The St. Joseph observer., 1922-12-23

great problem, and that Is to know the |
nothingness of matter or material eN-
istence which is summed up In what |
Is known in Christian Science to be |
the scientific statement OF being:
There is no life, truth, intelligence, |
nor substance in matter. All Is in |
finite Mind and It's infinite manifesto
tion, for God is All-in-all. Spirit is
immortal Truth; matter Is mortal
error. Spirit Is the real and eternali /
matter is the unreal and temporal. |
Spirit is God. and man is His image
and likeness. Therefore man is not
material; he is spiritual Is. * H., p.
4GS).
Did not Jesus enunciate this basic
truth when he said to the woman at
the well in Samaria: God IS a spirit,
and they that worship Hin must
| worship Him in spirit and in truth;
| bringing home to the wOrlu's con-
sclousnCss- the absolute opposite OF
the belief in material existence. To
know God to be Spirit and man TO be
! spiritual is the need of the ages, and
I this is the thought that Christian
/ Science brings 90 The world today. IT
/ man would understood God Alright
] ne must understand God to be Spirit;
/ If hc would understand man Alright
| and know mans power and possibility
| in his right relation TO God. it must
! be through knowing spiritual man.
| This is the message of Christian
! Science.
John, the beloved, writes: by
! Him were all things made, and with
! out Him was not anything made that
was made" If this be true. the
things we call pain, lack sorrow and
/ death are untrue. because God never
| made them. He could not have made
| them; He could not have been the
author of anything SO unlike good
! ness as the pains, aches, and impcr-
. tptttpne tf O1lr human bgiitfg
Someone said: We'll, where do
| these beliefs originator" They are
Illusions delusions. false beliefs; they
| are the result of our wrong thinking,
our ignorance of God, our belief in
! the false testimony of what we call
! the physical senses. We have laid
! great store by the testimony Of the
! senscs,-signt, hearing, touch. taste
and smell, yet we have only to test a
few results to see how unreliable and
how untrue this sense testimony really
is. Take the sense of sight, for in
stance. You can probably find every
day number of instances, if you
look for them, where it is proven un-
reliable. l read only recently the
story of man who was shown a loco
motive for the first time. As he
looked carefully at the great machine,
its movement upon the tracks, his
| final question was: But what will
happen to the locomotive when It
| goes far down the tracks and the rails
! como closer and closer tOgcthcr?" He
had failed to take into account that
delusiou which seems in the distance
to draw rails to a point. The delusion
; | of the sun seeming to move from
East to West is always with us So we
can go on multiplying these instances
Not only are You and / deceived. but
the so-called physical scientists, the
medical men, are deceived by this
false testimony of the senses. When
ever doctor makes a diagnosis and
: very wisely and solcmnly pronounCes
! that you have an incurable disease. h.
is founding that diagnosis largely up-
on the testimony of the physical
senses, which testimony Is untrue.
l read recently of a report pub.
lished in the journal of the American
Medical Association" and written by
DR.. Richard c. Cabot of Boston, As.
: sistant Professor of Medicine at Har.
> ward University in which he stated
/ that in "A study of three Thousand
, autopsies it developed that only fifty.
2 three per cent of the diagnosis were
, correct In other words, nearly one.
; half of the time the doctors had made
/ an incorrect diagnosis.
, This shows that we need never bt
unhappy about these grave diagnoses
: for they are unreliable and mislead
q | ing. When you analyZe sense testi
mony IL is easy to see how it is unreal
| 1bu tdniUl see 'iOu with the sense oil
| sight; you cannot hear God with the
! sense of hearing; you cannot -appre,
, hend Spirit with any Of these physica
I | senses. None of the realities CONT
!, through the physical senses. As Pau
says: The things which are seer
!. are temporal; but the things which
= | are not seen are eternal"
q We must turn from this material ol
= | physical sense testimony to the ap
q prehension Of spiritual things. We
| must begin to know and understand
, that there Is a spiritual law, the su.
: preme law of the universe. We mus
4 ! br!nS our thinking into harmony. into
: / consonanco with this spiritual law
= Someone asks: "l}ut what do yoy
, mean? How do you apprehcnd splr.
: ! itually?' One Of the simplest
- thoughts that came to me Of God be,
ing Spirit and God being all-good ir
the beginning of my study Of Chris.
, ! tan Science was when l looked upor
= the suffering Of a babe. | thought. #
= God is good surely lie would not SEND
! | suffering into the life Of a child. The
: child has done nothing for which n,
should suffer; he knows nothing o,
the so-called laws Of health that w,
= have been taught to observe, and
y ! deny that there can be and evil com,
!, TO this child from God, who is good
=, IT we take some simple thought lik,
a this and ~ every opportunity den,
, ! NA+t l''1'7lbA4AeS VI any lllltlE So ullONlni
= as Gods sending evil into the life o
= n child then affirm that which 1
. true, we shall find our thought i'm
:, proving, through right thinking an,
. knowing until with this spiritualizet
consciousness, we can SEQ that tn
q child is not the recipient of evil from
y the hand Of God, but that IL is re
y flecting only good. that 1t is the mani
a festation Of Spirit. not matter. Like
wise In this larger view we can Sc
a that man is spiritual, not material, an,
- that God is the great governor of tn
4 universe, sending good, and only goo
q into mans life, az that abundantl
- and increasingly: tnen we begin I
- know that all good is ours and W
: prepare ourselves TO receive tina roo
n and understand that there is no VT
- in the belief Of evil or devil. of whi.
- we hear SO much. In the eight
u chapter Of John, 44th verse, we rea
" that Jesus when speaking of thi
. devil or Satan said He was a mur
"a derer from the beginning, and abod
~ not In the truth, because there is n
i. truth in him. When he speaketh
n lie, he speaketh of his own, for he
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