THE LIBERATOR And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand. Heal the, sick cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils, freely ye have re- ceived, freely give. JESUS By Jas. W. McCIellan Copyright 1915 by James W. McClellen Oakl- ' Cal PRICE POST PAID $1,00 Copyright Applied (or 1915 PREFACE. My purpose in writing this book is to present a truth, which if accepted by you who may read, will cause you to stop and think, as it has me. Knowing that if you do, the seed of truth will be so grounded into you in reality, that health, harmony, joy, peace and God's loving thoughts will take possession of the so-called carnal mind, and eradicate from it all thoughts of sin, sickness, and death, and all evil. And when this mind is so corrected, freed from evil thinking, what will be left? Nothing but the mind of Divine Love, God, to rule and govern us. PSALM 32 8-11. 8. I will instruct thee, and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go; I will guide thee with mine eye. 9. Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule which have no understanding; whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee. 10. Many sorrows shall be to the wicked; but he that trusteth in the Lord, mercy shall compass him about. 11. Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice ye righteous; and about for joy, all ye that are upright in heart. PSALM 46 10. Be still, and know that I am God: I will be ex- alted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth. PSALM 111. JO. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wis- dom: a good understanding have all they that do his commandments; his praise endureth for ever. PSALM 119. 27. Make me to understand the way of thy pre- cepts; so shall I talk of thy wondrous works. 773924 MAN'S OBEDIENCE TO 'THEi GOLDE&i 1. And God spake all these words, saying: 2. I am the Lord thy God which hath brought thee out of the land of Egypt; out of the house of bondage. 3. Thou shalt have no other Gods before me and the explanation of this is, the mortal man has been sojourning in the land of Egypt, the land of mortal belief, and is still in bondage to the fleshly mind. 4. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven im- age or any likeness of anything that is in the heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath or that is in the water under the earth. SP. EXP. The mortal man must not entertain any thought of life in matter or any thought contrary to life in Spirit. 5. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them; for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; SP. EXP. We must not bow down to the errors of mortal man, or cling to life in matter, but know that all is mind and that mind is God and man His image. This image is not found in the so-called fleshly man. 6. And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments. SP. EXP. The truth is ever merciful unto those who love and obey it. Does the so-called mortal man obey God? No it is the spiritual man who is OBEDIENT TO GOD'S COMMANDS. 7. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guilt- less that taketh His name in vain. SP. EXP. The spiritual man cannot take God's name in vain. God's word says, you cannot take Jrvm nor add to what God has done. I know that whatsoever God doeth it shall be forever. 8. Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. SP. EXP. We are NOW resting in the Sabbath if we keep the commandments. We are now resting in God if we love our neighbors as ourselves. 9. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work; SP. EXP. God ended His work in six days, and as we are His image and likeness, we must do like- wise, and then we may expect an eternal Sabbath of rest. 10. But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: SP. EXP. When man knows he is resting in SPIRIT, not in matter he is one with the Father, keeping the Sabbath day. 11. For in six days, the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it. SP. EX. Man being the image and likeness of God, (if his true image) he will rest with the Father in mind, the fleshly man not being GocFs child. 12. Honour thy father and thy mother; that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. SP. EXP. Be faithful to the Truth and we honor 10 God. Deny all claims of evil and affirm the Truth. 13. Thou shall not kill. SP. EXP. God is our life and man cannot kill life, God. 14. Thou shall nol commil adultery. SP. EXP. We must not adulterate the Truth, en- tertain evil thoughts, which God did not create. 15. Thou shall nol steal. SP. EXP. When this so-called mortal man knows he is God's child spiritually, not in or of the flesh, he will know there is nothing to steal as God is All in All. 16. Thou shall nol bear false wilness againsl ihy neighbor. SP. EXP. The spiritual man of God cannot sin, neither can he bear false witness against his neigh- bor, so we must see our neighbor as spiritual and not material. 17. Thou shall nol covel ihy neighbour's house, ihou shall nol covel ihy neighbour's wife, nor his manservanl, nor his maidservanl, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anylhing lhal is ihy neighbour's. SP. EXP. As God 9 s man is spiritual he cannot covet Paul says: "They which are the children of the flesh are not the children of God?'; therefore there is nothing to covet. 11 THE BEATITUDES. 1. And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain; and when he was set, his disciples came unto him: And he opened his mouth, and taught them saying, Blessed are the poor in spirit; for their's is the kingdom of heaven. SP. EXP. As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. Arise then, and think with God. For those who earnestly desire this spiritual understanding and are willing to obey the commands of Truth, will find the kingdom of heaven within them. Blessed are they that mourn; for they shall he com- forted. SP. EXP. Blessed are they who earnestly desire the Truth. "Seek and ye shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you." Blessed are the meek; for they shall inherit the earth. SP. EXP. Blessed are they who are obedient to the laws of Divine love; for through their meekness, they shall inherit the kingdom of God. Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness; for they shall be filled. SP. EXP. By faith in God based upon the under- standing and realization of His Infinite love, our hun- ger and thirst will be gratified to the utmost. Blessed are the merciful; for they shall obtain mercy. SP. EXP. Blessed are they who know good only 9 for God is good. 12 Blessed are the pure in heart; for they shall see God. SP. EXP. We must be pure in thought to see God in His purity. Do we find the thoughts of the mortal man pure? No. Then the mortal thoughts must be corrected. Blessed are the peacemakers; for they shall be called the children of God. SP. EXP. Blessed are they who are so pure in thought they impart it to others then we are peace- makers. Blessed are they which are persecuted for right- eousness' sake; for their's is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely for my sake. Rejoice, and be exceeding glad; for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you. Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? It is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men. Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. SP. EXP. Read the 11, 12-13-14 verses of the 5th chapter of Matthew. 13 HEALING ACCORDING TO CHRIST JESUS' TEACHINGS. Gen. 1. In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. God's creation is spiritual and not material. God's spiritual creation is found complete in the first chapter of Genesis, including the first three verses of the second chapter. While there seems to be a second creation, it cannot be a truth if God's creation is finished in the first chapter. Which are we to ac- cept as Truth, the primary or secondary? Can both be true when there is but one God or creative power? The second chapter of Genesis God created man male and female in His own image and likeness. God be- ing Spirit or Mind, man must be spiritual, and the spiritual man is the reflection of God. How can the so called mortal man be the reflection of God, believ- ing he has the elements of death in him, when God and God's idea express eternity? Death being the extinction of life. Acts 4:810 to 22nd. Then Peter, filled with the Holy Ghost, said unto them, Ye rulers of the people, and elders of Irsael, If we this day be examined of the good deed done to the impotent man, by what means he is made whole ; Be it known unto you all and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole. This is the stone which was set at nought of your builders, which is become the head of the corner. 14 Neither is there salvation in any other; for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved. Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marveled; and they took knowl- edge of them, that they had been with Jesus. And beholding the man which was healed standing with them, they could say nothing against it. But when they had commanded them to go aside out of the council, they conferred among themselves, Saying, What shall we do to these men? for that indeed a notable miracle hath been done by them is manifest to all them that dwell in Jerusalem; and we cannot deny it. But that it spread no further among the people, let us straitly threaten them, that they speak hence- forth to no man in this name. And they called them and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus. But Peter and John answered and said unto them, Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge ye. For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard. So when they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding nothing how they might punish them, because of the people; for all men glorified God for that which was done. For the man was above forty years old on whom this miracle of healing was shewed. ACTS 5, 12-16. And by the hands of the apostles were many signs and wonders wrought among the people; (and they were all with one accord in Solomon's porch. 15 And of the rest durst no man join himself to them; but the people magnified them. And believers were the more added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women). Insomuch that they brought forth the sick into the streets, and laid them on beds and couches, that at the least the shadow of Peter passing by might over- shadow some of them. There came also a multitude out of the cities round about unto Jerusalem, bring sick folks, and them which were vexed with unclean spirits : and they were healed every one. ACTS 6, 8. And Stephen full of faith and power, did great wonders and miracles among the people. ACTS 8, 7. For unclean spirits crying with loud voice, came out of many that were possessed with them, and many taken with palsies, and that were lame, were healed. ACTS 9, 16 to 18. For I will shew him how great things he must suf- fer for my name's sake. And Ananias went his way, and entered into the house, and putting his hands on him, said, Brother Saul, the Lord, even Jesus, that appeared unto thee in the way as thou earnest, hath sent me, that thou mightest receive thy sight, and be filled with the Holy Ghost. And immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales; and he received sight forthwith, and arose and was baptized. LUKE 8, 41-44. And behold, there came a man named Jairus, and 16 he was a ruler of the synagogue; and he fell down at Jesus' feet, and besought him that he would come into his house; For he had one only daughter, about twelve years of age, and she lay dying. But as he went the people thronged him. And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, which had spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed of any, came behind him and touched the border of his garment; and immediately her issue of blood staunched. LUKE 10, 1-4. After these things the Lord appointed other sev- enty also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, whither he himself would come. Therefore said he unto them, The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few; pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labourers into his harvest. Go your ways; behold I send you forth as lambs among wolves, Carry neither purse, nor scrip, nor shoes; and sa- lute no man by the way. JOHN 14, 12. Verily, verily, I say unto you, 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. JOHN 15, 1-23. (Look up and read.) ACTS 3, 1-12. 1. Now Peter and John went up together into the temple at the hour of prayer, being the ninth hour. 2. And a certain man, lame from his mother's 17 womb, was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into. 3. And he took him by the right hand, and lifted him up; and immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength. 8. And he leaping up, stood, and walked, and en- tered with them into the temple, walking, and leap- ing, and praising God. 9. And all the people saw him walking and prais- ing God; 10. And they knew that it was he which sat for alms at the Beautiful gate of the temple; and they were filled with wonder and amazement at that which had happened unto him. 11. And, as the lame man which was healed held Peter and John, all the people ran together unto them, in the porch that is called Solomon's, greatly wondering. 12. And when Peter saw it, he answered unto the people, Ye men of Israel, why marvel ye at this? or why look ye so earnestly on us, as though by our own power or holiness, we had made this man to walk? MATTHEW 9. 1. And he entered into a ship, and passed over, and came into his own city. 2. And, behold, they brought to him a man sick of the palsy, lying on a bed; and Jesus seeing their faith, said unto the sick of the palsy, Son, be of good cheer; thy sins be forgiven thee. 3. And, behold, certain of the scribes said within themselves, This man blasphemeth. 4. And Jesus knowing their thoughts, said, Where- fore think ye evil in your hearts? 18 5. For whether is it easier, to say, Thy sins be for- given thee; or to say, Arise, and walk? 6. But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (then saith he to the sick of the palsy,) Arise, take up thy bed, and go unto thine house. 7. And he arose, and departed to his house. 8. But when the multitude saw it, they marvelled, and glorified God, which had given such power unto men. 9. And as Jesus passed forth from thence, he saw a man, named Matthew, sitting at the receipt of cus- tom; and he saith unto him, Follow me. And he arose, and followed him. 10. And it came to pass, as Jesus sat at meat in the house, behold, many publicans, and sinners came and sat down with him and his disciples. 11. And when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto his disciples, Why eateth your Master with publicans and sinners? 12. But when Jesus heard that, he said unto them, They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick. 13. But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice; for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. 14. Then came to him the disciples of John, say- ing, Why do we and the Pharisees fast oft, but thy disciples fast not? 15. And Jesus said unto them, Can the children of the Bridechamber mourn, as long as the bride- groom is with them? but the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then shall they fast. 16. No man putteth a new piece of cloth into an 19 old garment; for that which is put in to fill up taketh from the garment, and the rent is made worse. 17. Neither do men put new wine into old bottles, else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish; but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved. 18. While he spake these things unto them, be- hold, there came a certain ruler, and worshipped him, saying, My daughter is even now dead; but come and lay thy hand upon her, and she shall live. 19. And Jesus arose, and followed him, and so did his disciples. 20. And, behold, a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him and touched the hem of his garment; 21. For she said within herself, If I may but touch his garment, I shall be whole. 