Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Ashland tidings. (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919 | View Entire Issue (May 1, 1916)
PAGE SIX ASHLAND TIDINGS Monday, May 1, ion Swenson & McRac lot Paint and Wallpaper -We Carry ACME LINE Wallpapers from 10 and 15c This is the proper time to clean up and paint up ! A r ! r I T Christian Science Lecture (Continued from Page Three.) Jesus said, "Your father Abraham re joiced to see my day; he saw It and was glad. Then said the Jews unto him, Thou are not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham? Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, before Abraham was, I am Then took they up stones to east at him; but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and bo passod by." When Jesus said, "Before Abraham was, I am," he referred to his real self the Christ. Had he meant that the material flesh and blood man which they there saw with their phys ical eyes had existed before Abraham, his statement could not have been true, for that material body was act uary less than fifty years old. His statement was a solemn declaration of the divinity and eternallty of the Christ the real man who Is and must be the Son of God. The Jews did not understand him. Because of their materiality they had no com prehension of the spiritual man made In the Image and likeness of God. The only kind of man they could com prehend was the material man the Adam-man who Is not and never can be the Son of God. In Christian Science we learn that Jesus was human, but Christ was di vine. We worship the Invisible, spir itual Christ as the Son of God, and we love and reverence Jesus as the man who taught the Christ Truth, and who revealed the spiritual man by his life and his love. The following quotation from "Sci ence and Health with Key to the Scriptures" will be most helpful: "Jesus was the highest human con cept of the perfect man." Page 482, line 19. "Jesus was born of Mary. Chirst is the true Idea voicing good, the divine message from God to man speaking to human consciousness." Tage 332, lines 9 to 11. "Jesus demonstrated Christ; he proved that Christ is the divine idea of God the Holy Ghost, or Comforter, revealing the Divine Principle, Love, and lead ing Into all truth." Page 332, lines 19 to 22. Christian Scientists, therefore, are not looking for the second coming of the man, Jesus. His work was fin ished when he ascended so high into the realm of Spirit that the people could no longer see him as a material man. The Christ Truth, however, is here now and always, continually knocking at the door of every human consciousness, seeking to comfort tlioso who are in distress, to supply the needs of those who are in want, to heal those who are sick, to lift the B Plffl ff-j"1 1" il'IITil' fWMHTlTMWfTIITTrrnTMnwi J. P. DODGE & SONS Undertakers State Licensed Emfealmer Lady Assistant Deputy County Coroner rTTTTTTTTTTVTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT the Celebrated- OF PAINTS A A A A ill ift A A A A A i A i iti A A AAA itiAAAAtri I " I TTT t TTTTTT TTT TV" V TTTTTt burdens from those who are heavy laden, and thus to perform the office of mediator by bringing mankind into relationship with God. This Evangel Is the Christ, the eternal, ever present Comforter. John said, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God." (John i. 1, 2.) The Word is the eternal Christ Truth, and not a ma terial personality. All who believe that flesh and blood are divine should read what the Bib(o says: "Now this I say, breth ren, flesh and blood can not inherit the kingdom of God." (I. Cor. xv. 0.) Man, Sooner or later every one must learn the truth about man. When one asks himself, who Is man, what Is he? where does he come from. Is he spiritual, or is he material? many channels for thought are opened. Upon the correct answer to these questions will depend the solution of every human problem. Every one has read the two differ ing accounts of the creation in the Bible. In the first chapter of Gene sis we are told that God created man In his own image, and after his own likeness, and that he made him good. In the second chapter of Genesis, how ever we find the allegorical account of how God came to this earth and made man out of the dust of the ground. Then follows the story of Adam and Eve, and the garden of Eden. We alos read that a deep sleep fell upon Adam, and then that sin appeared and brother murdered brother, and so, from that time until now, the man made of dust has been a sinner and has been at enmity against God. In view of all this it becomes vital ly Important that we find out the truth about man. Was man made in the image and peness of God, and hence created a spiritual being, or was he made out of the dust of the ground as a material being? Christian Science accepts the first account of the creation as true, and insists that man Is spiritual and not material. This makes it necessary for Christian Science to explain the matter, and to make plain how it is possible for man to be wholly spirit ual when we seem to see him as flesh and blood with our actual physical eyes. Christian Science does this, and makes the matter perfect'Jy clear by showing that tho material man is nothing more or less than the carnal mind's false concept of man. The carnal human mind is entirely material, hence it "is enmity against God," because God is Spirit and Spirit and matter