The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1916-09-28

learns self reliance through trying 70
do Ior others what he has seen his
father do for him. If he had his way
he never would be separated from his
father for one moment, for the little
ones highest conception of joy is I'M
broken companionship with his father.
Now my friends if you will take this
crude sketch of ideal human relation
ship between father and child and
magnify it thousand times, aye,
multiply it by infnity and divinity,
you may comprehend little Of what
Jesus would have US know and feel
about God as our heavenly Father
1t is said that one of the four great
religion of the world, numerically
names for God and not one of them
is "0ur Father" Need we wonder
that the Mohammedan is father? It
remained for the religion of Jesus to
offer to its four hundred and seventy
seven millions of followers the con-
cept of God as Father"
Here let it be said, and we say it in
all humility, that among all forms of
the Christian religion, the Christian
Science church is the only one that in
its praying associates the mothers
tender love and watchful care, with
the Fathers infinite wisdom protec-
ton and power. 1t is the only church
that prays, "0ur Father Mother God. :"
You may ask how am | to know and
understand God How am | to know
that God is always loving, always pro-
tecting, always guiding and sustain
| ing those who trust him whole-heart-
eddy? There is a simple way, my
friends; the same simple way in which
you have learned what you know
about other things, that is by trial, by
the test of personal experience, the
test that changes belief into knowl-
edge.
You do not merely believe that fire
burns, you know it because you have
tested it. Ten thousand men might
tell you that fire is cold and dark, but
against all their allegations stands
out your own experience. You know
that fire gives light and heat, because
you have proved it.
Now apply this same test of expert
enee to what Christian Science teach
es about Gods impartial and univer-
sal goodness, and power and love- But
you must not do it in a half hearted
way if you would get results. You
must first lay aside your own ideas of
what God should do and should not do.
You must get yourself out of Gods
way. You will do we'll to start with
these words of the Scripture in your
thought. "Trust in the Lord with all
thine heart; and lean not unto thine
own understanding. In all thy ways
acknowledge him, and he shall direct
thy paths" proverbs 3:5, g..
Christian Science places in the
hands of every one the means of gath
ering the fruits of trusting in God and
thereby proving the words of the
prophet Isaiah, when he spoke to God
as son might speak to his father
whose goodness he had proved,
Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace,
whose mind is stayed on thee: because
he trusteth in thee" Isaiah 1858
Have you ever considered my
friends, how different might have
been the darkened and troubled pass
ages of your lives if they had been il
Illuminated by that perfect peace that
comes from trusting God, perfect
/ Love?
Right Thinking.
There is a sentence in the text book
of Christian Science, which tells us
that all casuation is Mind" Science
and Health 417-13.) This being
true 1t follows that thought of some
kind is the foundation, the starting
point of every action and that right
habits of thinking lead to right habits
of living.
Christian Science being religion of
right thinking, is necessarily a reli-
gion of right living. 1t is a religion
of results, of achievement, of con-
struction. In spiritual upbuilding,
right motive as well as right action Is
essential,
1t is fact which any Bible student
may verify for himself that Jesus
formed his estimates from motives.
Christian Healing, page ~ So in
Christian Science it is not only the
good we succeed in doing but also the
good we persistently try to do that
brings growth.
Every worthy endeavor is the out
come of a worthy thought. And con-
versely the same may be said of evil
thoughts and evil deeds, for thought
of some kind underlies every action,
good, bad or Indifferent. Hence, the
need for alertly guarding our
thoughts, allowing only those to re-
main with US that will work for the
enduring, the good and the true.
Every word that a man has ever
said, idle word or pregnant word, ev-
cry deed he has ever done, shameful
deed or worthy deed, has sprung
from the little seed of thought.
The world is slowly awakening to
the large part that thought has in de-
| i,sf,, ha off Of
The self willed man still tries to con-
troll events and circumstances to suit
himself, but the wise man is learning
to control himself, through right
thinking, so that mems actions or ad-
verse circumstances cannot affect him.
The man who is miserable or dis
heartened generally thinks he Is so
because of somthfng that has taken
place IN his life when In reality his
condition is due not 50 much to the
thing that has occurred as to how he
has handled it, what his thought is
about it. Just as in ball game,
hard drive may send the ball flying in
to the outfeld but if the man there
handles it rightly the hit may amount
to very little. But if it is fumbled it
may result in the loss of the game.
The hit is the same in both cases, but
its results are determined by the way
it is handled.
So it is in the things that occur in
everyday life. A man is made miser-
able not merely by what comes to him,
but how he handles it in his thought,
what he thinks about it in other
words.
Much of the trouble that weighs