Article June 10, 1905 Issue

The improved knowledge of God, whom Jesus declared...

John Carveth

Flint (Mich.) News

The improved knowledge of God, whom Jesus declared to be Spirit, is clearly the manifestation of divine Mind or infinite intelligence. This knowing includes the better understanding of the nature and qualities of the creations of this infinite Spirit or Mind, and of man as primarily and eternally a spiritual being in the image and likeness of Spirit, not matter. Christian Scientists plant themselves unreservedly on the teachings and practice of Jesus and Paul, which teachings and practice they are striving day by day to better comprehend and express.

"It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh [matter or non-intelligence] profiteth nothing." "The flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other." Again, "But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned." Is it not now as then? Are not spiritual laws and means to-day regarded as foolishness, and is not the natural man to-day claiming to know the laws and ways of the one infinite Spirit, and to know and discern them materially and as wholly material? Is not this claim an emphatic contradiction of Paul's statement, that spiritual laws and means must be spiritually (mentally) not materially discerned? Is it not a fair deduction that if the spiritual law of life must be spiritually discerned, it must be spiritually, not materially, utilized and applied?

Jesus used this law of Life or God spiritually for the healing of sin and disease. Knowing the spiritual law better than did others, he employed it more effectually. This spiritual law he amply proved did not exalt destructive, material law, but overcame it. This law of God he proved always operated to heal and save, and never to destroy or injure. It had no element of dualism in it. The wave and tempest yielded to the supremacy of this spiritual law. In the degree it is understood, it preserves and protects man from the evil of contagion, the evil of disease, and the evil of every destructive material element, warring against the divine law of Life.

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