Article February 19, 1910 Issue

Spiritual things must of necessity be considered wholly...

George A. Law

Winsted (Conn.) Citizen

Spiritual things must of necessity be considered wholly from a spiritual basis, for since the material, corporeal, mortal, or temporal have no part in the spiritual and can in no way express Spirit, it is at once obvious that a discussion of the spiritual cannot involve a consideration of the material. This is explained perfectly by St. Paul, who said, "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."

Jesus said to the woman of Samaria: "God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth." This quotation also shows that since Christian Science gives to man a knowledge of God, His universe and His laws governing the same, Christian Science cannot deal with the material, but must deal entirely with the spiritual.

In the first chapter of Genesis we read that God created the completed universe and that it was good; also that He created man in His own image and likeness and gave him dominion over all the earth. As God was first and therefore the only creator, and as He created all, it follows that He is the one and only power, omnipotence, and that therefore He had this dominion to bestow on man. It then must be true that, if man claims and exercises this Godgiven dominion (this all-power, omnipotence) understandingly according to spiritual law, surely he will experience that immunity so beautifully expressed by David in the 91st Psalm, "There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling." It must also be plain that, since this power is infinite, the only limitation there can be as to what one can accomplish by exercising this dominion which is his heritage, necessarily arises from one's own lack of understanding and the application of this omnipotence.

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