Arizona republican., 1916-11-01

lieyed enough Tn it to make 1t the basis of their daily thinking and daily living.
 A right understanding of the prin ciples of mathematics as you know, never fails to bring the right answer If rightly applied. So it is with the infinite Principle of being, God Himself. | Just in the proportion that we bring ! a right understanding of God into the | problems that involve our health. our ! happiness, our material prosperity, | and our spiritual welfare. just in that proportion will they be rightly solved.
 Many of us have been taught in ou- earlier days that it is not essential to understand God if we will but believe in Him Now think of trying to solve au intricate problem in ma.he- matics by merely believing in it's principles without understanding them And are not the problems of life vastly more important and mom- l entous than anything that mathemat- 1 cs can present. Problems which when wrongly worked leave us heavy laden with sickness, fear. want. misery and sin? Christian Science. follow ing the teachings of Jesus the Christ shows us that a right understanding of God is aG essential to every stu dent in the school of life as an un- | derstane ing of numbers is to the stu dent of mathematics.
 Faith
 As with belief. so it is with faith. Faith is as essential to man in tho working out of his salvation as the dial is to the clock But the dial Of the clock ,s but mockery without the works which move its hands. Faith raises our hopes. but unless aided by understanding like the still hands of the empty clock 1t neither guides nor enlightons us. Does not the Bible toll us that faith without works Is dead"2
 But do not infer from this that Christian Science appreciates or be- lit:les the talde of faith Far from it. but it is an essence that to Oe of highest uSe must be combined with understanding Perhaps 1t may help mv meaning !; you will think Of faith as the dry cement out of which so many of our beautiful and enduring struutnres are now being fashioned
 Cement itself is but dry powder,
 which like the dust of the road may
 be blown to the four quarters Of the
 earth b. . sammer's breeze, but when
 mixed with water may he moulded in-
 to a thousand useful and symmetrical
 forms or solid as a granite rock. may
 forn, the enduring foundation of many
 nonir structure So with faith unenllghtened it may be scattered and blown away by the winds of ignor- ance and adversity. but when united
 with the understanding Of God which
 flows from Christian Science. it be- comes tranformed and finds expres- sion in the highest types of spiritual
 construction.
 Onni nipotenee
 Ernry right Cnrrent Of God -
 finite good must include His omni-
 potence, His omnipresence. His emni- science. Finite man cannot compre-
 bend these divine qualities in theii , fullness but il is a noteworthy fac' that in the proportion that you dt
 realize them. In that proportion dt |. you find good coming into your lif'
 and evil leaving it. You do not nee' ]. to know all Of God that Is to b' known. before you get any of thu
 good that comes from using even ;
 little of such knowledge
 For example In the proportion yol
 realize that God is omniDotent. or il : other words that good Is all power ful on earth as in heaven; that th only real power which exists or ha . ever existed. Is the power of good o in that proportion are you freed iron
 vour beliefs in the power of evil an,
 
 b evil as not to oe feared but to b
 summed. not to he tolerated but (
 be destroyed
 As you -hur learn to know Go . alright. you will discover that any ev {, thing which may come upon you Ina 4 not the power to harm you that yo !, once believed it had You will n - longer dread what men may say or q ' to you. You will no longer fear thing 2 Fsf fr " learn to succeed in spite of failure {
 be strong in spite of weakness io b V steadfast in spite Of the storm Sick - ness. sin. want failure and the lik lose their hold upon you, and even
 they should come upon you. they can
 not disable. disturo. or depress voi .. or master you. or deprive you of you s God gwen rights. nor can they SCI |. arate YOU from the love Of God. omn - potent good
 S If this should seem like an extrerr p statement to any of you who have n, % tried to prove it's truth through Chris
 tian science let me remind you ths = no less ardent follower of Jesus n m ma Christ than Paul of Tarsus has d,
 clared it's truth even more sweepinl !, lv and forcefully. Open your Bibi m if yon will. and turn to the eight ,f chapter of Romans. and what do yc
 
 For I am persuaded that neith, a death. nor life. nor angels. nor prir " eipalitles. nor powers. nor things pre- i ent. nor things to come. nor hefgt ,n nor derth. nor any other crestur o, shall be able 10 separate us from il VI love If God. which is in Christ Jesi ' our Lord"
 ~, Ouanpresenee and Omniscicnce ,n AS you realize the omuipresence
 God. the all-presence and ever-prc ,a ence. Of good you find it possible r prove that God is al hand wherev ii. you may be and under whatever ci n cumstanceS you may be place . Though you may be hedged in ,S sickness or sorrow or want. thoui as you may be surrounded bv repu or 'iVe infamy or enticing sin, God 1T there to protect you. to support vo ,v 10 shelter. heal. and deliver you. ,1ii yoii recall those thrilling words of | Psalnist when he referred to il ~. omnipresence of God: "Tf | mako n all ped in hell. behold. thou art thei T, Even there shall thy hal ,n leao me. and thy right hand shi ". hold me
 as In the proportion you realize th n, God Is omniscience. that He kno, n. the eternal truth about all that real m exists. even to knowing you far bett VI than you know yourself. Knowing VI ck and seeing you as He made you o- Ills own image and likeness. refleo da Ing ovety quality of good.-when V,
 discover this ahou. yourself. and $
 mat evil Ia not part of you. do Ia not belong to You. and cannot co h. trol you unless you submit 10 if in to yon bestir yourself to get rid of