Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1917-11-22
GOD IS LOVE

"You shall know the truth and the
truth shall make you free" But
what is truth? Pontius Plate once
asked this question but did not wait
for reply. Many people in this day
are wiser than he because they recall
the promise of Jesus that he would
send the Spirit of Truth to lead US
into all truth. They are learning to
quiet the confusion of tongues of the
external world that they may hear
the "still small voice" of the Spirit
within and they are getting wisdom
and understanding. The Spirit of
Truth is ''that light that lighteth ev-
cry man that cometh into the world"
It is wisdom, the Father Mind within
US, and we get the benefit of it just
so far as we recognize it and draw
upon it as the Source of Wisdom.
Jesus said, at is expedient that | go
away for if | go not away, the Spirit
will not come" The world up to Jesus
time had fallen so far away in concious
ness from the Father that they were
looking almost wholly to the material
world for Wisdom, Health, Substance
and even Life itself. The deciples
chung to the personal Jesus instead of
taking the Christ-Jesus Spirit-the
Christ Mind-which is the Light the
spiritual nature of all Gods children.
This was the mission of Jesus the
Christ to take upon himself all the
limitations of fallen man to show how
to overcome them all, making a per-
feet at-one-ment with the Father. The
Christ redemption is for the whole man
spirit soul and body. AS personal be-
ings, John Jones or Mary Smith, we
can do nothing; but as children of God
we can do all things. Il can do all
things through Christ which strength
eneth me-" 1t is said that 'He that
hath the Son hath Life" and the same
may be said of Love, of Wisdom and
all the attributes of God.
The word personality means "a
mask" and this is the wisdom of Shake
speare, "All the worlds a stage and all
| the men and women simply actors.
Many people believe themselves to be
what they seem to be on this worlds
stage-prince and pauper, athlete or
invalid, hero or william; but it is time
we let the Spirit of Truth shine thru
the mask and reveal the true nature.
his Sonship as the Image and Likeness
Everyone has the privilege of claiming
of God-the Omnipresent, Omnicient.
Omnipotent Spirit of all God.
'God is no respecter of persons
masks; but He is only waiting for
His children to let Him express Him
self thru them in the fullness of Life,
Love, Wisdom, Strength, Substance,
Power and Peace or Harmony, for
these are His seven attributes. He
| expresses as some attribute thru all
things; but it is only thru man His
Image and Likeness that all His at
tributes are united in manifestation
No evil of any kind has any reality
in Spirit and Truth and it vanishes like
mist before the rising sun when a
strong light of Truth is turned upon il
The world has wallowed long enough
in the filthy pool of evil thought. II
is time to wash in the river of Life
and get out in the sunshine to live
in the light of Truth.
There is nothing mysterious about
this teaching Of the Spirit. 1t comes
to one as a sure knowing. We nc
longer think or believe on questions
that have been illuminated by the
Spirit We have reached a realm Of
absolute knowing and all the sages
of all the ages cannot argue away
from us the Truth that the Spirit has
revealed. He teaches US that God il
our Life-all the life there is-omni
present life. One cannot live minute
without God. He is Being. God is
man exists lis out of. One of Hi
names is | Am and it makes might!
difference to US how we use this name
for ''life and death are in the powe
of the tongue" Jesus said 81 hav,
many things to say to you but you
cannot bear them now" He lifted hi
disciples to as high plane as the!
were able to go and it has taken mel
MANY years to learn the truth of mucl
that he taught. One Of the thing
that is about to be demonstrated i
that eternal life is ours not by way o
the grave but "The law of life il
Christ Jesus has made me free from
the law of sin and death" Death i
the wages of sin, not the door t
heaven. The key to the door of heave
is Love-not the so-often selfish low
that separates itself in families o
groups of any kind; but the Love tina
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