Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-02-12
CLARENCE v. CHADWICK DWELLS ON
WORLDWIDE Interest in TENEIS


| guilty This Mind is oEnipotence, ON.
nipresence and omniscience. infinite
and indiyisible, therefore never in
nor OF matter. The real man is the
| image and likeness OF this infinite
| Mind. spiritual and perfect now"
II seems almost needless to state
that the reception of this enlarged con-
cept or right idea OF Mind BY the
world has already resulted in the
healing of numerous csses OF insanity,
has restored incorrigibles, has resur-
reeted the feeble minded, has healed
| inveterate sin ard abnormal tempera.
mental traits, and conquered deprayed
appetites. "Thce are also many 9th
er things which" Mind hath done, the
which, IL they should be written every
enc. / suppose that even the world
itself could not contain the books that
should be written.
! Causation
Since there is one infinite Mind or
intelligence this Mind must be the
first and only cause. To admit any
other cause then would be equivalent
TO admitting more than one God. which
would be breaking the first great COM
mandment. And since God is infinite
good, He could rot cause anything I'M
like good. AS the Scriptures plainly
state it: God saw everything that
he had made. and, behold, 1t was very
good"
If Christian people would accept and
hold 20 this idea Ct infinite good they
would quickly and effectively dispose
of the problem OF evil 1t may be
easier for the so.callec Adam man to
admit the power and presence of evil
because he sees it through the mate
rial senses, but the sole consolation
of the Christian is the Joy that comes
to him because he knows through spir-
itual sense that God, good, is omnipo-
tent and ornipresent
1t Is possible Tor every human be-
ing to gain this practical knowledge
of God. We call it practical because
1t can be proved in everyday expert
ence. To know that there is one inf
mite spiritual cause affords basis
for scientific deEonstl alton. To be-
lierc in many causes absolutely in
caIacitates one for proving the ON
impotence of good. To admit a real
cause for evil would give it founda-
tion in fact, would endow it with
power and place mankind at its mercy.
Because Christian Science is the
gospel of good to the world, its mis-
sion is TO implant in human conscious
ness the idea Of one infinite all-good
cause which never created evil nor
suffered Il to exist for. some wise pur-
pose, as is so often asserted.
Jesus was a man of ideas. He was
the perfect example Of a thinking
man The basis of his wonderful heal
ing works and his Incompatible rea.
scning ana logic was this very idea
Of perfect spiritual causation. And
it must become ours before we can fol-
low in his mental footsteps. The con-
temptation Of imperfect thought
models will never bring health, happi-
ness or holiness into human conscious
ness Guessing as to the nature Of
God and his heavenly kingdom never
enables one to define good or to over
conc evil. Faith without works is
simply guessing, not knowing, and
guessing will never usher anyone into
the spiritual kingdom of righteous
ness, and peace, and JOY in the Holy
Ghost"
Creation
Many of US can no doubt recall our
childish concept Of creation when first
reading the book of Genesis, how we
tried to picture primeval chaotic
state where there was no light and no
created thing in existence, and that
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known said. -Let there be light;
and there was light"
Could we then have paused to ask
ourselves who or what is God? We
might have been, spared many un.
necessary experiences in later years,
but most of US did not pause, but list
iessly accepted the superficial belief
that there was a time when God was
alone: and not until the advent OF
Christian Science did we awaken from
this material dream 20 find out the
real nature of God and His spiritual
creation. coexistent with Him. Rea-
soning from cause to effect in the
light of Christian Science, thinking
persons are quite ready 70 admit that
Freation, in order to be a truthful,
accurate, perfect expression of infinite
Mind, must be wholly mental.
IL there are any skeptics to whom
this subject may seem vague or in
tangible, let them grasp the meaning
of the word idea" as applied to
Gods creation and they will find
something far more tangible and real
than anything which they have cog
nized through the physical senses.
Christian Science makes it indubit-
ably clear to us that Mind finds ex-
preston, not through mortal or hui
man thoughts, but through its own
perfect spiritual thoughts or ideas.
Unless there was time when Mind
was without expression, there never
was a time when these ideas did not
exist. When this point is grasped II
will explain the meaning Of a ''fin-
ished" or ended" creation, mentioned
in Genesis.
Human thought approaches this
subject by slow stages, and those who
have enormously confused the two
Numerically opposite accounts Of
creation in the first and second chap
tors of Gonoais Will do Will IN aftidv