Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-11-24
Innate Desire of the Whole Human Family is
for Good, and the Treasure Sought for
the knowledge That God Is Love.
THE COMFORTER OF PROMISE

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| children, clothing 1t In so fascinating
gavb as to make yielding to it almost
certain and then punish the child for
| yielding to It; yet that Is the charge
| brought against God. We have been
| told temptation Is put into the world
SO our faith may be tried with the hope
| we may be able to resist and so gain
eternal life with God.
| Humanity speaking the endeavor to
| resist evil Is almost hopeless. 1t sur
rounds us in such q multitude of forms
| that no matter which way we turn We
| find ourselves environed with evil
| tempting US in all directions and in all
places, and we re beset and besieged
with it until, hopeless and helpless, we
yield and then are expected to receive
! punishment for yielding to something
| that God, who is Love, has placed be-
| fore us.
Freedom in knowing God.
| Christian Science teaches us that
God never had anything to do with
evil in any form, that he does not know
it, does not create it, never thinks 1t
(, and never sees it, and in this knowl-
| edege do we find the germ Of freedom
! that is working in the world today
! the germ which the Christian Scientists
| have found and have accepted that
they may have the ability to stand
| in the fulness," the stature, and "the
| liberty of the sons Of God" The prom
Use is: And all things whatsoever We
shall ask in prayer, believing, we shall
receive" Matt. XXI. 22}. The prayer OF
| the Christian Scientist is-and it is be-
ing really answered-that we may be
| freed from believing that God ever
gives his children anything else than
| Love.
When Peter went with the Master at
! the time of his arrest as he stood
among the servants Of the high priest
! was charged with knowing Jesus the
| Christ, he said: Il never knew him."
| Was it God that tempted him to deny
| the Master? No, not for one instant
was that temptation from God. 1t was
a temptation from evil and when he
! yielded to it three times in succession
4; he was yielding to the suggestion that
| temptation had been set before him by
Truth and that it was Truth which
i caused him to fall. but when he heard
| the warning Jesus had told him should
come, instantly the scales fell off from
/ his eyes and he know there was no
| temptation from God, and in meekness,
humility and sorrow did he turn his
| back on it and in that repentance and
turning away, he became the "rock'
upon which the Church is established.
| We are finding that the God-love is a
very practical thing, and are finding it
a very necessary and effective thing in
(, dealing with ourselves for we are be-
ginning to realize the only enemy any
person has may be quickly seen with
! the aid of q looking glass. When
Jesus was no earth he was surrounded
on all sides by those who called them
selves and believed themselves to be
his enemies. He knew, however, that
| they were not his enemies. He knew
that by keeping his thought clean and
pure and full OF love and meekness and
humility he shut the door Of his
thought against the temptation Of any
| thing unclean, unkindly and evil and
was standing absolutely free among
| them.
| PLATE asked Jesus. cart thou King
Of 'he Jews:" and his response was:
Thou sayest." He knew in his own
consciousness it was his knowledge
end manifestation Of the God-love
which, standing in their midst, was so
transsendental, SO great and so pre-
cious they could not grasp it from a
material standpoint and SO believed it
to be an enemy against their right and
something they ought to destroy. It Is
impossible for us to grasp it from a
material standpoint and so believed it
to be an enemy against their rights
and something they ought to destroy.
1t is impossible for US to grasp the
| spiritually of Christ's teaching from
any other than a spiritual viewpoint.
| The scribes and pharisees endeavor-
cd m
from materialistic viewpoint and SO
failed utterly to comprehend the mes
| sage of freedom and peace he had for
! them. The same endeavor has con-
! tinued from that day to this until the
knowledge has been finally established
amongst mankind, thru the ministry OF
Christian Science, that it never can
succeed.
When was boy at school my read
| er contained the story of two knights
| who met on road one day. and, stop
| ping to greet each other, observed sus-
| pended across the road a beautiful
| shield. After exchanging salutations
one of the knights remarked: "What
beautiful silver shield" The other
knight responded: Surely it is beauti-
full. but 1t is not silver. it is gold.
This started a controversy which final
stroy each other in order to settle the
question as to which was right. Setting
their lances in position they ran full
tilt at each other but failed to do any
damage. AS they turned again to the
! assault they found themselves on OPP
posite sides Of the shield from which
they had started and, glancing up, saw
each had been right in his statement
for the shield was silver on one side
and gold on the other. They saw they
had been looking at it from the wrong
viewpoint to understand the others
view as to what Is was made Of It is
impossible to conceive of anything In
Christ's teachings other than from the
standpoint of his knowledge of God
and his knowledge of Love which is
his lesson as he learned it and left 1t
for you and me to learn and live.
Knowing Christ Jesus.
TIE materialistic endeayor TO COM
prehend the religion Of Christ Jesus
had led the world to believe that 1t
were possible to gain this knowledge
thru intellectual discernment and dis
section. Failure has followed failure
when based on this kind Of endeavor.
and always will, for we can discern the
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