22. But Jesus turned him about; and when he saw her, he said, Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole. And the woman was made whole from that hour. 23. And when Jesus came into the Ruler's house, and saw the minstrels and the people making a noise, 24. He said unto them, Give place; for the maid is not dead, but sleepeth. And they laughed him to scorn. 25. But when the people were put forth, he went in, and took her by the hand, and the maid arose. 26. And the fame thereof went abroad into all that land. 27. And when Jesus departed thence, two blind men followed him, crying and saying, Thou son of David, have mercy on us. 28. And when he was come into the house, the blind men came to him; and Jesus saith unto them, 20 Believe ye that I am able to do this? They said unto him, Yea, Lord. 29. Then touched he their eyes, saying, Accord- ing to your faith be it unto you. 30. And their eyes were opened; and Jesus straitly charged them, saying, See that no man know it. 31. But they, when they were departed, spread abroad his fame in all that country. 32. As they went out, behold, they brought to him a dumb man possessed with a devil. 33. And when the devil was cast out, the dumb spake: and the multitudes marvelled, saying, It was never so seen in Israel. 34. But the Pharisees said, He casteth out devils through the prince of the devils. 35. And Jesus went about all the cities, and vil- lages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people. 36. But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd. 37. Then saith He unto His disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few. 38. Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest. MATTHEW 10. 1. And when he had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease. 2. Now the names of the twelve apostles are these : the first, Simon who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James, the son of Zebedee, and John his brother; 21 3. Philip, and Bartholomew; Thomas, and Mat- thew the publican; James, the son of Alphaeus, and Lebbaeus, whose surname was Thaddaeus; 4. Simon the Cannanite. and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him. 5. These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not; 6. But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. 7. And, as ye go, preach, saying, The Kingdom of heaven is at hand. 8. Heal the sick ,cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils; freely ye have received, freely give. 9. Provide neither gold, nor silver, nor brass, in your purses; 10. Nor scrip for your journey, neither two coats, neither shoes; nor yet staves; for the workman is worthy of his meat. 11. And into whatsoever city or town ye shall enter, inquire who in it is worthy; and there abide till ye go thence. 12. When ye come into an house, salute it. 13. And if the house be worthy, let your peace come upon it. 22 UNDERSTANDING. To understand God is to know God is All in All, and the creator of the spiritual man, not the man of the flesh, as the scripture declares the man of the flesh is not God's child. Now read the following scriptural references in connection with the Bible: Proverbs Chapter 3: 1. My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments: 2. For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee. 3. Let not mercy and truth forsake thee; bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart; 4. So shalt thou find favour and good understand- ing in the sight of God and man. 5. Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. 6. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. 7. Be not wise in thine own eyes; fear the Lord, and depart from evil. 8. It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones. 9. HONOR the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase; 10. So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine. 11. My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord; neither be weary of his correction; 12. For whom the Lord loveth he correcteth, even as a father the son in whom he delighteth. 23 13. Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. 147 For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold. " -15. She is more precious than rubies; and all the .things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her. 16. Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honour. 17. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. 18. She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her; and happy is every one that retaineth her. 19. The Lord by wisdom hath founded the earth; by understanding hath he established the heavens. 20. By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew. PROVERBS CHAPTER 4: 1. Hear, ye children, the instructions of a father, and attend to know understanding. 2. For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law. 3. For I was my father's son, tender and only be- loved in the sight of my mother. 5. Get wisdom, get understanding; forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth. 6. Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee; love her, and she shall keep thee. 7. Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; and with all thy getting get understanding. 8. Exalt her, and she shall promote thee ; she shall bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her. 9. She shall give to thine head an ornament of grace; a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee. 24 10. Hear, my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many. 11. I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in right paths. 12. When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened, and when thou runnest, thou shall not stumble. 13. Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go; keep her, for she is thy life. 14. Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men. 15. Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away. 16. For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall. 17. For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence. 18. But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day. 19. The way of the wicked is as darkness; they know not at what they stumble. 20. My son, attend to my word; incline thine ear unto my sayings; 21. Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart; 22. For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh. 23. Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life. 24. Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee. 25. Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eye- lids look straight before thee. 25 26. Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established. 27. Turn not to the right hand nor to the left; remove thy foot from evil. PROV. 1st. 2. To know wisdom and understand instruction; to perceive the words of understanding. 3. To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment and equity. 4. To give subtility to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion. 5. A wise man will hear, and will increase learn- ing; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels; 6. To understand a proverb, and the interpreta- tion; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings. 33. But whoso harkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil. SP. EXP. Death is but a belief, true to the mortal so called man, untrue to God. God is our life and He is eternal. Eternity cannot end in death; the extinc- tion of life; so God's man cannot die. God never created man to be sick or die, but to live. Life is eternal. GOD IS OUR SUPPLY. DEUT. 28 1-4. And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt harken dili- gently unto the voice of the Lord, thy God, to observe and to do all His commandments which I command thee this day, that the Lord thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth; And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shall hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God. Blessed shalt thou be in the city and blessed shalt thou be in the field. Blessed shalt be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep. Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store. Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out. The Lord shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses, and in all that thou settest thine hand unto; and he shall bless thee in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. The Lord shall establish thee an holy people unto himself, as he hath sworn unto thee, if thou shalt keep the commandments of the Lord thy God, and walk in his ways. And all people of the earth shall see that thou art called by the name of the Lord. And the Lord shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers to give thee. The Lord shall open unto thee his good treasure, 27 the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his sea- son, and to bless all the work of thine hand; and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shall not borrow. And the Lord shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the com- mandments of the Lord thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them; And thou shalt not go aside from any of the words which I command thee this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them. 28 NO EVIL TO BE FEARED FOR GOD IS ALL. PSALM 18. 48. He delivereth me from mine enemies; yea, thou 1 if test me up above those that rise up against me; thou hast delivered me from the violent man. PSALM 23. 1. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. 2. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures; He leadeth me beside the still waters. 3. He restoreth my soul He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for His name's sake. 4. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death. I will fear no evil; for thou art with me; Thy rod and Thy staff they comfort me. 5. Thou prepares! a table before me in the pres- ence of mine enemies ; Thou annointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over. 6. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life; and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever. PSALM 27. 1. The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? 2. When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell. 3. Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear; though war should arise against me in this will I be confident. 4. One thing have I desired of the Lord, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to inquire in his temple. 5. For in the time of trouble He shall hide me in His pavilion; in the secret of His tabernacle shall He hide me; He shall set me up upon a rock. 6. And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me; therefore will I offer in His tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the Lord. PSALM 37. 39. But the salvation of the righteous is of the Lord, He is their strength in the time of trouble. 40. And the Lord shall help them, and deliver them; He shall deliver them from the wicked, and save them, because they trust in Him. JUDGE NOT. MATTHEW 7. 1. Judge not, that ye be not judged. 2. For with what judgment ye shall judge, ye shall be judged; and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. 3. And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? 4. Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye, and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? 30 LOVE. 1 JOHN 4, 1 to 21. 1. Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God; because many false prophets are gone out into the world. 2. Hereby know ye the Spirit of God; Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh, is of God; 3. And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh, is not of God; and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world. 4. Ye are of God, little children, and have over- come them ; because greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world. 5. They are of the world; therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them. 6. We are of God: he that kiioweth God, heareth us; he that is not of God, heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error. 7. Beloved, let us love one another; for love is of God; and every one that loveth, is born of God, and knoweth God. 8. He that loveth not, knoweth not God; for God is love. 9. In this was manifest the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. 10. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitia- tion for our sins. 11. Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another. 12. No man hath seen God at any time. If we 31 love one another, God dwelleth in us, and His love is perfected in us. 13. Hereby know we that we dwell in Him, and He in us, because he hath given us of His Spirit. 14. And we have seen, and do testify, that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world. 15. Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God. 16. And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwell- eth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. 17. Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as he is, so are we in this world. 18. There is no fear in love; but perfect love cast- eth out fear; because fear hath torment. He that feareth, is not made perfect in love. 19. We love him, because he first loved us. 20. If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar; for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? 21. And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also. JOB 22. 25. Yea, the Almighty shall be thy defense, and thou shall have plenty. PSALM 22. 26. The meek shall eat and be satisfied. PSALM 34. 1. Fret not thyself because of evil doers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity. 2. For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb. 32 3. Trust in the Lord, and do good; so shall thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shall be fed. 4. Delight thyself in ihe Lord; and He shall give ihee ihe desires of ihine hearl. 5. Commil ihy way unlo ihe Lord; trusl also in Him; and He shall bring il lo pass. PSALM 1. 1. Blessed is ihe man lhal walkelh nol in ihe counsel of ihe ungodly nor slandelh in ihe way of sinners, nor sillelh in ihe seal of ihe scornful: 2. Bui his delighl is in ihe law of ihe Lord; and in His law dolh he medilale day and nighl. 3. And he shall be like a Iree planled by ihe rivers of waler, lhal bringelh forlh his fruil in his season; his leaf also shall nol wilher; and whalso- ever he doelh shall prosper. 4. The ungodly are nol so; bul are like ihe chaff which ihe wind drivelh away. 5. Therefore ihe ungodly shall nol sland in ihe judgmenl, nor sinners in ihe congregalion of ihe righleous. 6. For ihe Lord knowelh ihe way of ihe righl- eous; bul ihe way of ihe ungodly shall perish. PSALM 91. 1. He lhal dwellelh in ihe secrel place of ihe most High shall abide under ihe shadow of ihe Almighly. 2. I will say of ihe Lord, He is my refuge, and my fortress; my God; in Him will I Irusl. 3. Surely He shall deliver ihee from ihe snare of ihe fowler, and from ihe noisome peslilence. 4. He shall cover ihee wilh His fealhers, and under His wings shall ihou Irusl; His Irulh shall be ihy shield and buckler. 5. Thou shall nol be afraid for ihe lerror by nighl, nor for ihe arrow lhal flielh by day; 33 6. Nor for the pestilence that walketh in dark- ness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noon- day. 7. A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thou- sand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee. 8. Only with thine eyes shalt thou hehold and see the reward of the wicked. 9. Because thou hast made the Lord, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation; 10. There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling. 11. For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways. 12. They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone. 13. Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder; the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet. 14. Because he hath set his love upon me, there- fore will I deliver him; I will set him on high, be- cause he hath known my name. 15. He shall call upon me, and I will answer him; I will be with him; I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him. 16. With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation. PSALM 121. 