Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-03-18

This very teaching has been the stumbling
block TO countless thousands. driving them
TO ngnost icisN and atheism.
Ezekiel says. "'lurn ye. turn ye. for why
will We die" The time has come when we
should obey this command and ''rake up the
stumbling block out of the way of His
people. manifesting the Love which work
eth no i'll to his neighbour refraining from
M Things whereby one OF our brothers
| ''stumhleth. or is offended. or is made
weak. We mus, Worship God. not with
human fear. but with Love. He is no long
er 1.-THE unknown Cod whom we 'ignorant
~ Worship but is declared unto us TO be
Love. With this Love let us fight evil,
be ii called sin or sickness. to its dcstruc-
ton God. Love- is "our shield and
huckler." and we cannot fail. for whose
! God is 50 great u God as our Cod:
We read in the l;iblc of two minds. the
spiritual ard the carnal and it is the carnal
| mind which is referred to by Christian
Scientists as mortal mind. 1.-The carnal
| mind is enmity against God.' and is the So
| He'd mind of sin and death for as in the
! realm Of cod all is infinite Mind and its
infinite reflection or idea. so in the SUPPOSE
| ibfiHl ItHilN .! tNll we Illtl IL (Vuiltcl
ing The real and calling itself mind claim
| ING to have reflection or idea
| The c:ruHl mind always manifests sin
! and It's wages. death: and only the Mind
which is God brings To man sense OF
health. Of dominion and happine>S-the
| irlllion and completeness OF Divine Love.
| In turning 10 God. nan finds satisfied
| consciousness that God has already done
| everything" for him, and that the evil things
| that seem real are only caused by his
| having yielded to a wrong belief about Life.
| Because il believes God TO be the author
| Of sickness. the whole world is held in the
| bondage Of an awful. I'm ustitiable fear and
| terror Of Him. Il fear of disease and death,
| intensified and ever growing in detail rs we
| grow older, and which has been fostercd
| from the tounGlH tons OF theoretical
| learning.
| This kind of fear is the far are
warned against in Isaiah. and is the fear
| taught by the precrpts of men.
The fear of the Lord. which must
| have. is 1.-THE beginning of knowlcdGe. and
| the beginning of Knowledge is ITO hate
| evil
Our existing bondage is the result of the
rear ti'iSit ny TUE iit'NiiiH VI h'''' '''Nt
we shall be free in proportion as We re-
| fuse longer to submit to It's domination and
begin to hate evil
| Christian Science has laid the axe at the
| root of all evil belief and fear by teaching
| lis that God is and there is nothing else.
| 1t is teaching us daily to more really and
nearly know God and to know that lie is
| the Mind that was in Christ. the God which
| Christ knew.
AS we know God as Mind. and all His
| cree, ion to be in agreement With lliml--:S
we cast on one side of the old man made be-
| lrfs about God-we pause in wonder that
so many ages could pass in the worship of
| Il man-lke God.
| no discovery was ever made by man until
he was prepared for it. and the revelation
of Christian Science could not come until
cndeavor had turned actively into the men,
| tai realm for cause not cause that agreed
with mutable things. but genuine. i'm
mutable Cause that agrees with the sub
! stance of things hoped for.
One of the ancient philosophers. Timeaus
| of Loris Il follower of Pytilagoras. used to
ask the following riddle: what is that
circle whose center IS everywhere and whose
! circumference is .owhere:" The answer is
God and l know of other words from
! human standpoint that more aptly ex-
press Ills Ain SIS.