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

! most perfect love human beings can
know is but reflection of the divine
the ever-ready and willing arm of
protection, the tireless attention, the
loving admonitiOn, the bountiful pro-
vision of God for His own David
sang of Him as a shepherd guarding
his flock, guiding them to green pas
lures, and beside still waters, while
Jesus saw in Him 'the kingdom, and
the power, and the glory forever"
Christian Scientists accept God as
their creator, as their guide and
shepherd, as their provider, as their
friend, as their physician: indeed as
the very substance of their existence,
''for in him we live, and move and
have our being"
Another of the descriptive synonyms
for God, as we know him in Christian
Science, is divine Principle, which
signifies that God, divine Mind, en-
compasses within Himself all wisdom,
truth, law, order and perfection of
being. Principle alone has these un-
changing qualities. In our worldly
affairs we speak of the principle of
mathematics, for it also holds within
| itself all truth, law, order and per-
lection pertaining to numbers; and as
all numbers have perfect and insep-
arabic cOeXistence with what we call
the principle of mathematics, just so
man and all the universe are coexist-
emf with the divine Principle of being,
God, the perfect Mind, Love, and
Principle, which govern man and the
universe. have never been absent for
a moment, but mortal man has ex-
| claded Him from his realization by
dwelling in the mists of materiality
and evil.
If one stands in the bright sunlight
! with twenty wells over his eyes, the
light will seem to be darkness, but as
these wells are removed the light be-
comes clearer. Mortal man has had
more than twenty wells over his men
tai eyes, and they have excluded the
| divine light. These wells consisted of
belief in idolatry, bigOtry, sorcery,
slavery, Witchcraft, superstitutiOn,
hate, war, fear, laws of disease and
the like. One by one these wells are
falling away, and as they go from us
the light Of true being becomes clear
er. When all the darkening wells
shall have been taken away mans
| immortal being will be realized. This
will bring the kingdom of heaven.
st. Paul writes, in his first epistle
to the Corinthians:
"For this corruptibIe must put on
interruption, and this mortal must
put on Immortality.
$50 when this corruptible shall
have put on interruption, and this
mortal shall have put on immortality,
then shall be brought to pass the say
ing that is written. Death is swal-
lowed up in victory"
Man must separate wrong from
right, thinking, even as one separates
drOss from gold tares from wheat
impurities from water. This process
leaves the pure, the good, the true,
the eternal.
The Mission of Christ Jesus.
Only one man has lived upon this
earth who can be referred to as a
perfect or ideal thinker-the man
Christ Jesus. He understood and
demonstrated the Omnipotence, omni-
science, and Omnipresence of God and
permitted no compromise of this all
inclusive truth to enter his conscious
ness. God was all-in-all to him. He
instructed others to accept God in the
same spirit, especially those who were
blinded with ceremonial, ritualistic
| and material worship, but his teach
ing, works, and mission were greatly
misunderstood and remain so, in a
large degree, even to this day.
Many honest Christian people be-
lieve Jesus to be God, and address
much of their prayer and worship to
| him. Others disbelieve him entirely,
and use every possible argument to
discredit his Messiahship, his works,
and the narratives relating to him.
Christian Science cOrrects these wide
ly differing beliefs.
Christianity was misunderstood by
both Jews and Gentiles, because they
Inexperienced the nativity and OBJ
| ject of its Founder.
The Jews, who had their own ideas
as to what Messiah should be, re-
fused to believe that the wisdom and
| power of God whom they declared
omnipotent, and creator of all, could
create anything contrary to their own
belief of human conception.
The Gentiles, misconstruing the
sayings of Jesus, hailed him as Saviour
and king, but failed to recognize him
as the WayshOwer, and the exemplar
of Gods perfect man, whose works
and ways they would have to emulate.
Christian Science declares that
Christ Jesus represented the di-
vine origin of man, render
ing evidence, within the grasp
of human comprehension, that
God is the only creator. Jesus was
different from all other men in that
the divine nature predominated in
him, while in all other men the human
seems to predominant.
Jesus was Mary's highest human
conception of the divine man. Christ
was the spiritual and eternal nature
impaired Of God. Mary's human con-
cept, or Jesus, passed away in the
ascension; but the Christ, the divinely
created man, who lived before Abra-
ham was, continues to live, forever.
All men are truly born of God, and
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