1. I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. 2. My help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven and earth. 3. He will not suffer thy foot to be moved; He that keepeth thee will not slumber. 34 4. Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. 5. The Lord is thy keeper; the Lord is thy shade upon thy right hand. 6. The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night. 7. The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil; He shall preserve thy soul. 8. The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for ever- more. 1 TIMO. 6 10 to 12. 10. For the love of money is the root of all evil; which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. 11. But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness. 12. Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses. 2 TIMO. 1-7. 7. For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power and of love, and of a sound mind. 35 THINK GOOD, NOT EVIL. If mankind wants to learn to think right, never wrong, study to know good, never evil. How to be happy, never melancholy. How to he healthy, never unhealthy. How to be harmonious, never inharmo- nious. Study the great Divine Principle of life, how to live. Divine Principle being all, man has no other source to go to for happiness and health, and he learns that as God is the only creator, and created good only, that evil, the opposite, is without a cre- ator, is a myth. The true child of God never did a wrong, and the so called fleshly man never to his mortal sense enter- tained a true God thought. Thoughts of materiallity are the counterfeit to the true God thinking. God is Spirit, mind. He is man's intelligence. Man reflects forever, spirit, and nothing but good can be reflected. Evil, error, is the opposite of good. God (good) cannot be found in evil. Health and all that is divinely good is everywhere. Good and evil cannot commingle any more than water and oil. Re- member the Bible statements that flesh and blood profiteth nothing. Why does man worry over that which profits nothing? Turn about and absorb love; that which creates Heaven within us. When will mortal man awaken to the understand- ing of the laws of God and learn to be .obedient to the law of right? This law of right is God's law; knows no wrong, thinks no wrong, does no wrong. The fleshly man is doubleminded, knows good and evil; but his good is not of God, not eternal. When will he learn to bridle his unruly tongue, fault find- ing, and seeing evil in his brother? We must get the beam out of our own eye before we can see the mole in our brother's eye. Learn to mind our own busi- ness and cleanse our own thoughts of evil. When we see evil in another, it originated in our own bad thinking. Let us clean out our own house. STRAINED NERVES OVERWORK. There is no such thing as strained nerves; over- work. It is a false mental concept that suggests these evils. God never created His children to suffer from overwork, nerve exhaustion, debility, fear or any of these falsely declared diseases mankind seems to suf- fer. God's creation is perfect and His word says we cannot add to or take from what He has created. Mankind has to study to know the truth about him- self, and God; not the errors or so called evils. It is understanding the truth that frees man from all false beliefs in sin, sickness and death. Man is God's likeness when he holds to happy, har- monious, good thoughts. When he holds to imper- fect, painful, inharmonious thoughts he is unlike God. Mortal mind is His opposite, counterfeit to be destroyed by the higher Spiritual thinking. Mankind cannot load himself down with all the sick beliefs of the day and expect God to father them. God's child reflects his every thought from the Father, no guile in them. 37 EVIL. Evil is the direct result of a belief in a power apart from God. God is declared to be all power, the only power. Evil is real to mortality, but unreal to God. (Truth.) Sickness is real to the mortal senses, but unreal to God. God is the reality and He is all Good, man His image and likeness. If mankind believes in the Bible, he must disbe- lieve in evil, sin, sickness and death, for the Bible teaches that God created all that exists, and created it Good, yea, very good. Error is not good, so cannot be any part of God's creation. The Word says God is of too pure eyes to behold evil. If He created it, it is seeable; He could see it. God's creation is eter- nal. God's man has a harmonious body. The man of the flesh seems to often entertain inharmony. As God is all in all whence comes inharmony? It has no true existence. It is a false belief. Cold cannot exist in space filled with warmth. No inharmony can exist where Love is. God is LOVE. God is everywhere. No space where He is not No room for evil. Entertain love not hate. Hold good thoughts, not their opposite. Hold good healthy loving thoughts over all the organs of the body, and banish all thoughts of disease and death. God is our life. He is perfect. Hold to this and you reflect harmony. Let mankind refuse to entertain any thoughts but good, Love. So all evil like hate, sin, poverty will fly out the window, and go to its native nothingness. What will remain? Health, plenty, love, joy. Let mankind drink from the fountain of Love, All inharmony will disappear. God is Love and har- 38 mony and nothing else can exist where Love is. That which God created perfect is eternally so. No power is greater than God's, and there can exist no imperfection in God's man. (Fix this in your thought and ponder.) GOD OUR LIFE. For this commandment which I command thee this day is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off. Dent 30-11-20. That thou mayest love the Lord, thy God, and that thou mayest obey HIS voice and that thou mayest cleave unto Him, for He is thy life and the length of thy days. SP. EXP. What mankind becomes possessor of is what he seeks, and makes his own. Seek the truth and make it ours. Mankind more often seems to seek the evil and make it his. Turn from evil to the Truth and evil will flee from thee. A soft answer turneth away wrath. In love there is no wrath. The spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the almighty hath given me life. Job 33-4. SP. EXP. Spirit, God is our Father; our life; not the father of the fleshly man. But if permitted he will control this carnal mind for good. Then we cannot think evil. Thou wilt show me the path of life, in Thy pres- ence is fullness of joy. At thy right hand, there are pleasures forever more. Ps. 16-11. For with thee is the fountain of life. Ps. 66 8-9, which holdeth our soul in life, and suffereth not our feet to be moved. As righteousness tendeth to life, so he that pursu- eth evil pursueth it to his own death. Prov. 11-19. SP. EXP. When man entertains sick, evil, harm- ful thoughts, he is entertaining an enemy that leads him on to death. In the way of righteousness is life and in the path- way thereof there is no death. Prov. 12-28. 40 SP. EXP. Hold to the Truth. God is our life and is eternal. No death. The law of the wise is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death. Prov. 13, 14. The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death. Prov. 14, 27. Understanding is a well spring of life, unto him that hath it. Prov. 16-22. SP. EXP. Man is admonished to get wisdom, to get understanding. When man follows after right- eousness he finds life. He that followeth after righteousness and mercy findeth life. Prov. 21-21. SP. EXP. To obtain righteousness and mercy be obedient to the Christ commands. Never entertain evil thoughts; Purity of thought is elevating. O Lord, by these things men live, and in all things is the life of my spirit. So wilt thou recover me, and make me to live. Isa. 38-16. He will swallow up death in victory. Isa. 25-8. SP. EXP. Death is error; life is truth. Truth, obeyed, destroys all error. Be obedient to the com- mands of the Principle Life. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. John 4-14. But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst, but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life. John 4-14. SP. EXP. All who entertain the pure thoughts of good shall never want. PURITY of thought pro- duces health, harmony, joy, and the peace that pass- eth all understanding. 41 He that heareth my words, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation, hut is passed from death unto life. John 5-24. SP. EXP. Man must believe; Have no doubts. Must believe in God, and in Jesus Christ as the savior, or mediator between God and matured man. Man earnestly believing, will put it into practice, and will receive blessings in return. What constitute our blessings? Naught but happiness, peace, joy, health, heaven within us. Our consciousness. For as the Father hath life in Himself, so hath He given to the son to have life in himself. John 5-26. For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven and giveth life unto the world. John 6, 33. SP. EXP. The God, or Christ inspiring thought which controlled the man Jesus, will control us; if like Jesus we are a willing receptable for Truth. Jesus said; Follow me. Obedience to truth is exacted of mankind. Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that believeth on me hath everlasting life. John 6-47. SP. EXP. / do believe, help thou my unbelief. Blot out my transgressions, O Lord. I am the bread of life. John 6-48. This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof and not die. John 6-50. SP. EXP. Entertain the truth, and do not pass through a belief of death. It is the spirit that quick- eneth; the flesh profiteth nothing; the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit and they are life. John 6-63. I am the light of the world. He that followeth me 42 shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life. John 8-12. I am come that they might have more life and that they might have it more abundantly. John 10-10. My sheep hear my voice, and I know them and they follow me. John 10-27. And I GIVE unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. John 10-28. SP. EXP. Eternal life is the gift of God, and can- not be plucked from man. Man cannot perish: we have Gods word for it. We have to work out our own salvation, and Jesus Christ is the wayshower. Let us follow His leadership. Jesus said unto her: I am the resurrection and the life: he that believeth on Me though he were dead, yet shall he live. John 11-25. SP. EXP. Resurrected from false beliefs of sick- ness and death. Although mankind does entertain these false beliefs of life in matter, and that he must die, he will be lifted out of these beliefs and know that life is eternal. Because I Live, ye shall live also. John 14, 19. An emphatic statement. And this is life eternal, that they might know thee, the only true God and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent. John 17, 3. God that made the world and all things therein seeing that He is LORD of heaven and earth dwelleth not in temples made with hands. Acts 17, 24. NEITHER is worshipped with men's hands, as though He needed anything seeing He giveth to all life, and breath and all things. Act 17-25. For in HIM we live and move and have our being. As certain of your own poets have said, For we are 43 also His offspring. Acts 17, 28. SP. EXP. Man living, moving and having his being in God, finds it impossible to sin, suffer and die. If we live in God, our being is heavenly, for God is heaven. Think, O man. For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one Christ Jesus. Rom. 5-17. SP. EXP. Take the word of Christ Jesus, believe and live. The belief of death was abolished in the resurrection of Jesus from the tomb. By the righteousness of one, the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life. Rom. 5-18. That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ. Rom. 5-21. SP. EXP. Sin has reigned in belief and has been destroyed by one Christ Jesus. For the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. Rom. 8-2. SP. EXP. Jesus came to bring life and immortal- ity to light through the gospel. It had seemingly been covered to mortal sense. The truth of Christ revealed it to the material world. When Christ who is our life shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory. Col. 3-4. But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Savior, Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death (a belief in death) and hath brought life and immor- tality to light through the gospel. 2 Tim. 1-10. In hope of eternal life, which God that cannot lie, promised before the world began. Titus 1-2. 44 SP. EXP. The two above verses are self explana- tory. Digest all thoroughly. God hath given man eternal life and this life is in His Son. John 5-11. And we know that the son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding that we may know Him that is truth; and we are in him that is true, even in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life. John 5-20. I WILL give unto him that is athirst of the water of life freely. Rev. 21-6. SP. EXP. Mankind thirsting for truth can have it by obedience to right thinking, Christ Thought. Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have a right to the tree of life and may enter in through the gates unto the City. Rev. 22-14. Our God whom we serve is able to deliver us out of their hand, O KING. Dan. 3-17. My God hath sent His angels and hath shut the lions mouths that they have not hurt me. Dan 6-22. SP. EXP. God, if man trust Him and is obedient to His will, will lead him safely and will not permit evil to fasten its fangs on him. The lion's mouth will be closed The evil thoughts or mortals cannot fasten on the man whose trust is in God. Let man be an obedient servant through Jesus Christ. None of his sins that he hath committed shall be mentioned unto him; he hath done what is lawful and right. He shall surely live. Ezek 33-16. SP. EXP. Who created man? Man is God's crea- tion. Was man Made good, or endowed with evil propensities? Good, yea, very good. Can evil be found in good? No. From whence did it originate? 45 Just where a lie originated; not in the truth. Just where a counterfeit dollar originated, not in the mint. It is a false, perverted creation, not to be accepted by man. Evil must not be accepted or handled, as it tarnishes, defiles us, With thee is the fountain of Life; In thy life shall we see light. Ps. 36-9. Therefore O thou son of man, speak unto the house of Israel; thus ye speak,, saying, if our trangressions and our sins be upon us and we pine away in them, how should we then live? Ezek. 33-10. Say unto them, as I live saith the Lord, God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live; turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways, for why will ye die, O house of Israel. Ezek. 33-11. 46 DEATH. But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall live, he shall not die. Eccl. 18-21. SP. EXP. Man has to correct his evil mortal thoughts. He must think right and act right if he expects to have health and happiness and to be prosperous in well doing. Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? said the Lord God, and not that he should turn from his ways and live? Ezek. 18-23. Because he considereth and turned away from all his transgressions that he hath committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die. Ecc. 18-28. Cast away from you all your transgressions whereby ye have transgressed and make you a new heart, and a new spirit, For why will ye die, sons of Israel. Ezek. 18-31. For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord, God, wherefore turn yourselves and live ye. V. 32. Even so it is not the will of your Father which is in heaven that one of these little ones shall perish. Matt. 18-24. God is not the God of the dead hut of the living: for all live unto Him. Luke 20-38. Verily, verily I say unto you if a man keep my sayings, he shall never see death. John 5-24. For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Rom. 6-23. SP. EXP. Life has to be sought and obtained 47 through the Lord Jesus Christ. The fleshly man never had it, but it is his by seeking. Seek and ye shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you. For when we were in the flesh the motions of sin which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruits unto death. Rom. 7-5. But now we are delivered from the law that being dead wherein we were held, that we should serve in newness of spirit and not in the oldness of the letter. Verse 6. SP. EXP. The letter killeth, the spirit, it is life, God is spirit. He is life; man His spiritual child. God's man is not found in the flesh. For to be carnally minded is death, But to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Rom. 8-6. For if we live after the flesh we shall die, but if ye through the spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. V. 13. