Montana labor news., 1947-02-20

land the sinner need To be destroyed.
| You and | do not need 10 be destroyed.
You and | need 10 be seen. III the hsht
of revealed Science, in our true ana
everlasting selfhoOd as the sons and
daughters of God. You and ! can ac-
complish this eNaltation. this unvell-
ing of our true nature. by exposing
sin in ourselves and others TO the
Christ. the right idea is Truth. Truth
has power. II annihilates falsehood. II
reveals reality. The purpose of the
Christian Scientist in challenging sin
is to employ the right, or spiritual,
idea To destroy sin as unspiritual
thought. The effect of this achieve
ment is also to destroy sin as moral
fault or wrong conduct. Such destruc-
ton of sin attests increase of spiri-
tuality' and encompasses the destruc-
ton OF finite sense, including sickness
and death.
This pathway to the freedom of
dwelling in reality is simple and glor-
ious and clear to the spiritual sense
within us all. but it is not easy to
human sense. which resists the Christ.
1t is not a pathway recommended by
material sense. which seeks sratliica-
ton in sel%findulgence or loves the
cushioned illusion of ease. 1t is, nev-
ertheless. a pathway which leads to
sure triumph in the realm of the real
where security is actual.
WAR AGAINST WAR
You may at this point ask. III all
you say is true. why have we had to
fight. wars?" The elimination of war
!. from human experience is as worthy
an objective as can be conceived or
But it must be remembered that war
on the battlefield. with bombs and
guns and tanks and steel. supported
by flying fortresses and floating bat
r Itleships. is but an objectification of
l Il larger warfare in human conscious
t ness. This larger warfare is. in a
2 sense, fundamental and commands
first attention.
Human experience is the supposed
: manifestation of the human or mater
! ial mind. The human. material or NOR
tai mind is warfare itself. Mrs. Eddy
! says, matter is mortal error" (Sci
$ ence and Health. p. 46S:12). This NOR
tai error. matter. or mortal mind, has
warfare within and warfare without
2 for. in supposition, it is constantly
~enyying. lusting and scheming against
the Christ. its opposite. But the Law
| of Christ that stills the waves, com
handing. Peace, be still" is the ir
resistable truth that stills all warfare
! By replacing with spiritual harmony
: the mortal error which is war itself.
War will end when the material o.
mortal mind is brought into subjec
ton to the divine Mind. In the degree
!. that this is sincerely desired, 1t vii
be accomplished. Mortal mind vii
yield progressively its mythical ex
~istence to the Mind that was in Chris
Jesus. and we shall discover that w
Q are making rogre in the right d1
! rection. Let us speed the process
! Knowing the remedy, happy are we
we use it. And If, regrettably, on
y progress seems so slow that war o
the battlefield enters Our experience
let us express the qualities. even Q
ie the battlefield, that operate to extern
lg mate mortal mind Let us identify OF
IS thoughts with such qualities as stea
d fastness, guardianship of good, pr
lection Of the right to pursue spiritu
o. ideals. fearlessness, confidence in spi
10 itual being, trustworthiness, Dope
Dr liability, loyalty to God and ma
n which means loyalty to all that v
rightly love The expression OF SUI
qualities help to heal discordant co
Editions in peace and war, becau'
is such qualities oppose the human mil
or to the end and reveal the divine Mil
,e- as the only Mind. Christ Jesus is o
h way-shower in conducting our warfa
IS against all evil. BY walking in /
q footsteps we learn how to invoke I
bv ourselves the spiritual law Of safety
the secret place and immunity fro
,r. evil in the exposed place. War is n
1t something TO II away from or to
Al. cape. 1t is a challenge to express 0
&c God-given dominion = something
To put out of our lives by putting I
NO human mind out of the seat of Cover
ir. ment and enthroning the divine Mi
Ill. as governor and controller Of col
lie. ciousness.
zee War does not cause tragedy; it
lct tragedy that causes war-the TRACE
IT. Of permitting ourselves to be deceiv
er- into accepting material mindednt
al. as a necessary source Of some, or
I'll, Of our thinking. To paraphrase p
rick Henry. gentlemen may cry
Of peace but there is no peace as 10
md as the human mind, with its doul
for standards, remains unchallenged a
uld therefore unreformed.
PROGRESS EVIDENT
~ Progress is being made. The nag
-. ficent expression of qualities VIII
partake Of the divine, to which
:, !. many have committed and are re-cC
l. uniting themselves, must necessal
les - op'''''eu :" s'epS y
IA ard decreasing war on the battlefi
- in the experience Of men and natio
O., For. the expressing OF divine Qualit
is the only effective method of W
effect. The Discoverer of Christ
Science has said that the warf
with ones self is grand (Miscell
eous Writings. p. 1lS). May this W
fare cease until the Mind
Christ in us has compelled uncol