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in his heart, 50 is he" Thus he points
out the significance of thought in rela-
ton to human happiness and health.
False beliefs, false reasoning, are obiec-
titled in abnormal bodily conditions.
Likewise discordant business affairs, un-
happy human relationships, failure, and
Illustration are all the result of wrong
thinking. When we begin to look away
from matter to divine Mind to find hap
piness, health, peace, and harmony, our
improved thinking is expressed in our
human experience.
Man
We can recognize man in Gods like
ness only by first understanding the
nature OF God. Mrs. Eddy gives the
definition of man" in Science and
Health (p. 59l) as follows: THE COM
pound idea Of infinite Spirit; the spiritu-
al image and likeness Of Cod; the full
representation of Man"
The image of the perfect God is per
feet. If we acknowledge God as divine
Mind, we see that man in His image
and likeness is wholly intelligent, and
that he reflects at all times the divine
wisdom Man is both the idea and
expression of God Christian Science
makes clear the distinction between man
as Gods likeness and the sinful race Of
Adam, or mortal man, by teaching us
how TO distinguish the real from the
unreal
A woman who had studied Christian
Science for many years was faced with
physical illness that seemed to resist
the application of the healing truth
When others failed to help her and her
own prayers were unavailing, she turned
in complete surrender to God, and
prayed for light On one occasion she
opened Science and Health and her eyes
fell on this sentence p. 1901, "As mortal
mind is the husbandman of error, it
should be taught to do the body no harm
and to uproot its false sowing" IN
stantly she saw with dismay that, al
though she understood that man is
spiritual, she was still thinking of her
self as a person with something dis
cordant to be healed In other words
she had been accepting mortal minds
supposed verdict. Turning away from
all suggestions Of a material selfhood,
she recognized that, as an individual
idea of God, she was complete, free.
rejecting the wholeness and perfection
of divine Being. AS such she was
necessary factor in Minds perfect ere
alton, and could never be separated from
Cod. She continued to hold her
thought steadfastly to this fact and
allowed no adverse suggestions to de
ceive her Soon the physical ills began
to disappear and harmony was retored
This experience convinced her that
the man of Gods creating needs no
healing, for here and now he is perfect
and immortal. As thought surrenders
the limited personal sense Of self. and
recognizes the true status of man. for
ever one with divine Mind it discovers
mans indesructible unity with all
things spiritual and harmonious.
Jesus and the Christ
Jesus patiently taught each ones in
dividual relation to God Christianity
as he presented it, applies to every indi-
vidual Through his healing work, Jesus
showed those who were teachable how
to find their unity with God Likewise
through Christian Science one discovers
his spiritual selfhood as the manifesto
ton of divine Mind.
Jesus explained the Christ and proved
himself to be the Son of God. Accord
ing to Christ Jesus own statement, Be
fore Abraham was I am" this Christ
was far anterior to his day He knew
that the Christ is divine, and incorpo-
real-the idea of Truth the Principle OF
which is divine Love. It is through this
same redemptive Christ, Truth, that we
too today are finding our true spiritual
being as revealed in Christian Science.
When the coming of the Messiah was
prohpesied through the centuries most
of the people look for a king SO the
Jews could not see the incorporeal
Christ manifested by the human Jesus.
The second coming of Christ was prophe-
sled for this age, yet many are stu
looking for a human mediator between
God and man. Christ, as we read in the
Scriptures, is "the way, the truth, and
the life" Christ reveals the fundament-
al oneness of God and spiritual man.
in which is no middle wall Of partition, "
as st. Paul calls it, and no need for a
mediator.
Christian Science Healing
knowledge of the allness Of God is a
law of elimination to everything unlike
good. Mrs. Eddy writes miscellaneous
writings, p. pa, This knowledge is prac-
tical, for it wrought my immediate re-
covery from an injury caused by an acci-
dent, and pronounced fatal by the ply
sicians" Religion is Christlike only
when it repeats the works, as well as
the words, of the Wayshower, Christ
Jesus, and this is what Christian Science
is teaching us to do.
I know a woman who thought she had
finished with everything worth while
She was suffering both mentally and
physically. She would not go out in
public and often refused to see her
friends. Her son being somewhere in
foreign fields, she eventually went to
live with her daughter-in-law. also a
Christian Scientist With the help Of a
Christian Science practitioner and the
loving cooperation of the daughter-in-
law and others around her, her thought
was so released from bondage that when
small position was offered to her she
had the courage to accept it. Almost
Immediately she found she was physically
well. Through her evident capability and
adaptability the work developed into
something important and brought her