Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1917-11-29
What IS truth?


truth shall make you free"
But, what is truth? Pontius PLATE
once asked this question but did not
wait for a 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
/ he still small voice" of the spirit
within and they are getting wisdom
and understanding. The Spirit of
Truth is the light that lighteth every
man that cometh into the world" 1t
| is Wisdom, the Father Mind within US.
and we get the benefit of it just so far
| as we recognize and draw upon it as
the source of wisdom. Jesus said, at
is eXpedient that | go away for if | go
OF away the Spirit will not come" The
disciples chung to the personal Jesus
instead of taking the Christ Spirit
the Christ Mind-which is the light.
he spiritual nature of all Gods chill
iren. The world up to that time had
fallen so far away in consciousness
from the Father that they were look
ing to the material world for wisdom,
health, substance, and even life itself.
The truths of spirit are so simple
that child can grasp them but the
worldly wise and prudent pass them
~. Grown people have a great deal
to unlearn-a great deal of rubbish to
lnload from the mental storehouse to
make room for the simple truths-the
truth of God-Being. There is only one
Presence and One Power in the uni
verse-the Almighty Good. This is
what is meant by Keep thine eye sin
gle"-see only good. There would be
. appearance of evil if man had not
fallen thru disobedience into a belief
n a power adverse to the good. No
vii of any kind has any reality in
Hpirit and in Truth and it vanishes like
mist before the rising sun when
strong light Of Truth is turned upon
it. The world has wallowed far too
long in the filthy pool of evil thought.
1t is time to wash in the river of Life
and get out into 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 no long
er 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 is our Life-all
the life there is-omnipresent life.
One cannot live minute without God
He is Being. God is, man exists lis
out Off. One of His names is | Am
and it makes a mighty difference to US
how we use this name; for "life and
death are in the power of the tongue"
Jesus said, II have many things to say
to you, but you cannot bear them now"
It has taken man many years to learn
the truth of much he said One of
the things that is about to be demon
strated is that eternal life is ours not
by way of the grave, but '"The law of
life in Christ Jesus has made US free
from the law of sin and death" Death
is the wages of sin, not the door to
heaven. The key to the door of heav-
en- is Love-not the scott selfish love
that separates itself in families or
groups of any kind; but the Love that
knows the brotherhood of man and the
Fatherhood of God. Mans ability to
prove the truth depends on his willing
ness to forgive sin. We forgive sin
in ourselves and in others by refusing
to see, hear or speak evil. The Christ
redemption is for the whole man-spir-
it, soul and body. By a conscious TAX
ing of Spirit Life and Substance the
mortal puts on immortality, the cor
ruptible puts on interruption. Paul
said, ''The whole creation groaneth and
travaileth in pain together waiting
| for the manifestation of the sons Of
God, to-wit, the redemption of the
body.
| The word personality means mask.
Shakespeare said, "All the worlds a
stage and all the men and women mere
| ly actors" Many people believe them
selves to be what they seem to be on
this worlds stage-prince and pauper,
athlete or invalid, hero or villain; but
it is time to let the Spirit of Truth
| shine thru the mask and reveal the
true nature. Every one has the pri-
vilege of claiming his Sonship as a
child of God. Your inheritance is then
perfection, not "sins of the fathers.
call no man on earth your father for
One is your Father which is in Heav-
en-" This is the Truth that makes
free and it is the only way that we
shall ever get freedom either as indi-
viduals or as a nation.
A wonderful time is coming with the
establishment of the kingdom on earth