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the Christ, in the eternality of the
Holy Spirit, and in the teachings or
the inspired scripture. At this point
all similarity between its teaching
and those commonly accepted cease,
because Christian Science reveals to
us God as very present help in
trouble" now, without discriminating
as to the kind of trouble; while the
ordinary teachings put off the prom
Used help until an %undesired future
after death, and even then for most
of us makes it rather doubtful. Chris
tian Science teaches us to live and win
while theology has taught us we l1ad
to die TO win. Christian Science
teaches us what life is and how to
live it, and is worthy the most e%-
haustive investigation.
All will agree that there must be
a primal or first cause, and all
C~hristendom vencrates it as God. the
giver oil all good. We have never
had any realization of what God is
and the relationship existing be
tween Him and ma until Christian
Science has taught us in a practlell
way that He is Love and that man is
really, not allegorically, Gods idea
about himself. This means nothing
so long as it is confined TO words, but
when it is made a livable actually
and we know through Christian Sci
ence how to heal the sick, cleanse
the lepers,' and cast out devils,
needing and using nothing save His
Word, separating religion from sNs-
tens of medicine for time and eter-
nifty, we realize His ineffable Love
for all His children, and know that
Gods man has never fallen. The
realization that God in Love, which
is our protection and salvation, IS
necessarily wrath unto all things un-
like Him because it is 10 them ami
hilation and destruction.
Thousands of years of false educa-
tional theories, handed down from
generation to generation, AVE led US
to form a conception OF God modelled
on the lines of mortal MAJ The omni-
presence of God destroys possibility
of His being personal, according TO
the accepted definition of the word.
and the fact that the Bible teaches
1.-The Kingdom of heaven is within
you" certainly destroys the theory
that heaven is a place definitely set
off in part of the infinite space for
His occupancy. The teaching is very
clear that the kingdom of heaven is
in the divine, infinite Mind, and We
may find it there and make it a pres
.ent realization If we will search the
Scriptures scientifically and with the
Spiritual Intelligence which Christian
Science reveals to us.
The statement hat Heaven is not a
place or location is not a contradic-
tion Of the l4th chapter of John,
wherein the Master says: Il go to
prepare a place for You. In My
Fathers house are many mansions.
This does not mean a definite loca-
ton, but, from the standpoint Of
spirit, teaches us that Gods house is
Love, and hat we. the temples of
the Living Cod are His or Loves
many individual reflections.
The general belief that everything
we see, hear or know, whether good,
bad or Indifferent, is created by Him
for some mysterious purpose, and
that in some unthinkable way His
glory is always manifested in every
thing, no matter how horrible it may
be.
God as a supposed creator of good
and evil, of Life and death, is not
the God we Christian Scientists know.
nor is He the God of which the in
spired Scriptures teach us. The
Bible tells rs that God is good, and
that He is omnipotent, omniscient,
and omnipresent, and the same yes
tsrday, today and forever. This be-
ing true, that which He creates or
does must be always the &ane and al
ways good. How. then Ito be logi-
cali, could He give Life and Life be
good, and then give death and have
death be good? When Life was good
what would become of death. and
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come of Life? Let us look at it from
another point.
II God created both Life and death
II they are a part of His finished
creation, and therefore as eternal as
their Creator, how can they both ex-
list e~ternally, when one is as certain
'y the humiliation of the other as
light is Of darkness?
Again, we are taught that the
wages of sin is DEATH If this IS
true, then we have to admit that
God, if He be the creator OF death
is the creator of sin. You cannot
escape this conclusion by saying thai
He only permits sin, for to permit 1t
He must know it, and how can He
know it when the Bible teaches US
God is of purer eyes than to be-
hold evil and cannot look on in
iquity."
If God is of purer eyes than to
behold evil and cannot look on in
EQUITY" if ne created death, and
Death is the wages of sin, then it
logically follows that He created sin
and that it is not ~iniquity but is good;
in the light Of reason we cannot be-
lieve this! In the light of logic we
cannot sustain it! In the light OF
love we cannot tolerate it, and our
whole heart leaps in JOY at the glad
consciousness that He neither created
sin nor It's ultimate. death.
Christian Scientists are. often con-