are opposite. The carnal mind Is composed of the ag gregated beliefs founded upon the testimony of the five physical senses, We Are Forging Ahead In our business because we under stand It thoroughly. Careful horse owners have learned It pays to have their horses shod by experts. It costs no more than for poor work, but the result is far more satisfactory. Your horse travels better and feels better. N. M. LANE Corner First Avenue and C Streets Successor to A. L. Lamb. which senses are wholly material, hence the carnal mind being materia can not comprehend nor cognize the things of Spirit. It is these material elemenets com posing the human mind that cause It to see everything as material. Being' material, it thinks In terms of mat ter, and Is incapable of thinking In terms of Spirit. By an inevitable re versal it reduces everything to the dead level of matter In order to com prehend It. It is due to this materiality that the human mind is incapable of thinking of God wholly as Spirit, and therefore, In its materia belief, It reverses the nature and character of God, and converts Him into a mater ial man, seated upon' a material throne up in the sky. Likewise, be cause of this same material element, the human mind is Incapable of thinking of the kingdom of God as a spiritual state of consciousness, which Jesus declared "is within you," and transforms it in belief into a material place somewhere In the sky, with trappings of material splendor such as one would expect to find in the palaces of men. Since the human mind is prevented by its own materiality from even comprehending God as Spirit and the kingdom of Heaven as a spiritual state of consciousness, it Is equally incapable of thinking of man as a spiritual being. By reason of the same inevitable reversal it thinks of man as material, and hence sees him as such. But no matter how sincerely people may believe that God Is a magnified man, seated upon a material throne, and having a material habitation in a material p'jace called Heaven, such belief does not make it true. God Is spirit, and his universe is wholly spiritual. There Is not one material element in hira nor In anything that he created. He did not create matter in any form, nor did he create a ma terlal man. God created everything spiritually and not materially, and the only kind of man created by him was the perfect spiritual man, made In his own image and. tfkeness, pre cisely as described In the first chapter of Genesis. The Adam-man is not the Image of God, and it Is nowhere stated in the second account of the creation In the second chapter of Genesis that the Adam-man was made in God's Image and likeness, or that he was niade perfect. Those statements are to be found in the first chapter, and are used in relation to the real man. But in spite of this, people have gone on believing that the Bible taught that Adam was made in God's image. Christian Science is the only sys tem of teaching that I know anything about that even makes an attempt to explain the difference between man and the Adam-man, and it does ex plain it and makes it perfectly plain, by pointing out, as has already been said, that the Adam-man is merely the fa')se, material mlsconcept of man. It is as though one were to look through green eyeglasses. As long as he did so, everything would ap pear to be green. If he were to try to remove the green from an object, he could not do so, for the reason that the green was not In the object, though appearing to be there, but was in the lens through which he looked at It. The only thing neces sary for him to do In order to trans late the entire green universe back into its normal aspect would be mere ly to take off the green lenses. In precisely the same way the ma terial universe and material man are translated back into the , spiritual, where in fact they have always been, by merely-taking off the material eyeglasses through which we have looked at them. If it were conceiv able that one could now rid himself of every material element in his men tality, and of every sin and false be lief, so that nothing remained in his consciousness except the spiritualized thought, he would not then see his fellow man as material, but would see him for what he really is, namely, the perfect spiritual child of God. .Jesus Knew There Whs Xo Substance in Matter. Jesus knew that there was no sub stance In matter, and he knew it so perfectly that he walked through solid doors and walls. He knew what was true about matter, namely, that It 1b only manifested belief of the matcriaV, carnal mind, and since he did not have that material mind, matter did not appear to him as sub stance. 