The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-12-19

Noflu. w any man love the Worlu, tnc
love of the Father IN not In him For al
tina IL in the world. the lust or the
flesh. and the lust OF the eyes. and the
pride of life. IL not OF the Father. bur rs
OF the world. Aud the world passsth
away. and the lust thereof. but he That
doeth the will OF God abideth forever"
Is II not reasonable to conclude that II
IA has ben sss T NV - wn,eh Si
themselves, while ON earth. OF Gods heip.
rather than TO maintain that God has
withdrawn from -m~n. white they arc
here HIS pratical. loving aid, :, and re-
serves all the Joys lie has FOR them for
some future. uncertain time. and some
fanciful locality? God IL here. Heaven IL
here. The Holy Comforter is here. Not
though. To be had. not 10 he experienced,
not to be enjoyed, not 10 be an9crstooi
and demonstrated. until We are willing 10
become AS little children" deny our
selves. and take UP the cross OF renun-
citation OF what we have erroneouslv Isc-
lieved To Ice true namely. that we are
dependent for our lives. health and hap
pincss on our material surroundings,
In 1866 Mary Baker Eddy. cultured
woman OF middle age. who all her life
had been close student OF the Scriptures
and devoted churchwoman, lay, help
less, wounded and pain-racked. on a ted
from which II was thought she would
never rise. She was the victim OF sup
posedly fatal accident. She was believed
10 be SO near TO the end OF her earthly
life. that her pastor, on his way 10
church. stopped TO bid her good bye,
thinking that by the time the Sunday
services were concluded she would be In
the valley OF the shadow OF death
Left, for a few moments alone she, as
had been her habit. lifted ber, thought
10 God. The Bible was always by her. She
took H.. expecting 10 fnd I'm IL her last
earthly solace, and II opened at the ninth
chapter OF Matthew where ease after
case OF healing is described. She read of
what Jesus did. As she read She telt fine
power OF God and rose from the bed a
Perfectly well woman and walke1 into
the presence of her relatives, who were
as astounded as though the bed itself had
come before them. She knew that God
had healed her. and eager TO know the
Principle according To which her physi-
cal transformation had been 10 instanta-
neously brought about. she. for years.
indefa igsbly applied herself TO intensi-
fed study of the Scriptures. I'm sea-cn of
some rule some definite standard OF ac-
ton. through the formulation and an
nouncement Of which she might acIuaint
mortals with "A line of conduct. which
I'm turn, IL followed, would acquaint them
VITA God.
les were whisperings from God; succe.ss-
full and unsuccessful applications OF what
seemed to be developing method; hope
ful essayals to prove that the spiritual
was all. the material Improbable: close
observation and nice reasoning givea 70
and based on what she had learned and
was learning. During this perioc she
was Withdrawn from the world. Her
only thoughts were God-ward. because
her only aim was 10 learn I'm what way II
was that God had come to her and healed
her. how IL was that Jesus healed the
sick and cleansed the sinner.
Al the end OF three years she had sat-
isfied herself that she had discovered the
Principle OF Christian. spiritual healing
and regeneration, and was prepared To
put TO exacting test, before the world
the conclusions she had reached. She at
once began healing the sick and from
that moment was prosecuted.
Persecution did not stay her mercif,n
work and the spread OF the Christian
Science belief. any more than hundreds
OF years before persecution had palsied
Jesus healing hand or stopped the
growth of Christianity.
Would he have made such promises;
would he have given such assurances, un-
less he had we'll known that TO him was
accorded the power OF perfect prophecy.
and that the Lord God onnipotent
reigneth'' forever and ever and ever?
Because Christians. after a time. ceased
TO exercise the powers which never had
been theirs. but Gods, does II follow that
those powers had ceased to be-
IL IS absurd for the Christian to sup
pose, or To ACT as II he supposed, that
God is not ali-powerfui and all-present at
this very hour. Why should He not In
self through men?
Jesus promises OF Gods benign grace,
Gods Divine favor. were conditional up
on the observance OF Gods command
ments, faith in Him. not in men, clean,
pure honest, self-sacrificing, consecrat-
ed lives. Not every one that saith unto
me, Lord. Lord shall enter into the king
dom OF heaven: but he that doeth the
Will OF my Father which is I'm heaven
Jesus said
Persecution never has killed. and never
VIII Kill, the Truth. As follower OF
Is teaching what she believes TO be n re-
newal OF the Christianity Jesus gave to
men, and - the case always has been.
and as the case always will he. until the
world Ia greatly changed. the world IL up
In arms against the true and the good.
AZ the case always has been, and as the
case always will be until the world is
greatly changed. the world cannot toler-
nothfngness. It's powerlessness it's
wickedness, and it's satisfac ton and COM
placency under conditions which Jesus I'm
no eouivocsl terms condemned as wholly
destructive OF any knowledge OF God as
entirely Incompatible with an entrance
into the Kingdom of Heaven.
As the apostle Paul wrote.--"The car
nal mind Is enmity against God; for IL Is
not subject to the law OF God, neither in
deed can be. So then they that are I'm
the fiesh cannbt please God"
Sa-iefff te -H4AH-tAiHk that their lives
depend upon their physical bodies: so
| long as men believe that the body has
power to determine what and when. and
for how long "A time they shall be- men
Will be sick. sinful, unhappy. dissatisfied
restless. and filled with an inexplicabe
longing for that which they cannot de-
scribe, but which they feel IL their birth
right and must some time be theirs in
realization.
This is the instructive reaching out for
God, the silent cry Of humanity for it's
Savior. the dumb appeal to the Almighty
for the Truth which Is eternal harmony
and the appeal will be answered by an all
loving God the moment men awaken "a
the consciousness that they are making
or material things. material conditions
material laws. their God-whereas their
real God. their true God, their God be-
fore whom they must have no other gods
Is Spirit-and are willing to. and genuine
iy and fervently endeavor to. change
their. beliefs and opinions regarding
themselves. deny themselves. and In
stead of serving Mammon. serve. love and
Worship the God whom Jesus. by his life
revealed and preached.