The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-02-18
mans oneness with the atmosphere
of Mind appears.

mans oneness with the atmosphere
of Mind appears.
1t is said that in industrial and
commercial pusuits more hours of
labor are lost per annum by reason
of colds and maladies traceable to
the material atmosphere than from
any other one thing. Christian
Science shows that it is fear of
the material atmosphere and be-
lief in its ability to bring sickness
on mel. that needs TO be Destroy
ed. This is done in the degree
that we come to understand that
man is really spiritual, not ma
i terial, and lives in the atmosphere
of Spirit, Mind, not in negative,
/ gaseous matter Mortals label the
material atmosphere hot or cold
and accord it power to harm or
destroy them. But matter hot, or
matter cold, has no more inherent
power over Gods man than it has
over God. and millions of wrong
thinking mortals cannot alter this
spiritual fact at any season of the
year.
A Christian Scientist was once
confronted with symptoms of a
serious cold in his throat. It
seemed as though he would be un-
able to fill several speaking en-
gagements just ahead of him. The
forces of the material atmosphere
appeared to have produced an
alarming condition on his physical
body. Matter was claiming that
it. not Mind, was controlling him
and was interfering with his eX-
pressing the activity of Mind in
spoken words. He knew he could
be free If he could but realize
clearly his spiritual nature and the
atmosphere of Spirit, Mind, as the
+ atmosphere of real bling.
He reasoned that his only real
selfhood was constituted by Mind
of the ideas and forces OF Mind.
Among these ideas were such ideas
as honesty, justice, kindness. He
saw that they We're never affected
BY climate, by heat, or by cold.
Honesty could not be baked or
summer as in winter. Kindness
was beyond the touch of draughts
or breezes. They belonged to
Mind and expressed its atmos-
phere. Since his one real life was
constituted of these and other
ideas Of Mind, all as equally i'm
mune to material atmosphere as
they were how could he be in
reality affected by the mindless
material atmosphere any more
than they were? He could mol
he so affected, for Mind, Spirit
God was the one real substance
and atmosphere of his being. In
few hours every symptom of the
cold vanished. The spiritual idea
of God, man. and the kingdom
had brought TO his thought an
awHreness of the presence Of
Spirit and its atmosphere of health
and his oneness herewith.
The True Sense OF Substance
What is real substance is a
question that the individual must
correctly answer before he can find
the kingdom. for there is nothing
to or in the kingdom but real SUD-
stance. Jesus once said rich
man would find IL difficult to en-
ter, or become conscious of. the
kingdom Of God. Later he said
that with God $ help the rich man
could find the kingdom within
Probably Jesus wished TO emphs-
size the point that. TO find the
kingdom of God within. one must
have the correct sense of sub
stance. whether to human sense
he be rich or poor. The rich man
may think matter is substance and
he possesses It In lands. money
and so on. The poor man may be-
lieve that matter is substance and
he hasn't il. but would be very
well pleased If he had. Both must
learn that matter is never real
substance. for it is the opposite of
substance, which is Mlnd, Love
God.
With fearless directness Mrs
Eddy challenges the common be-
lief that matter is substance. She
SAYS in Science and Health (pp.
sac, $500: In Christian Science
substance is understood 10 be
Spirit while the opponents OF
Christian Science believe substance
to be matter. They think Of mat
ter as something and almost the
only thing. and Of the things which
pertain 10 Spirit as next 10 moth
ing. or as very far removed from
daily experience. Christian Sci
ence takes exactly the opposite
view" On page ass Of the same
book she states: Substance is that
which is eternal and incapable Of
discord and decay. Spirit, the