The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-23

that these are also the divine sys- tems which are revealed and outlined throughout the Scriptures. and that the Bible is no fairy story. but is, when its teachings are properly un- 6erstood, the book of absolute science, of pure theology and of scientific healing. Christ Jesus the Savior of men foFesaw and foreteld that these three systems revealing the eternal facts of being should some day ap- pear to humanity in all their cer- tainty and science. As Christian Science pertains wholly to God and to Hts creation or to true being, it Is of course necessary for us to con sider what God is before we can proceed.
 Christian Science declares that God Is an ever present divine reality, who Is ever available to His own creation, and is infinitely knowable. His presence and power, Christian Science teaches, are essential to every right activity and consequently to all health, holiness or happiness, and to all true existence. God, Christian Science also teaches, has nothing iu common with materiality. but He and
 His creation exist independent ct suppositional matter and it's so- called laws. In fact Christian Science teaches that God is the source and cause of all that Is true and, there fore, of true existence.
 "The Scriptures use several terms Ra ga4 -I.!. ..sr n@ cepted but which few Christians have understood practically and intelii- gently. Mrs. Eddy has applied these same terms to God, but she has logt- cally accepted the conclusions spout God which these terms indicate. For instance, the Scriptures teach that God is Love, but they also teach that God is Spirit, consequently Mrs. Eddy has concluded that Love is Spirit and therefore that Love is not to be found in material conditions. Also the scriptures declare that Spirit CT God Is infinite and Christian Science like wise logically concludes that matter, or material existence, Is not the truth Of being. In the same way the Scrip lures teach that God is the only cause and creator and Christian Science therefore accepts the fact that the only real or true existence there Is or can be, must be the emanation or ex- prosslon of this one and only cause. God. As God is immutable and is without shadow of turning, His crea- ton must be an emanatton or express sion of immutable Spirit and must consequently be wholly spiritual.
 Ut is evident to anyone who has studied the Scriptures closely that when Jesus declared God to be Spirit he was not declaring God to be some indefinite abstraction, but he was revealing and describing the most certain. the most available and the most stable entity that could possibly be imagined Mrs. Eddy has once and for all taken this word Spirit out of the realm of mysticism and supersti- ton and placed 1t in the realm Of reason and science by explaining tkat Spirit is really divine Mind, or is the infinite Intelligence which krows divinely or truly. It Is cer- tain that when Jesus used the term Spirit he meant divine Mind, for on one occasion he explained quite nat urafly to his listeners tho words that I speak unto you. they are spirit, :" (John (, 63.) In fact Infinite Truth, which includes all divine mentality, is Spirit. Christian Science therefore, te2Oneb that GOu ls ulNiHo Mind or Spirit and that divine Mind is Love. As God is everpresent and omnipotent. the divine Mind which is Love must therefore be the only Mind. Also divine Mind and it's right mental activity must be omnfpotent and ir- resistibie.
 Mrs. Eddy has summed up the cs- senca of her teachings in short statement which she calls the 'scien- tific statement of being This state ment is given on page 46s of her text Look, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" and k as follows. There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance In matter. All is in- finite Mind and it's infinite manifes- tation. for God is All-ip-aA. Spirit IS immortal Truth: matter is moral err TOT. Spirit is the real and eternal, matter Is the unreal and temporal Spirit is God. and man is His image and likeness. Therefore man is not material; he is spiritual" As time goes on it will be found that in this statement lies the crux of all true Science, theology and medicine"