The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-04

human experience through the
understanding and demonstration
of divine Principle. The Chris
tianly scientific remedy for sin and
disease. want and woe. is found
in transformation through the re-
newing Of the mind (Romans 1921.
Observation-Disclosures is natural
and normal. There need be no
mystery about how to acquire it.
As one would not expect to be
automatically minded without
earnest attention to the theory and
practice of numbers. nor to be
legally minded except through
learning the law, so spiritual
mindedness requires devotion Of
thought to spiritual realities. To
love God with all the mind La a
Scriptural requirement.
The great spiritual thinkers who
speak TO us through the Scrip
lures are Of one accord in urging
acquaintance with the divine ma
ture as essential to mastery of
evil. Jesus taught that to know
God Alright is the remedy for all
Ills, even to the realization of life
eternal" the perfection of being.
1t was prophetically said of the
Founder of Christianity that he
should not judge after the sight
of his eyes" nor after "the hear
ing of his ears" physical sense
would not govern his thinking.
The Gospels make it clear that he
was well aware that his sense OF
things was different from that of
materially-minded persons about
him. The immaculate concept of
the Master. pure spiritual-minded-
ness, enabled him to see the abso-
Lutte rightness of Gods perfect
kingdom lin earth, as it is in
heaven" He knew, therefore,
that evil is not the reality it ap-
pears to be, but liar, and the
father of it," self-constituted falls
ity. as he said.
Many who spiritually apprehend-
ed the teachings of Christ Jesus
found that he indeed had come "a
light into the world" Their open
minds were so illumined through
his pure teachings that human ills
became 10 them less real, less a
part of themselves. Thus was
Christian h aling accomplished
without annulling a law, without
altering a fact The lame walked,
the blind saw, the deaf heard, to
the poor all things needful were
added.
Way-shower Is a term for Jesus
of Nazareth which indicates the
nature of his mission. His words
and works show that physical
sense is not to be trusted to reveal
either the true nature of human
Ills or the true way out; that
spiritual sense is fully available
and adequate to dispel the discord-
ant illusions of material-minded-
ness. Jesus proved the correct
ness of the Scriptural assurance
that God, infinite spirit, gives man
dominion over all the earth"
divine mastery over materiality.
The physical healing of Chris
tan Science" writes Mary Baker
Eddy on page XII OF her book,
Science and Health with Key to
the Scriptures" results now. as in
Jesus time, from the operation of
divine Principle. before which sin
and disease lose their reality IN
human consciousness and disap-
pear as naturally and as necessar-
lily as darkness gives place to light
and sin to reformation.
Since the time of Jesus the
truth Of being, in contradistinction
to the human belief in evil, was
not made clear until Mrs. Eddy
set It forth in her writings. Her
statements direct thought TO in
creasingly vivid realization of the
rightness which God has bestowed
on His children. Her spiritual
leadership Is acknowledged by vast
numbers of liberated thinkers.
LIFE SPIRITUAL, NOT
MATERIAL
The common belief about a
mans life Is that he lives within
a physical body, that his identity
Is located inside a material struc-
ture of flesh and bones. How life
got INTO the body. what keeps II
there. how it Il 10 get out, and
where 1t is to go when IT gets out,
are subjects Of much speculation
and little assurance.
An human ills are associated
with the sense of life Ia the flesh.
Therein man is supposed to live a
precArious life and to die an IN
evAabls death; therein are his
aches and pains. his fears and dis
appointments, his sinful habits
devastating appetites, illusivs
pleasures. The sorrows and SUI
ferings from which mortals pray
10 be delivered all have 20 do d.
rectly or indirectly with the 90
called corporal, fleshly selfhood
including that which is called th'
mind within the body. Christian
. Science, concerned with the over
coming Of human ills, that the IN
herent rightness Of Gods creation
may appear, invites men 70 con
slider the ressonableness OF TN
proposition that since discord d
found only within the realm o
physical sense, the way out o
trouble hes through the taking o.