The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-11-16


 who has always thought of Him as a finite personage subject to- the Hrnita- suons of time,s space, and circufn- stance2 Perhaps not. But let us propose as an aid towards a fuller that he choose from among these definitions the one which most nearly approaches his, sconcep- 5tion of. the highest possible good. and Jet his thought dwell upon that. A mans highest ideas of God can be mo higher than his highest concep- ftiops of good. but they should aI- ways be that high.
 Ia In forming a new idea, of God, the EbeginneF is mot asked to cast aside his present beliefs only because they are old Whatsoever is good or true eor helpful in his present understand ing of God is to be retained. for all good eXerlastinglyf belongs to God and proeaede from Him.
 But this one thing the beginner will do well ever to keep in thought, that 6God's infinite goodness and power and love are just as available, applicable. and necessary to man while here on earth as they ever< will be anywhere, | What a naenstrous mistake it =s- to put off forming a sacred companion ship with God until F after we are through with this earth. Jesus said sf fMatthew922:23), God is not the God Eof the dead but of the living.''
 If the thought of God as Love( ever blessing, never condemning; ever heal ing, never eafflicting, including all mankind in His >fatherly protection and infinite affection if this tbougbt of God comes to you with tender ap- it.peal, hold fast to it dnd cherish it. it will unfold and enlarge and de- lsvelop, and gradually lead you to a yet broader, fuller knowIedee of Him as Love. divine.
 Or is it the thought of God as life 1 ssThe Life that knows no death. The 1 Life that ,maketh all things new, the eternal source of all being, Of health. 1 of growth, of activity, of deyeIonnoent and unfoldment, that touches a re I spoPsfve chord in the Consciousness | of the man who is seeking a better knowledge of God. If so. let him 1 sound' it deeply and it will swell into a d1apason of grandeur and harnonv l and Inspiration.
 Or perhaps he may best compre- l hend the Christian Science idea nj 1 God as Principle. tile divine First 1 Cause and Creator, the sustaining. ac- tuating, and underlying Principle o4 | the universe who operates throuer unchanging laws, always beneficent and always comprehendible.
 A man can no more work out inc l pEODI6InS or HVlnS without a l ledge of God, the Principle Of 4aaipo- l than he can work out a problem in 1 mathematics without some lxnou,led gc | of its underlying laws. What vvo,,16 l be thought of the man who +rfa, to solve some intricate caIcuIatioA, ir mathematics who does not k1oy l enough of it's essentials to be al+o. 1 gether sure that two and two make four? Yet everywhere men are trvine to work out the problems of existence without knowing enough of God. tIe Principle of all being. to get the right 1 results out Of the very simplest prob. lens of everyday life.
 it to be wondered then that or all sides are, to be seen so much, o- 1 failure and sickness and sin? ,rbf text book of Christian Science tells ne ] ITO reach heaven the harmony of. he. 1 ing. we must sunedrstand the alvin. Principle of being.'H 6-14D
 In another of her writings 5ca11ef Christian HeaHng,'' Mrs. kEddv i, even more direct and conclusive ir pointing out how essential it is +l know somewhat of God as Prfncin1e l Here she says -Because God is 1tbt ! Principle Of Christian hea1ine 1.zs ing. we must understand the .divint