Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1914-10-26

to God Every one must agree that a
correct understanding of God Is es.
Hential as the foundation OF religion.
Any system of religious teaching thu,
Is founded upon an imperfect or er.
roneous conception OF God must ne.
cessafiy fail to bring to its adherenls
the help and comfort for which they
seek. When we look about MS and sec
the splendid fidelity of men and
women to their religious beliefs, and
then see how much suffering and
failure they experience, and how far
short they come OF attaining the
good which they so honestly seek, Il
IL fair deduction that there ia some
thing wrong about their understand
ing of God.
No offense will be given. therefore,
by the statement that the average
person has a very indefinite and neb.
ulous conception OF God. ii YOU were
TO ask a dozen people to tell sou who
and what God Is. you would get q doz-
Ell different answers. There are some
who think God is q person. How many
people there are who. when they
kneel down and close their eyes. and
lreverently pray to God. have in mind
a person, or a form, or an image, 20
which they pray. And how many 9TH
ers there are who think OF God as a
being of anger and resentment. who
sends failure and suffering to those
who displease him? And are there
not great many others who think
Of God MS a being who lives in far
of country called Heaven. and that
II is necessary for people TO die and
20 there. in order to see HIM.
These are only q few Of the ncor-
rect beliefs which people entertain
about God When II ls remembered
that Jesus has said that IL is the
knowledge of the truth that shall
make men free, in the face of such
confusion of belief about Him. is II
strange that people are sick and that
they die? Is 1t not apparent that what
humanity heeds IL a de,nonstrable
understanding Of God in place Of the
oretical and speculative beliefs about
Him.
Yet. all the while that people have
gone on believing these erroneous
things about Cod the Bible state
ments concerning him have been per-
fectly plain. The Bible says. for In
stance. that God is Love. and, since
He Is infinite. lie must be infinite
Love. Christian Science says. there
fore, that infinite Love cannot be the
author of evil, either in the form OF
sickness or sin, and that. no matter
what one may think about evil II
must be accounted for in some other
way than as being part of the crea-
ton of God. Now, note the signil-
canoe Of that statement. for If God did
not create evil. and it is manifest that
He could not have created IT, tneh II
follows absolutely that evil Is not e.er-
nal. For whatever God created nus;
be eternal like Himself, and IL Odd
were the creator of evil, then evil
would be eternal and. hence, iade-
structlble .e.
Christian Science presents q seien-
tific method for the destruction CT
evil. No matter in what form it may
present itself to the individual,
whether as sickness. sin, unhappin IS,
sorrow or distress, Christian scaenee
says, that since 1t is evil, 1t may he de-
stroyed and that the destroyer of evil
in every case is Truth, precisely as
Jesus has declared. Wherever you
find a Christian Scientist, therefore,
YOU will find person who is honestly
striving TO destroy evil out of his or
her experience by means of the sci
entific method which Christian Sci
ence presents. While II may be true
that no one, thus far, but Jesus, has
been able TO make perfect demon
;tration over evil, yet every one VIII
Christian Scientists have
At least, made some progress. ana
nave succeeded, to some extent In
destroying both sickness and sin for
themselves and others.
The Bible further discloses that God
lot only is Love. but Is also omnpres-
mt. II that is so. then He is every
where for that is what the word
means. lie fills all space. ana Is III
me place in precisely the same degree
md to precisely the same extent that
lie is in every other place. Does that
lot lift ones thought above the con-
, apt of limited God? And Is II not
,la.n trat so long as people believe IN
, lil.ted God, who Is limited as to
liz fCtm, dwelling place, or goodness
hey " II continue TO suffer from llm- |
tai lens limitations with respect u !
life and the duration thereof, health (
trength, mental capacity, success, /
owe, spirituality and every gooo !
hing? Christian Science makes PLAIN |
hat humanity can hope to be eman- (
ipated from the curse. of lnltatlons
n any and all OF these directions I
when men and women shall nave CIV |
n up their false beliefs about linn 4,
ted God and shall have learned the
ruth concerning Ills nature and CHAR
cter. 4.
Upon one occasion they asked Jesus 4
O tell them when the Kingdom OF COD I
yould come. and he made an answer
hat has proved to be stumbling [
lock to many people from that day
o this. He said, in substance, that the /
Kingdom OF God is not a place mat
GU can see with observation; 1t is not
place that you can say, Lo here 1t IS +!
r Lo there 1t is, for behold. he said,
he Kingdom of God is within you. If !,
hat statement is true. then 1t follows Il
bsolutely that the Kingdom of God,
+ the Kingdom of Heaven. must be
state of consciousness, and not f
Dcality. Then is 1t not plain that the
urther people go in the belief that
he Kingdom of God. or the Kingdom
{ Heaven, is a locality. and that 1t IS