Montana labor news., 1944-06-08

healed her. Through prayer, earnest
seeking, and a diligent study of the
Scriptures, she found that her healing
was not miraculous, but was in perfect
accord with Gods will and the divine
law. The results of her labors are most
beautifully and clearly set forth in the
Christian Science textbook, Science and
Health with Key to the Scriptures, ="
where she writes (p. 226) The voice Of
God in behalf Of the African slave was
still echoing in our land, when the voice
of the herald Of this new crusade sound
ed the keynote of universal freedom, ask
ing a fuller acknowledgment of the rights
Of man as a Son of God, demanding that
the letters Of sin, sickness, and death be
stricken from the human mind and that
its freedom be won, not through human
warfare, not with bayonet and blood,
but through Christ's divine Science" We
know that Science is divine knowledge
or demonstrate Truth. Then that which
frees us, unfetters us, and redeems us is
an understanding of that which is true,
real, and actual. All bondage m
from ignorance or false belief, and that
which frees us is spiritual enlightenment
and demonstrate perception of divine
facts. Jesus, our Way-shower, pointed
out the way of true salvation in that ma
jestic statement, IF We continue in my
word, We shall know the truth, and
the truth shall make you free" and in
the Christian Science textbook We have
this beautiful %correlative (p. 1901: 1T is
our ignorance of God, the divine Prin-
ciple, which produces apparent discord,
and the right understanding Of Him re-
stores harmony"
God is Good
What, then, is this right understand
ing of God that makes us free, restores
harmony, heals disease, and reveals life
eternal? One of the first things that we
learn in Christian Science about God is
that He is wholly, entirely, and COM
pletely good. The Psalmist declared.
Thou art good, and doest good" Again
he declares, 20 taste and see that the
Lord is good. blessed is the man that
trusteth in him. In strict accord with
this scientific definition of God, Chris
,tian Science declares Miscellaneous
writings, p. 26), "The Scriptures nam
Cod as good, and the Saxon term for
Cod is also good. From this picture
comes the logical conclusion that God is
naturally and divinely infinite good The
fact of the goodness of God at once
utterly destroys one Of the chief sources
of mortal mans enslayement, namely,
duality, or a belief in the reality and
existence of both good and evil. The
cardinal point of Christian Science is
that God is infinite good; that He ere
ates only good, knows only good, pro-
notes good, and that His creation is
primarily and unalterably good. Then
Gods handiwork expresses good, reflects
good, and manifests good. There is moth
ing wrong or ungoodlike in or of Gods
creation.
Gods Power Is Good
The ever-availability of good at once
destroys quickly and utterly the fears of
the human mind, and brings freedom.
It mas been found and proved in Chris
ton Science practice that much of the
fear Of and bondage to evil springs from
the belief that man lives in a creation
where both good and evil operate; that
he is subject to two powers, one of which
is beneficent and kind, and another
which is affective and harmful; that at
n time he is controlled by that which
is right, and at other times by that
which is wrong. Christian Science, the
Science of infinite good, ~repudiates and
d%isproves these wrong assumptions, and
then the fear resulting from these false
and erroneous theories is annihilated
God made mar in His own likeness, and
man is a part Of Gods creation. God
governs His own creation, and hence
governs man, and that is in a just, true
and right way. In the realm Of infinite