The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-01-23

ever-present divine law, dispels
those falsities of human belief
which seem so constantly to con-
front us.
Now as for the method itself.
When in each recurring year the
deep snowdrifts on the high Alps
begin to disappear the noun
taineer knows that the winter
frosts and cold are over. He sees
the rich green of springtime blan-
keting and identifying the land
scape. Responding to the warmth
which first dispels the cold, this
wing transformation takes
place. Christian Science teaches
that mortals who come voluntarily,
or through necessity, into the sun
light of Gods invigorating Truth,
experience the same transforma-
ton; and Christian Science also
teaches that this change may
come quite as gently. Jesus stood
forever in the warmth of this
divine Love. He knew that God
was Love, because he never moved
outside the circle where the
warmth of His, Gods, love, might
be felt. Besides dwelling always
in the warmth of divine Love,
Jesus remained perpetually in the
light of Truth. Therefore, the
shadows and the black foreboding
clouds of hate. ignorance, super
stition. rituallsm, and creed only
delayed, never prevented. the COM
pletion of his work. No lie of
disease, of hunger. of want or
failure, ever crossed the line of
his vision unchallenged. The white
light of the Christ, Truth. the
eternal truth of being, so filled his
consciousness that naught else
could remain there.
That is what Christian Science
means by the Christ method
which. It insists. can be and is
being used today. quite as effec-
lively as it was used by Jesus on
the shores of the Galilean Sea.
But there must be kept in thought
constantly a clear sense of what
this ever-present Christ is. Listen
to Mrs. Eddy. In a chapter of
her textbook called Science of
Being" she portrays the Christ in
words so simple and direct. that
once heard and comprehended. the
picture they create must remain IN
thought forever. The invisible
Christ was imperceptible to the
so-called personal senses. whereas
Jesus appeared as a bodily exist
ence. This dual personality of the
unseen and the seen, the spiritual
and material. the eternal Christ
and the corporal Jesus manifest
in flesh. continued until the Mas
ter's ascension. when the human.
material concept, or Jesus. disap-
peared, while the spiritual self. or
Christ. continues 10 exist in the
eternal order OF divine Science,
taking away the sins of the world,
as the Christ has always done,
even before the human Jesus was
incarnste 70 mortal eyes Sci
ence ard Health. p. 334. This
Christ is God made manifest TO
humans. the Christ that saves.
The PRAYER OF Affirmation
Because the Christ has always
operated in human consciousness
according TO a definite law or Sci
ence, and Jesus knew this. his
prayers We're constant affirma-
tons of the ever-presence and all
power OF this Christ-law. rather
than petitions 70 a far-off Father
70 grant him some special favor
Mrs. Eddy's revelation that Prin-
ciple was God and underlay al
being. enabled her TO see the vital
[ truth which formed the basis Of
the Masters demonstration. She
saw that God was Life. All; that
disease. decay. death. being no part
of divine Life. did not. could not,
really exist as fact. that they only
appeared 10 a false human sense
10 be real.
Seeing this. she quickly realized.
and sfterwsrd taught. that the
mos, effective prayer consisted Of