The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1927-03-11

tern of his present limitation. Chris
tian Science cries with Jesus, the
Master Progressive, "Arise, let us go
hence!" Progress, not time, unfolds
the cure for mind, morals and body.
All those whose hearts may ache,
whose memories may rise up to
plague, and whose courage may fail,
Christian Science would comfort and
assure with the words of Mrs. Eddy:
Progress, legitimate to the human
race, pours the healing balm of truth
and love into every wound" mo and
Yes 44).
Principle and Rule of Progress
Why is progress legitimate to the
human race, and, conversely, why are
stagnation and retrogression illegiti-
mate? For anything to be legitimate
it must occur under the authority of
law. Law-the only true LAWS the
expression of the government of
Principle. The word Principle in
Christian Science means the divine,
infinite Cause or Creator, which, to-
gether with its effect, creation, COM
prises the "AIl in all" of being. The
Principle OF the universe, of all ex-
~istence, is God, Of whom Jesus said
that He is Spirit. This Spirit, or
Mind, or Principle, being infinite,
hence one, there is certainly nothing
beyond its eternal, infinite activity.
or spiritual law. Spiritual law is the
rule of action for all reality, for all
progress; therefore, any other claim
of law must be false. Material laws,
sO-called, are not laws at all because
they advance the proposition of law
that is not spiritual, and there a
be none such. They are but so many
suppositiOns or reversals of spiritual
law. The effort of the so-called hu-
man mind to govern through the be-
lief in law is merely the attempt to
materialize or render finite that
which is wholly spiritual or infinite.
Progress then, is legitimate to the
human race, and Christianity is pro-
gressive, because man is properly un-
der the government of divine Prin-
ciple or Mind, through spiritual or
divinely mental laws. Such control
must be true since there is in reality
no other law than Gods law, no other
source of government than divine
Principle, God. Until material activ-
ity ome under divine direction and
intelligence, such activity cannot
e%ventuate in real progress. What
shall it profit a man if he gain the
whole world of material concepts and
lose his spiritual sense of being, of
achievement, Of dominion? The
psalmist answered that question when
he cried: Except the Lord build the
house, they labor in vain that build
it." A right apprehension of Spirit
and of spiritual law is the beginning
of human progress. Matter and its
modes will never help US to realize
divine Principle and its law. But in
Christian Science we may take up
one by one, so-called material law;
and by a process of reversal arrive
at spiritual law. Thus every ma.
terial hypothesis will be found tt
represent falsely a law of God. The
reversal Of error with truth is a rul,
of progress.
Reaction a Foe Of Progress.
How well I remember that day il
my college course when 1 ATTENDED
my first lecture on physics. The pro
fessor, whose ec~centricities were ira
ditiOnal, after carefully surveying tn.
new class, suddenly asked of me tn
question, "What is the natural stat
of matter?" Having been forewarn
ed, / p~rudently replied, crest,
whereupon triumphantly he shot bac.
mo such thing; it is m~otion!" Hav
ing thus accomplished my discomfit
ure to the great delight OF the elias
and himself, he proceeded. to elat
crate, showing how matter is made {
. atoms, which in their activity, thei
, play one upon another, produce tn
: varied manifestations we see. At n
time, he explained, does a singl
atom ever come to rest, but from II
! c~easeless friction of countless pa.
ticles in violent agitation arise til
$ phenomena of light, heat, color, form
consistency, and so forth. He the
. laid down for us what he termed Il
s basic law Of physics: For every a
E ton there is q reaction, equal
: force and opposite in direction.
: Let US remember that since m.
$ terial growth, construction, progress
: claim to occur under the operation
! positive activity, reaction beir
! equal in force and opposite in dire