Montana labor news., 1939-12-07

Life, keeping in thought all the time
that it is your life you are talking
about.
In this way you put vital truths to
work in your own premises instead
of idly contemplating them in the
abstract. In this mood you are not
far from invoking the Daily Prayer
set forth by Mrs. Eddy in her Man
ual of The Mother Church: "Thy
kingdom come; let the reign of di-
vine Truth, Life, and Love be estab-
lished in me, and rule out of me all
sin"
Relation of Body to Mind
At the outset of u argument we
agreed, did we not, that God is Spirit,
Life, Mind, Love. Which means that
His people must be mental and spir-
itual, that is, constituted of intelli-
gence. They cannot differ in quail
ity from their creator. A moments
determination leaves no doubt
that man is made of intelligence
rather than of non-intelligence. This
is why he is so secure. Intelligence
cannot grow old, cannot become sick,
cannot suffer fractures, cannot be
extinguished.
All of which reminds us of Mrs.
Eddy's definition of man as "indi-
vidual consciousness" (Science and
Health, page 76). Here again one
observes how safe true selfhood
must be. For consciousness cannot
be seen, cannot be touched, cannot
be put in danger. And yet how real,
how tangible it is. Immediately an
individuals sense of being quickens
as he recognizes that he is conscious
ness rather than physically.
What about the body? Science
teaches and observation confirms
that the human mind and the hui
man body are one. They are diff
ferent levels of the same mentality.
What we call body is the lower, the
grosser stratum. What we call mind
is the upper, the more ethereal
stratum. Together they make up
that intelligence which we call a
human being.
Not a perfect intelligence, certain
ly, but an intelligence which appears
partly good and partly bad, partly
spiritual and partly material. So
that onsciousness appears to be a
mixture of human and divine in
gradients. AS n emphasizes the
divine and repudiates the merely hui
man, one puts off limitations and
mortality and gradually discovers
that true selfhood, the perfect man
of Gods creating, occupies the whole
ground and always has occupied it,
Bodies Come and Go
Since the human mind and the
human body are different layers of
the same mentality, an improved
mentality must bring an improved
body. Better thinking must result
in better health. No mystery then
about the process whereby a Chris
tan Science treatment reaches the
body. To use Mrs. Eddy's inimitable
language, consciousness constructs
a better body when faith in matter
has been conquered" (Science and
Health, page 425). AS one %corrects
the material beliefs, the ignorances,
the mesmerisms which throng the
human mind, one finds that con-
seriousness builds for him a healthier,
stronger, younger body-a more pre-
possessing personal appearance.
Consciousness is continually at
work. The Psychologists say that it
builds each individual a new body
every year or so. Why are the same
scars and limps and idiosyncracies
imaged forth year after year? Be-
cause the individual holds them in
thought. He refuses to forget the
accidents, the ailments, the misfor-
tunes that have appeared to cross
his path in this material world. He
describes them, boasts of them,
whenever he can find an audience.
In short he fills thought with the