The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-02-18

synonym of Mind, Soul, or God
is the only real substance.
Substance, we need to see, Is
living, active, intelligent Mind and
Minds ideas. 1t is neither static,
inanimate or animate matter.
Substance is God, real Mind and
His thoughts. The good Samari-
TAM in the degree he expressed
unselfish love for the man VINO
had been robbed, expressed real
substance. To the priest and the
Pharisee, who passed by the
thieves victim. pride and hypoc-
risy were substance. One who
visited South Africa years after
David Livingstone explored its
dark places writes of Livingstone
CAS- you cross his footsteps
mems faces light up as they speak
of this kind doctor who passed
there years before. They could
not understand him but they felt
the love that beat in his heart. 4"
That unsettled love was real SUBJ
stance.
Jesus understood and demon
strated that mans only real self
hood is the continuing manifesto
ton of indestructible substance.
This selfhood has the substan-
TALLY of God which it expresses.
His faith, hope, mercy, wisdom,
and goodness We're real substance.
So you and l have substance as
we have and express unsettled love,
true intelligence, and other quail
ties of God
Because God is all substance
there is no place where substance
is not, for God and His ideas fill
infinity. The kingdom within us
is filled with the omnipresence of
Life, Love, Mind, God, expressed
as the real consciousness, life, and
action of man. Man and SUBJ
stance are insepara BILE, as God and
idea.
In the kingdom there is no eff
fort or desire to get something
one has not. There is nothing
which God does not already have.
is there ? God is All-in-all. the
sum of reality. And the sub
stance and completeness of God
are manifest only in the substan-
TALLY and completeness of man,
Man, as Gods expression, lives To
express the tireless giving of God.
u,, hn 4. t,,p,
No bitterness. no active or lurk-
ing resentment are in the king
dom-conscious thinking of man.
Someone asked Jesus how many
times we should forgive one who
wronCed us and continued to dc
so. Seventy times seven times, he
said, which meant we should never
stop forgiving, no matter how per-
slstent error might appear to be
When we stop forgiving. which
means the giving UP of our be-
lief tnat error can harm us
through person. we lose the
spiritual idea of existence and the
kingdom within. which il alone re-
veais In the kingdom are God
and His individual ideas, all loved
by God and all loving one another
by reason Of His love, which they
express. To believe in a material
order and that we and our brother
are environed therein and engaged
In a duel of hateful thoughts is
surely not the way TO think diff
ferently" and find the kingdom.
IL is the surest way TO stay out
Of the kingdom and stay in the
cockpit of matters hell.
II evil suggestion tempts you to
engage in a mental or verbal
wrangle with your brother. ston.
Turn thought TO the infinite God
and His infinite kingdom Of true
ideas. Think Of what is there and
what is active there now. Through
spiritual sense you will find God is
still filling infinity. His kingdom
is still universal and intact and
your selfhood and your brother s
selfhood are thinking. acting. low
ing, and living in perfect concord.
You must both have the same
Mind, for there is but one. who
ever animstes you with under
standing and good will 10 each
other. What IS the use Of wasting
time lingering in errors conten-
tous dream, when your one true
home. Loves kingdom, is as near
as thought And you will find
your brother there too. If you do
not find him there you haven't
found the kingdom. Look again.
The spiritual idea Of all things
will always enable you to see your
brother and yourself Alright II
enabled Jesus 10 see through the
mists Of sinful personality and per-
oeive the sinless. real selfhood Of
the Ma gdalen. the living sslfheod
Of Lazarus. the faithful selfhood
OF Judas. and so 70 realize that
sin, death, and treachery never