Montana labor news., 1946-04-11

The Christian Science Journal. Or you
NAV hear such testimonies By attending
tie Wednesday evening testimony meet
ins OF any Christian Science church.
The healing power OF Christian Science
has also been attestcd by some OF this
,ountrs's leading physicians. who have
admitted in published statements that
there r. no question but that it heals
both organic and functional diseases.
.\ni best OF all. you can prove for your
.cli tina, it heals. and nothing can be
more convincing thaa this.
let rs see how the understanding OF
operates to heal disease and restore
harmony In the first chapter OF Gene
SIS We read that God made man in His
image and likeness. For centuries
Christian people have assumed that a
material, physical. human being is this
image and likeness. and thus have made
tod manlike instead OF making a
Godlike. Mrs Eddy reversed this pro-
ocdurc. She wen, directly TO the in
spircd Word OF the Bible to discover
The true nature OF God and, as we have
seen. She found that the Scriptures
definitely declare Him to be Spirit.
truth. Life. and Love. and that they
clearly imply that He is Principle,
Mind, and Soul. 1t was evident to her,
as II must be 10 any thinking person,
that a limited. material. imperfect hui
man being. liable to sin, sickness, and
death. could not possibly be the image
and likeness OF such a God. An image
and likeness is the p~erfce. reflection Of
its original, possessing its qualities and
attributes, and nothing else. In brief,
II Is one with its original, for IL it
lacked anything possessed by its oriei-
nal, or II it possessed something its
original lacked. it would cease BY that
much 10 be a perfect reflection or
image. Mrs. Eddy therefore perceived
tina, man really is one with God, not
III the sense OF being the same, for God
IS always cause and man is always e.
feet. but II the sense OF being at one,
inscparahle. On page 20 OF Science
and Health She states Man is never
God. bu, spiritual man, made in Gods
Likeness, reflects God. In this scientific
reflection the Ego and the Father are
in>cparable." How perfectly in accord
b tins With Jesus statement, Il and
my Father are one"
Mans Oneness With God the Basis Of
Healing
This understanding of mans oneness
with God is the very basis OF our dem
onstratlon OF Christian Science, for il
enables ii, to know what man really is,
what he has, and what he does. Thus,
at one with divine Mind, man IS idea,
an individual spiritual consciousness,
knowing exactly as this Mind knows
conscious as tod is conscious. He pos
sesScs and reflect all the qualities and
ideas tie infinite intelligence. wisdom
understanding. ability, and so ono
this infinite Mind. As Mrs. Eddy put
ii in Unity OF Good (p. "a All con
sciousncss is Mind and Mind is God,-
an infinite. and not a finite conscious
ness. This consciousness is reflected il
individual consciousness, or
whose source is infinite Mind. There il
no really finite mind, no finite con
seieusncss.' This spiritual fact strip.
all limitation from individual man. Il
destroys the false belief that he has
finite. limited mind 81 his own. capable
d thinking good and evil or OF believing
that which i not true. Il also DESTROYS
the ial,c belief that individual man re-
fleets f'pd only partially. which would
limit the image aud likeness Of the IN
finite. FINALLY il establishes his COM
pl,tcncss and perfection as tho indi-
Nilual expression Of infinite conscious
ness
We mn>t r1d ourselves o. the belief
n 4 finite Consciousness, for there is
~ >u,h thing Only az the individual
I'D manifestation oi infinite conscious
mess an We conceive OF man a. tho
compound idea oi God, including all
| tftiNt" i'ittN - lf ~ dtlllltu III ilC
iesrhoob IN E5l. In the degree that
J one understand, and claims individual
mans true oneness with divine Mind
and the unlimited understanding, intel
l%igcnce, wisdom, ability, and 50 on, that
tins bcstows on man, he brings these
into his experience here and now. and
tho false claims ot a limited under
sianding. intelligence. wisdom, and
ability Jade away. He becomes more
Competent, more reliable. more sue
co,Sful ID his business. He finds that
more and more he is able to appropri-
ate and utilize the right idea for the
occasion, and the result is more liar-
mony and more peace in his daily al
fairs.
At one with infinite Spirit, individual
man is a spiritually mental being. he
not material or physical. He is the
ompic'e reflection Of Spirit. expressing
If, every quality and attribute. He is
>piritually substantial, individually re-
i~lcot'ng the infinite substance Of Spirit.
ilfNir MS substance Is never 1inlte or
! limited il canno' be added to or taken
from II cannot be exhausted or de-
pleled nor can il be broken, injured
or diseased. The understanding Of
mans present spiritual perfection. sub.
,tantiali,y, and completeness destroy.
! the erroneous belief tina. e is material
| imperfect. incomplete, lacking il
health, harmony, and RICH, activity
and the result Is perfect and permanent
healing For when these false belief.
are removed from individual human
consciousness. they are reno ed from
individual experience, since we an ex-
periencc nothing Of which We re moi
conscious.