The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1923-11-23

generally, vet IL we accept this TACT
We must ADMIT that Ii fellows thSt
the offspring OF spirit must be
spiritual end not material. Cur. d.
vine Inheritance Is found in spirit
ual perfection and spiritual Joys,
which are permanent and substan-
tial. The real man. the manifesta-
ton OF Spirit, Is as Jesus said. born
OF the Spirit, and not ofathe nesh.
las ideas OF mantle Mind We ex-
press the health. the strength, and
the deathlessness OF infinite Life,
Do you think that infulte Life could
istence,- that II could become sick
or old or decrepit? Since God is
Life, Mans divine Inheritance lis a
perfect understanding OF spiritual
existence, free from sickness and
forever manifesting the power aud
vigor of ms eternal Principle.
THE most satisfying term lCr God
is Love. One of the most beautiful
things about Jesus ministry is his
teaching of the fact that God Is
Love, but how shall We define Love?
Man has defined his highest human
sense Of love as that quality which
causes one to appreciates, delight IN
and crave the presence of its OBJ.
ject, and to promote the welfare or
that object. Infinite Love appreciates
and delights in its perfect man and
promotes his welfare. Divine Love
Is infinite peace and harmony and
goodness. Every desirable thing Is
included in divine love.
What Becomes Of Natter
"If it be true that Gods creation ID
spiritual, we shall have to dispose OF
the So called creations Of matter.
Christian Science teaches that the
material creation is but q manifesto
ton Of beliefs that are the opposite
OF, or counterfeits of divine laws.
Mrs. Eddy has denominated all that
is not Of the divine Mind, not Of
Spirit, not of Truth, az mortal mind,
but she points out that mortal mitd
il only name which she has given
to beliefs which are really not mind.
because divine Mind IL omnipPesent
and there Is no place for mind OPP
posed to God. The Bible uses the
term 'carna1 mind or mind OF the
flesh to express this same. thought,
and insists that this so-called mind
is enmity against God. John says,
For all that Is in the world, the lust
OF the flesh, and the lust OF the eyes
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Father, but is OF the world. It Is GER
Father II Is not real, not genuine, and
1t has no Truth in It. Johns state
ment that the whole world lieth in
wickedness,' Is translated in the Re-
vised Version and the whole world
lieth in the evil one and shows
clearly that John understood that the
material world was entirely apart
from God, good.
Now this teaching OF the un-
reality of matter is the teaching OF
Jesus and his disciples, deduced from
their understanding Of God, but II
we must have evidence from So
called material science there Is much
that Is available.
"The trend Of modern material in
vestigation Is to recognize matter as
less and less substantial. 1t Is main
tanned by some or the greatest mate
rial thinkers Of the day that all we
know OF the material universe is
what the physical senses tell us, and
that what we believe about 1t may
not be true at all. Further than this.
It Is maintained that the things
the apparent manifestations OF energy
or thought. Scientific deduction de-
clares matter simply the effect OF
unseen law or thought. The material
Laws or beliefs, of which mortals and
the material universe are the sup
posed manifestations, are what Is
named In Christian Science mortal
mind.
at is not maintained by Christian
Scientists that the material beliefs
about man and the universe do not
seem real to the human conscious
ness, but experience has shown that
they appear less and less real as we
become more and more spiritual in
our thinking.
Salvation From Human Beliefs
"It seems evident that the material
man needs to be saved from himself
and from his human legacy Of sin,
sickness and death. The failure to
find relief from the human sense OF
suffering through material means
causes human thought to turn to the
divine Mind for help. 1t is fortunate
that the so: called human mind can
yield to the divine ideal when
comes to recognize that in no other
way can 1t escape from. itself. The
recognition of the real man and OF
his perfect Principle destroys the be-
lief in sickness and leaves in Its
place better concept Of health and
holiness.
"The way in which the divine Mind
operates to heal and to save Is de-
scribed by Mrs. Eddy on Page Isl OF
Science and Health: the divine
Mind makes perfect, acts upon the
so called human mind through truth,
leads the human mind to relinquish
all error, to find the divine Mind to
be the only Mind, and the healer Of
sin, disease, death.
There has never been and there
can never be more than one way by
which we may be saved. This way
is through the coming Of the Christ
to human consciousness. This is the
way by which we appropriate our
divine inheritance, and destroy the
legacy Of sin, sickness, and mortality,
which we have OF the world. Down
through the ages this understanding
of the Christ has come in varying
degrees to those who turned from
materially and who undertook to
enter in
Proof Through Application
Having then In some degree laid
hold on the fact Of the real mans
perfection, his freedom from the
by anplying 1t. The application OF
Christian Science is generally spoken
of as Christian Science treatment.
It is not q. formula, but a question
of right thinking. When there comes
a discordant condition into human
thought, we are to turn from 1t, rea-
liking that because 1t Is discordant,
It Is not Of God. Then we go to the
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