Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-12

heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit
to them that ask him." That the gift
of the Holy Spirit btings with it relief
for all the human sense of need Jesus
everywhere assures US. He teaches
as Mrs. Eddy phrases it (Science and
Health, p. 500, that God is "able to
feed and clothe man as He doth the
lilies" Jesus even tells us that we
need take no thought for the morrow
trusting In the power of Father to
provide for His child.
Most of us feel certain safety when
back of our exploits i'm the business
world, for instance, stands a human
parent with plenty at his command;
yet it has sometimes seemed impossi-
BILE to have an equal degree of trust
in the power and resources of divine
Love. Most of us have had some ply
sician to whose care we felt safest to
discord, yet even the degree of relief
and confidence which the coming of
the doctor inspires seems sometimes
hard to reach when striving to trust
divine Love for healing. But Chris
tian Science comes to this age ques-
tioning even as Jesus questioned, Do
you believe that Gods wisdom and
love are at least as much to be trusted
as mans? When the question is put
come, Eyes. I do trust God infinitely
more than l trust man." or, mo, do
not trust God" Honesty clears the
way. He who has decided that he may
trust all to God finds in Christian
Science that his trust is not vain. He
who admits his lack of trust IS set
thinking. He sees that his ideas of his
relation TO God need revising. he
had perhaps thought himself Chris
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be truly Christian without admitting
the omnipotence of God. He sees that
the word omnipotence means what It
saws. and studying the Gospels with
this new directness he , finds that
Jesus words and works are a whole
and consistent system of teaching tnat
points the learner to God as truly able
and willing now and here to sustain
His own creation. Once ready to test
this new conclusion this learner too
has his proof that his trust is not in
vain. He finds in God a proYider
whose power nothing can defy, a Love
that cannot be other than Love or 90
other than give eternally of His own
treasures of tenderness. He learns py
daily testing the rule and practice or
Christian Science that an exhaustless
inheritance of good without taint or
evil is his for the asking.
Jesus said, "Ask and ye shall re-
ceive." DO we believe that he meant
what he said? Christian Scientists are
proving his statements and they ear
nestly invite every human being who is
laboring amid fearful circumstances or
whatever sort to test and try and prove
for himself what the love of God can
and will do to bring to pass for him the
Kingdom of heaven. Jesus taught US to
pray that Gods kingdom might come
on earth as it is in heaven and he bade
us ask nothing doubling, believing that
we receive. Twenty centuries have
rolled away since he bade us pray for
his kingdom to come. Has this prayer
been vain? And if the prayer so often
prayed has not yet been answered in
the readers experience, may it not be
that he needs yet to learn to pray
aright?" For there is a cloud of wit
nesses on earth today whose rightness
in prayer is proved, as Jesus said 1t
must be, by the fruits of experience.
They have gained the knowledge of this
right prayer through the study and
practice of Christian Science as set
forth in Mrs. Eddy's book, Science and
Health, which integprets the wonderful
teachings of Jesus.-Christian Science
Monitor