The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1918-11-23

| to DelleYe ana nave ldllh, put NO
have generally accepted these words
In their most shallow meaning ana
have thought that all that was re-
quired Of us was tacitly to believe
and we should receive all that Chris
tianity had to offer
The creek words for believe and
faith are from the same Greek root,
word which means conviction Oh
truth" To be convinced OF truth
means to know, to understand truth.
Our dictionaries give this deeper
religious sense. but our everyday use
/ meaning as the one to be used M
| Of the word believe in the sense OF
religious sense, but our everyday use
/ giving eredence to, and OF the word
faith in something Of the same sense
as the word hope, tends to obscure
the larger meaning of the words.
Blind Belief insufficient.
In the eleventh chapter OF the
! epistle to the Hebrews, the writer,
/ after defining faith as "the evidence
of things not seen, gives an example
of how the word is to be used when
he says, Through faith we under
stand that the worlds were framed
by the word Of Cod Now it would
manifestly be impossible for us to
perceive that the worlds were
framed by the word of God" through
anything less than spiritual under
standing
In the third chapter of Acts, Peter,
in his sermon on the healing OF the
lame man, describes his method by
saving, "And his Christ jesus name
through faith in his name hath made
| this man strong" Here the statement
is made that healing came about
through faith, spiritual understanding
Of the name of Jesus, the Christ, nut
the word name as used in the Scrip
lures had a deeper significance that
| II has in our modern times. The
idea of name in the Hebrew lam
guage and the Hebrew mind was not
merely that of sound by whlch an
object might be designated but that
of significant term which should
really indicate its quality or nature.
This idea was so deeply imbedded
| in the thought of the people of that
! time, that throughout the Old Testa-
ment the names Of various Bible char
acters were changed when their ma
tures changed. Abram to Abraham,
Jacob to Israel and later Saul to
Paul are instances of this kind.
The Master said in his prayer to
his Father. Il have manifested thy
name unto the men which thou CAV
est me out of the world and what
did the Master do but to manifest
Gods nature to the men that God
had given him out Of the world?'
So then, Peters statement And
his name through faith in his name
hath made this man strong, meant
| that the manifestation Of Jesus ma
ture. the Christ or Gods perfect
man. which he had revealed to them,
and which they understood, had made
this man whole,
Again and again it is pointed out
in the New Testament that faith in
his name that is, understanding Of
his nature, is what heals and saves
in every instance.
The Bible speaks Of God as Spirit,
as Life as Truth, and as Love, and
these words are used not merely to
find other terms by which we might
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in the Bible are used, because they
express His nature, and hence en-
large our understanding of what God
is. The Bible also speaks of Him as
the creator.--that from which all pro-
ceeds
Mrs Eddy following out this same
thought of using terms which ex-
press the nature OF God, in order to
enlarge our understanding of Him,
uses the word Principle to express the
thought of creator, since Principle is
that from which all proceeds and by
which all exists
Mrs Eddy has also GWEN us the
! term Father-Mother by which there
is brought TO consciousness the COM
pleteness of the creator, the mother
hood as well as the fatherhood of
God and also a larger thought of God
as Love When we think of God as
Father, our thought Of Him is apt to
be limited by our earthly sense OF
fatherhood, which, no matter how
complete is still lacking in the full
ness of those qualities of love and
tenderness which the mother thought
expresses.
No matter by what term we may
think of God, a logical deduction as
to the nature of man and the uni
verse will always bring us to the
same point,-that of the eternal per
fection of all a., God has made
Following this JLt thinker must of
necessity recognize the unreality OF
sickness. and all that is contrary to
His divine nature.
God Is Mind
Let us consider the fact that God
is Mind the only Mind. for to the de
gree that we recognize this great
truth shall we be able to get rid OF
sickness and sin.
Perhaps not all have been in the
habit of thinking of God as Mind al
though most anyone admits that God
is wisdom The word wisdom has
generally been defined to mean de
gree of knowledge so that infinite
wisdom-w wisdom without degree
and infinite Mind are the same.
We may illustrate the divine MinC
by using the ordinary conception of 4
human mind as an example, for al
though the human mind is not real
in certain finite ways it counterfeit.
the divine Mind
You say your friend has fin,
mind. You say you know this be