The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1908-10-21

directly, is responsible for them. AS
you look around you and see one man
afflicted q say it advisedly) with mil
lions of money, another with the di-
rest of poverty, another with perfect
health, another with i'll health, another
with misery and woe and despair, if
YOU are one of those who are having
to meet the poverty, the despair or
the i'll health, can you, right down i'll
the bottom of your heart, say you be-
lieve God is no respecter of persons?
Some one near to us is stricken with
a mortal illness, and we get down on
our knees and pray that the illness
may be taken from them that the per-
son may live. If it is from God, it
is good? If you believe God sent the
sickness, and yet get down on your
knees and pray that it be removed
that the afflicted person may live.
hasn't the physician who is attending
him, if he believes God sent the dis
ease just as much right to pray to
God, at the same time, that the illness
may continue in order that he may
| live?
| Mankind says God is immutable and
changeless, but hundreds and millions
of times every day it is praying the
immutable and changeless God to
change, until mankind is conceiving
God as being the very center and cir
conference of eternal change. AS
| long as we believe God to be RESPONSE
bic for all things, and yet get down
on our knees and pray that He may
| forget His immutability, and take
away what we don't want and give us
what we think we do want, isn't it
true that, if our prayer was suddenly
granted. we could be scared beyond
recall?
Is it logically possible for us to have
very much faith in prayer so long as
we are held in the bondage of this be-
lief in changeable God? On, if we
would only take into our conscious
ness, for one single instant, that chang
less Love, that changeless religion
that Jesus the Christ preached to US,
there would be no doubt no fear, and
we would go to God in prayer with
the serene confidence, the implicit
| faith, that He who heareth in secret
SHALL reward us openly, which the
Master taught us to be our birthday
and heritage.
This is what Christian Science is
asking you to do; this is what Chris
tan Science is laying before you;
this is the table that is prepared be-
fore YOU in the presence of your
enemies; this the bread which cometn
down from Heaven; this the water of
eternal life-it is yours, 1T is mine.
Let us accept the feast that God has
put before us; let us recognize the
Comforter the Wayshower, again in
our midst; the Comforter he promis-
ed he would send when he said it was
|eNpedient that he went to his Father.
Then there will be no more broken
hearts, there will be no more sorrow.
no more tears, no more separation,
no more sickness, no more suffering.
and no more sin, for we shall have
entered into the realization that this
IS the day of the Lord, and with that
realization there will come to us
peace, that peace which God has prom
Used us; the peace which may be
found only in that straight and mar
row Way wherein our Master leads
us, into the Kingdom of God, which
lis within
The revelation of Christian Science
came TO Mrs. Eddy as the result of a
| lifetime spent in continuous search
and desire for the Spirit of the Word
ard the things of Cod Mrs. Eddy,
in her chosen vocation as religious
retormer. occupies a position unique
in TIE history OF the world, for she
stands alone as the advocate of un-
qualified faith in God, answering
trust in His goodness, and unaues-
tioning obedience to all His COM
mands. This calls on her for such
meekness, humility. and self-sacrifice.
that she never could live such a life
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