him whom to
know Alright is life eternal Be-
cause God is primal cause, the un-
lderstanding of the nature and char
acter of the divine Mind or God is
| fundamental to all true knowledge;
therefore all that is worthy and to
be desired in social, religious, do
nestle, political, industrial life must
be founded upon and express the
basic an dtrue understanding con-
corning God who is the divine Prin-
| ciple of all. Christian Science re-
veals in this connection certain sim
pie truths which are profitable for
consideration. 1t is clear that the
creations of God must be Godlike;
and that because God is infinite
Mind, the creations of God must be
Mindlike. or like the Mind from
which they proceed. Creation, then.
must be the true or spiritual idea
which reflects, with infinite fidelity,
the nature and character of the d.
vine Mind.
Because there is no place conceiv-
able where God is not, it follows ma
turally and inevitably that God,
who is infinite Mind, is everywhere
present and is everywhere intelli-
gently active for good. How can
one conceive of the omnipresence of
God otherwise than as infinite
Mind? One cannot conceive of the
Omnipresence of a material or hui
man personality. One cannot con-
ceive of the omnipresence of ma
terially outlined figure. The Scrip
lures declare that God is Love, Spi-
rit, Truth, Life, Mind. How is it
possible for a materially outlined fl
CURE, or a craven image, or a men,
tai image, to convey an adequate
idea of the nature and character of
infinite Mind and of divine Love-
of the omnipresence of God?
1t is the understanding Of this
fact Of Gods omnipresence that
makes possible the remarkable eff
fectiveness Of what is called absent
treatment in Christian Science. The
divine Mind, God, is everywhere
lpresent. Hence no necessity exists
for the attempt to project thought
to some distant place to heal the
sick; the divine Principle, Love, is
already there and everywhere. The
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not be said to be limited by or to a
personal presence or material en-
vironment A divine idea should be
recognized to be always present and
active because it reflects all perva-
sive divine Mind. To understand
this is to understand, in degree,
the harmony of being.
Basic Error Eradicated.
The so-called human or mortal
mind claims evil to be greater in
power than good. This is not sur
prsing, however, when we recog-
nize that mortal mind holds the un-
worthy and degrading belief that
evil is real and that matter is in
telligent One may not grasp the
Significance of the statement immed-
lately, nevertheless it is true, that
jail of the sin, sickness and destruc-
ton that has come into the world
of human experience has come as
the result of the operation in thot
OFF this degrading belief. Unfortu-
nately for the human race, unin-
structed by Christian Science, hui
man consciousness has lost sight OF
what is wrong. Owing to this err
|roneous mental procedure which ac~
cepts evil as real and matter as in
ltelligent, human beings have found
themselves confronted with seem
ingly inexplicable and mysterious
state of existence, which expresses
itself in sin, sickness, and DEATH
a state or existence wholly without
foundation or support in Truth and
Love, and wholly at variance with
the nature of divine Principle
Christian Science comes to the con-
sciousness which believes evil to be
real and matter to be intelligent
and begins Immediately to remove
from experience the baneful effects
which spring from the error to
which we have referred. This is
done by restoring to the individual
the understanding of what consti-
tutes the nature and character oil
God. and by unfolding the under
standing of what constitutes true
selfhood or the divine "image anc
likeness" Upon the basis of the
I g to-
mans true selfhood as revealed II
Christian Science the individual be
! gins straightway, consciously ant
intelligently. to deny, to cast out
! to repudiate and to refuse to be gov
erned by the suggestions which
F. grow out of the wholly illegitimatt
belief involving the reality OF evi
and the intplIiPpnpp of matter