The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-11-16

Principle, or we cannot demonstrate it in part
 There are many who readily grasp the idea of God as Truth. the Truth which makes men free from every lie of sickness, want, woe, misery, de- ficiency or tribulation. The man to whom this larger thought of God ap- pears may add to it day by day and thereby grow into "a new freedom, growing away from his sense of linn itation or lack of confidence, or re- -stricted opportunity. Not only does do those things that make for lindi- vidua1 progress, growth, and true sue cess in commercial, professional in dustrial and domestic life.
 Perhaps the beginner in Christian Science may more readily eompre- bend God as omniscient Mind. possess sing all knowledge, all science, all in telIigence, all understanding, the Gre ator of man and the universe, of all that really exists. The man of Gods creation, the>rea1 man, reflecting these qualities of infinite Mind, does not lack wisdom. acumen. perception, tact judgment, nor perspicacity- He need never be in doubt, nor conjec- ture nor wonder. He has no occasion to court luck nor chance nor fortui- tous circumstance. No problem can
 be too profound, no situation too conn ,plex, no research too vast for the man who habitua1ly turns to. Infinite Mind, 1 the fountain head of all knowledge, for his guidance and direction.
 We are sometimes asked by the
 man who is considering the claims of
 Christian Science with an open mind. ttIs there any great difference upon
 essential points between Christian Sci
 ence and other Christian denomtna- lions. So far as I cah see, Christian | Scientists believe much the same as l we do. We have the same Bible and 1 believe the same truths and I can l see no reason why should go out | side my own church to get Christian l Science. Tell me one fundamental l truth wherein they differ. Are they
 not identical in all essentials?"
 F.. There are a, number of points of l diergence and a fundamental one is
 the Christian Science belief in the
 omnipotence of God. The Christian | Science church not only teaches that God is the only power as other l churches teach, but it also insists | that it's followers put that teaching g | into practice. This means that they are expected to deny by thought and
 deed that evil, the opposite of God, | has any power or actuality. With | them this is not mere doctrinal i theory or an empty assertion, but an ] actuating, animating truth. To de- l clare that God is omnipotent and at | the same time admit that evil has
 power to. confer the pleasure Or to I cause pain is to say one thing while
 believing that He is not.
 It is sometimes wrongly alleged
 that in thus denying the reality of l evil, Christian Science confers a 1i-
 cense to sin. Neever was there a l greater mistake. When a man gains
 an/ understanding of the unreality of l sin. he no longer turns to it for pleas
 ure or flees from it in fear. This 1 derstanding of the unrea1ity of evil is
 attainable only we gain an under
 standing of God the only reality. | Is Sickness Real?
 1 Omhipresent God, if it means any thing, means that God is everywhere, that He fills all space, and that there ,E is no place where He is not. It fol-
 lows inevitably that evil, which from it's very nature cannot be part of God
 nor partake of his very being, can find I no 1odgment nor foothold anywhere I and therefore cannot exist. Yet to 1 most professfng Christians outside the I ranks of Christian Science. evil, the l DDDOsite of good is as real act1I1I