The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-03-10

liar. Accordingly, our funda-
mental need is never the getting Of
material health, happiness, home,
friends, employment, money, and 80
on, but the giving up OF the belief
that man Is either good or bad, sick
or well, poor or prosperous, alive
or dead, In matter or q material
body
In other words, the human body
expresses q material or mortal be-
lief; hence, the only way to deprive
this universal, mesmeric belief COM
monty referred to as material law
OF subject, object, or victim, is to
immaterialize, spiritualize, or purify
so-called human consciousness. 1t
must have been this process that
preserved unframed the Hebrew
boys In the flames of the Babylo-
MAN furnace, protected Daniel In the
den Of lions, took Jesus unseen
through the midst of the mob, and
liberated Paul and Silas from
prison.
The moment one recognizes that
man, as Gods image and likeness,
is not mortal with either good or
bad bodily parts, but the invisible,
impersonal, impalpable idea of di-
vine Mind, God, he will find his
prayers answered and his human
needs supplied, whatever they may
seem to be. Truthfully, 1t can be
said that the less we try to be well
In matter, the less we shall be liable
to sickness In matter. In this way,
we shall begin to realize our fond
est hopes. The Scripture reads, mo
good thing will he [Godl withhold
from them that walk uprightly;"
that is, from them that think and
live above a selfish, personal, bodily
sense of existence.
Allness of Spirit
This practice of trying to change
discordant matter into harmonious
matter, when the truth is that there
Is no matter, binders instead of
helps those who are in need Of heal
ing. God, Spirit, Mind, made you
spiritual and perfect; hence spirit
ual and perfect you will always be,
sense testimony and human ex-
perience to the contrary notwith-
standing. This unity Of cause
and effect, God and man, divine
Principle and idea, must always be
the basis Of ones prayers or treat
ments in order to demonstrate in
human experience true Christian
Science healing.
Can there be infinity of Spirit and
something else? Can there be all
ness of good and something besides?
If we accept the allness and every
whereness of Spirit, we muslin
order to be logical and consistent
admit that neither the first electron
of energy, nor the first atom of mat
ter, nor the first mortal or Adam
man has ever really appeared. Why,
then, should there be any further
mystery about human discord? Is it
not due simply to the supposed de-
NAL of Truth-to the supposed
denial of the allness of God? And
why should there be any further
mystery about heaven or harmony?
Is it not simply the appearing to
human consciousness of ever
present good or present spiritual
perfection?
Several months ago, for example,
young man who had been out Of
employment for quite a while called
upon a Christian Science practi-
toner for help. The practitioner
said: "You say that God is Spirit
and that God is infinite, and yet
you say that here is a young man
out of employment and otherwise
in distress. Isn't that the same as
saying there is something else than,
or in addition to, allness Of Spirit?
Do we not live and move and have
our being in infinite Spirit, not as
mortals, but as divine ideas?" He
admitted that we do. "Isn't ma
terial, bodily personality, either en-
ployed or unemployed, belief in
something besides the everywhere
ness of Spirit?" He admitted that
it was.
Then the practitioner asked the
young man how one would have to
proceed, according to the foregoing,
in order to find employment. The
answer, in effect, was that he would
have to look upon himself as an
impersonal, all-sufdcient, spiritual
idea, instead of an isolated material
personality believing himself to be
out of employment. Well, that young
man left the practitioners office
and, in less than an hour, called on
the telephone to say that, just as
though a hand were leading him, he
had gone straight to particular
place, applied for job, and had
been assigned to the type of work for
which he was best fitted. He has
been steadily employed ever since.
AS soon as that young man was
prepared to lift his thought above
supposed mortal struggling for
livelihood and to recognize his true
self as an impersonal, divine idea
or individual spiritual awareness,
maintained and sustained in per-
petual unity with divine Mind, God,
his problem was solved. Unresist-
ingly casting his burdened sense
upon the ocean of infinite Love, he
was willing that it should carry him
where it would; he was willing to
leave results entirely to Gods UNI
failing law of adjustment. The
human effect was the same as If
infinite Love had been aware Of his
finite need and had quickly sup
piled it.
Mortal Mind Unreal
Now, everyone will admit that he
is never really where the night
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