The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-09-21

OF the other as certainly ms light IN.
initiates darkness?
The Bible tells us that death is the
wage OF sin. Do We believe It? The
Bible does not say that in one case
death is the wage OF sin and that In
another case II Is the wagy OF good
ness. 1t makes the unqualified state
ment that the wages OF sin is death"
IL God created death He must have
created sin. We cannot escape this
conclusion by saying that He only per-
mits sin; Tor 10 permit It He must
know H. and how can He know Il
when the Scriptures tell US that God
Is of purer eyes than 20 behold evil
and cannot look upon iniQuity. If God
is of purer eyes than to behold evil
and cannot look upon iniqulty. If He
created death and death IS the wage
OF sin. then it logically fellows that
God created sin; and as everything
He created Is good II further follows
logically that sin Is not evil but Is
good, an argument that cannot for
an instant be sustained; and our
hearts are filed with joy when we
know, as Christian Science teaches
us. that God has no consciousness of
sin.
Life is creative and death destruc-
tive, so that God. the primal and only
creator must be Life and not death,
and therefore death. measured by the
standard OF perfection which h Cod.
Is not real but IS the suppositional
absence OF or belief in the negatlon
of Life. To what then can the be-
lief In sin and death pertain save to
mortal consciousness This mortal
consciousness is TO be put of with the
old man and his deeds. and as 1t IS put
on and is superseded by immortal
consciousness, man will be found In
the divine image. knowing no sin and
death, but forever manifestlug eternal
Life, being perfect even as his Faith
CT which is in heaven is perfect"
There is a universal belief about
death that It is either the gateway
10 heaven or the entrance to hell.
This belief would logically lead Us
10 destroy the innocent infant In order
to insure its gaining the Kingdom. and
the action OF the natives OF India In
casting their babes into the river
Ganges would be based on sound
logic and good reason. How manifest
is the fallacy of the belief that death
Is ever a friend,
Death to be Overcome.
Death is an enemy Christ Jesus
proved its unrealty, and oyercame It
In accordance with the law of God,
thus indicating ultimate freedom from
death OF all mankind Is this state
ment impossible of acceptance? 1t Is
not an original one by any means.
but simply a relteratlon of what Paul
has said. Paul did not say that we
can go on overcoming all things un-
III It comes to death but that In It's
presence VIC are helpless victims. He
said the last enemy TO be destroyed
is death. and in his letter 20 Timothy
be says that Christ Jesus hath, abol-
lshed death, and hath brought life and
immortality to light" Do we believe
that Paul understood what he was
saying? Do we believe these state
ments TO be true?
Scientific Prayer.
Mankind says God is immutable and
changeless. but hundreds and millions
of times every day men are beseech-
ing the immutable and changeless
God to change. change, change; un-
til mankind conceive of God as the
very center and circumference of
eternal change. So long as we believe
God TO be responsible for all things.
and yet kneel and pray that He may
forget His immutability and take away
what We do not want and give us
what we think we do want, IS It not
true that II our prayer were suddenly
granted we would be frightened be-
yOnd measure2 Is 1t logically possible
for us TO have very much faith in
prayer. so long as we are held in the
bondage OF this belief In a changeablc
God? If We would take into our con-
sciouSness that changeless love. that
changeles religion which Jesus the
Christ preached, there would be no
doubt. no fear, and we would go to
God in prayer with the serene con-
fdence, the implicit faith, that He
who heareth In secret Will reward us
openly; which, as the Master taught
is our blrthright and heritage.
This is what Christian Science is
asl6ing us to do this Is what Chris
tian Science is laying before us; this
is the table that is prepared for us in
the presence of our enemies: this is
the bread which cometh down from
heaven; this is the water of eternal
life-it Is yours. it is mine. Let us
accept the feast that God has put be-
fore US; let us recognize the Com
forter; the Wayshower. again in our
midst; the Comforter which Jesus
promised TO send when he said it was
eXpedient that he so 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