The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-02-02

Ing Of his nature is what heals and
saves in every instance.
Christian Science is giving us this
enlarged understanding of the nature
Of God, which Is essential If We are to
appropriate In greater and greater
measure the infinite blessings which
infinite Love has in store for us.
In undertaking to know something of
the nature Of God, we are all agreed in
that God is omnipotent, om-
niprescnt and omniscicnt; that is. ALL
ever present, and all know
ing. We are all agreed in admitting
His infinite perfection and presence
and power: yet after making these
statements the religious thought of tho
world quite generally contradicts them
by admitting that sickness and other
forms OF imperfection are neither sent
of God or permitted by Him. as though
divine Mind had any impcrfection to
send or could permit 1t without be-
coming responsible for it.
The Bible speaks Of God as Spirit. as
Life, as Truth. and as Love. It also
speaks Of Him as the creator, that from
which all proceeds. This thought is ex-
pressed in Christian Science by the use
of the word Principle for God. since
Principle is that from which all pro-
ceeds and by which it exists.
Mrs. Eddy has also given us the
term Father Mother, by which there Is
brought to consciousness the complete
ness Of the creator, the motherhood as
well as the fathcrhood Of God, and also
a larger thought Of God as Love. When
we think of God the Father. our
thought of Him is limited by our earth
ly sense of fatherhood, which, no mat
ter how complete, is still lacking in the
fullness OF those qualities of love and
tenderness which the mother thought
expresses. The word Spirit as used
in the Bible, and the word which is
translated Almighty God, both had
something Of this same thought of
motherhood; but this thought has been
completely lost to us in the translation.
No matter by what term we may
think of God, whether it be as infinite
Life or infinite Principle. or infinite
Mind, logical deduction as to the
nature of man and the creation will
always bring us to the same point
that of the eternal perfection OF all
that God has made, and the unreality
CT sickness and all that is contrary to
His divine nature.
The only way we can fail to arrive
at this conclusion is by simply saying
God is God--making no effort to under
stand His nature-and insisting tina.
the sickness and sin which we sec
about us are in some way according
to His infinite perfection and holi-
ness.
God as infinite Life cannot be made
manifest in death, nor can infinite
Life be made manifest in sickness, for
sickness ultimatcs in death, and so in
a relative sense is partial death. In
finite Life can only be made manifest
in infinite eternal health.
God as infinite Truth cannot be
made manifest in sickness, for every
truth Is in absolute harmonious ac-
cord with every other truth, just as
one mathematical truth is in harmony
with every other mathematical truth.
and infinite Truth can tolerate no In =
harmony. even though it calls itself
sickness and claims to be truth.
God as infinite Love cannot do less
for His children than to manifest that
Love and supply them with infinite
good. and infinite good does not include
sickness. What earthly father as a
manifestation of his love for his child
would tring sickness upon it. or allow
1t to have sickness IL he could prevent
II: IF ye then, being evil. know how
to give good gifts unto your children,
how much more shall your Father
which is in heaven give good things to
them that ask him?"
When we consider God as Principle.
that from which all proceeds, we find
1t impossible to conceive of both sick
ness and health proceeding from this
one infinite Principle; and yet there
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could come. for as John declares.
without him was not any thing maze
that was made.
When we consider God as Mind we
arrive at the same conclusion, for the
manifestation of Mind is thought. and
the thoughts of infinite Mind arc not
sick thoughts, but perfect and health
full and holy.
We all of us accept the statement
that God Is wisdom. but it is better
to say that God is Mind. because wis
dom is never anything but the express
sion of Mind. If we admit infinite wis
dom, we must admit that it is the
emanation of an infinite Mind.
Let us Nillustratc the divine Mind by
using the ordinary conception Of a
human mind as an example. You say
your friend has a fine mind. You say
you know this because he has lot Of
fine ideas which he expresses. You
have never seen his mind, but you have
known the expression of his mind in
ideas. II he never moved a muscle.
never spoke a word. you would rightly
conclude that there was no mind there.
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