East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-10-31

able, is Interested in doing good is
charitable. kind and glad to help
others. What has kept the men apart !?
What has made them strangers &?
Nothing but Il false concept entertain
ed by Mr.. ~, a concept which had no
basis i'm fact. was not the outcome OF
truth, but was simply a false belief
a lie. Mr.. a. was deprived of Mr.. r. g
friendship and friendly assistance for
no reason at all, The false concept
was the barrier, What was needed
to restore a normal relationship was
the truth in the consciousness of Mr..
a.
Is not the lesson plain? What is it
but "a false concept that is between
suffering humanity and God? 1t is
lust that and nothing more. How
many have accepted the, common SUI
( perstltion that God is distant. unap-
( prcachahle and difficult to under
stand, even while the Bible describes
/ His rs a God Eat hand" and not afar
off, who has said, "T will put my laws
into their mind. and write them in
their hearts; and | will he to them
i God. and they shall be to me n peo-
pie. Christian Science dispels our
false concepts of God. does away with
mystery, superstition. ignorance and
/ fear, and enthroucs i'm man the true
consciousness of God which shows
Him to be all-good all-powerful. ever
available, all wise to he the God
who presently "healeth all thy dis
eases" be they mental physical, NOR
al or of other nature.
Being acquainted with God. il is
well to remember, is simply a state of
mind: in other words. true conscious
ness. To know God man must be
thinking correctly about God, and that
Is Just what Christian Science is
helping man to do,
Whom the gentle man OF Nazareth
voiced the message, Repent: for the
Kingdom of heaven is at hand' he
voiced the demand OF Truth to those
Of every age. laboring In the shadow
Of ignorance superstition and fear.
Repent simply means to change your
mind Some men think this privilege.
especially as it pertains to religion. is
confined to the women, but it is not.
change your mind change your
thoughts. put away false concepts OF
God for now here, at hand. is to be
toilnd the harmonious state of being B
Hven at the noint OF consciousness. for
'es''s also said THE kingdom of God
'e within you.''
MENTAL TRANSPORTATION MEG.
ESSARY.
With correct understanding of III
vine Mind as the one Intelligent cause
and man as Minds eternal idea v,bosa
real selfhood is goodness as tho basig
for right thinking. Christian Sctance
shows man how to make +bis trutb
practicable in his daily problems The
method is the supplanting in con-
sciousness of the TEMPORAL and mortal
sense of life and se1fhood Win tbo
true and eternal facts of sniritua1 Iiro
ana manhood. 1t is n mental frame
formation which graudaIIv excbopoos
a material for the spfrituoI sar,o 90
being.
Mental transformation Is recognized
by society as the way Of progress and
reform. All educational effort is but
the supplanting of ignorant and lin
tied concepts Of being with more in
telligent ones. Tyranny and slavery
nave disappeared as rapidly as mans
thought has gained clearer sense Of
the rights Of man. The whole process
Of mental change seems the natural
and right way to better things. And
so IL Is not only in attaining better
things in human society, but in that
TAR more important realm of thought
20 God. Through the teachings of !
-hrIstian Science. the false and lin
TED concepts Of God and man are Civ
ng way to that true sense of being {
which liberates from the tyranny of {
IN ana the slavery OF diseased beliefs. a
ne greatest proclamation of emanci- I
'atIon ever uttered was given by Jesus /
Nhen ne said, "Ye shall know the i
ruth, and the truth shall make you !
rec. We cannot know what is true l
thlIe we believe what Is false. Two
pJects cannot occupy the same space
u the same time. No more can an
lroheouS concept of God and the true Il
lea OF Him be in thought together, +
RUTH CItNGES NJNN,S N-IU-1I- ;
POINT =,
That consciousness ,,,t,si cl,,,,., ,,,, a
m which has dayneJ tho truo ido, - ~
iod and man. Tifc-s otI,lool- c,,,,ot g
emain tho same In pI.cc Of ,.,,,, ri .,
ng himself as a mortal Of a re,,, ,Ia,-g g,