The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-10-20


In one place in her writings '(Sci-
ence and Health, page 1867, Mrs.
Eddy defines God as Infinite Mind,
Spirit, Soul, Principle, Life, Truth,
Love-" And in another (Restrospec-
ton and Introspection, page 59) she
writes: Life is term used to indi-
cate Deity; and every other name for
the Supreme Being, if properly en-
ployed, has the significance of Life"
From this point of vantage it is
easy to see how God can be every
where and All-in-all, for obviously
Life, Mind, Principle are everywhere
and all-pervading. No place or pur-
pose, then, remains for man but to
abide in Life and reflect Life. Paul,
speaking on this issue with his usual
intensity, declares that in God I'VE
live, and move, and have our being"
and that God is "above all, and
through all, and in you ALL" 1t is
perfectly accurate, therefore, to de-
fine man as the expression or mani
festation of Life-Life without be-
ginning or danger or disease or end.
DISEASE ExTINGUlsHED
The recognition of this true status
of God and man is the basis Of Chris
tian Science practice. Treatment or
prayer in Science, in the case of sick
ness. consists largely in realizing, as
clearly as one may, the unity of man
with Life harmonious and irrepress-
ible, and the consequent impossibility,
save in belief or appearance, Of mac
ton, inflammation, or infirmity of any
kind.
CONSCIOUSNESS CONTINUOUS
Man, far from being the physical
corporeality he appears, really is an
Individual spiritual consciousness. But
consciousness seems not wholly spir-
itual, not wholly good, but blending
Of the spiritual and material, Of good
and evil; and man appears to vacillate
between righteousness and sin, health
and sickness, life and death. So that
consciousness, mysterious in sub
stance and swift in action, may one
moment sound the depths of Adam
and in another ascend the heights of
Christ.
Life and Mind have always found
expression, and always will find ex-
preston; and that expression is spiri.
tual man, individual spiritual con-
seriousness. Hence man coexists with
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end of years. Not in the beginning
Of ages but in divine Principle has
God created man. Therefore, were
the mist of material existence lifted,
it would be seen that birth and death
are alike unknown to man. In this
unassailable truth lies the remedy for
fear.
And yet, were the entire structure
Of material consciousness dissolved,
there would remain the sublime struc-
ture of spiritual consciousness, which,
like Mind, is from everlasting to ever
lasting. Spiritual consciousness pre-
cedes birth as certainly as it persists
after death. Repeatedly does Jesus
refer to pre-existence as we'll as to
future existence. Father" he prayed,
"glorify thou me with thine own self
with the glory which l had with thee
before the world was" Also, Il came
forth from the Father, and am come
into the world: again, leave the
world, and go to the Father"
NOT BY BREAD ALONE
Poverty in the presence of plenty
q strange paradox truly. Now that
ingenuity has brought forth machin-
cry which all but abolishes physical
labor, mankind is bewildered and
knows not what to do with its leisure.
Still mesmerized by the bygone curse
that man must earn his bread by the
sweat of his brow, people look about
for ditch to dig or a column to add;
and they would make war on the ma
chimes that have despoiled them Of
their drudgery. So the world today,
which might be place of peace and
abundance, with cultural and spiri.
tual development as mans chief &C.
cupation, has, to appearances, become
q place of alarm and want. And the
end is not yet, for the miracle of pro-
duction is hardly more than well
under way. 1t can fill the world with
comforts and luxuries as the waters
cover the sea.
Have we not in all this a hint of
the coming of mans dominion? The
intelligence which almost miraculously
has speeded up invention and released
men from toll, can we not trust 1t to
lead him into higher and richer fields
Of endeavor where work is unlabored
and gloriously productive? Labor, in
Its old sense, is nearing its end, let us
hope; but on the other hand let us
not overlook the fact that man as
Gods representative cannot be other
wise than active, and that work and
business, more and better than have
yet been known, are at hand for those
who have the vision to see.
And men have this vision just so
far as they let that Mind be in them
which was in Christ Jesus. That
Mind holds the solution for the worlds