Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-11-08

could not have created il, then IL fol.
lows absolutely that evil is not eternal
For whatever God created miist be
eternal like Himself, and IL God were
the creator OF evil. then evil would
be eternal, and, hence, indestructable
Christian Science presents q scien.
tiic method for the destruction OF
evil No matter In what form 1t may
present itself to the Individual, Whe-
Their as sickness, sin. sunhappiness,
sorrow or distress, Christian Science
says, that since IL Is evil, II may be
destroyed and that the destroyer of
evil in every case is Truth, precisely
as Jesus has declared. Wherever You
find q Christian Scientist, therefofe.
you will find person who Is honestly
striving to destroy evil out of his or
her experience by means OF the scien.
tific method which Christian Science
presents While may be true that
no one. thus far, but Jesus, has been
able to make a perfect demonstration
over evil. yet every one will concede
that Christian Scientists have, at
least, made some progress, and have
succeeded, to some extent, in destroy
ing both sickness and sin for them
selves and others.
The Bible further discloses that God
not only is Love, but is also omfif
present. II 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 de-
gree and to precisely the same extent
that He Is in every other place. Does
that not lift ones thought above the
concept OF limited God? And is IL
not plain that so long as people be-
lieve in q limited God, who Is limited
as to His form, dwelling place, or
goodness, they will continue to suffer
from limitations limitations with re-
spect to 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
in any and all OF these directions
when men and women shall have
given up their false beliefs about a
limited God, and shall have learned
the truth concerning His natuff and
character.
Upon one occasion they asked Jesus
to tell them when the Kingdom Of God
would come, and he made an answer
that has proved to be stumbling
block to many people from that day
to this. He said, in substance, that
the Kingdom Of God Is not place
that you can see with observation; it
is not place that you can say. Lo
here 1t is, or LU there IL is, for be-
hold, he said, the Kingdom OF God is
within You. If that statement is true,
then It follows absolutely that the
Kingdom OF God, or the Kingdom of
Heaven, must be a state of conscious
ness, and not 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 local.
ity, and that it is necessary for people
to die and go there in order to be-
come citizens of that. kingdom, In real
ity the further they are alternating
themselves from it? And the more
they believe that seft 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 I'M
derstanding Of God in place of the0-
retical and speculative beliefs about
Him.
Prayer.
Another subject that enters into the
religious life of all people is that Of
prayer. Since prayer is the medium
through which the connection Is es-,
tablished between the human and
the divine, it Is, therefore, rof great
for every person to find
cut what constitutes true prayer.
What are its characteristics, what is
its nature, and how it may be en-
ployed so as to bring to the one who
prays with certainty the blessings
which the Scriptures say shall come
as result of true prayer.
It is stated in the fifth chapter OF
James that THE prayer of faith shall
save the sick" There is no ambiguity
about that language 1t is not indef-
mite or uncertain in any particular
It is, in. fact, as positive and direct a
statement as can be made with hui
man language. And yet, it would
seem that one of two things must
necessarily be true, either that state
ment in the Scriptures is wholly false,
pr else people have not known how
% make the prayer Of faith through
,lit the centuries. Except in sporadic
Instances. the sick have not been saw
ed as the result of prayer 1t, there
ore, becomes subject for legitimate
nuuirySin order that it may be deter
mined, IL possible, whether or not that
statement in the Scriptures is true.
Many people ask if Christian Scien-
lists pray, and how Christian Science
prayer differs from that of other
churches, and it will doubtless prove
both interesting and helpful if the
Inference is explained
1t can be said that almost every
person is taught that the mind of God
AN be changed by prayer.
Yet all the while that this form of
lrayer has gone up from unnumbered
Millions of agonizing hearts, the Bible
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