The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-06-18

capped In the present This is
pure delusion. and has no founda-
ton in Truth. We learn in the
Scriptures that as a man think
eth in his heart. so is he" What
ever came into our experience that
was wrong was only wrong con-
cept entertained. II was never
true or Celebrated. II was never
any part of reality. The history
of error is dream-narrative, p"
Mrs. Eddy declares. She further
states, THE dream has no reality,
no intelligence, no mind; there
fore the dreamer and dream are
one, for neither is true nor real'
(Science and Health, p. 800.
Mortal Experience a Dream
God made man and gave him do
minion over all the earth. This is
the only man that God made. The
Scriptures tell us of a man who,
through a misconception or mis-
taken sense of things. fell into q
dream, was deceived by evil, and
had certain evil experiences-sin,
disease, and death. This kind of
man is always dream man, and
his whole experience is q dream
experience. Instead of having do
minion over all the earth. he
seems TO be dominated by that
which is evil, wrong. and discord-
ant. We readily admit that a
dream is no part of our real ex-
perience. and that. no matter how
terrifying our dream has been. it
was never true. A dream that de-
picts events which seemed to have
happened twenty years ago is no
more true than one which por-
trays events of the present A
divine fact is always true. but a
false belief is not true and never
was true. The Bible declares,
when I awake. I am still with
thee" AS We awake out of the
dream Of evil. we eognize the
eternal verify that we are in the
realm of divine reality and have
never been outside Of it.
A young man, who was Just
starting out in the business world,
was associated with a man who
had a very serious condition of the
eyes. This condition seemed TO
create quite a fear in the young
mans thought and many times
this untowsrd condition would oc-
cur to his consciousness. After the
young man had become a student
Of Christian Science, this seeming
condition came into his experience
in a very violent form causing
much suffering. One day. as a
result of his knowledge of Chris
tan Science. he saw clearly that
this disease had never been any
part OF Gods creation or divine
actually. He was simultaneously
healed. and the difficulty vanished
and was gone forever. Full free
dom was his when he saw that
the trouble was not true and never
had been. Paul admonishes US 10
forget those things which are be-
hind. A Christian Scientist does
not merely forget undesirable
things which have happened in the
past. but he has learned that they
never were any part of Gods
wholly good creation.
Evil only False Belief
When I was a lad I lived in =
section Of the country where many
good people believed firmly in the
existence of ghosts. In our i'm
mediate neighborhood was an
empty house which they thought
was q place where ghosts held
forth. Evening after evening g
number Of people would congre-
gate in front Of this house and
watch the antics Of the ghosts,
Mysterious lights would appear
and give forth a strange illumina-
ton. Finally IT was discovered
that some practical joker had put
some phosphorus on the walls, and
that this was the cause Of the
mysterious lights. When this was
found out. il was the end Of the
ghost business. Nov what became
Of the ghosts They never were
They only seemed 20 exist IN
human. material belief. They
were never sctualities. but falsi-
ties. What a helpful and healing
truth We find in the Christian
Science textbook Gp. SS5): The