The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-04

10 40 TINS In a perfectly natura
way.
To hold to the belief that mar
lives inside OF a material body on.
must well-nigh ignore the faci
that actual life has not been foune
in the body. Each Of the activities
within the body can be truthfully
described only as an effect o.
something else. II that something
else were inside of the body ii
scarcely could have escaped detec.
ton by this time.
The situation Is illumined BY
such statements as this from IN,
Christian Science textbook. "Sci.
ence and Health with Key to the
Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy
page 20s: You embrace your
body in your thought, and you
should delineate upon it thoughts
Of health, not OF sickness" A
moments consideration makes II
plain that we do embrace our ma
terial body in our thoughts
Therefore both we and our thoughts
must be in fact outside of that
body. One could not well be in
side of that which he embraces
We contemplate our so called
physical selves from without, not
from within.
II man does not really live in
the flesh, then clearly he ought
not to go on believing that he
does. Inspired thought beckons US
out Of materiality. In Genesis we
are assured that true man is the
image and likeness of infinite
Spirit. A psalm reminds us that
we shall be satisfied when we
awake in Gods likeness. the like
ness of Spirit. Isaiah urges,
Cease We from man, whose breath
is in his nostrils: for wherein Ia
he to be accounted of ?" Jesus.
commanding his followers to take
no thought for the body, declares
that real life. life eternal. In a
state of mind. to know God Alright.
st. Paul, seeing that they that
are in the flesh cannot please
God" advises Christians to Guilt
vate a willingness ito be absent
from the body, and TO be present
with the Lord" John, the Revela-
tor, explains the possibility Of be
holding new heaven and new
earth, not material but spiritual
through mental publication.
Christian Science teaches and
proves that to lift ones sense OF
identity and reality up out of the
flesh into infinite Spirit promotes
health and harmony. Thus Chris
tian Science restores that which
was lost, Christian healing.
Life was no mystery to Jesus.
ut Is the spirit that quickeneth:
the flesh profiteth nothing" said
he. The sick are healed and sim
ners are reformed through learn
ing To look outside of the flesh for
that true spiritual animation which
alone Is capable OF maintaining
the universe and all that is therein.
To the Master evidently 1t was
clear that health is primarily a
state Of thought and only second
arily or incidentally a condition OF
body or matter. To him the sick
were those whom Satan hath
bound" the Satan whom he de-
scribed a. liar. and the father Cd
it." a self-constituted hs or false
sense, having mo truth" m b.
Both the casting out OF devils
sick, deluded beliefs, and the
spiritual quickening Of those who
came TO be healed were accom-
plished through the operation OF
the Mind that was in Christ Jesus
as st. Paul describes It. Those who
were healed were those WHOSE
hearts were open TO the regenera'
tive influence of that mind or sense
which perceived and reflected the
absolute truth concerning Gods
creation.
EFFDCTUAL CHRISTIAN
PRAYER
At the beginning OF the ehaptel
on Prayer" in her book. scienc'
and Health. Mrs. Eddy quotes two
familiar statements of Jesus
What things soever ys dssir'
when ye pray, believe that ys re
ceive them. and ye shall hav'
them" Your Father knowetl
what things ys have need Of, be
fore ye ask Him.
Can there be doubt that th'
Master sought to make It eieai
that prayer requires a correct at
titude OF mind On tina part Of th'
one who prays? To pray as Jesu
taught, one must control one
thoughts, bringing them into &C
cord with divine Spirit. This 4
the method In Christian Science.
Since what we need h known
10 the Father. divine spirit, WI
can know what we truly need onl,
through adjusting our sense o
need TO the divine viii. Thu
what things are rightly desire'
VIII be realized Mere wishing
cannot be substituted for prayer
and this must be understood, 70
the human heart might wish 70
things not truly desirable or need
fll. therefore not 10 Be gaine'
. through prayer.
Christian Science Wields N
/ magic wand for the attainment o
{ snyone's Willfui wants T. work
through prayer for ths achieve