Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1937-09-23
Continuity of Benefits

when they have just received
- some concrete benefit. that it
cannot last, and that they will soon
suffer some calamity to counteract
the good received. This is the result
of ignorance of the cause, nature, and
purpose of the beneficial effects which
we experience. 1t Is due to the false
belief that evil is as real and power
full as good.
John tells US Il John 2:lT, that
''he that doeth the will of God abid-
eth for ever" Now the prospect OF
abiding forever would not be very
satisfactory If we had to continue for
ever experiencing calamity, discord.
and suffering. Evidently Johns sense
OF immortality included health, Joy,
harmony, that is, perfection, not In
termittently but continuously. In
real being there is steady and unln-
terrupted manifestation of that which
Is wholly beneficial. Whatever else
Sens TO have existence appears only
as mistake, a misconception. The real
spiritual universe, including man, is
maintained and governed by the ever
operative divine Principle, the source
OF all that is beneficial. Mary Baker
Eddy says (Science and Health with
Key to the Scriptures, p. 124). Spirit
is the life, substance, and continuity
OF all things" Since Spirit could not
be the source Of aught that is harm
full or oppressive, it is apparent that
discords are illusions, not actualities.
Christ Jesus was always willing
and able to benefit mankind in what
ever way seemed necessary, and his
acts were in accord with spiritual
law and order He was able to heal
the sick, give sight to the blind, ana
raise the dead, because he refused to
recognize any interruption in the splr-
itual order and continuity of har-
mony and perfection. The Bible tells
US proverbs 2S:10) that 1.-The up
right shall have good things in pos
session." so Jesus cast out evil from
human thought, and wrought untold
benefits for humanity. Health, peace,
joy, and prosperity are natural, and
their manifestation in experience IL
inevitable when we consistently ex-
press the qualities which support
them, namely, honesty, goodness,
righteousness. and spiritual under
standing. 1t is our privilege to pro-
tect ourselves and our affairs by
knowing that there ia no law operat-
ing in opposition to our well-being;
that there Is no power apart from
eternal Love: that perfection 10 an
established and provable fact.
We may deprive ourselves Of
great many benefits by misconcep-
ton OF our true spiritual nature. God
is the creator of perfect man, and
this spiritual man Is the indestruc-
tible and ceaseless expression of ON
Dipresent Soul Everything man pos
mortal Life and Love. Mrs. Eddy
states (Science and Health, p. 325),
when spiritual being is understood
in all its perfection, continuity, and
might. then shall man be found in
Gods image" This is scientific rea-
soning which reveals the unbroken
line of benef1cent activities that are
inherent in true consciousness and
expressed in the ideal man. As we
rid ourselves of the old, WORKOUT
concept of man as material and NOR
tai, we put on the true or new man
with all the attendant benefits. The
ever-available Christ-idea inspires US
to relinquish the false concept of
God, man, and the universe which 10
responsible for . limited, intermit-
tent, and uncertain sense Of harmony,
satisfaction, and peace.
We derive unceasing benefit only
from that which inspires us to spir-
itual thinking and living. for this is
the only way by which we come to
regard good as more normal than
evil, and so escape the penalties ex-
acted by the belief of evil as real.
This is the only way by which we can
maintain the true thinking which un-
failingly contributes to the highest
ends of life. =.
Reaction, relapse, and retrogres-
sion are human concepts. which can
never hinder or stop the continuous
and eternal embodiment of infinite
Truth, from which emanates all that
is constructive and beneficial. II is
normal for us to be happy and heal-
thy; and the law of divine Mind is
ever-operative and available to estab-
lish harmony in individual conscious
ness and experience.-The Christias
Science Xonitor.