Milford chronicle., 1956-01-13

rid Of is to be had by our indivld-
ually knowing, understanding, and
living "the truth.
No Drugs or Human Means
Note Jesus did not make freedom
from sickness contingent on tax
ing any drugs into the stomach;
freedom from sin he did not make
conditional merely on good re-
solves or confessions to some other
mortal: KIT solely on the utilizing
of our ability to know the true and
sinIess nature Of God and His idea,
man. His method was purely mem
tai. spiritual, the discovery. and
use by the individual of his ability
to know the truth OF spiritual being
unseen to the physical senses.
Christian Science teaches that the
human Jesus was the human mes
senger who came to teach and
demonstrate the eternal Christ
which is the true or spiritual idea
Of God and man. 1t is this true
idea that, saves every Individual
from a wrong concept of God.
Jesus often indicated that ne re-
garded God as the only real Mind.
He was constantly emphasizing the
vitality of right ideas and spiritual
qualities such as justice, me1cy,
humility, love, of which POSITIVE
Mind is the only source end SUB
stance. Take away from the Ser
mon on the Mount the ideas and
qualities Of which Mind is the life
and substance and there would be
no sermon left. The one road to
freedom he said is through know
ing what is divinely true ana re-
jecting what is materially untrue. +
Freedom through Education
Human education has freed men
from certain forms of bondage that
inhere in ignorance, for instance
from human slavery. Freedom
from tyranny Of every kind, be It
economic, political, moral, or
physical, is the right OF every lnd1-
Vidual. Through spiritual educa-
tion in the nature, power, and pres
ence of the great Father-Mother
Mind that is God, and man as
Minds own manifestation, we
come to see the rightness and
naturalnesS of all men being free
from the goddess evils that never
serve the purpose of real lntelll-
gence. Some of the human race
| resist human education and the
progress it brings. A much larger
/ part reSistS, or is Indifferent to, the
spiritual education in ''the truth
which Jesus said will, when
known, free from all trouble. What
is your status? Are you yet willing
to apply your talents to the most
rewarding educational project ever
offered to men, or are you content
/ to drift with the currents of mate
rial thinking that always flow
toward a sea of trouble
Here is an illustration OF how
spiritual education OVercomes sick
ness that results from ignorance of
l God and His law. A woman who
] had been afflicted with cancer was
Il healed through Christian Science
i One day she met a physician who
i had heard of her difficulty. When
she told him of her healing he said,
"Oh, well, there was of course
nothing wrong with you" She re-
piled: eyes, that is what Christian
Science has proved. But ten Of
your fellow physicians said there
was something fatally wrong with
me-" The Christian Science prac-
titioner through whose work she
was healed had come to know,
through the spiritual education he
i had gained from Christian Science.
that the one true individuality of
man is forever Gods expression.
spiritual and unafaictable. The
| physicians who attended this
woman were thinking of the mate
rial miScOnception of man, which
they had been educated to believe
was the real being of man. They
had been educated to believe that
life is in mindless matter, to be-
lieVe that it was affiictable and
destructible. Christian Science
with its revelation of spiritual
reality nullified this misconcep-
ton, supported only by false edu-
cation, with the ChriSt-idea of man
gained through spiritual enlighten-
ment, or education.
Positive Mind versus Negative
Matter
Like the Master, Christian Sci
ence fearlessly challenges the
clam of matter that man is the
product of material processes, that
he lives by reason of and is in
negative matter, expectantly,
though reluctantly. awaiting his
annihilation through destructive
material forces. If this kingdom
of mortality with its legions of evil
thoughts, sins. wars, poverty. dis
eases, and never-ending deaths,
with its crowded penitentiaries,
asylums, and hospitals, is what
God, the great underlying cause,
produces, what hope have we?
The Bible teaches that evil and
mortality, all of it, is not the ac-
tual and real, as it claims to be, but
is the illuSory and unreal. Like all
ignorant, unreal concepts it can be
challenged, mastered, and step by
step destroyed. through the gain
ing of an understanding of what is
spiritually true. Spirit, God, makes
all that is real and right and Moth
ing that is unreal and wrong.
The teachings of Christian Sci
ence include this statement on