The daily Alaska citizen., 1919-08-08
By CHARLES l. Oi4RE,NSTEIN, C. s. B.


 cess? Let me say that in thousands of instances this has been demon
 -trated, and examples are not far 10 seek The ncighbOrS, friends, Tcla- |tiyeS of many of you here can tell
 you their experiences, and l am sure you will find them COrrObOrative of
 this. Neither should these expert cnCes seem so strange after it has been indicated, as it has, what God is and what mans relationship to God is and l am sure it does not seem Su strange as it did that God should comfort the soTrowing, make the weak strong, heal the sick, yes, raise the dying and the dead. But perhaps it can be made still plainer.
 HONESTY THE CHIEF REQUISITE You have all been taught to be truthful and honest, l am sure. If the temptation came to any of you
 to tell an untruth, or to take some thing that does not belong to you. this education. not something inher rcnt in your brain or anywhere in your body, would recall to you that you must not do so. 1 remember that as a very little boy, whenever . l touched anything not mine at table, my mother very quietly said, "IIeis!" meaning that taking things not mine would burn me. Throughout all the l years that have gone by, when about l to touch things not mine without per
 mission. l have heard that word. Is 1 it in my brain? No; il is in my education. We are the children, not of flesh and blood, but of our educa- 1 ton: much of it. the most important |part of il, not obtained in the schools, land it is our education that we con Istantly express, live out.
 i Now, suppose that We not only | learn the letter. but become imbued l with the spirit of what has been said, land so learn the truth that the kind l of God that has been indicated here, ] is the only God there is; that only inc is man, male and female. who is Hike this God. the reflection or image land likeness of Godt suppose, when i've have done this even in the small 1 lest degree, we always ask of this livery primary education, What belongs Ito us, any one of us, as the image land liknesS of God? Could we not l thus get correct answers? What, for Instance, belongs to the reflection of | power, infinite power? Do power | Iessncss, inability, incapacity? What | belongs to the reflection of Mind? | Do lack of purpose, lack of will, and Ignorance of what we need to know? l What belongs to the reflection of divine Spirit, infinite Truth, Love, | Life? Do sensualsm, untruthful- 1 ness fear, distruSt, aversion, hate, sickness, death? Would not the truth about what man is and what man has be just the opposite of all such claims, and did not Jesus say, 'Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free?
 Suppose that the likeness in a look ing glass of any of us here was claimed to be unlike Us, to lack some thing we possess, or to possess some thing foreign to Us, would we admit the claim? If We did would we be truthful or honest? Would we not be claiming for it something that it did not possess, claiming distortion rather than a reflection, a fraud and an imposition as our likeness? Can your image and likeness in the glass have something or take something that you do not have or take? Can man, then, the image and likeness of God, be different from God? Can he be unprepared for anything, unsafe,
 
 cold, sickness of any kind, and die? Not unless God is and does these things. How truthful, how honest is one then who claims to be man, meaning man or woman, the image and likeness of God, and also claims
 to be- to do and to have everything contrary to God? Is he then declar- ing the truth which alone makes free; is he Obeying the commands Thou shalt not bear false witness" and Judge not according to the appear ance, but judge righteous judgment ?" We all need assurance. All will Iagree that if God is the Principle, the basic reality of all, claims contrary to Him are not true. Yet these claims, the education of generations upon generations, crowd upon us, clamOr for admission at every turn, upon every hand. They assure us at every impact, every contact, that there is danger; danger that we can not, that nothing can ward off; that cold, heat, dry, wet, everything we breathe, drink, eat, touch, smell, feel, everything we undertake to do, is fraught with danger, danger that we
 have not sufficient intelligence or power to cope with; that all these things have power over us, not we the power over them which God gave us and constantly gives us. We have plenty of assurance, our whole educa- ton is the assurance of struggle, of strife, of ultimate defeat, disaster, death.
 How like "the gentle rain from heaven" dropping upon the dry earth beneath, comes the opposite assur
 ance that "now are we the sons of God" even though this "doth not yet appear" that as such we are the re flections of God; that because of this we now have just what God has, all that is good and nothing else; that now is all this available to us through
 being truthful. honest, through not bearing false witness, not claiming and not taking what does not belong | to us as the sons and daughters of lG God, so heirs of God with Christ; by not entertaining, not appropriating in | thought, not expressing in word or ldeed aught contrary to this new, this higher education.
 THOUGHT PROCESSES If God is the allenabling power and God is Mind, the operation of this power must primarily be by way of ideas, thoughts. Who can straighten out his finger or bend it without thought dctating the action? Who can bend it when thought dictates to
 hold it straight? Try it, Will the