Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1910-10-30

Lord, thou hast been our dwell
ing place in all generations" wrote
the psalmist This brave King of Is
rael sought refuge from his weakness
and his sin in the sure and eternal
mercy of IsraePs God; his own right
desire beat for his feet the path that
led him out from evil into spiritual
shelter. David saw much of the temp
tation, struggle and eventual victory
over sin that marks the way of mortals
and he left his songs of repentance and
rejoicing as rich heritage for all
who seek as he did, a better knowledge
of God.
"In all generations" wrote this an
cient ruler of an ancient people; and
surely in this generation, too, God is
no less a dwelling place than in the
oldeu time. Touching upon this point
Hamilton Wright Mabie says in one
of his books zone often meets deVout
people wh~se sense of the presence
of God seems to be almost entirely his
toric; they believe that God was with
Moses and with the Israelites in their
wanderings and that over those way
ward children and over their con-
fused and painful journeyings a divine
purpose presided; but in the world of
today they see on every side the evil
rences of the activity of an evil spirit,
dences of a divine order and control
or attalrS.
BAREs MATERIALIsM
"There are hosts of devout people who
believe in a past God, but who have
very slight hold on faith in a present
God" This, surely, lays bare much of
the reason for modern materialism;
Gods goodness belonged to the proph-
cts, to the days of the apostles, say
many of our thinkers, but 1.-THE day of
miri- les is past" To meet this doubt,
to quicken the understanding Of a God
at hand for this generation, to prove
that the drive power which delivered
nations from oppression, safeguarded
craftsmanship and healed disease
through the humble fisher-folk hun
dreds of years ago, is quite ready to do
these same things for men today,
Christian Science has come into the
world. The day of miracles is today,
Christian Science declares, if men will
seek God and obey Understandings the
teaching of thy Master Christian,
Christ Jesus. And Christian Science
further opens the Scriptures, discov-
ers how the law of God may be ap-
piled to the destruction of evil and to
the healing of all disease, and sets NOR
tails at work to overcome material be-
liefs and theories with actual spiritual
understanding. So the putting away
of human suffering is seen no longer
to be q miracle of the past ages, but
the natural outcome of understanding
God and as possible to this age as to
any other when such righteous under
standing appears.
The invalid, surely, needs a present
God to whom he can look for patience,
strength, fortitude; and more than this,
he needs so to know God that he can
advance beyond mere endurance of dis
ease to the positive destruction of it
through obeying and applying divine
law. The business man, as well, needs
sorely a present God; should know how
to let that infinite good Mind which
orders the universe relieve him of anx-
iety, direct him to unselfish interests,
multiply the honest increase that be-
longs to him who does his best. And in
all ways, unquestionably, the wage
Garner. the housewife, the artisan and
the educator need God and have not
really one moment of experience in
which they can afford to do without