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About The Coquille Valley sentinel. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1921-2003 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 18, 1921)
t* God. I and the universe. God’s Ideas ax- press Him 1« countless spiritual * farms. As GbitHi ideas wa exist in Him and because we e * b t in Him the Scriptures -so declare ^hat "in him we live, and’ move, and h a w our b r ing.’’ • Thera Is a further qualitg o f ’an ' I idea which it Will be s u seoa ry f o r us to constdor. An ides has no ability to do anything or to bs anything ex- espt as the idea of the mind in which it exiota. It cannot change itself and se become mare, o r less, o r dlf-j S ferent, than mind intended it should • bo, because it has no volition of its «own and must of necessity express exactly what mind intends if should express. For example: If you have Via thought pf love for your neighbor, ith b idea eapnot get away fronTyou and change itself into a thought of hate. The ideas in Mind must of I necessity express exactly what Mind I intends they should express. New I . the rani mag is, as we have shown, the I . perfect idea of infinite Mind, and has I mostly divine volition. Be has there-1 ffore ao ability to chooee to do evil ■or to be sick, nor can he ever become I separated from the Mind which con m ad ly interchangeable with any ether term, so it io Just as correct to say th at man is the idea of Life or ef Love as to say th at ha is tho Moa of Mind. Life, Truth, and Love are the three tend» th at together express W ad moat completely, and aaaa who la Mind’s id*» expresses Life in per fect, healthful, Immort a l existence, expresses Truth in h is manifesta tion of spiritual being, which alone is ran i -and true, and expresses Love in the infinite manifestation of tho good- UNREALITY OF MATTER Because it is tru e th a t man is the Mea of iafinito W ad ho cannot be materia], and this m aterial body will have to ho accounted for in acme other way. Matter Sernas very real to tho human salad, yet the deepest saatarial thinkers maintain that m at ter has no existence hi and of itsolf They say that it ia simply a m ani festation of law. Our education has been such that we have accepted any aoatorial object such as iron, or wood, or stone, to bo vary real and sub stantial and having this reality and substantiality within itself. It can j readily be seen th at the seeming sub stantiality of a piece of In ti b not Within tho iron, for if the material k w i of cohesion and attraction which 1 Vi**#!« th# a U m and molecules to- gather, tho law of gravitation which gives the in n weight and the various other laws which go to make up its material appearing w e n removed the iron would vanish into nothing ness. So the»« material thinkers see and admit that m atter b simply the manifestation of m aterial thought, but they go on with a line of thought which maintains th at tbeae material I | of God. Oh tho contrary it maintains th a t the material man and mater b l univane are expressions of bs- lb fs thta a n counterfeits e f the true ideas. On page M Of “Mtaralbneous W ritings," Mrs. Eddy has said that “every creation or idea of Spirit has its counterfeit ta some m atter mltef.” All tha beliefs which a n ta m e d ma terial tews, the beliefe known es sin. siekness, sad death, the belief in • . ; tlv lty .th c e a poasoioa, the Menffeala- • j y y % ¿ u rn • f i. f It Is not maintained th at we have bean able tally to demonstrate th at antes* is aarsal, but thousands have bean able to annul what are thought to bo unchanging. material laws through the recognition of tbo law of Spirit. Now to break and annul any of them laws of m atter through the application ef spiritual law, proves th at they can all bo overcame wheiy • understand God’s law more fully' or the present we apply our under standing of ih a law of Love to thorn m aterial conditions of sickness and ■in which trouble us meat and which ve moat clearly see are no part of God's creation. fact that this offer» the baaia for dis- In the New Testament, written I m proving the whole germ theory, be- d n d s of y ean Inter! tin word» which cause It la an odmiaeion of the exact are translated mind a n from a great opposite of the foundation on which variety of wards, m m e f which seem H mete. to have the exact m eaning which we Now many physicians are begin- give to it. nmg to recognize the difficulty in ' . which they And themselves; the eon- JOHN’S UNDERSTANDING OF fusion and contradiction of it alir+~ ' TRUTH They are beginning to state that It Th_ AdobU# j ohn had « unusually ii probable that germ , do not a m understanding of tbs Master's disease after all. bacaiue « • after K hi n We find th at he begin, another of the most fundamental con- w# G 1 a statement of the elusions about them are being shaken. fundaraenUU r f cjhriatian Science, Thé thing, that teemed amply and althongh the word mind hi net but an open book to anyone who hai some