Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-05-07

DAY MORNTN G, MAY ed eyes reverently pray to God, have in mind a person, or form, or image, to which they pray. How many others there. are who think of God as being of anger and wrath, who sends disease and disaster to those who displease Him. And are there not some who believe that God lives in a far-away country called heaven where He maintains a court after ori ental fashion, and that it is necessary for people to die and go there fin or der to see Him; and still others whose beliefs about God are so utterly nebu- lous and indefinite that they would be entirely unable to make any stat ment about Him that would be satis factory even to themselves? In view of all this confusion of belief about God is it strange that humanity is sick and discordant? Is it strange
 
 of religion, each pointing a different way to God?
 GOD AS DEFINED BY CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
 Christian Science teaches that God is Principle, and not person. The Bible reveals that God is infinite, and 1 that He is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent, and that He created the universe and everything it con- tains. Christian Science, therefore, explains that God is Mind, that He is the only source and origin, the creat- i i've, governing Principle of the uni verse.
 Christian Science also teaches that God is good and that He is Love, as the Bible declares Him to be, and since He is infinite, He is infinite good and infinite love- Can we grasp the meaning of the word infinite either as it relates to time or to space or to qualities? Infinite means with out beginning or end. It means un- limited. We think that we gain some idea of infinity when we contemplate 1 the solar system. The farthest planet is so far away that it takes one hun dred and sixty-six years for it to make a single revolution around the sun. Halley's comet, travelling at the rate of forty miles per second takes thirty eight years to reach the end of it's orbit and thirty-eight years to re- turn. We get lost when we try to con template the magnitude of the space required for the movement of the bodies in our solar system, and yet that is only beginning, Astronomers tell us that they have counted on photographic plates of the Milky Way one hundred and forty millions of suns each probably having it's own solar system. Infinity is truly beyond our grasp, but the Mind that stretched the Milky Way across the sky is in- finite good and infinite Love. Infinite good cannot be the author of evil and infinite Love does not send suf- ferlng or distress. The Bible says that everything God made was god and Christian Science stands on that declaration, and with that as start ing-point Christian Scientists pro- | tn ic, ent, and has power to destroy evil, 1 and that when man is governed by good as Principle he is healthy and happy.
 HOW HEALING IS ACCOMPLISHED The thing that most people consider difficult to understand is how heal ing is accomplished through Chris tian Science. Conceding that God is Mind or Principle, they ask, How is that Principle to be brought into re- lationship with the human mind, so as to destroy sickness and sin? In other words, how can man proceed to establish the unity between himself and spiritual law so that this law may operate through him, and free him from sickness and from the des- ire to sin?
 Christian Science explains the mat l ter, and makes it plain. In fact. Jesus explained it and made it so plain that there never should have been any misunderstanding about it.
 If you are to connect your lamp to an electric wire with a wooden rod you would have no light, but if you made the connection with a metal rod you would come into instantaneous communication with the power-house at the other end of the line, and your light would glow. God is spirit, and when people try to establish the con-