The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1922-10-30

dragon m cast out by the worn OF
their testimony" Christian Science
showa this TO mean that the dragon
~ evil II east out by letting our
consciousness bear constant testi-
mony 10 the facts OF God and His
creation,
Sometimes the evil mind argues TO
us that we are out OF our place or
that we cannot find our place. The
student OF Christian Science would
overcome such an argument by turn.
Ing, IN thought. at once to the order
which he knows God has appointed,
In this order Of wisdom aud love each
individual has his place and his part.
Love provides equally for all. No
creature can be misplaced, displaced.
or unplaced. Fear, selfIshness. and
sin cannot be used by error TO hide
from man the order which God has
ordained No creature can crowd
out any other creature for each and
all are made by God and must see
and flll the place which His wisdom
has appointed. Therein IL happiness
and success. II IL not a question OF
where we would be. Il Is question
OF whore God would have us TO be.
When our motive II unselflsh God
will work through us TO direct us In
VISIONS pathway. "Her ways are
ways OF plcasantness. and all her
paths are peace" (proverbs 3. III.
You will see. think. that the
practice OF Christian Science is but
the displacing In thought OF the evil
y and erroneous sense of life with the
: true and harmonious facts OF the God
? appointed sense OF life. II Is simple
In method. but II requires courage,
/ honesty and perseverance. The re-
! ward Is great for the world knows
9 no Joy comparable with the unselfish
= Joy OF sin conquered. sickness healed,
!. burdens lifted. through the under
p standing OF God. Hundreds OF thou.
Il sands are winning their mental vic.
!. tories over every form Of sickness,
d discord, and sin. You can do the
$ same
y THE MISSION or JESUS CHRIST
y Perhaps the work Of freeing our
n selves from material laws may seem
g large undertaking. We may not
be able to fold our tents and leave
Is the deserts of wrong thinking In q
h night, but we can at least be on the
II move. Let us remember often that
t. howsoever steep the way may seen
n Il has been explored before us by
v. the Wayshower, Christ Jesus, who
e nulllfied every material law ant
% proved that individual man by his
i. right mental effort may and must ris,
ID from bondage In matter to his nat
.e ural sonship with God.
III We lose much II we think of Jesus
Ell as altogether different from our
Is selves. The material body of jesus
re was made of the same fleshly ele
is ments as yours and mine. Paul sayi
a that he was tempted just as we are
s but without sin. This must meal
I'd that evil argued to him just as !
s, does to us, but he was wise enough
,e to decline to believe 1t real. HI
le knew too much about God to accep
x. it. His modes of thought differed
III from ours only in that he under
at stood more fully than we the Father
fe hood and Motherhood of God an'
IS mans divine sonship. He said, "
fe am the way, no man cometl
re- unto the Father, but by me-" (Johl
IN IA, g.. What can this mean7 |
m means that only as we become at
10 one with the very mental processe
II. which he showed forth do we flint
If God and our well-being.
u. Jesus was confronted as we ar
IN with the persistent false claim tina
to matter is cause and law-giver 70
m man, that it makes and destroys him
n. cripples and blinds him. imposes al
te manner of misfortune upon him an,
to that there is nothing for him to d.
40 but submit to its decree. But her
40 is the difference. He knew wthou
n. shadow of doubt that man doe
TO not have to submit. His clear under
th standing of the allness and supre
to macy of God enabled him to realiz
ve that every element of matter, whethe
it was the water in the Sea of Galile
or the storm tossed air above it, tn
- food for the multitudes, or the fles
- and blood in the bodies Of ailin
~ mortals, is subordinate to divine il
r. telligence and impotent to harm
- limit, or destroy the creation an
:, the creatures of God.
: This lowly man of Nazareth reall
understood, despite all the contradit
- tions of material sense, that 9TH
~ kingdom of God is at hand" (Mar
~ /, 15), that within the reach of ever
- individuals apprehension is the tru
'o creation, spiritual and divine, whic
~ the temporal, material sense of lif
IS never touches or intrudes upon; tha
IN mans true self is spiritual, tral
% scending material birth and paren
ne age, one with the eternal Mind the
W. is God. Fortified with this unde
ot standing of eternal things he coul
lh' and he did fearlessly face and d
'a. stroy the worst that matter and mo
ms talty could claim. The dead wei
ul raised, the so-called incurable heale