The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1917-05-12

Father, and your Father; and to my
God. and your God" Now IL Jesus
were God. as so many believe. and
there is one God, how could God have
brethren? Inasmuch as he recog-
nized himself to be. not God. but the
Son OF God. he could have. brethren
and could truthfully say, go to my
brethren. and say unto them, as
cend unto my Father. and your Faith
err; and to my God. and your God
When Jesus was before the tomb of
Lazarus, It is recorded that he lifted
up his eyes, and said, Father, I thank
thee that thou hast heard me. And
I knew that thou nearest me al
ways" There we have record
where he prayed to God, even as you
or I may pray to the same God, and
surely 1t cannot be said he was pray
ing to himself on that occasion. Pre-
viously he had said to the woman Of
Samaria at the well, God is Spirit"
When, therefore. the disciples gath
cred around to examine the spear
wound and the nail prints, he took
occasion to remind them that Spirit
hath not flesh and bones, as We see
me have" From that the disciples
at least knew that the human form
of Jesus was not God. Indeed, to
worship any fleshly form would be
in conflict with the second command
ment of the Decalogue, which for
bids the worship of any craven i'm
age. Jesus recognized, moreover,
that the power he employed was not
of HIMSELF for he said II can of
mine own self do nothing:
because I seek not mine own will,
but the will of the Father which
hath sent me-" Again he said, re-
ferring to himself, THE Son can do
nothing OF himself, but what he seeth
the Father do"
Gods Healing Nature.
In the face of so much popular
misconception about what God really
Is. Jesus endeavored to portray a
right apprehension of God by making
the people familiar with the effect
divine power has on humanity. By
their familiarity with the divine eff
feet they might thereby learn to
know the real nature OF the divine
cause, inasmuch as cause and effect
popular belief prevailed then as now
that God sends sickness to discipline
mortals and thus to bring them to
God. But when Jesus portrayed the
nature of God as He actually is. Il
had the effect of healing the sick In
every case and thereby proved, in a
manner that admitted Of no doubt or
controversy, that sickness Is no part
of Gods nature. Another popular
belief adhered to then as now was
that God knows. or at least permits.
sin. That too was disposed of by
showing the effect divine power had
in cleansing sinners even as light al
ways dispels darkness. Moreover,
people believed then as now that God
takes away our loved ones for some
inscrutable purpose; and this belief
has unquestionably thrust more peo-
pie into infidelity and agnosticism
than have ever been rescued there
from. But when Jesus declared the
truth about God as He actually Is,
1t destroyed death and the grave. and
thereby proved the nature of God to
be Life, He said: II am come that
they might have life. and that they
might have 1t more abundantly;'
also This is life eternal, that they.
might know thee. the only true God.
and Jesus Christ. whom thou hast
sent"
People could see the physical
NioubhN W "N'NS 'NN''''S
enough, but the natural question to
follow Is this,-Could II be taught to
others? 1t Is said that no one really
understands a thing for himself until
he can teach it to another, That
, Jesus made disciples. who could re-
peat his healing ministry was tho
proof that the healing power could
be taught to others, and that he UNI
derstood it. Indeed the early Chris
tians proved the same thing by con-
tinuing those works of healing for
800 years after the time of Jesus,
Even so the Christian Scientist is to-
day perpetuating that healing minis
try just TO the degree that he gains
correct understanding "of Him
whom to know Alright is Life eternal
CScience and Health, Pref, p. VIII
an understanding of the God and
Father to whom Jesus prayed.