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ment. who sends failure and suffer ing to those who displease him? And are there not a great many others who think of God as being who lives in far-off country called
 Heaven. and that it is necessary for people to die, and go there, in order to see Him?
 There are only a few of the incor-
 rect beliefs which people entertain about God When it is remembered
 that Jesus has said that it is the knowledge of the truth that shall make men free, in the face of such confusion of belief about Him, is it strange that people are sick and that they die? Is it not apparent that what humanity needs is a demolstra-
 ble understanding of God in place of | theoretical and speculative beliefs about Him?
 Yet, all the while that people have gone on believing these erroneous things about God, the Bible statements concerning him have been perfectly plain The Bible says, for instance, that God is Love, and since He is infinite, He must be infinite Love. Christian Science says, therefore, that infinite Love cannot be the au- thor of evil, either in the form ot sickness or sin, and that no matter what cne may think about evil, it must be accounted for in some other way than as being a part of the crea. tion of God Now, note the signifi- canoe of that statement, for if God did not create evil and it is manifest
 that He could not have created it, then it follows absolutely that evil is not eternal For whatever God ere ated must be eternal like Himself, and if God were the creator of evil, then evil would be eternal and, hence. indzstrucdble
 Christian Science presents a scien- if.c method for the destruction of eyn No matter in what form it may present itself to the individual whether as sickness, sin, unhappiness, sorrow or distress. Christian Science says, that since it is evil, it may be destroyed and that the destroyer of evil in every case is Truth precisely as Jesus has declared. Wherever you fnu a Christ an Scientist therefore you will find a person who is honestly strNlng to destroy evil out of his or Ter experience by means. of the sci entific method which Christian Sci ence presents. While it may be true that no one, thus far but Jesus, has been able to make a perfect demon stratiOn over evil, yet every one will cOncede that Christian Scientists have at least, made some progress, aGd nave succeeded, to some extent in de. stroying both sickness and sin for themselves and others.
 The Bible further discloses that God not cnly is Love, but is also omai. present. If that is so. then He is everywhere, for that is what the word means He fills all space and is in one place in precisely the same degree and to precisely the same extent that He is in every other place. E0es that lot lif, ones thought above the con- cept of a limited God? And is it not plain that so long as people believe m limited God who is limited as to His form dwelling place. or good. ness, they will continue 10 suffer from hmitatiCns-limita with re sEact 10 life and the duration thereof, health, strength mental capacity, sue cess. love. spirituality and every good thing? Christian Science makes plain that humanity can hope to be eman- cipated from the curse of limitations ia any and all of these directions when men and women s1all ave given mp their false beIefs about a Emitted God, and shall have learned the truth concerning His nature and charac er
 Opcl Cue occas-ou they asked Jesus to tell them when the Kingdom of Kod would come and he made an answer that has proved to be a stumb. Ming block to many people from 'hat day 10 this lI said, in substance, that the Kingdom of God is not a place that you can see with obserya- tio3; it is not place that you can say l.o here 1t is, or To there it is, for behold he said, the Kingdom Of God is within you. If that statement
 s true, them 1t follows absolutely that the Kingdom of God. or the Kingdom of Heaven, must be a state Of con sciousness, and not a locality Then is it not plain that the further people go in the belief that the Kingdom of God, or the Kingdom of Heaven, is a loca- ity, and that it is necessary for people to die and go there in order to become citizens of that kingdom
 in reality the further they are alien adag themselves from it? And the more sincerely believe that sort of thing, the more their sincerity will stand as a barrier to prevent their progress towards that kingdom Christian Science, therefore pleads for rational and demonstrable m.
 derstanding of God in place of theo
 retical and speculative beliefs about | Him.