St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1913-05-02
A LECTURE
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this new ministry, coming face
to face with the old teaching
that had seemed 50 sacred anC
precious to him in every phase OF
thinking. The command was,
CHOOSE you this day whom yC
will serve" " and taking his stand
on Gods side, he literally died
daily in the Lord to the belief in
a law, power, force, influence
apart from Him and the reality
of those things which before had
seemed the very essence of relig-
ious teaching.
PauPs experience is not pecu-
liar to himself, but is simply an
indication Of what all of us have
to undergo as we turn our backs
upon the mutable and mortal,
and set our faces in the direction
of the immutable and immortal.
The Bible teaching, "to be car
nalIy minded is death" means
that never from the carnal mind
viewpoint will we gain the true
knowledge of God or that peace
which passeth understanding.
In the same verse in the Bible
where il teaches Ito be carnally
minded is death. " il also teaches
to be spiritually minded is life
and peace" The spiritual Mind
which is life and peace is the
Mind that was in Christ Jesus,
and this is the Mind Christian
Science refers TO when il teaches
that God is infinite Mind.
IL is natural that the inquiry
should be made as to what there
is in the Bible that may be used
as a foundation for the teaching
that God is infinite Mind. In
the first place, the teaching rela-
tive to the nature of God indi-
Gates that He cannot be less than
infinite Mind. The Bible teaches
God is omnipotent. What does
that mean? II means that He is
every particle Of real power that
there is in all eternity. Our
trouble has been largely associ.
ated with our misapprehension
relative 10 eternity. for the world
at large has believed eternity
would begin for il when il had
passed through the valley of
the shadow" Christian Science
dispels this belief and teaches
us that IL won't do anything of
the sort. because eternity was is.
is is, and always will be is: for
il is just as much eternity now
as il was when the morning
stars sang together" and as Il
will be eternity when the eXper-
ience of st. John the divine i'm
which he saw both death and
hell cast into the lake of fire and
all evil annihilated and destroy
ed, and the establishment of
Gods eternal effulgence and ra-
dance on earth as IL is in heav-
en- becomes the experience indi-
vidually of all of us. as we work
our way out from sense into Soul
and from darkness into light:
therefore according TO the Bible
God is every particle of real
power there is now.
The Bible also teaches that
God is omnipresent. That doesn't
mean that there is any place,
either great or small, where God
is not; but means, il one may
be permitted TO use such phrase,
ology in the expression of his
thought that there isn't pin
prick of space in all the unlimit-
ed, unconfned and unb0unded
eternity whore God is not.
Then, too, the Bible teaches
that God is omniscient, and this
is an absolute teaching that He |
is infinite Mind. I'm becoming |
Christian Scientists we have not !
found IL necessary TO give up
either common sense or logic. |
Rather have we found them en-
larged 10 an unspeakable degree. |
because based upon the Mind |
that knows no limitation. So let
ms use common sense and logic
relative to this statement, God
is omniscient. " and see where il
leads us. To say that God is ON
niscient is 10 say that He is all |
of the demonstrable, proyable. |
or, in other words. all
the real knowledge there is i'm
eternity.
Now, what is knowledge? Ill
Is the manifestation of applied
intelligence. What is intelli-
gence? The manifestation of
concentrated thinking. What is
thinking? The activity of
thought What is thought?l
The activity of Mind. So the
statement, God is omniscient"
is corelatiye with the state
ment, God is infinite Mind"
All will agree it is impossible TO ,
put a quart of water in pint
bottle all at the same time; and
agreeing with this, perforce will ,
lecessitate the agreement with :
he statement that we cannot put |
all Of the knowledge there is i'm {
Ill eternity in less than all of the |
Mind there is in all eternity. i
And when we think of God as !
lll the real power, all the pres