The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-06-28

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While our thinking Is eloEged Wit
falsely educated material belief
in a material selfhood, no wondei
we do not a. once fully oonpre
bend mans higher self and us
what charactcrizes his immorts
Identity. But We begin BY per
eeiving some of the divine qualities
Of the true man, his Codnkeness
humility. faith. courage. love, IN
seifizhness. As we love and livs
these. we find ourselves nearel
their source. and our source. IN,
Mind that is Deity. We find :
friend in his qualities. SO We find
our eternal Friend by loving and
living His qualities. Spiritual quail.
ties alone qualify US 10 become
conscious Of our sonship with God
Sin L. What.
Sin IN its larger meaning il
something more than violation OF
certain rules Of conduct. A young
student OF Christian Science once
defined sin ~ the acceptance of
the testimony Of material sense.
That Is just 1t. II is thinking false
ly and living falsely. accepting a.
reality the material sense OF ex-
istenee and man, which would
claim 20 substitute itself for Gods
spiritual creation and spiritual
man. All mortAls still accept In a
considerable measure the mis-
taken. sinful concept Of existence,
and consequently sicken. suffer.
and die. As the spiritual idea OF
Life and man is recognized and
chung TO, we gain, step by step.
dominion over the sinful concept
of mortality. and the health and
happiness which characterize Gods
immortal order increasingly ap-
pear.
There Il No Material Sensation
We have seen that true SENSIBLE
ity or consciousness belongs only 10
Mind, God. Matter. which Is the
very opposite OF Mind, God. cannot
have any real sensibility
or sensation. But when one catches
ones finger in the jamb Of a heavy
door as ! did not long ago. and has
the full weight Of the door swing
onto 1t, there IL a very definite
to believe there is SEN
sation In matter. Such sensation il
called pain. Another form of ma
terial sensation Is anger. another
another hate, another
lust. Look them over. They are all
of the same stuff. They are en-
tirely lacking in intelligence. or
rood, yet they clamor that they are
life. painful or pleasurable. But
life Is Mind. God. There Is none
'ther. Says Science and Health
'p. 1879. we apprehend Life IN
Irvine Science only as we live
hove corporal sense and correct
l." But how correct it, What
'esms to be sensation and life. but
las none OF the qualities of real
Mind. the only Life. cannot really
,e. and we must know this.
But what OF the finger? As a
student Of Christian Science I i'm
contradicted the painful
material sensation, declared that
NY life and selfhood were not in
matter or material sensation; that
n reality there was no material
for all sensibility or con-
seiousness IL in Mind only; that the
sensihility or consciousness of
Mind perceives always harmony
and perfection and never perceives
aught that Is painful or discordant;
that man 10 one with and In God,
Mind. not In matter. and as Gods
expression. constantly manifests
The superiority Of God TO harmful
physical forces which are power
less 10 enter the realm of Mind or
distress its representative.
Did the treatment work? II did.
two minutes the pain that
had been excruciating had gone.
and no bruise or discoloration Of
The finger resulted. Material sense
had told lie; got caught at 1t. and
had its mouth stopped. Doesn't the
Bible say. The righteous shall see
Il, and rejoice: and all iniquity
shall stop her MOUTH Shall see
what? The spiritual idea of being,
md seeing this shall stifis and
stop the mouth OF lying material
sense.
Christian Science Treats Thought,
Not Body
How does Christian Science heal
he physical body. IL the body Is
wholly unrelated to God or His
Man ? This Is an oft-repeated ques-
ton. II child wrote on the black
board. In his number work. two
lines three n seven, neither the
,halk nor the blackboard would be
for his mistake. II
Fould Be due entirely TO his wrong
linking. To correct the mistake.
ron would not address the chalk
II the blackboard or the digits on
L You would direct your effort
lolely to correct his thought His
corrected thought would remove
he mistake and cause the true
statement 20 fill It's place.
So when a wrong mental state
lelineates sickness, a mistaken
'ense Of life and selfhood. on the
'ody, the Christian Scientist turns
bought away from material body.
which has no more 10 do with the
lisease than the blackboard had
Nth the child's mistake, and turns