The Coquille Valley sentinel., March 23, 1917, Page PAGE SIX, Image 6

thought and act. Ha ia putting off
tha old nun, «a Pani to rn a the mor­
ta l aali, and ia pnttlag eu * te no#
» a n of God’, makiag.
Evil's Ua.
Wa have already .toted th at, a . ex­
plained to Chrietian Scianca, all evil,
aln, diaaaaa and m ortality ia bat the
Buppoaitioaa oppoaito of the spiritual
and true creation. To be aura, evil’,
uni vena) lie 1« a big one—but what
of th at? Gan any one gat nearer
tru th or in any way change tru th by
tolling a big lie or by tolling many
liea, or by potting all the liee togeth­
er in aome form of organised falaity?
Ia there any m an tru th in a million
lies than in oneT I . the ram of a to t­
ality a t evil's Ue, expressed in sin.
disease, m ortality and m aterial aian?
Diviae Wisdom Requisite.
O asdees not find the w arfare with
the world, the Seek, and all aril, an
easy task; but is there-anything th at
ia worth while th at la really easy?
Only th e foolish man ia xoatont with
tha sluggard’s ease. Lika a man in
an obstaefa race, tha student of Chrie­
tian firienre finds plenty of things to
occupy h i. attention, obstacles th at
cannot ha dodged but m ust be orer-
coma in only one way. He m ust kaep
to his course. He cannot g et ahead
by dodging the obstacles however big
they seem- He m ust press on, know-
ing fall w dl th at h a haa tha m esa.-at
hand of overcoming all obstacle, if
he ia faithful and obedient
B ril dees not yield Its usurped au­
thority .im ply because man desire,
to be rid ef i t I t m ust be combatted
intelligently. Man m ust lmow some­
thing of its nature aad be wise
enough to detect its deceitful subt­
leties, bring its lies from under cover.
I larky between Mind aad m atter, mind
repreM nting
intelligence,
m atter
standing fa r the exact opposite of in­
telligence, non InteHigenr. She bold­
ly rejected the theory th at intelligence
or thought could « m s from non-intel-
ligeflt m atter, aad accepted the one
reasonable premise th at intelligence
must come from Mind, and th at all
thought aad life is th e outcome aad
expression of Mind. She did not a t­
tribute m atter or evil to the one intel­
ligent cause. Mind, becaum both ex­
press ignorance, discord and . lim ita­
tion, which are contrary to intalll-
, The teaching« of Christian Science,
as is generally known, have to do with
man’, thinking, but ia/ju st what way
U not ao well understood. The Dis­
coverer and Pounder of Christian Sci­
ence, M arysBaker Eddy, in her work
entitled “Miscellaneous W ritings,"
•ays of this Science, “Its genius Is
right thinking and right acting" (p.
866), and in another of her works,
"No and Y e.,” toe m y., “The essence
at this Science is rig h t thinking and
right acting" (p. IS ). Man’s actions
are the expression of his thoughts.
Let us then
what constitutes
right thinking, its effect upon ths life
ef man, and ths way by which one
may faarn so to think and thereby
truc about mau aad ths universe
which spring from aad arc thk^xpres-
sion of Mind. This is the second
Step toward getting a true basi* for
right thinking, aad bring, to lig ft
the correct aad eteaplete idea of cre­
ation—Mind aad its m anifestation,
God and His ad v e rts, including man,
cause sad efrscfc—as the basis for all
true thought Here then Is to be
found the true and complete standard,
God's standard, exact, scientific, un­
changing.
Men’s B .latt— hip to Mind
Reasoning then from Mind as the
cut, the Gordian knot of mind and
prim ary causa, let ns see what men
m atter, tha puasls of the ages.
The human mind sometimes stands raallyia. How is hs related to Mind?
aghast when told th at m atter is only W hat to Ue function, his destiny? The
Bible designates man as God's image,
•on, and heir. It also says th at he
“How much better H is to get wis-
- ........ ' ' n u o i t e p ------true «U fa
When we begin to lay held of too Two object
true sense of being, actually te ila - •P*e* » t «
lise in spite of all ths conflict and can an om
distress of m ortal cxistenes th at there the true idi
is indeed a God who is a lto g e th e r g etter,
good, who fa all-wise sad all-power-
Trntk Cl
fui, and who fa now available to help
That co
ua overcome and m aster evil,—Just upon which
forever linked to Goa a sid e s is linked
to mind, for God fa Mind and man i t
Mind’s idea. The real man, being
mental and spiritual, cannot be, and
therefore is not, m ateriallly, physical­
ly, or morally oooditioaed; since sneh
condition, are temporal, not tte off­
spring of eternal Mina, but of k s op­
posite, mindless m atter. Man as idea
cannot fall away from or bo separat­
ed from God, for God fa Us intelli­
gence, his life, his substance; nor can Mr. À-» without any
God abandon, overlook or ¿ergot ■»««,
for Ho cannot bo eeparated from His
m anifestation. Maa’s life, health, and
well-being are therefore always a
m atter of divine concern. This unity
of man and God i. a m ate a m iS fr
point ia too tsorbing, a t Christian