Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-12-21

all true religion. Upon it was fouu-
ded the ancient confession of faith of
the Jewish people:
Hear, o Israel: The Lord our God
is one Lord:
And thou shalt love the Lord thy
God with all thine heart, and with all
thy soul, and with all thy might"
(Deut. vi, 40
Christ Jesus taught this same law,
saying,
Think not that l am come to de-
stroy the law, or the prophets: l am
not come to destroy, but to fulfil"
Matthew ", ID
1t is written that when a lawyer
asked of him,
master, which is the great COM
mandment in the law?"
81 esus answered, Thou shalt love
the Lord thy God with all thy heart,
and with all thy soul, and with all
thy mind.
This is the first and great COM
mandment.
And the second is like unto it.
Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thy
self. On these two commandments
hang all the law and the prophets"
First Demand of Science.
Christian Science accepts the law in
all its completeness, as expounded by
both Moses and Christ Jesus. On
page 467 of Science and Health with
Key to the Scriptures" (the Christian
Science text-book), we read:
The first demand of this Science is
Thou shalt have no other gods before
me- The second is like unto
it, Thou sbalt love thy neighbor as
myself"
And again, on page 8, we find
"Dost thou love the Lord thy God
with all Thy heart, and with all thy
soul, and with all thy mind?' This
command includes much, even the
surrender of all merely material sem
satiOn, affection and worship. This
is the Ell Dorado of Christianity"
Resting under divine promise, con-
fident that God would provide for
and sustain them, the patriarchs,
Abraham, Isaac and acob-as well as
later the prOphets-manifested the
power of God, through faith; attained
unusual length of years, and through
spiritual intuition impaired the Mes
sianic prophecy, fOreseeing the fulfill
ment of the promises in Christ Jesus.
Jacob probably adhered most closely
to the word of God. He it was who
first discerned the basic rule of divine
law that there must be separation
or division, in consciousness, of evil
from good. He realized that man
cannot serve two masters. There
fore he fought with the evil sugges-
tions within himself, not letting go
the angel-t the thought of God-until
he had won the struggle Then it
was that his name was changed from
Jacob to Israel, which means soldier
of God"
Overcoming Evil.
The overcoming of evil thoughts re-
suits in a divine state of conscious
ness. 1t is this purified thought, or
consciousness, which is the promised
seed to be blessed throughout the
entire world. Some time every man
will wrestle with the error within
himself, even to the point of over
coming every thought at variance
with God. Then will he have earned
the name "Israel"- soldier of Cod
and become one of the children of
Israel" He will be of the "chosen
people" because he has chosen God.
The promise of the Revelation is
"He that Overcometh shall inherit
all things; and l will be his Cod and
he shall be my SON.
In the Old Testament narratives we
can find long list of works wrought
by the power of God, through the
faith of those who confidently relied
upon Him. Moses transformation of
the rod into a serpent; the leprous
hand, and its healing; the passage
through the Red Sea; the sweetening
of the waters of Marah; the falling of
the mamma from the skies; the
production of water from the rock;
the healing of Miriam's leprosy;
Elijah's increase of the widows
meal and oil: the raising
of the widows son from death; the
rain which fell in answer to prayer;
the translation of Elijah; the deliver
ance of the Hebrew boys from the
iery furnace, and the preservation Of