The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1918-04-10

, leSSlOn, ana ! dld not want 10 give u
The practice Of medicine But tn
more | read against IT. he more
became convinced of II truth ant
here ! am 1t does heal. and it doe.
save just as it did in Jesus time
We need to know something abou
God, however, in order to appropriat,
the healing, and throughout The
entire teaching Of Christian Scienc,
The necessity for spiritual under
standing in order than we may know
| Gods law is constantly insisted on
SPIRITUAL UNDERSTANDING
NECESSARY
A study OF the lives of the most
prominent characters in tho Bible
I reveals the fact thai their closeness
10 God was the result Of their deen
I and constant mediation of Him, and
hat o knowledge Of God has always
been essential TO the demonstration of
Ills power over material conditions
/ We are1 rome to think that Abraham
and Moses Elijah and Elisha John
( the Baptist and Jesus. were arbtra-
rily chosen of God TO fulfill a par
.ieular mission with no reference to
thoir acquired spiritual understand
ing. and that their ability to demon
}rate Gods power was a special gift
bestowed upon them for the OCCASION
u is true that they were chosen of
God for the work which they did, but
in exactly the same way that great
and good men In our own time have
been chosen of God through the con
scl0ueuess and mantle station Of those
Qualities which enabled them to do
that which needed to be done
on page ass of Science and Health
with Key to the Scriptures Mrs
Eddy has pointed out that the verb
believe MS used IN the Bible has the
guficance of understanding. and
She further explains that the Scrlu
lures often appear in our common
version 10 approve and endorse belief.
when they mean to enforce the noccs-
,ity of understanding
Throughout the entire teaching of
hegospols both Jesus aud his daci-
pies constantly assorted that saliva
tion was to come as result of be-
'icylng, as a result Of having faith i'm
COD Paul says, Without faith It is
mNos3ible to please him. for he that
cometh to God must believe that he
U.s. and that he Is a rewarder of them
.hat diligently seek him We are
constantly enjoined in the Scriptures
to believe and to have faith. but we
have accepted these words in the
sense OF their most shallow meaning
and have thought that all that Was
required of US was to tacity believe
md we should receive all that Chris-
tianity has TO offer
The Greek words for believe and /
lath are from the same Greek root. !
a word which means conviction Of I
truth. And to be convinced of truth |
means to know. to understand truth
Our dictionaries give thi5 deeper /
meaning as the one to be used in
religious sense, but our everyday use /
OF The word believe in the sense of /
Giving credence to, and OF the word |
faith in something of the sane sense |
as the word hope, tends to obscure !
he larger meaning of the words.
BLIND BELIEF INSUFFICIENT
In tho eleventh ehapte of the !
epistle to the Hebrews ne writer.
after defining faith as "laa evidence
Of things not seen gives an example
Of how the word is to he used when
he says Through faith we under
stand that the words were framed by
the word of God Now it would
be impossible for us to
perceive that the worlds we're fran
ed by The word Of God through
anything less than spiritual under
Standing,
In the third chapter Of Acts, Peter
in his sermon on tho healing of the
lame man, describes his method by
saying, And his fChrist Jesus)
1ame through faith in his name hath
made this man strong Here the
statement is made that healing came
lbout through faith, spiritual under
standing Of the name OF Jesus, the
Christ, and the word name as used in
he Scriptures had a deeper signifl-
cance than it has in our modern
lines The idea Of a name in the
Hebrew language and the Hebrew
mind was not merely that of a sound
By which an object might be desig
mated, but that Of a significant term
which should really indicate its quail
ty or nature: so that Peters state
nent meant that the manifestation of
Jesus nature, the Christ, or Gods
perfect man which he had revealed
% them, and which they understood.
lad made this man whole The
Master saidl in his prayer to his
Father. Il have manifested thy name
into the men which thou gayost me
)ut of the world and what did the
Master do but to manifest Gods
nature to the men that God had given
lim out Of the world? Again and
again it is pointed out in the New
restment that faith in his name that
is. understanding of his nature, is
what heals and saves in every
Instance
Christian Science is giving us this
enlarged understanding of the nature
lf God, which is essentinal if we are
10 appropriate in greater and great
ar measure the infinite blessings
which infinite Love has in store for
rs.
The Bible speaks of God as Spirit
ls Life, as Truth, and as Love. Il
lllo speaks Of Him as the creator
that from which all proceeds. This
thought is expressed in Christian
Science by the use of the word prin-
,iplo for God since Principle is that
from which all proceeds and by which
II exists
Mrs Eddy has also given US the
term Father Mother, by which there
Is brought to consciousness the com
pleteness of the creator the mother
hood as we'll as the fatherhood Of