1 1 is consciousness was spirit ualized. He knew that the only sub stance Is Spirit, but because of the material element In their conscious ness the people were unable to see or comprehend Spirit as substance. They could only think of matter as substance, and therefore, to them, matter .appeared as substance. Knowing that there was no sub stance in matter, he knew that man was not material. Mrs. Eddy pointed out many years ago in Science and Health that Jesus saw the real man where mortals saw the mortal man, mud that. ,hjs -true view headed the sick. The more one ponders over this statement the more It becomes appar ent that it is necessarily true. When there came to Jesus the man who had been born blind, and who had grown from Infancy to mature years without the perfect organs of sight, Jesus healed him Instantly. He looked through the material veil and saw the real man, who, in every case, is perfect. Jesus knew that God had never created one of his children without sight. God never made an imperfect man. Man being perfect has perfect spiritual senses, and by seeing the perfect man, Jesus pulled away the mask, and allowed the per fect condition to appear. When the paralytic was brought to him, Jesus, by seeing the real man, pulled away the mask created by the material be liefs of the carnal mind, thus allow ing the real condition of harmony and perfect being to appear and the man was instantly healed. Since the real man is perfect in every case, when the imperfect material beliefs are destroyed by the oporation of the Christ Truth human beings can not fail to manifest improved conditions. Jesus aiso Knew that since man was not material and did not live in matter, he could not die in matter He knew this so clearly that he was able to call Lazarus back after his body had been in the tomb four days Jesus knew that the real man, be ing spiritual, can never die, for God is his life, so that when he stood be fore thq tomb of Lazarus he knew that the only thing that had taken place there was that certain human beings, who were governed by the carnal mind, had accepted a changed belief concerning Lazarus. They be lieved that he had lived In matter and was material, and hence that ho had died in matter. Jesus looked through the mask and saw the real man who was alive all of the time, and by seeing the real man, Jesus destroyed the false concept, and thus made it possible for the real condl tlon of life to appear. Having seen the rea man, who was alive every instant, all that Jesus needed to do was to say, "Lazarus, come forth," and he came forth, alive. Man is Governed By Spiritual OLaw, Jesus also knew what was true about law. He knew that the only law that has any legitimate authority over man Is the law of Spirit. He likewise knew that the carnal human mind believes that matter possesses power and intelligence apart from God, and, therefore, that matter has power to make laws to govern human beings. He desired to teach man kind the truth about this, and, for his purpose, he selected what Is called in the present day the law of gravita tion. He walked on the water in strict opposition to the law of gravi tation. He knew that the carnal hu man mind, because of its materiality, was incapable of comprehending spir itual law, and could only conceive of law as created by matter. He knew that the so-called law of gravitation was the carnal mind's false concept of law, and that this counterfeit mind believes that :aw is material for pre cisely the same reason that it be lieves that God is a material person ality, sitting upon a material throne, and that Heaven is a material place. All of the works of Jesus were done In opposition to material laws. He proved that the law of Spirit is su preme and has power to annul every material law, and it was this knowl edge that gave him power to walk on the water, to hea' the sick, and raise the dead, contrary to material laws. Christian Science asks those who believe in the reality and power of material laws, from what source does matter derive its power to make laws? Since matter has neither life, intelligence, nor volition, how can it make laws? Has God abdicated from his high position as the governor of the universe, and turned over to in sensible matter the power to make laws that shall govern and destroy his own children? Manifestly not. This theory is neither, rational nor probable. Yet the human carnal mind Is so material that people go right on blindly believing that ma terial laws have more power to de stroy them than God has to save them. In spite of wide difference of belief as to what are material laws, when once a person believes some thing to bo a material law It becomes so important in his estimation as to cause him to think that God Himself must act in obedience to it. What, then, Is the truth about these so-called material laws? Chris tian Science shows that God's uni verse Is governed entirely by spiritual law, and that there are no other laws In reality. Materia!! laws are noth ing more nor less than material be liefs emanating from the material or carnal mind, which is opposed to God and is "enmity against God." They are not laws at all, for when they are examined under the light of Science, they are found to be only laws of material belief, and when the beMef is corrected by spiritual truth that which appeared to be material law disappears. Whenever a person be lieves a thing to be a material law it will bind, him as long as his belief i Marry N. Lof land ; 7 yd- J i" . IP A 4 f lasts just the same as if it were a real iw, while others who do not believe or fear it are not governed by If. The only power possessed by material laws is the power that comes from erring human belief in them. If every person in the world should cease believing In the power of ma terial laws, through the understand ing of their falsity and of the suprem acy of the laws of spirit, as Jesus un derstood, all material laws would dis appear, and humanity would Instant ly be emancipated from the suffering and death which they produce. Soon er or later this understanding must come to every one. Christian Science is teaching and helping people to rise above their fears and material be liefs