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. 1 Cor. 15-22. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. V. 26. The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law. V. 56. Be obedient to the law of the Lord. For he that soweth to the flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the spirit shall of the spirit reap life everlasting. Gal 6-8. (Let man sow to the spirit.) For as much then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had power of death, that is the devil. Hab. 2-4. SP. EXP. The person in the above verse was the 48 fleshly Jesus, and as He laid off the flesh, so mortal man must lay it off. And delivered them, who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage. V. 15. We know that we have passed from death unto life because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth he in death. 1 John 3-10. SP. EXP. Brother, sister, cultivate love. Never see or speak ill of your brother. What we see in another is the product of our own mortal thoughts. See no evil, listen to no evil, speak no evil. Rest on the rock of LIFE. 49 SCRIPTURAL PASSAGES ON HEALING And the Lord will take away from thee all sickness and will put none of these evil diseases of Egypt which thou knowest upon thee. Duet. 7-15. SPIRITUAL EXPLANATION. By knowing the Truth that in the Divine Principle of God, good, no evil can be found. It is wrong thinking that creates svil, sickness, pain and death. The discords are not found in the principle of music. Harmony is music. Discord is inharmony. Not found in God's man. And Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his reign was diseased in his feet until his disease was exceed- ing great. Yet in his disease he sought not to the Lord, hut to the physicians. 2 Chron. 16-12. And Asa slept with his fathers and died. V. 13. SP. EXP. I was an Asa, and for thirty years, I staid faithfully by my physicians. They also were faithful, but the true Christ healing was offered me. I accepted it I have had seventeen years of health. Because thou hast made the Lord which is my refuge even the most high, thy habitation, There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling. Psalm 91 9-10. The eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. Isa. 35-5. Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing; far in the wilderness shall water break out, the streams in the desert. Isa. 35-6. SP. EXP. Our eyes and ears will be open to the truth, and mankind will listen to Christ's words and be healed. 50 For the Lord will bless the righteous and with favor wilt thou compass him as with a shield. Ps. 542. O Lord, my God, I cried unto thee and thou hast healed me. Ps. 30-2. SP. EXP. The Lord is ever ready to give out His blessings to those that seek Him. Seek and ye shall find. Seek for good, not evil. Deny the evil, affirm the Truth, Truth kills destroys a lie. When mortal man reaches out unto God with a true heart, desiring good, God will not give him a stone. God gives noth- ing but good health, harmony, peace, joy. For He is the embodiment of good. O Lord, Thou has brought up my soul from the grave: Thou hast kept me alive, that I shouldst not go down to the pit. Ps. 30-3. SP. EXP. The understanding that death does not exist as a truth but as a falsity lifts man, mortal thought, out of the mire, and places him on the rock, Christ Jesus and into a heavenly happy state of mind. He is not left down in the depths of despair 9 in a belief in death. Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me for thou are my strength. Ps. 31-4. Into Thine Hand I commend my Spirit; Thou hast redeemed me O Lord, God of Truth. Ps. 31-15. SP. EXP. Lift mankind out of the pitfalls of des- pair, his false beliefs in error, and life in matter, out of belief in sickness, fear, doubt and death, and show him the Christ way to life, and health by right think' ing. Place his feet on the path to Heaven, harmony and a pure state of consciousness. Then man real- izes that he is delivered from his enemies, his false beliefs of sin and death. 51 Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivereth him out of them all. Ps. 34-19. He keepeth all his bones, not one of them is broken. Ps. 34-2. SP. EXP. What a loving protection we find in be- ing obedient to the great encompassing principle of good. For the Lord loveth judgment and foresaketh not his saints, they are preserved forever. (Through obedience). The righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell therein forever. Ps. 37 28-29. (Land of conscious- ness). Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and He shall sus- tain thee. He shall never suffer the righteous to be moved. Ps. 55-22. SP. EXP. Submit all to God, and do His will; He is our shield and buckler. I will cry unto God most high, unto God that per- formeth all things for me. Ps. 57-2. My soul, wait thou upon God; for my expectation is from Him. Ps. 62, 5. He is my rock and my salvation; He is my de- fense, I shall not be moved. Ps. 62-6. SP. EXP. Lift up our thoughts in praise to Him, and know Him as our redeemer. He saves us from all trouble. He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High, shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. Ps. 91-1. SP. EXP. When man realizes that he lives, moves, and has his being in God and is trusting his all to God, he is dwelling in the secret place of the most 52 High. He does abide in the shadow of the loving Father, Mother, God. Then shall thou tread upon the lion and the adder; the young lion and the dragon shall thou trample underfoot. Ps. 91-13. SP. EXP. All error becomes nothing to GocTs man, to be trodden underfoot and perish. God is not its creator. He made good only. Who forgiveth all thine iniquities, who healeth all thy diseases. Ps. 103-3. SP. EXP. The above declares that God heals all our diseases. Does it say that man's help is needed? Did not Jesus heal? Did He not command his fol- lowers to go and do likewise? Is man GocFs su- perior? Is God to become a secondary considera- tion? He sent his word and healed them and delivered them from their destruction. Ps, 107-20. HEALING. Ye shall know them by their fruits. Every good tree bringeth forth good fruit. Matt. 7-16-17. And Jesus went about all the cities and villages teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gos- pel of the kingdom and healing every sickness and every disease among the people. Matt. 9-35. And as ye go preach, saying the kingdom of heaven is at hand. Matt. 10-7. Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils, freely ye have received, freely give. Matt. 10-8. Quotations from Jesus Go out into all the world and preach the gospel and heal the sick. What I have done ye shall do also even greater things shall ye do. If ye have faith and doubt not, ye shall say unto this mountain, be thou removed and cast into the sea, and it shall be done. (Mountains of errors, seas of errors). And these signs shall follow them that believe. In my name shall they cast out devils, and they shall speak with tongues. They shall take up serpents and if they drink any deadly thing it shall not hurt them. They shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover. SP. EXP. To cast out all evil beliefs such as sin, sickness and death, and entertain new happy thoughts. Take up the evil sick serpent thoughts and destroy them in your consciousness, and if you have taken into your mortal consciousness any thoughts oj sin, sickness and death, the understanding of the truth as Jesus has given it will destroy it all in your thought. (Consciousness.) 54 Now when the sun was setting all they that had any sick with divers diseases brought them unto him and He laid His hands on them and healed them. SP. EXP. All were healed through the under- standing of Jesus. Man is given the same power if obedient to Christ Jesus 9 commands. And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, which had spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed of any came behind Him and touched the border of His garment and immediately her issue of blood was staunched. Luke 8, 43-44. SP. EXP. What faith! For thirty years I spent my money on physicians, and for over twenty years for my dear wife. No cure. But through the advice of friends we accepted the Christ teachings, and we have both been in the enjoyment of health for many years. Bless the Lord. Insomuch as they brought forth the sick into the streets and laid them on beds and couches, that at least the shadow of Peter passing by might over- shadow some of them. (Wonderful faith.) There came also a multitude out of the cities round about unto Jerusalem bringing sick folks; and them which were vexed with unclean spirits and they were healed everyone. And God wrought special miracles by the hand of Paul 55 PAUL'S FAITH IN GOD. "And God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul." (Acts 19-11.) "And when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks, and laid them on the fire, there came a viper out of the heat and fastened on his hand." (Acts 28-3.) "And he shook off the beast in the fire, and felt no harm." V. 5. Howbeit they looked when he should have swollen or fallen down dead suddenly; but after they had looked a great while and saw no harm come to him, they changed their minds, and said that he was a God. V. 6. SP. EXP. What is the viper which fastens itself on man, but a false belief of life in matter. A belief that sin, sickness, and death, can, like a viper, fasten itself so firmly in the mind of the human fleshly man that he believes he has life in this flesh and he can suffer and die. He does not life his mind above the human unto God. Spirit as the life of man is not found in the flesh, but in God. Jesus came to bring life and immortality to life through the gospel. Jesus the Christ was the light of the world. He said "Follow me." And we as true followers of the Christ Jesus can shake off the viper of death. The mortal belief of sin and sickness which leads to a false belief in death. O ye of little faith, believe and be baptised into the Truth which Christ Jesus presented in mankind, when He said go ye out into all the world and preach the gospel and heal the sick. Let us have faith, Faith without works is dead. Man who has the faith in Christ does the healing work. "He therefore that ministereth to you the spirit, 56 and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by the works or law, or by the hearing of faith?" Gal 3-5. SP. EXP. Destroy all beliefs of sickness, sin and death in the man of flesh, and cause him to know that all life is in, and of God, never found in the fleshly man. "Women received their dead raised to life again." V. 35. "Faith if it hath not works is dead, being alone." (Jas. 3-17). "And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up." V. 15. "The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much." V. 16. SP. EXP. Let mortal man have faith in the great and only principle of good, God, Divine Principle and be healed and Live. 57 THE CARNAL MIND, ETC. If mortal man would realize his safe footing, he must know that PAUL speaks truly when he says that the child of flesh is not the child of God, also flesh and hlood pronteth nothing. The carnal mind is at enmity to God. Cen he for a moment believe that the Infinite God, all good, all powerful, could create a mind in His idea, to be at enmity to HIM- SELF?^ read in Romans 8, 2-3-4: For the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. For what the law could not do, in that it was weak thro* the flesh, God sending His own son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin condemned in the flesh, that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us who Walk not after the flesh but after the spirit. SP. EXP. We gather from this: that the carnal mind is not the mind of God, nor of his creation. It is the father of the belief that man exists in the flesh as a creation of God. Could this be a truth? Jesus 9 advent was in the flesh, and for sin was con- demned in the flesh. Is God held accountable for the evil created by man? God forbid. No, my brother, take the word of Paul for it. For the laic of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. Yes, obey God?s law and be free from sin and death. God is the only life, and He is not found in the flesh which He con- demned. Let the righteousness of Goef s law be ful- filled in us, and let us not walk after the flesh but after the spirit. Let us have the spirit of Christ JESUS in us, and love our neighbor as ourselves. We will never be free from our false beliefs until we learn to follow Jesus and forsake evil, and affirm the 58 Truth. Man is God's child when he manifests love in his daily life. Man is entertaining the serpent thought when he maintains that he exists in the flesh. The serpent beguiled Eve and he is beguiling all who see life in the material body, instead of knowing that God is our life. Man in the flesh is as truly opposite of the real man as a spurious dollar counterfeits the one produced by the mint. Mankind needs spiritual purgation. He has an over loading of sick evil thoughts. The different diseases seeming to exist in him are just beliefs. We all have a lot of terri- ble beliefs. Just begin to unload and get rid of them. Then what will we find? Nothing but health. Just leave the big "D" off of devil and what is left evil, Why add the D 9 Why take from man his healthy thoughts and leave him sin, sickness and death? Just see the flesh as nothing, God as spirit and God's man spiritual. Then there will be no man to think evil. Evil is that evil thinketh. Good is as good thinketh. The devil is evil in the fleshly mind. God is good in the spiritual mind. See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil. Heaven is ours in our consciousness, now. HEALING. Affirm health and deny evil. Take in the scrip- tural words, dissect them, separate the gold from the dross, that is, good from evil, wheat from the chaff, see God as all, evil nothing. Let us obey Christ Jesus' teachings as the mariner oheys the compass and knows his whereabouts on the great deep through his instruments. Man has been falsely educated to believe in life, in matter; instead of in spirit, God. The Bible tells us that God is Spirit, and man is his image and likeness. Can this image be found in the fleshly man who seems to die? Can death be called the image of life? Can evil be the image of good? Sickness that of health? Can God be the Creator of all good, and at the same time the creator of good's opposite? Can man be thinking of health and happiness, which is of God, and at the same time have thoughts of evil, sin and death? The man of flesh does appear to be real and to possess life. Jesus said, judge not by appearances, but judge righteous judgment. Our life is in God. Be not deceived my brother, my sister, but search the scriptures and you will find that there is but one Creator, God, Mind. God will ever be to man what man believes Him to be ; and evil will ever be the same. All the power evil has in what man gives it. Let us see that we take from, and not add to. Always deny evil, and affirm truth, if we want health and happiness. When we affirm sick, lame, halt blind or discordant in body, it is a tearing down process. To build up to be strong and healthy, man must lay claim to the good. It is the building process. 