The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1943-05-01


OF consciousness anything needing
forgiveness. destroying the belief OF
persons injuring or being injured
A poet has said
walking In . quiet way
! heard to-day
wise man say:
Would you rather see your foe
driven low
or driven high7
Reply
Reply
Would you rather see your foe
suffer harm
or suffer changer
On point as needle-smail
trembles all.
God. Truth. Unlimited
one OF the most binding and
binding beliefs OF mortal mind idol
airy Is the belief In limitation. In q
finify. Mrs Eddy has some very tn
teresting things 70 say about -finity."
"finiteness' For instance. she gives
Il as one OF the definitions OF ser
pent" Science and Health. p. sea-.
who IN the allegorical description OF
creation given in the Bible. repre-
sents the first lie or claim OF life In
matter. Mrs. Eddy says in her book
"Retrospection and Introspection"
70. 81. The first iniquitous mani
festation OF sin was fnity." Again
in another OF her writings The
Peoples Idea OF God. p. p she
speaks OF the belief OF God" being
unlimited" This Is what q knowl-
edge OF the liberating Truth does for
Us 1t enables us 70 unfinite our
concept OF God and His expression
OF Himself. man. In this way we
also unhnite our concept OF Life and
see Life as Mind. indiyisibie. never
IN any way or at any time associated
with matter. never confined in or
subject 10 matter bodies. never de-
pendent on matter as medium OF
expression. Life is joyous. sinless.
incapable OF discord. decay. or de-
feat. Error. the lie. cannot defeat
Life. Truth. Life has nothing TO
do with either calendars or calories.
The superstitious Belief that Life IS
IN matter includes the belief that
Life must pass out OF matter and so
somewhere Life does not come and
60. any more than Truth comes and
goes. Life is ever present and avail
able. II is to be found only in divine.
fetierless Mind and It's divine quail
ties. Those divine qualities are never
found In matter OF any form--rlot
even In what IS called human body
or person.
According TO physicists the hu-
man body is made up OF purely ma
terlal elements. ingredients OF the
simplest kind. such as you serve on
your dining table, salt. sugar, water.
etc. Can these ingredients do your
thinking for you? No matter how
finely organized they may seem 70
be. can they confer upon you intel
ligence. love. courage, Joy. peace.
health. pleasure. or pain7
Christian Science teaches that the
human body is not composed OF ma
terial elements and ingredients, but
that Il Is composed OF false mental
concepts OF Life. substance. and Gre
alton, 20 be corrected by spiritual
understanding OF the supreme Prin-
ciple OF life called God. This spirit
ual understanding saves us from that
body idolstry which is the result OF
ignorance and superstition. false
education. and which is the seeming
cause OF all fear. These false con-
cepts OF Life and creation cannot
stand in the light OF pure logic. It
Is scientific impossibility for the
greater TO be confined In the lesser,
for intelligence 10 be subject TO nom
intelligence. for Mind 10 be inn
prisoned in matter, for Spirit 10 be
subject TO the flesh. for man, the ex-
preston OF God. 10 be confined in
and the slave OF physical body.
II II both scientific and moral
impossibility for evil 10 overcome
good The testimony OF the physical
senses contradicts this. They often
present 70 us the picture OF good
human being overcome by disease
and an honest mortal defeated by
trickery. But. on analysis. It will be
found that the goodness OF the hui
man so-called mind Is always mixed
with a belief In evil, and so ceases
70 be pure goodness. The SUPPOSE
tional human mind thinking good
Is. OF course, better belief than the
same mind thinking evil. but 1t Is
silll in the realm OF unreality--sup-
position. II is still a false sense OF
mind, dealing with material beliefs.
balancing good and evil. 1t Is not
the one and only divine Mind. in
capable OF knowing or cognlzing evil
Jesus rebuked this personal sense OF
goodness when he said why callest
thou me good2 there Is none good
but one. that IS, God"
This mixture OF good and evil Is
the explanation OF the seeming
injustice OF good mortals sometimes
experiencing suffering and OF
honesty dsarmed by dishonesty and
deceit. When honesty Is mixed with
a feA>pf dishonesty and belief IN
rs power the position OF the honest
human being Is weakened. and ne
becomes the victim. not OF dis
honesty. but OF his own belief ir
dishonesty and fear OF SIS power. Sc
II Is with some phases OF the human
mind which seem TO be perfectly
moral. generous. kind. and loving
and yet seem 70 suffer from somt
painful disease. Again that sense o.
goodness Is mixed with the belief II
the reality and power OF evil in the
form OF disease or. perhaps. In somt
hidden sin. and so this sense OF
goodness becomes impure and the
victim OF suffering because Of ~
own idolatry.
Today We may repeat the world
OF the Apostle James out OF the
same mouth proceedeth blessing anc
cursine. Ny brethren. these thingi
ought not so to be- Pure monothe-
Ism Acknowledges only blessing. the
blessing OF that one Mind which 10