The Greeley tribune., 1908-05-07

not DC depicted or outlined by any
human being, nor are we losing any.
tnine ~ changing our thought upon
lnis po'ht, but rather gaining every.
thlne' ohe who feels that he doesn't
Kno" now to pray because he learns
that .h'S mental image is not God,
shouio remember that he did not
know now to pray when he supposed
mat ~ was, and that he can lose moth.
ing. either in relation to prayer or to
Goa, ny getting rid OF a false belief
concerning both. Furthermore, Chris
ttan science makes prayer more per.
sonaly available because 1t gives the
right iaea of God which becomes per-
sonal knowledge. revealing mans mn.
ty win Him. Christian Science also
shows mat to regard God as change
aDie OF variable has tended to separ-
ate us from Him. and has nullifed
faith. II declares the unchanging, in.
variable and constant nature Of Cod
shows that he is good always, and
never Knows anything unlike Him
self. II uses word to broaden, am.
plify. and uplift our thought, and that
word is Principle. and 1t uses this
word in'erchangeably with God. This
necessarily includes the decernment
that God is good, and this word Good
is used In Christian Science as a sub.
stitute and interchangeable with the
word God. Let us remember in all
OF this that words cannot in any way
effect God or change Him in the least
These words and others used in Chris
tian Science are intended to help NOR
tails, ana do so in proportion as they
are understood. This word Good is
an ereclual help in relieving one of
the wrong concept of Gods personali-
~ and other incorrect notions con-
cernins Him. Many people have been
enabld To take their first steps in the
Christian religion through understand
ing tina God is Good and that Good is
God Many intelligent and educated
persons have not been able to accept
the prevailing thought regarding Gods
personally and the mystical theories
involved in the belief that although
he is Infinitely good He also provides
FOR evil, belief which is more or
less promulgated by scholastic theolo-
gy, and such persons have therefore
often considered themselves to be out
side OF The pale of religion. Yet one
never encounters such person with
out finding that he will cheerfully ad-
nit his belief in good. Although declar
ing. perhaps, that he knows nothing of
God, because of the association of these
old material concepts with that word
he will say that he knows something
of good-that he knows it to exist and
that he stives continually to manifest
it. This shows conclusively that he
Knows something of God, for God is
good, and infinite good is God, and to
know anything of good or to manifest
1t in any degree is to know something
of God There is no such thing as
an agnostic or unbeliever in all the
earth.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ACCOUNTS
FOR EVll-Admitting as all Chris
tang do. at least ostensibly. that the
Ten Commandments originate in God
is it not inevitable to conclude that
they express truth or science?. Prac-
tically the first of them. Thou shalt
have no other Gods before me-" is all
inclusive 1t comedies with the ON
impotence. omniscience, and omni-
presence of God. that is. the all pow
err. al, knowledge, and all presence Of
God Or Good. 1t clearly means that
there is no power. knowledge or pres
ence to evil. The average human be-
ing however. who believes that evil
is sure to happen and that it is far
more powerful than good, finds that
Ihe statements of the all power. know
ledge, and presence of God seem at
varience with actual experience. Yet
he is forced to admit that TO acknow-
ledge God as the sole Cause and Crea-
tor is to conclude that there is only
one power, God, Good, and that to
admit any other is to break the first
commandment, Christian Science re-
comedies the average Christian to these
statements and others which he has
said he believed and enables him to
actually believe them. 1t shows that
the first commandment. ever declar-
ing the one God. declares the one way
of science. 1t clearly shows that, al
though human experience is at vari-
ance with the truth of abso-
Lutte science. which has been
briefly and. confess. inadequate
ly stated here, yet such expert
ence but reveals the need of science.
4hpI SoNST, Sul oSiVAiSS 6i'N' hih
the logical and irrefutable facts of be-
ing. teaches him the science of Truth
the science of Life, and thus enables
him to face human difficulties fearless
ly and remove them just in proportion
to his understanding of that science
The tendency with a beginner, how
ever, is often to utterly miscontrue
the teaching of Christian Science up
on this point, and to misjudge 1t in
He is apt to say, How
absurd! These Christian Scientists
say that all is good" And we agree
with him that such construction
placed upon Christian Science teach
ing would make one consider ii alb
surd. The construction, however, is
erroneous. Christian Science is no
system of superficial optimism. 1t
declares the science of Life or Be
ng and shows its availability to man
through right understanding and cor
'ect practice. Ii declares God is good
md that in and of Him is no evil at
lll but IL never declares that human