60 God did not create evil. He created only good. How can evil proceed from good, when God declares that He is of too pure eyes to behold evil? The old adage, "evil is that evil thinketh," As a man thinketh in his heart so is he. Arise, and think with God. Evil is unreal, it has no reality. When we claim God as the only Creator, if we accept evil as reality, we admit that God made it, and if so, he entertained thoughts of evil, and could not be purely good, and if evil is created by God, man must of necessity bear patiently with it. God is in His Law and His law is everywhere. God is the spirit or substance of all there is. Good is God. Drop one "o" from "good" and we have God add the letter "D" to evil, and we have "Devil." God must be life to live. God is our life, health, strength, All in All. The Kingdom of Heaven is within us, Love mani- fests Heaven. As man is filled with God's love, he is harmonious and heavenly. Man is the embodiment of God's thoughts, mind, Spirit, God, Wisdom is of God. God created man in his own image and likeness. Man must be like God, good, to be His image and likeness. Ask yourself is this fleshly man, this sick sinful dying man, the image of the living God? As there is but one real creation it is a living creation, not a dying one. The Spiritual man knows God his creator. The fleshly man has no creator to know. He is unlike God, good. Man to be known as God's image and likeness is to be found as the embodiment of Divine principle wholeness, purity, love, wisdom, the essence of Good. Man is but the thought of God, Mind. Wisdom is the intelligence of God, Mind. Mind is the Creator of all good. Evil has no cre- ator, it is a lie. A lie is not found in the Truth. It has no part in the Truth. So the fleshly man is no part of God, and is not the man of God's creation, 61 and does not manifest life in its true sense. Death is the extinction of life. What God made cannot die. Man lives, moves and has his being in God. Man living in God lives in Heaven for God is Heaven. Heaven is where God is, and the Bible says there is no place where God is not. This being true, man is eternally in Heaven, consequently must be eternally healthy, happy, harmonious, well. He must enjoy healthy, happy thoughts to be heavenly. No evil thoughts that we attach to our liver, stomach, bowels, kidneys, heart, lungs, throat, head, blood, nerves, brain, spine, or entertain in the mortal mind can be found in the mind of God. In His thoughts there is no evil. Let us see that we attach no evil to any of the organs of this so-called body which we claim as ours. We must not lay claim to it. Paul says, "The child of the flesh is not the child of God." We are God's children spiritually, not materially. Ecc. 3:14 said, nothing can be added to, or taken from what God has made. 62 WHAT MATERIAL MAN HAS BEEN TAUGHT. Mortal man has for centuries been taught to look to the body and claim he is in pain, sick, because he feels it. He can locate its whereabouts. He is not aware that the thought suggests to the mortal man that he is sick and in pain, and locates it to mortal belief. Paul says, to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. When we learn that man's life is in mind, never in body, then we will learn to look to God, Divine Mind, for life, health, happiness and success, and turn away from the so called mortal mind, which leads us to a false belief of life in the flesh. God, Mind is al- ways able to care for His own creation, which is spiritual and not material. It is by knowing we are spiritual the children of God, not of the flesh that man lays off his false belief in pain, sickness, sin and death and takes on in its stead, health. Let us continually remind ourselves that we are the children of God and not of matter. We must insist momently and hourly that Divine Mind, God, is the only Creator, and spiritually we are His children. Paul says, They which are the children of the flesh, they are not the children of God. Rom. 9:8. Rom. 8-1. There is therefore no condemnation in them which are in Christ Jesus who walketh not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. We must take Christ Jesus as the way shower, and follow in his precept Do his bidding. Destroy all fleshly beliefs of life in matter and declare that sickness and pain do not ex- ist as a truth, but as a falsity. Let God be true and mortal man a liar. When the so called human mind is governed by 63 the Divine Mind which is the only mind, this so- called fleshly man will manifest health and harmony. Every organ in his body will display activity. God is man's activity. All that He created is ever active. God neither slumbers nor sleeps nor does the man of His creation. It is the man of flesh that seems to require sleep. It is the fleshly man that says I am sick, I am tired. For God is eternal life, Man His image. Life cannot die. Therefore the fleshly dy- ing man is not of God's creation. We become the children of God when obedient to His commands. The spiritual world is the only reality. The Spirit- ual man is the Only real man. The material world is unreal; the material man is unreal. God is Spirit, and all He creates is spiritual. The human race has been deluded into believing in a power apart from God, and into seeing God as the creator of mortal and a material world. All that is discerned by the material senses is unreal. The material man is discordant. He sees the sun moving and the earth standing still. He sees man with a double mind, knowing good and evil. The spiritual man is single minded, sees nothing but good, knows nothing but truth. Sees no evil, knows no evil. All is God, good, and man His idea, spiritual and not material, healthy, harmonious. Man giving way to sin and selfishness, has closed the door against his true consciousness of God, good, and the true spiritual understanding of right. This material sense world is the unreal world. In this material world we have good and evil, but the good is not immortal good; it is subject to many changes and believes in sin, sickness, evil sorrow, pain, and an ending in a belief in death. How is mankind to be lifted up out of its false be- liefs or illusions? His false beliefs of life in matter, and a power apart from God? Search the Scriptures. 64 We will see that they tell us that God is spirit, and man worships Him in spirit and in truth. And the Bihle further declares, that man, male and female, were created in His image and likeness. Therefore, man must of necessity be spiritual and the spiritual is indisputably eternal. Mary seeing through spir- itual vision the mistake that man was laboring un- der, looked up to God, Divine Principle, with all the fervency of her heart and plead for a child that He might be the Savior of the world, and her prayer was answered, in the birth of Jesus. God sending His own son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh "that the righteous- ness of the law might be fulfilled in us who walk not after the flesh, but after the spirit. Rom. 8-4. "For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the spirit, the things of the spirit" (Rom. 85). "For to be car- nally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace." (Rom. 8-6). SP. EX. Follotving the carnal mind leads to a be- lief in death. The spiritual mind lifts man up into a higher more lofty thought of life. And as God is our life and His life is eternal, hotv can death exist? Jn life there is no death. All is life. Jesus was born of the human Mary. But the Christ within him was of God. As a truth he could say "The Father is greater than I." The 1 of the flesh. Before Abra- ham was, I am. So Christ Mind is God; And man ivhen he entertains the Christ thought is following him. And the Christ thought or spirit of Christ manifested in man is the true life of man, Jesus be- ing of the flesh fleshly, and Christ the Spirit in Him is God. Jesus the Christ was the mediator between God and man. The man, Christ Jesus. Our way is made plain, walk in it. When we see man as spiritual and 65 not material and obey Jesus the Christ the work is done. Be obedient. Be ye obedient to the law of God. Obey Christ Jesus' command, "Follow me." If we do we will rise above the false claims of ma- terial consciousness and enter into the true conscious- ness of spirit God. Then we will die to error, or life in the flesh, and realize our oneness with God, and we will set our affections on things above, and not on earth. Spiritual thinking is life, Material thinking is death. As in Adam (error) all men die, so in Christ (Truth) shall all be made alive. The material man is a dreamer, and when he awakes to the truth of being, all dreams vanish, and man finds himself a spiritual child of God. Perfect as God is perfect. Jesus said "Verily, verily I say unto you, he that believeth on me, the works that 1 do shall he also do, and greater works than these shall he do, because I go unto the Father." SP. EXP. These promises were not only for his disciples of those days, but for us today. Follow thou me. And he said we are to do greater works than He did. If we expect to do the greater works we are to be obedient to the Christ spirit. Paul tells us that Jesus took on sinful flesh and for sin was condemned in the flesh, and as the flesh has been condemned man must lay off all fleshly material be- liefs and put on the new man. The Christ purified man. The man of God's creation. All things were made by Him and ivithout Him was not anything made that was made. So let us obey Christ 9 s com- mands. He says "Lo, I am with you always even unto the end of the world" Jesus subdued evil in every form and what He did we are to do "and even greater things." He conies to destroy sin, sickness, evil and death. So arise in thought above all mortal beliefs of life in matter, and to see all life in God. 66 Let us be about our Master's business. The old man and his deeds must be laid off for the new man. This mortal must put on immortality and this cor- ruptibility, incorruption. And death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? O man! unlock the door of thy consciousness and let out all that is unlike God. (What is left? Love.) In GocTs perfect child there is no discontent. All is harmony. If this so-called mortal fleshly man wants to know contentment he must learn that there is no mind but God's mind and in this mind he finds contentment, and not discontent, and in absolute con- tentment man finds health and harmony. A con- tented man is not a discontented man. A happy, healthy man is neither sad nor sick, nor is a discor- dant man, a healthy, harmonious man. Where are we to find contentment? In seeking the truth of be- ing. That man as God's idea is spiritual and not ma- terial, healthy, not unhealthy, happy, not unhappy, good, not evil, harmonious, not inharmonious. Seek and ye shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you. Christ Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life. ''Follow thou me." 67 LIFE. If man believes God is the Creator of sickness and is all wise, all powerful, man cannot be consistent if he resorts to materia medica for help to abate suf- ferings he believes God created. God could not be consistent and create both good and its opposite, evil or error of any kind. Man to be healthy and harmonious must banish forever all beliefs of life in matter, and know that life is in and of God; mind, God is our life. As the sun gives to this material world, light and heat, so God gives out life and health to his ideas; and in propor- tion as man lays off this human sense and accepts in its stead the Divine sense, man becomes the master of all his beliefs of life in matter and all its so called claims of sin, sickness and death. A good man out of the good treasures of his heart bringeth forth good things, and an evil man out of evil treasures of his heart bringeth forth evil things. If a man thinks good, his life will manifest good, and if his thought be evil, evil will result. As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. Let our thoughts be good only. God's Kingdom is finished and the scrip- tures teach us it is within us. It is within our reach, or our understanding. God is everywhere. Heaven is a state of harmony. Hell is inharmony and as Heaven is everywhere, where is hell to be found? All good is in and of God. It is by the systematic and persistent recognition of Good that evil passes from our consciousness. 68 HARMONY. Harmony and perfection are a creation of God, Mind, which is eternal. Discord of any name or na- ture, is not found in the Divine Mind. The material so-called man, is a creation of error, a false belief, that which seems to exist and does not. A lie is be- lieved never was true. It is a truth perverted. Sick- ness, pain and death are never found in the immor- tal mind of GOD, consequently untrue. They seem to exist, just as the sun seems to move and does not. All discordant, diseased painful thoughts are the creation of the so-called mortal thought, never found in the Divine mind. Let us bridle our mortal minds if we want to be healthy and happy. God created good. He could not create both good and evil. He is not double minded. Love is the key to Heaven. Love is God. God is Heaven. The Kingdom of Heaven is within us within our true consciousness. Love is harmony, har- mony is heaven. Love is the leaven that enters into our true consciousness and leavens this whole lump of humanity. Love, the leaven, enters this lump of mortal flesh and never ceases its work until the whole bundle is leavened, purified. God is Love, Love is God. Nothing can obstruct a channel of love in our consciousness, for Truth is working and operating all the time. We cannot suffer from any human mind, claim of sickness or pain, for Infinite mind governs every organ and function in our bodies. Every day is God's day and can bring us nothing but harmony and health. Truth is the alternative and activity to the whole system and can make it every whit whole. Nothing exists but God and His ideas, which is per- fect, spiritual, immortal. Harmony is everywhere. 69 Inharmony nowhere. God is everywhere. Evil no- where. Love is, Love's opposite does not exist. Health is, sickness is not. God never created an op- posite to Himself, to destroy what He created, and as God fills or occupies all space where can we find room for His opposite? We cannot, impossible. When thoughts of perfection are manifest in this body, then we see God's man and Heaven manifested in good. The principle of mathematics does not teach the pupil that one and one make three, nor does the prin- ciple of music teach the pupil to recognize discord in harmony. Nor does the Divine principle God teach man that sin, sickness, death, or error of any nature is found in him. Deny it, and affirm the truth, God is good and All in All. Man must for- sake his discordant beliefs of life in matter, in sick* ness, sin, death and acknowledge all life is in and of God, else God could not be All in All. The only true man is the man of God's creation. The man of God's creation is found in the Divine mind, never in the human. The God given health cannot be taken from man, and sickness and death added to him. God said not to add to or take from what he has created. Dear reader, which do you prefer, the joy and light of God's sunshine, health, harmony, life, or the oppo- site, gloom, despondency, sin, sickness and death? You can obtain the one by accepting the truth. You can obtain the other by rejecting it. All material power originates in the power house, and is distributed to the cars in different parts of the city and sets them in motion. So God is the great and only power house, mind, and distributes his thoughts to His children. If they accept and obey they manifest life, strength, happiness and health. 70 JESUS OUR SHEPHERD. Mankind cannot be forced, but he can be led. The shepherds in ancient times did not drive their sheep, but led them. They followed in perfect trust and love. Jesus the divine shepherd said, "Follow me." Let us be followers of Jesus, willing servants of the dear Lord. God is not the creator of discordant thoughts, fear, doubt, anger, stubbornness, malice, jealousy, hate, persecution, greed, envy, sin, sickness, worry, pain, death, nor of malpractice of any name or nature. Evil or discordant mortal thoughts are the very opposite or antipode of God, good, and the belief in them must be destroyed by good thinking. They must be banished from material minds. Evil is, that evil thinketh. As man has no other source to apply for his thoughts, he must imbibe the purity of spirit, God. In Him there is no evil. Man cannot be pre- vented from being healed by or through the Truth if he is willing to be led by the Christ thought which is the Truth, God is, and naught else is. Heat de- stroys cold, melts ice, Good destroys evil, happiness despair, Truth error, light darkness. Fearlessness puts out fear, love revenge. Let love reign in our hearts. God's creation is a thought creation. All is mind, Mind is God. All is All. Man cannot be lost, for he can have no existence apart from God. God is omnipotent and omnipresent. 