St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1917-10-17

iSeaSlly appE0achaDles Is interested II
doing good charitable, kind, and
glad to help others. What has kept
tine men apart? What has made
/ then, strangers? Nothing but a false
concept entertained by Mr.. A.. con-
j cept which had no basis in fact, was
not the outcome of truth. but was
! simply false belief, lie. Mr.. A.
was deprived Of Mr.. BIS friendship
and friendly assistance for no reason.
at all. The false concept was the bar
rier. What was needed to restore
normal relationship was the truth in
the consciousness of Mr.. A.
Is not the lesson plain? What is
it but false concept that is between
suffering humanity and God? It is
J just. that and nothing more. How
many have accepted the common sup
5 erstition that God is distant, unap-
; proachable. and difficult to under
!, stand even While the Bible describes
; Him a. God eat hand and not afar
s off, who has said, 81 will put my laws
: into their mind, and write them in
: their hearts: and / will be to them
s God, and. they shall be to me
S q people" Christian Science dispels
e our false concepts of God does
a away with mystery. superstition, ign
J, ORANGE and fear, and enthrones in man
y the true consciousness OF God which
: shows Him to be all-good, all power
ful, ever available, all-wise, to be the
God who presently "healeth all thy
diseases" be they mental, physical
= moral or of other nature.
3 Being acquainted with God, it is
! well to remember, is simply state OF
~ mind; in other words, true conscious.
"a ness. To know God man must be
n thinking correctly about God, anf
- that is just what Christian Science il
# helping man to do.
, When the gentle man OF Nazaretl
,f voiced the message, Repent: for tn
:, kingdom of heaven is at hand.' h
80 voiced the demand Of Truth to thos
:, of every age, laboring in the shadoy
: of Ignorance, superstition and fear. Re
pent simply means to change you
=, mind. Some men think this privele
- lege, especially as 1t pertains to re
q legion, is confined to the women, Blu
it is not. Change your mind, chang
nc your thoughts, put away false cor
W cepts of God, for now, here at han
III is to be found tho harmonious stat
81 Of being. even at the point of cor
u sciousness for Jesus also said, 9Th
IL kingdom Of heaven is within you"
tn MENTAL TRANSPORTATION NE(
IN ESsARY.
ire With q correct understanding
nd divine Mind as the one intelligel
led cause and man as Minds etern
II Idea, whose real selfhood is goodnes
-be as the basis for right thinkin
Christian Science shows man how
make this truth practicable in h
daily problems. The method is tt
supplanting in consciousness Of tt
- temporal and mortal sense of life al
' sclfhood with the true and etern
80 facts of spiritual life and manhoo
Il is a mental transformation whit
-" gradually exchanges n material f
NJ the spiritual sense of being.
Mental transformation is recogni
u ed by society as the way of progre
~ and reform. All educational effort
ne but the supplanting of ignorance a
on, limited concepts of being with mo
- intelligent ONES. Tyranny and slave
pe have disappeared as rapidly as mai
thought has gained q clearer sense
.ii0 the rights of man. The whole pr
~ cess of mental change seems the n;
80 ura1 and right way to better thin
90 And so is not only in attaining bet
.h :, things in human society, but in tt
= far more important realm Of thong
~ - which deals with mans relate
s ship to God. Through the teak
ings of Christian Science the ia
and limited concepts of God a
~ man are giving way to that t.
: sense of being which liberates fir
80 the tyranny of sin and the slavery
-, diseased beliefs.
a. The greatest proclamation of e
= 80 ancipation ever uttered was given
a., Jesus when he said, .'Ye shall KIN
! - the truth, and the truth shall m;
III, you free We cannot know what
o,,t true while we believe what is ia
nth Two objects cannot occupy the sd
space at the same time. No more
on an erroneous concept of God and
orn- true idea of Him be in thought
enca gether.
tbe TRUTH CHANGES MANS VIEN
le to POINT
res
cling That consciousness must cha