Montana labor news., 1944-02-24

evil, no condition, no experience in sin
or disease, can shut the door to good
because good is omnipresent in true con
seriousness.
AS We spiritually understand that God
omnipotent good, is the only real power
in the universe, is always present anC
active in expressing goodness, we SEE
that man, the likeness of God, good, ha,
all that God gives and thus is Away;
safe in the omnipotenee of good. Anc
the wonder revealed in this statement
is that it is demonstrable and is being
proved every day by thousands upon
thousands of Christian Scientists.
The Real Man
In Science and Health with Key tc
the Scriptures Mary Baker Eddy, the
Discoverer and Founder of Christian
Science, states very clearly the following
Up. 1922: Jesus was born of Mary
Christ is the true idea voicing good, the
divine message from God to men speak
ing to the human consciousness" And
at another place Up. 473) Mrs. Eddy fur
Their clarifies this point, stating: Jesus
is the human man, and Christ is the
divine idea: hence the duality of Jesus
the Christ"
The distinction between Christ and
Jesus is one of enlightenment. The
Christ is eternal, while Jesus was born
of Mary's pure spiritual concept that
God is the Father of man. Jesus was
subject to WEAKNESS, munger, loneliness
at time, to suffering, and to doubt. The
Christ has always dwelt in the presence
of God, untouched by evil. Because OF
the advantage of his birth, Jesus was
able to make use of, to approximate the
Christ, to have a spiritual association
with the divine, and so become Christ
Jesus, our Master. Christian Science
does not take any honor or proper recog-
milton from our Master, but explains his
life, his character, his works, so that
we can more intelligently follow him.
The same Christ is present to bless us
as it did Jesus, to lift us out of physical
sense to the realization that man is per-
feet, the expression of Cod, good. The
Christ, the truth about man, enables us
to express good, to be good, to stay good.
because all that God creates is good.
How glorious is mani How wonderful
to be just like Godl Have you ever
paused to consider the glory of your real
self, the likeness of the wonderful, the
only God? Such contemplation shows
the material of man to be a trav-
esty Of the spiritual reality. Man is not
a mixture of real selfhood and Of some
thing else entirely contradictory to that
selfhood. He is not spiritual and mate
rial at the same time, but he is his real
self, which is all there is to him, the
infinite expression Of God. There is only
one kind Of man, the n of Gods ere
ating. There is only enc God, omnipo-
tent good, and one man, who is spiritual
and perfect.
In The Christian Science Journal for
August, 1912, in an article entitled INC
Evil Power" there is a quotation from
Mrs. Eddy, as follows: Did you but
know the sublimity of your hope; the
infinite capacity of your being; the
grandeur Of your outlook, you would let
let error kill itself. Error comes to you
for life, and you give it all the life it
has" Think Of it, the infinite capacity
of your being; the grandeur of your out
look!" How We may pause before this
vista-man, u real selfhood, the eX-
pressed image of good, altogether per
feet with no mar or even the possibility
of blemish-always like God.
The Revelation of the %OmnipOtence
of Good
Christian Science reveals that God is
good n that good is God. The power
of good is the power of God ever bless
ing it's spiritual creation. Good is always
within its own omnipresent realm Of
divine Mind, keeping dominion over all
blessing all.
God is always expressing Himself in
goodness, and as we know God to be
infinite Love we find that Love is cease
lessly loving; otherwise it would not be
Love. Good is ever active, ever loving
We need not do anything to bring gooC
into action, for it is already omniaction
Our work as students of Christian
Science is to make use of these funda-
mental facts or truths. Music, arithme-
tic, engineering, and the arts have basi,
rules or facts always in operation il
their own realms, but useless unless pu'
into practice.
Christian Science gives us a definite
demonstrate understanding Of the d.
vine Principle of good by which we solv'
the problems of human experience anC
overcome evil with good, the omnipo.
tence of God. This omnipotence is thu
power of good, the activity Of Love. A
we realize and demonstrate more ant
more the allness Of good, we prove how
easy and simple it is to be loving, tt
express good to others.
The Christian Scientist
We are Christian Scientists only a
we utilize the law of good, express har
mony, reform the sinner, and heal tn
sick. If we are not practicing thes
truths in some degree, then we are no
Christian Scientists. A person was one
heard to say that he was a wonderful
musician, but admitted upon question
ing that he played no musical instru
ment, did not sing, compose music, o
conduct an orchestra. In spite Of hi
negative answers, he still inconsistent
D insisted that he was a wonderful must
clan.
In the Manual of The Mother Church
E The First Church Of Christ, Scientis'
in Boston, Massachusetts,, Mrs. Eddy, it