Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1938-06-10

Commandments, chief Of which Is,
"Thou shalt have no other gods be-
fore me-" Christian Science teaches
that this means we shall accept as
real no intelligence, life, substance,
truth, or love but that which is spir-
itual-of Mind, God The 1sraelites
followed In some degree this law OF
Sinai What did II do for them? 1t
Lifted them out Of a multitude OF
trials and tribulations into q joyous
sense OF Gods love and power, ex-
pressed In the songs Of David. In
his Psalms OF deep spiritual conf
dence and fearlessness this great seer
sings forth his faith in the one God.
Here are some Of his words: "Cast
thy burden upon the Lord, and he
shall sustain thee: he shall never
suffer the righteous to be moved"
HE brought me up also out OF an
horrible pit, out Of the miry clay,
and set my feet upon rock, and
established my goings."
Gods Laws Expressed by Man
God relates His man very closely
to His active forces or laws. We need
to think more of our selfhood in re-
lationship to law. In her work mo
and Yes" (p. I'D, Mrs. Eddy says,
Man has perpetual individuality;
and Gods laws, and their intelligent
and harmonious action, constitute
his individuality" Man, then, ex-
presses in his individuality the ac-
tivity of Gods laws. Your individ-
uality is an intelligent embodiment
of Spirits forces, or laws.
Since the real selfhood of man is
spiritually mental and is the en-
bodiment of law, nothing can really
happen to man which cannot hap
pen to law. AS law Is, man Is. Man
has the pernanence Of law, the fear
lessness of law. He cannot be sick
because law cannot be sick. He can
not die because law cannot die. His
being never begins and never ends,
for law Is without beginning or end.
Gods laws form and constitute him.
They are his impregnable defense.
Hatred, jealousy, unjust Judgment,
can no more harm man than they
can law. He is clothed with the i'm
penetrable garments Of law. Errors
shots and shafts fall outside this
armor, with which God has encom-
passed man. He Is as fully protected
as Is law.
Material versus Spiritual Force
The material mind and its material
force argues to us thus: 81, material
force, make men Of matter, inpound
them in burdensome organism, and
control them with blind physical and
mental forces that buffet and beat
them, and finally destroy them. With
fear, hate, passion, dominate the
thinking of mortals, and with sin,
disease, pestilence, famine, accident,
decrepitude, and war impose upon
them my destructive sway. They
are the unhappy slaves of my tyr
amy, the victims Of my unholy will.
I, mortal mind and material force,
arH god alone Of the material realm,
and there is none to contest my power
or overturn my goddess sway"
What saith the Christian Scientist
to this lie Of material force claiming
to be law? In substance this: "Mor-
tai mind and material force, you are
ignorant, destructive, untrue. Your
negative nature separates you from
real intelligence, God, the only Life
and Mind of man. You are not the
cause or substance of man, and you
cannot legislate laws, or produce
forces, to affect his condition, nature,
or individuality. Man is really Minds
idea, Gods son, and is joined to God
with eternal forces of intelligence
and love. Over man, Deity's express
sion, you have no jurisdiction. What
you claim is man is a burlesque con-
cept of man, medley Of your false
forces and false thoughts.
From Mind, God, proceeds all
real force, power, energy, manhood,
lutte, loving, constant. He possesses
infinity and fills 1t with His onni-
presence, wherein Is all individuality,
Life, activity. Therein is no place O
opportunity for the destructive forces
Of sin, sickness, war, and death. Gods
rule Is constructive. Harmony, health,
peace, characterize His universe and
His man. Your negative material
substitute for God and His creation,
or manifestation, is, by reason OF Ito
tyuthlessness, condemned to remain
outside the bounds Of infinity In the
darkness Of oblivion. Your seeming
victories are within your own false
selfhood, and you deceive, allure, and
animate only your own lying con-
cepts, never the real individualities
Of Gods making. Your annihilation,
with all that evidences you, is as cer-
tain as Gods a1lness, Gods intelli-
gence, and Gods power. His truth
fulness nullifies you. His infinite life
obliterates you. His universal love
desolates you. The forces OF God les
sen, subjugate, and finally supplant
you, your forces, and your law. Your
end Is to acknowledge your own moth.
ingness, dissolve, and disappear"
Ability, Opportunity, Reciprocity
The law Of God, or Mind, imparts
unlimited ability to man. It Is this
law which assures man Of his Cod .