by giving to them an under standing of the omnipotence of Spirit, and, as they learn, their human con ditions Improve. Man is Now Immortal. The belief that man Is now ma terial, but that his immortality will appear after the death of bis physical body, is rapidly giving place to a bet ter understanding. It is beginning to become tolerably clear to many people that death is not the doorway through which human beings pass from a material state of existence Into the kingdom of Heaven. St. Paul taught and declared that death is an enemy that can and will be destroyed. Enoch got rid of his physical body without dying. Elijah did the same. Obviously they de stroyed and got rid of every material and erroneous mental quality. This evangelization went on until there same thing in Romans vIII. 16 and was nothing left in their conscious- j 17, where we read. "We are the chil ness but the spiritualized thought, dren of God; and if children, then They brought every material thought into obedience to Christ, and when ! the last mortal thought had thus been conquered and destroyed there was nothing of the carnal mind left In their consciousness to throw a ma terial concept over them. People were then no longer able to see them as material men. They literally walked with God, as the Bible states, for material beliefs of the carnal mind no longer Intervened to sepa rate them from Him. Jesus submitted to the death of his body on the cross in order that he might be the Wayshower. He had a'l ready raised from the dead, Lazarus, and the daughter of Jairus, and the son of the widow of Naln, but he wanted to go further and prove for the benefit of mankind that death is not a divine necessity and that it is possible for one to conquer it for himself through his own understand ing of the law of Life. He wanted to prove that man is now immortal i-"--"" n - -1 1, ! -1 !nlr -tvt'Im 1 1. When Christy's dead a hundred years, the fans will still discuss his play, and sigh, while shedding briny tears, "There are no men like him today ! He used the brains behind his brow, and gave the foe a grievous jar; th chroniclers have told us how he was for years and years a star. Great pitchers came and cut some grass, and died, and then forgotten were; he saw them come, and saw them pass, and still kicked up a mighty stir." The chroniclers will also tell how Christy, when a game was played, filled up the pipe he loved so well, to soothe his nerves, all tired and frayed. He smoked Tuxedo every time, the critic's, smoke, the mild and rare, Tuxedo fragrant and sublime, the cool, sweet smoke beyond compare. EE Republican Candidate for Sheriff Is a native of Jackson county, was born and raised on a farm midway between Modford and Jacksonville, is 37 years old, has a family of a vife and two children, wants you to Investi gate his past record and re spectfully asks your support at the primaries. If elected, I will serve the whole people without fear or favor. and that his immortality is brought to light not by the death of the physical body but by demonstrating the power of Spirit. He, therefore, resuscitated his own body, after it had been in the tomb until the third day. He brought It back and exhibited it to hundreds of people, so that there might not be any question or dispute about it. Thereafter he got rid of his body precisely as Enoch and Elijah had done. He thus proved the omnipo tence of Spirit and its availability to meet the last and finall human need. He proved that God is Life, and that man is now immortal and can never die, and that even the belief in death, that exists nowhere except In the car nal mind, can be destroyed by the Christ Truth which he taught. Man Is Now the Son of God. Do you think it is arrogating too much for us to claim that we are now the children of God? If so, then read what St. John says in I. John III. 2: "Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be; but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we sha'l see him as he Is." In making this statement It was as though John bad said: "Jesu has now taught me the truth about myself. I now know that we are spiritual and not material. I can not tell you what my spiritual self looks like, for I can not see the spirit ual man through material eyes, but I know that when he shall appear we shall be like him." St. Paul has said substantially the heirs; heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ." Every one knows that when an es tate is left to heirs, jointly, they take it share and share alike. If we are joint heirs with Christ, we have in herited the same spiritual being, the same life, the same Immortality. It is through the understanding and ap prehension of our real being that we rise above the fears and material be liefs of the carnal mind. In this way Christian Science heals' the sick, re generates the sinner, destroys fear and brings peace In place of discord. Jesus said, "Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest," and Christian Science is teaching the human race that the true way to come unto him is to live the life that he lived, to manifest the love that he manifested, and to demonstrate the truth that he taught. In this way It has helped many people to find rest, and peace, and health. CHRISTY MATHEWSON PitchtrNtw York Cianlt "Tuxedo gelt to me In natural, pleasant way. ll't what 1 call good, honeit, com panionable tobacco (Ac 4nc? foiidfeto." . J V" I