Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1917-01-02

.or INTO truth, out of ignora
e. lnto intelligence, out of matter !;
H. spirit, away from earth to know a
n, Iheologlans have for many We
IL confused the Christ-idea with the q
,e poreal man Jesus. Christian Scier
4, makes plain the distinction betwe
L the personal Jesus and the Christ +
true idea of God, which must come
D ! each individual consciousness a,
e resurrect it from false beliefs. :
n chng to corporeal saviour is to wo
I? snip ileshly concept, and Jesus sa
e that the flesh profits nothing. Jes,
was a human person. Christ is n
) true spiritual idea of life which ,Jesr
understood and exemplifed bette
than all others, but which is know
able and understandable by each O
us. This true idea must be individp
ally understood before man can knoy
dod. This idea lives through th,
ages and is the saving importation q
uod, the emanation of His love ant
goodness, ever extended to him who
tired OF the husks of mortality. woulf
return to his Fathers house and seek
Tor higher and better things.
FALSE CONCEPTS
When we begin to lay hold of the
true sense of being, actually to real
lze In spite of all the conflict and dis
tress of mortal existence that there
is indeed God who is altogether
good, who is all-wise and all-powerful.
and who is now available to help us
overcome and master evil-just as
soon as we, turn to Him, then our
thinking begins to change. We begin
to seek for and to get acquainted with
sod, to obey the Scriptural command.
'Aequaint now thyself with him, and
De at peace"
A stranger is one who is unknown,
itrange. God is therefore strange to
is If We do not actually know Him. |
his foreign concept of God as
TRANCE is just what Christian Science
here to remove. Let us suppose
hat Mr.. A. and Mr.. B. live in the
anne community. A common belief in
ne community is that Mr.. B. is unap-
roachable, distant, difficult to under
and. Mr.. A., without any personal
lvestigation. believes the report and
olds aloof from Mr.. B., although he :
in dire need of a friend. Mr.. b.,
fact, is not the kind Of a person
reports has made him out to {
}; he is not distant or difficult to un-
but on the contrary is easily |
'proachable, is interested in doing t
cd, is charitable, kind, and glad to a
lp others. What has kept the men
art? What has made them strang- /
3? Nothing but false concept en- b
tanned by Mr.. A., a concept which c
d no basis in fact, was not the out
ne of truth, but was simply false Is
ief, lie. Mr.. A. was deprived of O.
: BIS friendship and friendly as III
tance for no reason at all. The e'
Sc concept was the barrier. What NJ
S needed to restore u normal rela- u
nship was the truth in the con- Sc
BUSINESS of Mr.. A. u'
t not the lesson plainq What is it nc
false concept that is between m'
'ering humanity and God7 1t is po
! that and nothing more. How ne
~ have accepted the common su- Is
stition that God is distant, unap- TIL
achable, and difficult to uderstand, ef.
n while the Bible describes Him as TIC
cd "at hand" and not afar off, rel
has said, "I will put my laws into iol
+ mind, and write them in their eal
IT'S: and / will be to them God, WI
they shall be to me people" " lio'
stian Science dispels our false hlg
epts of God, does away with mys- AM
superstition, ignorance and fear, trl
enthrones in man the true CON ahe
lsness of God which shows Him ma
be all-good. all-powerful, ever ahe ~
liable, all-wise. to be the God who uo'
emily "healeth all thy diseases"
iey mental, physical, moral or of v
: nature. plai
ing acquainted with God, it is sin,
to remember, is simply a state sup
lind; in other words, true con- ual
sness. To know God man must evil
linking correctly about God, and wha
is Just what Christian Science trut
lping man TO do. tell
len the gentle man of Nazareth lies,
d the message. "Repent: for the geth
Iom of heaven is at hand" he falsi
4 the demand of Truth to those a m
ery age. laboring in the shadow sum
norance. superstition and fear. zero
II simply means to change your egg
Some men think this privilege, small
ally as it pertains to religion, is The
ed to the women, but it is not. us is
re your mind. change your to b
hts. put away false concepts of seem
for now. here, at hand. is TO be in 81
the harmonious state Of being, ial n
IT the point Of consciousness. for DI