Montana labor news., 1946-02-28

ing. Life is a synonym tor PRINCIPLE
God. because it has the elements OF eter-
nitv. Thus unchanging activity, har-
monious continuity and unceasing power
are attributes OF Life. Truth is God,
perfect, accurate, and healing. Love Is
God. tender, powerful, intelligent. and
everlasting. Soul is God; 1t is ra-
diant, sinless consciousness. SPIRIT IS
God, i%ncorporeal and ever present, as
all-pervading and as beneficient as is
the active, wise, and never-iailing Mind
which is God. 1t is such a Ood, the
one and only God, from which divine
law emanates.
For many years the teachings OF the
physical scientists were. if not frankly
athcistic, at least decidedly non-re-
licious. 1t is encouraging to know
that for some years now their attitude
has been changing. Thus the noted
English physicist, Sir Arthur 5. I'd
dington, says in his book, THE Nature
Of the Physical World" (p. 33S) The
idea Of a universal Mind or Logos
would be, l think, a fairly plausible IN
ference from the present state OF scien-
tific theory; at least it is in harmony
with it." And the distinguished Amer
lean scientist, DIR. Robert A. Millikan,
has said on page 81 of his Science
and Life: 1T Gems to me as obvious
as breathing that every man who is
sufficiently in his senses to recognize
his own inability to comprehend the
problem of existence, to understand
whence he himself came and whittier he
is going, must in the very admission
of that ignorance and finiteness recog-
nize the existence OF a Something, a
Power, a Being in whom and because
of whom he himself lives and moves
and has his being That Power, that
Something, that Existence, we call
God"
1t is a great satisfaction to know
that such distinguished physical scien-
fists are beginning to approach, through
their long and learned study, the truths
that inspiration and spiritual revelation
have made clear to the great religious
thinkers of the ages.
Inspired Vision
When | drove over the hills OF Palcs-
tine, and saw the people, practically I'M
changed since Jesus day, the wonder
! of that human life, begun 81 long ago
! in Bethlehem, was greatly emphasized
! for me. Jesus lived as others lived,
t as they still do, and yet mentally, spir-
' itually, he vas i ma totally different
consciousness. That was true OF his
devoted follower, Mary Baker Eddy.
: Although Jesus life and the Christian
S ity lie left with men. enabled Mrs. Eddy
? to live in a very different and more
h en- lightcned world than he, still her
vision cxccllcd that OF her contcm-
p~oraries even as did His.
/, A brief but outstanding experience
OF my life did much toward explain
ing to me the reason for their create
vision. One morning when my hus
band and | were on a train ap
d preaching the Canadian Rockies, W
rose about four o'clock and went on
} to the observation platform. We wer
|c sitting in the dark facing east wheI
n, the train went around a curve AM
n turned our gaze to the west. There
in a world OF midnight darkness
] against a perfectly black sky, was
the most awc-inspiring spectacle eve
:; saw. Great jagged peaks OF fiery ros
color lowered in the sky ahead of u:
After our first thrilled astonishmcr
we realized that the %stupcndous heigf
/ OF the Rockies made it possible for thei
TO catch the sunlight, hours before III
plain even hintcd Of morning.
There, that minute, it came to M
! Why that was the way the consciou:
ness Of Jesus and of Mrs. Eddy mu:
have reflected the rays Of Truth The
thought lowered so high above and bt
You'd all others that they caught firl
the glory Of reality. The light OF Iru'
shone on their lives, and was cxprcsse
in their achievements, while many
their contemporaries were envelope
| in the darkness of materially. Tn;
vision Of reality which they behld, thu
were able to impart to others. Ih
Truth which they saw, they demon
stratcd in their lives that men mig
see and follow it.
Mary Baker Eddy was the Disco
crcr Of Christian Science and 4
Founder OF The Mother Church al
its branches. She is the Leader
the Christian Science movement
all time, through the provisions
the Manual OF The Mother Church a
her other writings. She obeyed t
laws Of divine Principle SO we'll tt
she saw far beyond the usual conct
OF God and man and reality into I
Science OF Christianity. She saw
~allncss of God and the nothingness
any opposing belief so well that
demonstratcd't power OF good IN
own experience to a wonderful degr
She saw the true expression OF 20
man so clearly that she healed cou
less cases Of sin and sickness. )
realized the worlds need for love a
understanding so well that she iount
a church which should "reinstate pri'
tive Christianity and its lost elem
/ of healing manual, p. 10.
Every activity OF this church IS
, the purpose of healing sin and 81
i, ness. Its reason for being is
demonstration Of the Christ, that act
loving. healing influence for &
which Jesus knew and dcmonstra
so well. Unless a branch OF
, Mother Church is expressing the Chr
; consciousness unless it is healing