Milford chronicle., 1940-12-13
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
lContInned ION &c 81

breaks with false beliefs: he Il
noil-conformist. His thoughts rui
counter to the majority OF humal
opinions. He adheres to the real an
rejects the counterfeit as spurious
He Is unafrslid OF evil, that Is, h
dceg not believe IN it. To fear any
evil ls 70 accept It for what It claim
10 be. II fear OF evil enters thl
Christian Scientists thoughts, villa
does he dot He denies its reality
How2 BY the simple alternative o
fearing God instead, that Is, by be
lieving In good instead OF evil. TIL,
fear OF the Lord Is belief in, faith in
respect for God as All-in-AlI. Unit
one has made nothing OF error one
has not mastered Il. Rather he has
let II master him. Just as SIN makei
the sinner, so the belief Of disease
makes the sick man, the belief oi
poverty makes the poor man, the
belief Of limitation makes the lin
tied man. Sin, disease, poverty,
death, all belong to the world OF
make-believe. Just so the belief in
sickness is punished by the exper-
fence Of it. The beliefs Of poverty,
lack, limitation. death. are punished
by the experience OF them. The pun
ishment lasts so long as the beliefs
last, and no longer
A mirage is deceitful, mesmeric,
and confusing because II misrepre-
sents the real Drug and other ma
terial systems of treating disease
invariably confuse men, and create
and foster false trusts. Health can
not be built on medical theories, for
they are invariably negative. On
the other hand, no evil can control
heart, mind or body when confront
ed with the corrective truth. We
embrace our bodies in our thought;
and we must embrace health,
wealth, and wisdom in our thought
IL we are to be healthy, wealthy and
wise. Science and Health tells us
that Consciousness constructs
better body when faith in matter has
been conquered" p. 425.
One literally feels ones way in
Science, through spiritual sense.
This is the only true sensation.
Material sense argues falsely for 1t
denies spiritual sense. Material
sense might be called negative rea-
s0ning, which is not true logic but
Just another term for error and evil,
and is never correct in premise or
conclusion. Negative reasoning
would have 1t, for instance, that de-
preston, whether mental, bodily, or
economic, is the result of untoward
physical, mental, financial, or social
conditions. But positive reasoning,
which alone is spiritual and scien-
tifie, denies that there is causation
either in matter, or in wrong think
ing. Rather, positive reasoning de-
claFes that the qualities of health
and harmony, ETC., are as permanent
in man as in God. Hence one is well
and harmonious now and always. |
So under correct, that is positive rea-
soHing, demonstration is possible, |
for it allows spiritual sense, or un- !
of the eternal facts Of
being to be exclusive in thought, and |
hence normality and harmony to be
inclusive in body and life. Positive |
alone adheres strictly to |
divine Truth and Love, and cures the |
bad effects on body and mind Of
negative thought. Christian Science |
calls for living above error and COR
recting it, by strict adherence to
divine Truth and Love" Have faith
In God" MARK 11:22) said Jesus.
Loyalty to good, to the real, to the
normal, is liberation from the alb
normal. Fidelity to Spirit and spirit
nal realities, fidelity to the right
Idea, is divorce from matter and dis
nnoun To /
cord between Christ and Belial.
In the textbook, Mrs. Eddy enjoins
upon all to defend themselves
against sim" Sin is wrong thought,
lence it is in mortal mind always.
Sin, all evil comes to human con-
,ciOusness as selfs own thought. 1t
comes in the first personal pronoun
angular. Therefore aggressive sug-
,estion is the sin and the sinner. Yet
I is not a person, and one is not
for it beyond his neces-
ity to guard against 1t and disown
t and reject it. And, by the same
oxen, evil, since it is not a person,
nut false belief, is not the other
elbow. To guard against all forms
nd presentments of evil is to real
is, to make real--the moth :
ngness of evil. There is no other
ray to guard against it than to inn =
evil, that is to abstract
from self and from all other
elves. To leave il as personal at
II is to concede its existence and
over, and to expose one to its mes
leric Vaccinations. One could new
/ be safe If error were person or
thing. Aggressive suggestion,
rental malpractice, is not your mind,
or is it the other fellows mind.
e belief that it is either is falsity,
, be rejected, not allowed.
One OF Mrs. Eddy's chief charac-
,ristics was tolerance, but her toll
rance was not conformation. She
the great Christian rule
lat one must work out ones own
llvation, even while following the :
iOtsteps of Christ Jesus. So she
,inted the way. But she never in
sted that anyone must do as she !
,unseIled. The real man is free to .
, right only, and mortal man is
ee to choose between Science and !
lffering. Mrs. Eddy never inter- |
red with that free moral agency I
Nv SON." said the Preacher, "if
nners entice thee, consent thou Z
IT." (Prov. 1:10l. IF sinners en- !
q thea suggestion perhaps of
ar, a medical theory. a physical
agnosis, belief Of an epidemic or
epidemic of beliefs, claim Of in
rability, or Of chronicity, a belief
at matter is curative, sense Of
sasure in matter, sense Of pain,
Just plain blues-"if sinners en-