Montana labor news., 1939-12-07

I spoke substantially as 1OllOWS.
ment, declared to them, God is thy
Life"
Fifteen hundred years later Jesus,
in talking with the Samaritan wom-
an at Jacobs well, referred to God
as Spirit. Spirit and Life are synony-
nous terms. They have essentially
the same significance. The woman
supposed God to be a sort of judge
or king who held court in the nearby
mountain. Jesus made it clear to
her that God is not manlike or king
like but that He is incorporeal Spirit
or Life.
New Testament writers following
Jesus spoke of God not only as Spirit
but as Life, Mind, Love. What a
word Mind is for Deityl For Mind
can know all things and be every
where present. But mind does not
differ essentially from life. It would
be rather difficult to differentiate
between intelligence and animation.
Life is the one indisputable fact.
You may doubt most things. You
may doubt everything-except that
you live. You may sometimes Won
der about other people. You may
suspect that they r creatures of
your own fancy. But you are abso-
lutely sure that you exist-exist as
an exhibit of Life. Gods witness,
to use Scriptural language.
Where is that Life? Nearer than
hand or breath or thought if could
be. Paul gives the classical answer
when, in his letter to the Ephesians,
he writes of one God who is above
all and through all and in you all"
What sort of Life must this be? Dis
easeless, ageless, endless. 1t is yours,
genuinely, to the remotest recesses
of being. This is the truth which will
make you free so far as you recog-
nize and utilize it.
People have been healed, by the
very arguments you are now listen
ing to, of such difficulties as worry,
grief, resentments unemployment,
pneumonia, sinus trouble, eczema,
personal injuries, impaired sight and
hearing. There is no reason why
you should not be relieved of your
distress Immediately. Expect it. You
have a right to liberty and useful
ness.
We have thought that life comes
and goes. We have supposed that
life is given to one at the time called
birth and taken away at the time
called death. Yet Life does not come.
It does not age, it does not sicken, it
does not depart. Life is! It wasl It
will bel There can be no escape
from this logic when it is remem-
bered that Life is God. All of which
has tremendous significance when it
is recognized that man is an ex-
preston of Life.
Making the Right Choice
In his farewell address to his peo-
pie Moses said: 81 call heaven and
earth to record this day against you
that l have set before you life and
death, blessing and cursing. There
fore choose life that both thou and
thy seed may live" To appearances
there have always been before man
kind both life and death, health and
disease, success and failure, plenty
and poverty. But human beings
have overlooked the Scriptural in
junction.
They might have chosen Life with
all that that implies, but, giving
credence the while to the devas-
tating suggestions of mortal mind,
usually they have chosen to make a
reality of disease, mortality, and
misfortune. They have done more.
They have argued for these imposi-
tions. So long and so industriously
have they argued that the belief or
mesmerism of disease has become
part of unconscious thought.
Thus it is that people are some
times beset by diseases they never
have thought or heard of. And this
liability to sickness will continue
until men and women rise up and
intelligently challenge disease as a
thing that is not necessary, not true.
Such existence as it may seem to
have is in appearance or belief or
mesmerism rather than in actually.
This is why disease and mortality
can be overcome. Were they actual
there would be no alternative but
submission.
Human experience consists to a
considerable degree in making
choices and decisions. Christian Sci
ence acquaints the individual with
the spiritual facts which enable him
to judge and choose wisely and
rightly. He makes a right choice, he
gives himself a Science treatment,
when he embraces Life and re-
nounces everything opposed to Life.
When he recognizes that Life is ire
pressible, unconquerable, incorrup-
tible. When he realizes as best he
can that this resistless Life is his,
that it is in full and unrestricted
operation right where his infirmity
may seem to be. Which means that
the infirmity is not there, is not his,
is not in existence.
Revolt Against Disease
You do not have to listen to dis
ease when it pretends to argue to
you. Really it has 10 voice, no in
telligence, no symptoms, no pres