The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-04-02
PrOgress-A Law of God

Progress is a law Of God. This IL
why there is in the heart of every
human being desire for improve
ment, for progress into better
things, better living, greater free
dom, joy, and security.
Material Beliefs Must be Reversed
The way of true scientific prog
ress, as taught by Christ Jesus, is
the way of spiritual enlightenment.
way of instruction, the correction
of false material beliefs with spirit
ual facts. To apprehend a divine
fact and allow it to govern our
thinking and living in place of its
opposite false belief, is true prog
ress. The Christian Science text
book, "Science and Health with Key
to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker
Eddy Up. 1927, says that if we wish
to know the spiritual fact, we "can
discover it by reversing the mate
rial fable, be the fable pro or CON-
be it in accord with [our1 precon-
ceptions or utterly contrary to
them" In this scitneific process of
reversal we discover that poverty is
not fact, disease is not fact, sin
is not a fact, war is not a fact,
death is not fact, but in spiritual
reality abundance is fact, sinless-
ness and health are facts, peace is
a fact, Life is fact. "The spiritual
reality is the scientific fact in all
things" (Science and Health, p.
207). This is a very comforting
thing to remember when we are
told, as we so often are, that we
"must face the facts" This de-
mand to face the facts usually
means something most disagreeable
and, at times, most terrifying. One
may, for example, be called upon
to face what materia medica has
pronounced the fact Of an incurable
disease. What is the spiritual real
ity in such a case; the scientific
fact to which we turn our thinking,
and which we face with confidence
and trust? Even this: in divine
Science the health Of man is an
established, inviolate fact, a pure
state of spiritual being. That fact
cannot be disputed, displaced, or de-
stroyed by any opposite belief, no
matter how desperate that belief
may be pronounced by so-calied
medical laws. Sickness or disease,
of whatever name or nature, can
no more disturb, or destroy the
health of man in Gods image and
likeness, than can the belief that
two times two is ten alter the fact
it is four. This truth that mans
health is an invincible fact in the
reality of Spirit may be proved by
anyone willing to acknowledge the
allness of the one perfect Mind and
his relationship to that Mind; will
ing to surrender the belief in q
self apart from Mind; willing to let
drop the thoughts and qualities Of
character unlike good, which may
seem to have found expression in
sickness, suffering, pain, or disease.
AS we "let this mind be in [us1,
which was also in Christ Jesus"
as we allow the gracious qualities
of this Mind to outshine the OPP
posite claims Of fear, resentment,
loneliness, greed, lust, etc., this
Mind manifests it's own dominion,
and it will be found that the heal
ing of mortal mind is the healing
of the body.
Science and Christianity
Inseparable
In his miracles Jesus gave evil
dence of what must have been an
exact and scientific knowledge
which he possessed of God, causa-
ton, but he did not leave US a scien-
tific exploitation of that knowledge.
(See Science and Health, p. 147.)
That, he promised, would come
later. He said: "When the Com
forter is come, whom ! will send
unto you from the Father, even the
Spirit of truth, which proceedeth
from the Father, he shall testify of
me: When he, the Spirit Of
truth, is come, he will guide you
into all truth; for he shall not speak
Of himself; He shall glorify
me: for he shall receive of mine,
and shall shew it unto you" That
Mary Baker Eddy was able to dis
cover and give to the world this
Comforter, or Science of Chris