Article June 17, 1911 Issue

The repentance which overtakes a man and replaces his...

Frederick Dixon

London (Eng.) Sunday Times

The repentance which overtakes a man and replaces his physical sense of material creation with the spiritual sense of true creation is a mental one, and was expressed by Paul in the advice to "let that mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus," for exactly in the proportion in which a man acquires the Mind of Christ, he comes to understand that creation is spiritual and not material, and then, in the words of Mrs. Eddy, on page 312 of Science and Health, to which exception has been taken, he learns that "that which material sense calls intangible, is found to be substance. What to material sense seems substance, becomes nothingness, as the sense-dream vanishes and reality appears."

Now, because it is a scientific fact that causation is spiritual, this scientific fact can be demonstrated in practice. This practice was explained in the miracles of Jesus, miracles which were nothing but demonstrations of the truth of his theology, or his explanation of the word of God. He came preaching to humanity the message, "Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand," and when the material sense of his listeners, fixed on the reality of the so-called matter around them, revolted from this, he performed the miracles, telling them if they could not believe for the words' sake, they must believe for the very works' sake. In this way he constituted the miracle not a supernatural occurrence, but a divinely natural one, for he constituted it the test of a man's understanding of the truth which was to make the world free, and so of his Christianity: "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father."

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