degree of spiritual understand apart from mind, so that John’s statement coincides exactly with Mrs. Eddy's statement th a t “ AH is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation” (Science nad Health, p. 4M.) Moreover John specifically denim th at m atter is e f God when ha says that without the Logos “was not any thing made that was msde.” This word “made" is used hundreds of times in the New Testament and nev er in the sense of “to make” or “to 1 create”J x it means a present activity; I that is, to come, or, to come to peas- The divine manifestation is then tarn- ply the expression of spiritual ideas and must of necessity be altogether spiritual. Isaiah corrcfcorste# jthls. conclusion by saying, “ AH fiesh is grass, and all the goodliaess thereof s ms the flower of the field: • I .1 Th# grass withereth, the flower fad -j eth, the word of bur God shall stand I for ever.” Not fleeh, but God)» sptr-1 itual idea, the word, is real and an-1 duvet. And the Master while main harder to haul then another is not taining that theh kingdom of God Is I the fact, and .this erroneous thought should be denied. No wrong physical condition can bo < manifested for an instant except as it is the expression of wrong thinking, and right thinking »liming tea one- wrong thought as rsodily as another. Every claim of that Christian Seiencs dehioa tho di illness or sip or of discoid which vinity of the Christ, »»thought this Is absplutely^eontrary to tho fact. Con- RESULTS OF WRONG THINKING All the varied beliefs in disease may be likened to a river of material thought At one time it was a wide and shallow stream spread out over a great bieath of materiality, for there were many supposed causes and I conditions regarding it. An ineffectual I effort was made to stop its flow en tir e ly by a dam composed of all the I material curative measures in use. A I constant effort was made te stop the I leaks and repair the breaks which the (beliefs in sickness made in the dam, j with whatever was believed would {best serve, whether it was medicine, I or climate, or diet, or some other so- j I called curative measure. The total I amount of sick beliefs th at were go- ! ing over the dam was not lessened at tall, but th e y '.diè net often break I through very violently in any one I place. As time went on the beliefs I changed; the river became harrow and I deep. Its source—the beliefs in d i-1 I sense—had not grown less, but the] channel of thought through which it flowed was narrowed down so that it I covered less ground, because the many MATERIAL BELIEFS DECEIVE and varied beliefk regarding the cause I Since the advent of the germ theory of disease had in most instances giv-1 of disease there has been a constant en way to the belief in germs. The effort to include as many diseases as ! dam stiH obstructs the flow of the possible in this cat egor y. The very stream and the beliefs in disease used in th at senser-b«t come to the fact th at the previous conviction of break through as before. The belief flesh. Christian Scientists heartily tho cause of a disease could be so ih germs breaks through perhaps in I [agree with this thought, they grate readily discarded for the belief that the form of diphtheria, but there te n fully acknowledge that Jesus mani germs were the offenders shows how comparatively strong belief th at there fested the Christ, the divine idea, re* hesitant the world should be in ac is material on band which will stop vesting in his weeds and works tho cepting any conclusion along this this difficulty. Then perhaps the true nature of God and man. Wa can all manifest in sense degree the di germs break through in typhoid, but Some investigators became con here too there is material which a t I vine idea which Jeans manifested, for “of his fulness have all wa raoahred.” vinced that certain microscopic forms To the degree th at mf really under- of vegstable life which they found stand God dp we demonstrate thg present in disease were the cause if Christ In our daily living, fulfilling 1R. They conducted experiments Jesus' prophecy, “The works th at I which to them seemed to prove con do, shall (ye) do alao.” Thro clusively that this was true. The tient, faithful effort ws shall foundation of their theory was that ally come “unto the measure eaeh disease was produced by a dif statute of tho f(draffs o f Chri ferent germ; th at is th at the pneu The slightest amount of ■ mococcus produced pneumonia, the tu- j understand ffig put into bercle bacillus tuberculosis, and so brings forth atamdnat rasul on. A few of these germs were such _ common everyday sort of vegetables j,* profreM ‘ b y 7pp an « t& faith as a grain of mustard th«t they were present no «nutter I gome one dis««s«. but the sufficient to remove mountain! ■) what the diseases and so they did not manjf¿Nation is not lessened in ror. count very much, but there were. * I the le a st d<Men or so th at very sufficiently se- ^ on|y way to be rid of disease is lect to be accounted the cause of oe L stop it at its mure«. The*betiefs many dismms. Unfortunately A c r e L , proeeedad nuRt u ** th ^ e Z are e not "p4rHu‘ mfeetfous, but there not pl*Ced ^ ** we M 1 am kr*Ulndlng- of this stream of siekness and death* the rtvar of Life whieji John he shewed me a pore river of water of, life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the j I .