71 MISCELLANEOUS. If God did not create sickness it cannot exist as a reality. God created all which He created good. If sickness is God's creation, it must be good, and if so, it cannot be destroyed. When man knows that the Principle is not the cause of our mistakes in life, and searches for the reason, he finds it in his own mortal mind. If there is a principle existing which can cause an inanimate object like the phonograph to laugh and sing, and speak and whistle, the same principle can do the like with mortal man, and can make him happy and well. When the man at the helm of the great steamer neglects to manipulate his wheel the boat leaves its course, because it is not held to the point of the compass. So we must hold to the Truth of being, as our guide on earth's trackless sea. No mortal can be influenced to do a wrong deed, or think wrongly if he will obey the Principle of right. Mankind had better think twice before acting once. Then who does the thinking? Mortal man or God? I say, in my thought, the earth stands still and the sun moves. Is it so? I say, Man is sick unto death. Is it so? If sickness is created by God, it must be good. Would God create that which can destroy life? None but the pure in heart can see God. It be- hooves man to purify his thoughts from all beliefs of life in matter and of sickness and death or any evil or false beliefs. 72 I will instruct thee, and teach thee in the way that thou shall go: I will guide thee with mine eye. Pal. 32-8. And ye shall serve the Lord your God and He shall bless thy bread, and thy water and I will take sick- ness away from the midst of thee. Ex. 23, 20-25. Jesus Christ is now beckoning unto man to follow Him, just in the same manner that He did on earth and if man wants to get out of his physical ailments let him heed the call lay off his false beliefs of life in matter and put on the robe of righteousness. "Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." (Truth). Human mind, the old serpent talked to Eve and led her astray just as he is leading man now, away into the wilderness of despair. O hearken to the bugle call of love and follow Christ. The mansion is prepared to receive us all. Jesus took on mortal flesh and was condemned in the flesh. A lesson for man; heed it. The letter killeth, but the spirit quickeneth. Let man imbibe the spirit of Christ. Truth is right thinking about God. Error is the wrong thinking. Error causes all wrong thinking. Truth never. Material man does not imbibe the true thoughts of God until he is ready for them. He does not build a house when he is financially unprepared. To drink in to our mortal consciousness God's loving healthy, Harmonious thoughts, there must be a willingness, a hungering and thirsting for something better than that which we seem to have. We must be willing to surrender our unhealthy unhappy beliefs for better ones. God never slumbers nor sleeps. It is the material 73 man who sleeps until he awakens to the truth of be- ing. God is All in All and we are included in the All. Man seeing himself as the child of God cannot en- tertain any evil thoughts. In purity, impurity can- not be found. God's thoughts are pure. Man should reflect them. Now if any man have not the spirit of Christ, he is none of his, and if Christ be in you the body is dead because of sin; but the spirit is life because of righteousness. But if the spirit of Him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, He shall also quicken your mortal bodies by His spirit that dwell- eth in you. Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh to live after the flesh. For if ye live after the flesh (the mortal beliefs) ye shall die, but if ye through the spirit, do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. (Rom. 8) Remember God's man is spiritual, never material. God's man is not found in the flesh, but in mind. All the wrath that can be found in God is in His Law, or in man's disobedience to that law. Obedi- ence brings peace, disobedience wrath. Don't charge it to God. Be honest and father your own mistakes. God is love and cannot create wrath. Love is Chris- tianity. Hate its opposite. Jesus the Christ teaches us to love our neighbor as we love ourselves. Is this love manifested in the churches of today? (Don't talk love, but live it). Man is happy in right doing, unhappy when he does wrong. What discerns right from wrong but our true conscience, The true thoughts? Mankind must go to work and clear the weeds out of his own thoughts. Weeds represent error. A good gardener prepares his ground for his crop, then he procures the seed from a reliable source, and he plants them, and then waits for re- sults. In due time he goes to his garden, and what 74 does he find? A crop of weeds! He exclaims, "These are not from the seed I planted!" And he be- gins to investigate and he finds here and there some of the products of his planting and so as he, a pru- dent gardener, meditates and concludes, "These are worthless seeds and will prevent my crop from ma- turing." And so with hoe in hand he goes out to destroy the weeds. Why do they destroy his crop? Because they grow so rapidly they take the nutriment from the soil and so the good plants have none. The weeds must be hoed out again and again before the crop gets strong enough to hold its own, and absorb the nourishment necessary for its development. The result a bountiful crop. So with man. Error in the name of sickness, aches and pains are the weeds to be destroyed in our consciousness. What will be left? Health, Harmony, a beautiful crop. Let us be good gardeners. To love God is to love the good we get from Him. He can impart nothing but good. Nothing unlike Himself, the embodiment of good. We get light and heat from the sun and love and love's result from God. And as good is all and evil nothing, evil can- not be the twin of good, nor good of evil. God is the only Good, and Jesus Christ the only wayshower. He teaches a change of heart, a change of thought from wrong to right, from sickness to health, from desnair to happiness. All man sees through the ma- terial senses is unreal. Let man learn to discern spiritually, not materially. God's creation is not ma- terial. It is spiritual. 1. "There was a man of the Pharisees named Nico- demus, a ruler of the Jews: 2. "The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him. 75 3. "Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily I say unto thee, Except a man be born again he cannot see the kingdom of God. 4. "Nicodemus said unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb and be born? 5. "Jesus answered, Verily, verily I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. 6. "That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the spirit is spirit. 7. "Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. Ask yourself this question: Could God be Spirit, Mind and the only creator, and create all like Him- self, good, and at the same time create evil? Could He create a man of the flesh, a sinful dying man, and then be the embodiment of good? The answer must be No. Man derives or reflects all he is, from God, and God is absolute good. Can man reflect evil from good? Can he get sickness, pain and death from God, good? No, God is all. He made all, yes, Made all good. Then can evil exist, and God be its creator? No. God made man, male and female in His own im- age and likeness and finished His work, and rested. Man, male and female have their work to do. God says work out your salvation; meaning man is to work out of this false belief of life in matter and realize himself as living and moving and having his being in God, and being governed by Mind, God and not by human mind, so called. Health and happi- ness must be the result. This is the problem for man to work out, just as he works a mathematical prob- lem. Make no mistakes, but cling strictly to the principle of right. It is knowing the truth that frees 76 man. Error, a mistake, never frees, but through error he wanders further from the truth. Climatic influences have no power over God's man. Planets have no power, Weather has no power, Dampness has no power, Mortal mind so called has no power. God is the only power and this power is good only. He is not in His opposite, No evil to fear no mortal to create evil. If there could be, God wouldn't be all powerful. Let man hold to the thought of purity, and not purity's opposite, Love, not hate, Health, not sickness, good, not evil. "All things work together for good to those who love God." Let our hearts be filled with love, and leave no room for evil. Just love. A man who wishes to live under the protection of the United States flag must become a citizen of the United States and obey its laws. Should he be Eng- lish, Russian, or German, he has to relinquish his former home government and become a full citizen of the United States. So man must relinquish his be- liefs of life in matter and accept all life as being in mind, God, and be obedient to His commands and deny all evil, and affirm truth as all. Man must be governed by the law of Spirit, and not matter. Pre- sent your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, says the scripture. No claim of sickness is true unless God created it. All He created is good. Who is willing to say that sickness, pain or death is good? Christ Jesus came to destroy sin, sickness and death. Are destroyed by putting them out of mind, by right thinking. Better sweeten our coffee with sugar than with acid. It is more agreeable. Better sweeten our dis- positions with love than with hate, with good rather than evil. Heavenly thoughts rather than impure or vicious ones. 77 Jesus said Call no man your father on earth, for one is your father even God. Mary the mother of Jesus, in the fervency of her heart looked up to God the Father and implored Him to give her a child that he might be the Savior of the world. Who is to be saved? Not the spiritual child of God, but the flesh- ly seeming man of sin. Jesus came in the flesh and for sin was condemned in the flesh. Jesus being con- trolled by the Christ principle reached out in his fleshly thought, recognized the man of flesh and said unto him "Follow me." How? In right thinking being obedient to the Christ. So man is lifted up out of the mire and clay of flesh and as he follows Jesus he is lifted higher and higher into the Christ mind, into Heaven; and the old man with his deeds is laid off for the new man, the Christ renovated man, the redeemed man. As this so called human is governed by the Christ thought he becomes a new creature. Let man follow the Christ. This mortal must put on immortality, and this corruptible put on incorrup- tion. Then death will be swallowed up in victory. Then man can truly say O death, where is thy sting, O grave, where is thy victory? As man follows Christ he lays off all his false beliefs in the flesh and all that belongs with it, sin, sickness, pain and pov- erty and his belief in death, and he becomes a new creature in Christ Jesus, and knows no Father but God, good. O, is it not worth striving for? Eternal bliss, eternal life, eternal happiness. Try it, my brother, my sister. When mortal man accepts God as the truth of be- ing, as his creator and follows Him in spirit, he lays off the old man and his deeds and puts on the new man, Christ Jesus, who says "I am the way, the truth and the life, follow me." Then as he follows he be- comes a new creature in Christ Jesus. God, good, is my life, God is my health, God is 78 my strength, God is my happiness, God is my peace, God is my harmony, God is my joy, God is my sup- port, God is always with me. God never forsakes me. God is omnipotent, omnipresent. No place where He is not. God being everywhere, evil no- where. That which can't be found in principle, has no existence. Nothing so, but thinking makes it so. The farmer has to think about how and when to plant his crop; What soil is best adapted to corn, potatoes, wheat and oats; also when to plant or sow, and when it will be ready for harvesting. The inventor has to think, and think again before he can demonstrate his thought creation. The lawyer must study and give much thought to his client's case. The builders of railroads have to plan and survey for their track. Mankind can accomplish nothing without thinking. He thinks he does not feel well. He wonders what his ailments are; finally he calls in the doctor. The doctor looks wise and thinks it best to examine the tongue, the heart, thinks to take the temperature and finally thinks out his diagnosis of the case. He thinks it quite a complicated case, but thinks there is hope of recovery. Later in the case he thinks it is beyond his control and thinks best to call in council. They think, and express their thoughts with fear and fill the family's minds with fear and death. Mortal man's thinking. God does not think He knows. He knows that the man He created cannot be sick, suffer and die as His creation is eternal and knows no death. He did not, nor could not create man to die. He could not create an opposite to life, unless He knew both good and evil. If it were possible He would be im- perfect Himself for He would have the elements of death in Himself. We have the assurance of the scripture that God did not create the fleshly man. 79 So man must know of a fact that he is spiritual and not material. A man of mind and not matter. Therefore, God's man is a man of thought unreal to the mortal so called man. Man cannot be real and unreal. 2 and 2 make 4 and not 5. So we must conclude that the spiritual man is God's creation and the fleshly so called man is but a belief of a man. A belief is that which seems to be and is not. So the man of God's creation cannot be sick and die as he is immortal. This so called man of flesh is a nega- tion, nothing to God. Yet he does seem to be some- thing to his own corrupt thought, material mind. 80 TEMPER. A good even temper is conducive to good health. A bad temper is the cause of much of the sickness of the day. Now, I speak to my fellow mortals. Of the two, which do you choose? The one leads man in to happy congenial thoughts and sends a glow of happiness over and through his body and you see manifested on his face a look of peace and joy, that many times will hold you spellbound; and you long for the like yourself. It is yours for the taking. Keep the side of an even happy nature and not the opposite, (bad temper). When material man is quick to anger, full of venom, and without restraint he gives way to the paroxysms of temper. We see upon his face the ex- act opposite to the expression of the self controlled man. Bad temper is anger, malice, hate, revenge, fear, and is the cause of many deaths, and of many of the so called ailments of the day. How are you to curb this temper? Just as the driver prevents the loaded wagon from rolling upon his team, as they go down a steep grade apply the brake in time. Don't wait till you are too far down the grade. Just curb this evil temper before it gets beyond control; you say I will give a piece of my mind to this man, who has annoyed or injured me. It will be like pouring water on a duck's back. If they are good natured they laugh at you. If like you they are full of venom, they fight back and trouble follows trouble. Remember "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." To vent your spite is only time lost, and you alone are the real sufferer. O mortal be warned! Think twice ere you act once. Keep a bridle on your unruly tongue. Think no evil, do no evil, and no evil will be created. Mankind is the sole creator 81 of evil. So as light destroys darkness, so a good cheerful disposition, showing love to all, will destroy malice. Love your neighbor as yourself, and the Lord thy God with all thy heart. GOOD AND EVIL. Does good and evil exist? If so man Would be double minded and the Bible declares that a double minded man is unstable. Could this perfect God create a perfect man, male and female, like Himself and at the same time create an imperfect man? If He could entertain thoughts of imperfection He would not be perfect Himself. Could He create a healthy man, and not protect him in his health, He would not be good and all powerful. We must dis- sect our carnal thoughts and discern the truth. 