The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-09-30

building up of efficient agencies and
institutions for the dissemination and
protection Of IL radically new system
of ethics: and the launching OF IA
great metropolitan daily III the inter-
ests OF clean journalism whose sue
cess mas set Il new mark in the news.
paper World-these things OF any OF
them would give emlnencc to the life
work of he most ambitious of men.
To "A modest woman Mary Bakel'
Eddy belongs the credit OF them all.
Hut these achievements. grand as
they are. weighed little with her COM
pared with the fruits ot her consecrat-
ed endeaNors to brins more and more
of peace on earth and good will to
men. and to guide us 4" IL clearer and
more practical understanding of the
Fatherhood OF God and the brother
hood of man. The applause OF men.
like their abuse and condemnation.
she brushed aside as cohwebs when
she was once assure! of the approval
OF God.
could by the hour rerite to you in
cidents OF Mrs. EudN's wisdom and
Sa GacitN. of her COURAGE and stead
faStneSS. of her wit and hunlor, OF her
love for little children and her de-
light in the beautiful. of the ineNpresS-
ihle charm OF her mi and the elo-
quence OF her voice. hut it is not OF
these things that she would have me
speak.
1t was her desire-almost daily eX-
~pressed-that her followers should dis
regard her personality and address
their thought to the things OF God
which h has disclosed to them. She
would have us study her books and
not her personality. II would have
us know her by what she wrote and
not by o she looked. Years ago she
instructed her students to follow her
only as she followed Christ. and
though she was a rare eader she was
IN ideal follower OF all that is truly
good.
GOD AS PRINCIPLE.
Mans comprehension of the prob
lens of life is to be measured by his
understanding of God. He holds to
contrary n widely divergent beliefs
about God and hence his interpreted
tions of life are conflicting n dis
cordant. If he comedies to God. the
primal cause of all being, illimitable
power-Omnipotenoe-and i%llimitable
Observation-Disclosures. and in the
next breath attribute to Him the afflic-
tons and disasters of human expert
ence. he is setting up a god of good
and evil, of b~enerolence and cruelty,
whom he may try to love but is bound
to fear.
The anthropomorphie idea of God as
a man-like being OF human attributes
and qualities enormously magnifed, a
heritage of mythology. handed down
to US through generations of ortho-
doNy. is %repudiated in Christian Sci
'ence. Fol its definition of God, Chris
tian Science consistently turns to the
Scriptures.
In our contemplation of Deity, We
are thus led to life our thought from
effect to Cause; from the thing creat-
ed to the creator; from idea to Princi-
pie. Thus we come to understand
out corporeality. the Principle of all
true being, the supreme good. the
same yesterday. today and forever,
in whom there is no variableness
neither shadow of turning"
In contemplating God as infinite
Principle. We find our life problems
must be worked out according to this
unerring Principle Of Being. or they
will be failures. precisely as failure
follows the work OF the student in al
zebra, who ignores the principles of
mathematics. The mistakes we make
in life and their affective results are
due to u ignorance Of Principle, Or
to disregard OF the laws expressing
Principle. and in all cases are assign
able to our W shortcomings and new
er to Principle itself. The deplorable
mistakes in mans history which he
designates as sickness and suffering
and failure disaster will diminish
in frequency n virulence as he ap-
plies himself to gain a better under
standing of divine Principle, and per-
sists in using that understanding in
the affairs of his everyday life. He
must give it expression to the limit of
his cognitfon. for a principle unex-
pressed is as futile as a theory un-
tried.
Christian Science stands before the
world as a demonstrable religion. one
that is to be lived. not merely believ-
ed. The standard of proficiency for
the Christian Scientist is not how
much he believes. but how much of
that belief he is using in his daily life,
in his dealings with his fellow men
M in the sanctity of his innermost
thoughts.
Hence it is that there is no such
thing as a purely theoretical Christian
Scientist. No man can become a
Christian Scientist by merely believing
in the teachings Of it's textbook with
out practising them. We are Chris
tan Scientists only as we put into con-
slant practise our knowledge of our
religion. be that knowledge great or
"sNS VIC w. \1Al Sld OSlSJlIlSlS
only as We are kind and helpful in
thought and deed; only as we think
health and talk health instead of dis
ease and disaster. We are Christian
Scientists only as we say to evil men,
tai suggestion, Peace. be still" Only
as we are loving and courageous and
resolute and answering in our war
fare against sin. sickness and DEATH.
BODY'S RESPONSE TO MIND.
1t is often charged against Chris
tian Scientists because they rely Who'll
ly upo Mind that they do not do
anything" for the sick. When the av-
eragc man considers the needs of a
IL sick person, his thought at once
turns to the medicine bottle and he
believes there is nothing being done
for the sick man unless he is made to
swallow something. According to his
peremptor2 opinions. the sick man
should be treated With something that
he can taste or smell or feel, some
thing that the censes can perceive.
Otherwise Nothing is being done for
him He may tell you that attempt
ing to change the condition Of a mans
] body through mind alone is foolish
ness. And yct-this same intelligent
citizen will readily admit that a. mans |