«mb. In the midst of the street of it, and on either aide of the river, tvos there the tre^ of life, which b a n twelve manner o f fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree Were for the healing of the nations." Not material medicine but the leaves of the tree of Life, which is watered by the river of Life, which proceeds from the throne of .God, has God provided for our heal- i might THE BIBLE REVEALED • beta- Because Christian Science Is the n s ns statement of the divine laws of Life, ’» sick- Truth, and Love, which Jesus taqght f same 1 and demonstrated so many centuries icknees I ego, the spiritual understanding gain ed through its study unfolds the could Scriptures in a most marvelous way. tabling [ language has developed down r g a m through the ages so th a t we now have pee«- terms which wars not use in Bibb feetty wrong, so we afcould be able to e«M»t this latter M hhsbtton as cor rect, especially whan we consider the fact th at H is a method of prayei which eras probably not fam iliar to the## -whn, made (he translation, and ao doubt many people who are num bered among the follower» of Christ would scarcely understand how they could consistently offor such a prayer, ijo the Christian Scientist it in the definite confirmation of his method of prayer. We have previously brought out the fact th at God is Mind and Ib st man is th e periodi idea of Mind, manifesting all the qualities of Life and Truth and of Love. When, there fore, there comae to human eonacious- need to so e that, there is aqtjbfog hold ing us b u t divine Low*, and nothing .to prevent the h tp lip g ., ^ OUR DIVINE INHERITANCE The real men is Mind’s idee and in herits divine intelligence and perfect form and function- It ,Is believed that m i inherit« good u d k id physical', qualities from his. > p a rsa ti Every physical condition b thought manifested- Sb then the *»>*—**-—- is not in the physical manifestation but in the thought which prpducca it. It must be apparent th at the trwth fa n as readily rap tara’* belief which cune from one’s f u n a ta as one own ing t u r n auy other acu n o . Heredity is not a law, h u t a ballaf, apd the application of-the lew of divino taharl- I gain th at Christian Science heals. I ‘Progress is th e law of God,” Mrs. Eddy has said, and H is impossible to ful and manifesta only th e g study God’s, law without making ta»* of God. ^ io divino Principio < gross. Like tho child with his dafly inharmonious »»A in n > iM»fi lessons, we may not ho conscious peas' condition*, and yarrow « th at we knew mors today than w* 4M appointment oig removed J>y 1 yoSterdav, yet with added nnderstand- of L ov*.\4 v '* 1 ing wa should approach tpe pr oblem Each inharmonious condition with confidence today, which yeeter- Is overcome through spiritual iay seem ed not to yield. standing ta —ns m s one’s eoa As n result of much experience in »ec» of joy and. harmony. Kpv Christina Science I do not hesitate to any th at n physical diagnosis of disease is not only unnecessary t a t may ha harmful. I t is sometimes proposed on tho ground th at it will enable the Christian Scientist to know I just what conditions to deny. W hat is naaded is the recognition end de claration of s u n ’s perfection so tho divine idea, and whatever is contrary thereto should bo denied. Wo do not I J E le c tr ic W a sh in g j Makes washday a pleasure instead of a day of drudgery Price $160.0» : * , Call and see it demonstrated. n-hie on- railroad trains or te other ularea are Christian Scientists, and (hey a n reading not “to be seen of men” but beCaaso its pages have been illumined to them through the study of Christian Science, and they allow nothing to deprive them of their rend ing. PRAYER Many times in a day-a studhnt of Christian Science finds opportunity and necessity for p n y w . If, ss has been maintained, Christian Seine» t l consistent with the teaching of the Master, H will be found not only that the payer of the Christian Scientist conforms logically with its teaching but ta absolutely in accordance with tbo instructions of the Master. He gave to b b disciples a prayer, and m addition very definite Instruction about praying fee thoae things which they desired. The Lord’s P ra y « un derstood heal» tea akk. When w $ rea’tee th at there te no other king dom—th at ia, th at Gad rules over all and te a t sin and disease have no pow er—then the p ray « , “ For thine b the to believe that when thrown eg th e ground to the spot. I t is ; moving only because 1 - E.G. Opperman r KONG'S I have the best of M akanj H*ve jour ear repaired by Phone 611 Al Graham*» Garage