82 GREAT AND ONLY FIRST CAUSE. It is admitted that there must be a great and only- first cause and that cause is found in a great prin- ciple called Divine Principle, Spirit, Mind, God, Good and it is admitted by mankind that only good can proceed from this cause. Pray tell me where the so called evil originated. It could not originate in the mind of God, He being the embodiment of good. It would be impossible for absolute good to be the father of evil. Evil is good's opposite. Man is of God's creating. Male and female created He them in His own image and likeness. Man possessing a car- nal mind is not God's creation for the carnal mind is at enmity to God, and not subject to His laws. Can it be possible that God, the eternal all wise cre- ator, could create this carnal mind which the scrip- tures declare is at enmity to Him? Could God create both in us? The letter killeth but the spirit giveth life. Life's absence is death. Let mankind keep their mind on health and harmony and it will not be controlled by the opposite, ill health, inharrnony. Both can't be found at the same time in one place. Let us cast our net, (our thoughts) on the right side as good obedient fishermen. Fear is not good, neither is a belief in death. Sickness, sin and death are a creation of the carnal mind, God's enemy. Health, harmony and all good are of God's creation, good. Fear, doubt, anxiety and all false beliefs of life in matter is the cause of all our beliefs of sickness, sin and death. It is certain that the man of God's crea- tion cannot suffer and die. He reflects eternal life from God who is life. God imparts life to His ideas. Seek and ye shall find; Knock and it shall open unto you. Jesus came to bring life and immortality to light through the gospel. It was always here, but not discernible till Jesus' advent in the flesh. Seek it, find it through Christ Jesus. 83 COME LET US REASON TOGETHER. God is Mind, Divine Principle, Omniscient, Omnip- otent, Omnipresent. He is all there is: the only cause, the only creator. He creates good only, un- derstanding the absolute Allness of God, and His presence everywhere, evil is without creator or place, a non-entity. God's created man cannot be sick, suf- fer and die, and as there is no other man sin and suffering cannot be a reality understand, a reality to God's good. But sin and sickness in the seeming is a reality to the inharmonious mortal man. Now it is up to mankind to make his choice. Separate the wheat from the chaff. Cast your net, your thoughts, on the right side of the ship and receive only good. God's man is not a receptacle for evil. GOD'S OPPOSITE NOT A REALITY. Mankind has to learn that God, good, is the only reality. God being all that exists, His opposite, so called evil, error, sin, sickness, pain, fear, death, are negations, consequently unrecognized by God, Spirit, and must also be ignored by the so called man of the flesh. When mortal man wakes up to this infinite God's truth, he will then wake up out of this dream of life in matter, and see God as all in all and error as false; and he will lay off the old man with his falsities and accept the truth, health and happiness and realize that it proceeds from the only Power. T-\:~^. V" T - T;I -* find the kingdom of heaven within his own consciousness. 84 CARNAL MIND. This carnal mind attempts to govern the body, but it seems to make bad work of it. One time good, many times bad. Because as the scripture tells us, it is at enmity to God; for to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. This carnal mind manifests both good and evil. Now let in the mind of God, good only and evil will dis- appear like the darkness, when light fills all space. O, let in the light of Divine Love which knows no evil, sickness or death. So long as the light of Truth is shining within you, there can be no darkness, no sin, evil or pain. Just live in the atmosphere of Love. As the running water purifies itself, so the truth Love will purify the thoughts of mortal man, and evil will flee before him, as the darkness flees before the light. Drink from the fountain of Love, and you will never, never thirst for anything but more Love. O, mortal man, just know that you do not exist in the flesh as God's idea for God's man is spiritual; and as a creation of mind, is perfect, and can never manifest evil. The sun seems to move but does not. So evil, sickness, pain and death, seem to be real but are not. The earth seems to stand still, yet it moves rapidly. It seems to be flat, yet it is round. Man's seemings are unreal. 85 HOW DID EVIL ORIGINATE? The question is often asked, how did evil orig- inate? Answer: Just as a lie originated. Was a lie ever a truth? No. Was a truth ever a lie? No. Now ask yourself this: do you prefer to believe the lie or the truth? You say, the truth. As the truth is all there is, there is nothing but the truth, then the lie is the negation, nothing. What are we to do with it? Just see it for what it is, nothing but a lie; cast it out of mind, and accept the truth as a truth, as all there is. But, you say, if all God created is good, whence cometh the evil? Evil seems to be all about us, Well said. Seems to be, seeming is all there is of evil. It is never real. Reality is only real, and reality is God's creation. God and His idea is all there is. The only existing things are what God cre- ated good, and as evil is admitted not to be good, it cannot be God's creation. Then see it for what it is, nothing but a belief. This morning to the seeming, the sun is not shining. Is that true? Yes, to my material sense. But in reality, the sun is ever shin- ing whether clouds hide his face or us. Are the true senses of God's man material or spiritual? God is a spirit and man is His image and likeness, spiritual. Then if God be true man cannot be material, conse- quently this fleshly material man is not of God's cre- ation. What is he but a lie? Was there ever a time that the sun did not shine? No. No matter how dark the clouds may appear to be, and to the so called mortal sense obstruct its view, yet back of these clouds he ever shines. Then to say the sun is not shining would be false. So if the mortal sense testimony cannot see God and His true creation in spirit, mind, but sees it in error, flesh, is it true? No. For God could not create anything unlike Him- 86 self, good. God is eternal life and cannot die, and man admits that in his flesh he can die. Can we har- monize these antagonistic statements? No. Can both be true? Can God be good, immortality good and create both good and evil? No. Can the immortal child of God sicken and die? No. Ask yourself this question. If the mathematical problems are correct- ly solved what do we get as result? Correct answer. If incorrectly solved, an incorrect answer. Is the in- correct solution found in the principles of mathe- matics? You will say no. Is God's eternally perfect creation true? Yes. Then HIS so called opposite, error, devil, sin, sickness and death are untrue, be- cause not found in the principle of God, good. God created good only and cannot be the father of evil or anything that has the taint of evil in it. The fleshly man filled with thoughts tainted with evil is untrue, and is not found in the mind of God. Evil has no creator as there is but one creator even God. Our mistakes originated when man failed to ac- knowledge God as the only creator, and his creation good. Evil cannot be found in good, or good in evil. Good is, evil is not. In God. good, evil cannot be found. In man, as God created him, evil is not; and as God is omnipotent, omnipresent there is no place for evil. Evil is good perverted. A lie is the truth perverted. Let God be true and every man a liar, said Jesus. Jesus perceived the evil in the thoughts of the Pharisees and rebuked it. So mankind must rebuke every ungodlike thought; every thought of sin, sickness, pain, fear, death, and place in their stead harmony, health, love, joy, peace and eternal life. God has no fellowship with evil. He has noth- ing to do with erroneous counterfeit things of the so called sinning dying mortal man. Heaven is where God is. God is everywhere. Hell, Heaven's oppo- site, has no abiding place. 87 The man of God's creation is in Heaven, for he is in the mind of God. Jesus came to show the sinning dying man how to get out of his hell like condition into the kingdom of heaven. He said "Follow me." Entertain thoughts of love. Love your neighbor as yourself. Love is the entering wedge to Heaven. Love is Heaven. Let us be followers of the love of Christ Jesus. OBEDIENCE TO CHRIST JESUS. Our life problems are all products of thought. We prosper thro' obedience, never thro' disobedi- ence. Man must know that he is the child of God and perfect. The Infinite could not create him otherwise. There is no power outside of Divine Principle, and God's creation cannot be sick, suffer and die. Man should be governed by Divine Principle, not mortal mind. Know the Truth. Matter has no existence outside of God. Can a mistake ever be found in the Principle, or is it any part of Principle? No, a mis- take is simply a lie, and a lie is no part of Truth. Nor is sickness, sin and death any part of God or God's man. God is perfect. You plant a garden. You select good seed, and after a time when the plants appear you find among them many weeds. Did you plant weeds? No. How do you account for them? They just appeared. So sickness, pain and death have no creation in Truth. The weeds have to be hoed out. The lie has to be destroyed by the Truth. Be obedient to the Infinite Power and cultivate only God's good plants. CAN WE BECOME SICK AND DIE? Can the man of God's creation become sick and die? No, not if God is eternal life. Is He, or is He not? God is eternal life and He is man's life. Does the so called fleshly or carnal man possess eternal life? No, the child of flesh is not the child of God. God is spirit and His child is spiritual, not carnal. Jesus did not take on sinful flesh, and be condemned in the flesh to save spiritual man, who is already saved, but to save the so called man of flesh and He said unto them, follow me. Jesus followed the Christ, and mankind follows Jesus. By so doing we lav off the old man, for the renewed man, the man who follows Christ Jesus and does His bidding. This mortal must put on immortality, and this corruptible put on incorruption. Then is death swallowed up in victory. By our obedience to Christ Jesus' teaching, no other way. No other door to the kingdom of Heaven. When man learns that the dark clouds obstruct the sun's light, but that the sun is shining all the time, he will learn to not let the dark, sick bad thoughts of materiality obstruct his view of health and happi- ness. Heaven. O Mortal, wake up and live. All that God created expresses activity. His crea- tion is ever active and all organs of our bodies are ever active in Mind. Can inactivity be found in activity? When the dark, cold, damp, disagreeable weather disappears, what is left? Nothing but sunshine, good weather. When our dark, dreary, evil, unhappy thoughts are destroyed from our consciousness, what is left, but health, harmony, love, joy and the peace that passeth all understanding? 89 GOD'S LAW. Know ye not, brethren (for I speak to them that know the law) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he lives. For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sin, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruits unto death. But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit and not in the oldness of the letter. Rom. 7 1-5-6-7-8-9. SP. EXP. Mortal man must keep the laws of our land in order to prepare him to obey the laws of Divine Principle, God. Our fleshly thoughts are the father of evil desires in the flesh and can be brought under subjection by obedience to the Christ teach- ing, keep the commandments. Mankind seems to lose sight of life as in and of God, and seems to con- sider himself as a creator. He loses sight of the knowledge that Divine Principle is the only creator. When Christ Jesus appeared as our redeemer to show mortal man the way out of all false beliefs, and taught him that all life is in God, He wished us to accept the truth to become God's children spiritually and to lay off the old man with his deeds, and put on the new man (Man renewed). What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. "Nay, I had not known sin but by the law. For I had not known lust except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. " But sin, taking occasion by the commandments wrought in me all manner of concupiescence, For without the law sin was dead. For I was alive within the law once, but when the commandments came, sin revived and I died. 90 SP. EXP. Where there was no laiv, mankind claimed his freedom to do as he pleased. There was no restraint, no compulsion toward right. He is a free moral agent, to do good or evil as he wills. There was no sin until the commandments of God came in force. Then mankind lost his freedom and if disobedient to the law, he is punished. If his sin was evil thinking, sickness, sin, poverty, pain and death was the penalty. Jesus came to the world through the pure thoughts of Mary, His mother, and He was governed by the pure Christ thoughts, and became the Savior of the world. It is through love and obedience that man comes to the realization of the truth of being, that all life is in and of God. There is no other way. Then we have the kingdom of heaven within us. Then we are conscious of noth- ing but good. Evil is extinct to us. 91 PURITY OF THOUGHT. John 6-63. It is the spirit that quickeneth, the flesh profiteth nothing. Psalm 51-1. Have mercy upon me O God accord- ing to thy loving kindness, according unto the mul- titude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgres- sions. SP. EXP. God is always merciful unto man, when man is obedient to the commands of Divine Love, and manifests it by walking in the paths of Truth, by manifesting love, not hate, good, not evil, health, not sickness, happiness, not despair, and by cleansing or correcting these so called material thoughts. By knowing God, as Spirit, Mind, the only Creator and HIS Creation, immortal, perfect, never found in the material man. Psalms 51-2. Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquities and cleanse me from my sin. SP. EXP. When the so called mortal man awak- ens, and accepts the truth of man 9 s spiritual exist- ense and manifests it in his daily life, he is washed of his material belief in sin. Psalms 51-2. For I acknowledge my transgression, and my sin is ever before me. SP. EXP. When the so called material man awakes to the truth of being so that he sees he is a transgressor of the law of God, good, and is a sinner and he is desirous of knowing a better way or a way out of a belief in sin and death, let him look to Jesus who said: I am the way, the truth and the life. Follow thou me. Psalms 51-10 is an answer to the above. Create in 92 me a clean heart God and renew a right spirit within me. SP. EXP. This means to purify our material minds and to think and see no evil. All is mind, all is God and God is All good. ASK YOURSELF THESE QUESTIONS. Has God an opposite called Devil? Has good an opposite called evil? Has right an opposite called wrong? Has health an opposite called sickness? Has happiness an opposite called despair? Has Spirit an opposite found in mortal man? Can good be created and evil exist in it? If God is good, evil, His opposite, can't be. Can man bring harmony out of both good and evil? Ask yourself which exists. Health or sickness? Right or wrong? Life or death? Heaven or hell? If we admit that God, good, is all in all, we must then admit that evil has no existence. Man must make his choice, which will it be? He chooses that which produces health and eternal ** / 93 CONDEMNATION. Condemn no man. Let us think twice before we speak once. Always let our thoughts be of good. Good thoughts are the only thoughts. Evil does not exist as a reality. There are no evil thoughts in reality. Condemn no man, Listen not to gossip. If you have a grievance against a brother, get face to face and reason together. Let love rule, and anger will vanish. There are always two sides to a story. It takes two to make a quarrel. They that are of the flesh cannot do the works of the spirit; neither they that are of the spirit the works of the flesh. Eph. 2-9. SP. EXP. While ive see ourselves as of the flesh, we cannot see ourselves as GoeFs child,, spiritual; therefore tve fail to do our spiritual work, separate the good from the evil, the wheat from the chaff. The thrasher saves the wheat and not the chaff. Let no one look upon his neighbor after the flesh; but do all mutually love each other in Jesus Christ. SP. EXP. We must abandon the thought of Jesus as Christ and also that of the fleshly man as the child of God. Jesus was the son of Mary, and the Christ principle was God in the man Jesus. As Jesus was controlled by the Christ principle so mortal man must be controlled by the same principle. And if obedient to this principle, health, harmony, peace, joy are the result, and if disobedient, the opposite. Fear God, and keep his commandments. For if thou keepest his commandments thou shalt be pow- erful in every work, and all thy works shall be ex- cellent. For by fearing God thou shalt do every thing well. 2 Hermos Com. 7-1. 94 SP. EXP. God is in his law and man must fear to be disobedient to His Law. Materially we do not fear the man or men who make our material laws, but we do fear to violate the laws they have made. We cause our own suffering by our violation of these laws. Let it be the law of mortal man or of God. Nothing but good is found in God's laws. Its oppo- site, evil, is no part of Good, (nothing) Let man fear to take the name of God in vain or to claim the fleshly man as GocFs creation. God is spirit, Mind and His man is Spiritual. Man must have the mind of God to be like Him. The fleshly man has a dou- ble mind, materially good, also bad. This being so he cannot be Gotfs image and likeness. The spir- itual man is never sick and knows no evil. The so called material man does know evil and death, not in reality, but in seeming and what is a seeming? That which seems to be and is not. So man in the flesh is nothing. But fear not the devil: for if thou feareth the Lord, thou shalt have dominion over him; because there is no power in him. Her. Com. v. 7. IS THERE SIN? I cannot close this little book without saying a few words on the line of sin or no sin. It is said by thousands of mortals that Christian Scientists say there is no sin. If this is true we can sin all we like and not be punished. (Don't make that mistake). A Christian Scientist who makes that statement will qualify his or her statement and will explain what they mean by it. To God there is no sin. God did not create sin, nor a man who could sin. God made man spiritual, as God is spirit; and God is of too pure eyes to behold sin, too pure thoughts to create sin or a sinner r God's creation is perfect, is eternal. In Ecc'ts 3-14 we read these words: "I Know that whatsoever God doeth it shall be forever, nothing can be put to it, nor anything taken from it." Did God create man to live for- ever, or did He create him a sinner and dedicate him to death? Remember the definition of death is the extinction of life. Scripture says God is our life and life is eternal. So God is eternal and His idea, man reflects life eternal. How can man, male and female, be God's likeness unless he expresses life eternal? The mortal sinning man does not express nor reflect it. Then he is not God's likeness and God could not have created His unlikeness a sinner. So to God, sin does not exist. But to this so called carnal mind- ed man who believes in sin, sin does exist to his mortal sense, and is only too real; and if he bucks up against it, he says he proves its truthfulness. To his own material sense he does: but is it true? God the only creator who created all good could not cre- ate a man to do evil. This mortal fleshly man is likened unto a counterfeit dollar. It is called a dol- lar. Is it? No. Why? For the mint alone is the 96 creator of a good dollar, and this counterfeit a fac- simile of the real, is accepted generally as good, but it is not. Neither is the so called material man the real man, he is the fleshly man and a sinner and God's creation is spiritual and pure. The fleshly man is good perverted a counterfeit; like the bad dollar, a good dollar counterfeited. Now go on and think there is no sin, commit what is termed a crime, run up against the law of mortal man, and suffer the consequences of wrong doing. Whence comes the suffering, where does it originate but in the consciousness of mortal man? He is con- scious of sin, and he is conscious of sickness and death. The true understanding of man's existence is in and of God. He has eternal life. Life knows no death. Wake up, my brother, my sister and put off the old man with his deeds, for the true man of God's creation. Before closing my writings I wish to say that my understanding of the scriptures was brought about by my wife's healing in Christian Science, some 24 years since, and she has remained practically well since excepting a few minor claims which were met and healed through the understanding of the Truth as revealed in Mrs. Eddy's book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." About 18 years ago I was led to make a study of Mrs. Eddy's book, Science and Health, in connec- tion with my Bible, and received help from prac- titioners, but not a cure. When I earnestly took up Science and Health and a perusal of Christian Sci- ence literature and attended Sunday and midweek services, I began gradually to improve. My claims were Rheumatism from the bottoms of my feet to my ears, Catarrh and Bronchial disorders, Kidney, Liver trouble and many other disorders, or 97 claims. I was a great sufferer for 30 years and had treatment from Doctors of note, all of whom I be- lieve were honest, and tried to do all possible for me. They advised change of climate. I acceded with good result for a time. But would always fall back into the old groove again. Finally, I yielded to the advice of my wife, and of friends and accepted the Truth, and was health. I have now been in the enjoyment of health for about 17 years. Thank God, and Mrs. Eddy for opening man's eyes to the light of truth. 98 Miscellaneous Truths When mankind is ruled or governed by the great Principle of Good, Divine Love, he will cast his net on the right side, as the Master counseled the fisher- men to do. The fishermen were obedient and the net was filled. Let mankind be obedient, and his heart will be so filled with Love that he can't think of evil, or entertain hate, malice, envy, jealousy, sick- ness, sin and death or evil of any name. Happiness, happiness, happiness! Our daily life will be filled with joy. We will ever live, and not seem to die, Live to do good and never evil. To think good, and not evil. Evil is that evil thinketh. Good is that good thinketh. You must hold thoughts of harmony. ONLY POWER. Man must learn that God is the only life. God is eternal. Life is eternal. Mortal man says We can be sick and die. He is not authority. God is authority. RIGHT THINKING. Man when building a good structure wants a good foundation, not quicksand. So mankind must be governed by good healthy thinking, not its oppo- site, unhealthy thoughts. God is our health, Jesus said "Follow me." He will not give us pain for health, but good for evil. The scriptures declare The Lord He is God (good) there is none else beside him. 99 WRONG THINKING. Mankind takes the wrong medicine, applies the wrong thoughts when he thinks he is sick. Take the opposite. Declare the truth, I am well. God made me perfect. No power can take my perfection from me, nor cause me to be sick and die. God is all powerful and I am his child. MIND. God has created man with a mind which knows no evil. Evil ever seems to have perverted it, and man- kind has accepted the perverted mind as the Truth, and suffers through the effects. When mankind is willing to be ruled by the mind of God, obey the Di- vine Principle of Good, sickness, sin, and death will be no more, and we will live in the kingdom of Heaven. Heaven will be within us; that is within our consciousness. Mortal says he believes the scrip- ture; but he only believes what suits him, more times error than truth. HOW TO ALLAY PAIN AND ALL DISEASE. To get rid of pain man must look to the Divine Mind to quiet and subdue the mortal carnal mind. Love destroys hate, and good destroys evil. If sick or in pain, apply to the mortal mind good healthy, loving thoughts. As our bodies are governed by mortal thoughts, let the mortal thoughts be gov- erned by the higher loving God thoughts; and peace and harmony will be the result. God's thoughts de- stroy evil ones, as the truth destroys a lie. We stop our automobile by shutting off the power and applying the brakes. Shut off the mortal belief of life in matter and apply the Truth. All life is in mind, God. 100 CAUSE OF SICKNESS. Selfishness, jealousy, doubt, fear, malice, revenge, hate, pride, conceit, bigotry, self-will, hypocrisy, irritability, vanity, cowardice, cruelty, avarice, dis- honesty, injustice, human will, poverty, pain, etc., are man's worst enemies. How are they to be put out? By cultivating love. THE FATHE&.;'V. 0V The master saith No man eometfy upto the Father but by me. Who is the Father? The Bivm- P.-io- ciple of being, Christ. He says I am the way. His way is found in the uplifting thought, not in .debased thought. It is said "Up in Heven," "Down to Hell." Let man cherish happy loving thoughts, and be al- ways lifted heavenward. IMAGE AND LIKENESS. Can man be God's image and likeness and com- mit all kinds of evil? Can he drink, carouse, be sick, use tobacco? Can a man go about with a pipe or cigarette in his mouth, and call himself the im- age and likeness of God? If so," God must be as bad and vile as that which we call His creation. Then those who do practice these evil devices cannot be His image and likeness. No, my brother, my sister, we are like Him only when we hold thoughts of good, and love, and crush all evil under our feet. See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil, like the three wise Japanese monkeys. Instead have a heart overflow- ing with love for our fellowman. Put down all jeal- ousy, selfishness, malice, hate, revenge, and know nothing but good, love. Mankind strays away from the principles of right and takes up its so called opposite, and suffers in thought by so doing. Face about and do the right, and wrong will vanish like the dew before the sun. 101 GOD NOT THE CREATOR OF SIN AND DEATH. Could the Divine Principle, God, ever make a mis- take and create evil, sin, and death? No, God, good, is all there is, and He is omnipotent and ornnipres- ept. . No place where He is not; He is Heaven and nc evil can/- he Jovmd in Heaven. The kingdom of Heaven is within us, is in our consciousness, its op- posite. f-v'A cannot exiet. Delight thyself also in the Lord and He shall give thee the desires of thine heart. Commit thy way unto the Lord, trust also in Him and He shall bring it to pass. EVIL A LIE. When we speak evil of a brother we speak a lie. Evil is that evil thinketh. Evil does not exist. Truth is, nothing else is. Let us beware lest we con- demn an innocent man. Better suffer a wrong than do a wrong. Paul says "Why will ye not therefore take wrong?" Two wrongs never make a right. We should never permit a brother to knowingly wrong us. Nor should we wrong him. Let us be honest with our fellow-man and with ourselves. Honesty is the best policy. Let man be just. Good and upright is the Lord; therefore will He teach sinners in the way. Psalm 25. V. 19. Consider mine enemies, for they are many, and they hate me with a cruel hatred. "Forgive them for they know not what they do." Ps. 27, 1. The Lord is my light and my salvation: whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life, of whom shall I be afraid? V. 5. For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in His pavilion. 102 BLESSED PROMISES. V. 14. Wait on the Lord, be of good courage, and He shall strengthen thine heart. Wait, I say, on the Lord. Ps. 37. Trust in the Lord and do good; So shall thou dwell in the land, and verily shalt thou be fed. Judge not lest ye be judged. God is the only judge, and His judgment is righteous. Therefore if ye judge, judge righteous judgment. GOD THE ONLY CREATOR. God's word declares that He made man, male and female in His own image and likeness. And it was good, yea very good. Also that He is spirit, mind, Divine Principle. He created all, and He is All in All. He certainly meant that all He created should be like Himself, good. Can absolute good be found in mortal man? He knows both good and evil, doubleminded unstable, not like God's creation. The Adam man is of the flesh, fleshly. God's man is of spirit, spiritual, mind only, and cannot be sick, suffer and sin. This sickly mortal so called man, is not of God's creation. Yet he seems to exist and p oosees a mind and intelligence. But it is the seem- ing only, not reality. Just look to a higher intelli- gence, God, and let that higher intelligence rule this so called mortal intelligence, and all will be har- mony, peace and health, and God's blessing will be ours. Seek and ye shall find. It is worth seeking; for there is but one power to impart life, that is God. He is not the creator of death. Man knows good from evil, health from sickness, right from wrong. God has no pleasure in the death of the wicked. The great mistake of mankind is that he does not in his mind destroy the thought that sin, sickness and death exist as a reality, but hold to the idea that it is only a belief. 103 OUR RESURRECTION. By an Unknown Writer. Out of the sordid, the base, the untrue, Into the noble, the pure and the new; Out of all darkness, and sadness and sin, Spiritual harmonies to win, This is our resurrection. Out of all discord and toil and strife, Into a calm and perfect life, Out of all hatred and jealous fear Into love's cloudless atmosphere, This is our resurrection. Out of the narrow and cramping creeds Into a service of loving deeds; Out of a separate limited plan, Into the brotherhood of Man, This is our resurrection. Out of our weakness to conscious power, Wisdom and strength for every hour, Out of our doubt and sore dismay Into the faith for which we pray, This is our resurrection. Out of the bondage of sin and pain, Out of poverty's galling chain, Into the freedom of perfect health Into the blessings of fadeless wealth, This is our resurrection. 104 Out of this fleeting mortal breath, Out of the valley and shadow of death, Into the light of the perfect way, Into the freedom of endless day, This is our resurrection. Out of the finite sense of things, Into the joy the Infinite brings, Out of the limits of time and space, Into the boundless life of the race, This is our resurrection. 105 TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Man's Obedience to the Golden Rule 9 The Beatitudes 12 Healing According to Christ Jesus, etc 14 Understanding 23 God is Our Supply.... 27 No Evil to be Feared, etc 29 Judge Not . . .30 Love 31 Think Good, Not Evil 36 Strained Nerves, Overwork 37 Evil 38 God Our Life 40 Death 47 Scriptural Passages on Healing 50 Healing 54 Paul's Faith in God 56 The Carnal Mind, etc 58 Healing 60 What Material Man Has Been Taught 63 Life 68 Harmony 69 Jesus Our Shepherd 71 Miscellaneous 72 Temper 81 Good and Evil 82 Great and Only First Cause 83 Come Let Us Reason Together 84 God's Opposite Not a Reality 84 Carnal Mind 85 How Did Evil Originate? 86 Obedience to Christ Jesus 88 Can We Become Sick and Die? 89 God's Law 90 Purity of Thought 92 Ask Yourself These Questions 93 Condemnation 94 Is There Sin? 96 Miscellaneous Truths 99 Our Resurrection 104 JAS. 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