Arizona republican., 1919-06-16

(Witten for the Christian Science
 Monitor)
 There are few words in the English language around which are woven so many associations as the word hope" Yet the majority of people may be quite unable to say why this should be. One has only to turn, however to the con- temptation of the beliefs of the human mind, it's sorrows, fears, and suffering, to get at the reason. Human beings are ever ready to clutch at any word, at any idea which they think will bring them release from the burdens they seem to bear.
 The value of hope has been sung and appraised throughout all genera tions by poet and by prophet. The Bible abounds in references to it: and especially is this to be noted in the pages of the New Testament. Paurs words show this when he speaks to the church at Rome: For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope" And to the same church he breathes the bene- diction, that the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost" The Apostle, obviously, had before him the truth about God as recorded in the Scriptures, the truth which he was aware was not only able to light the torch of hope but to keep it steadily burning.
 Now if mankind were asked what they most hoped for, what would be the reply? Every man who has ever lived has felt the strain and the pathos of human existence. Every man who has ever lived has felt that there was something utterly wrong with the gen. erally accepted theories and practices of human beings. And feeling thus, not one of them but has desired that some day the engima would be solved, so that the blight would be lifted and the darkness removed from the face of all the earth. Has not, however 1 hope been in the midst of men all the 1 time sometimes no doubt, flickering dimly and low. but always there? As on seXample of this. one has only to remember the dark days of 1915, when i the brave armies of Europe withstood without flinching terrible foe. It was hope that inspired every heart, hope based on Principle no matter how i'm | The understanding of Principle mani festing itself in a regard for that whicf was humane and honest and honorable in the world kept the torch of hope aflame, even among the storms anC the shell-bursts, inspiring the courage and the fortitude which ultimated ir one of the greatest victories the human race has ever witnessed of Principl, over human will and material sensu ousness.
 If the world had known more abou Principle than it did there might hay been a far speedier ending to the war But il was learning the lessons O Principle throughout all it's long drawnout agony, as it is continuini to learn these lessons while it dis cusses human rights and embodie them in it's written findings in human covenants today The world has a ia greater understanding of Principle nov than ever it has had before, becaus of the revelation of Christian Science Christ Jesus put the clock of human progress forward centuries by Hi teaching; Christian Science has don the same. Because of the failure O the world, however, to admit the Prin ciple of this progress there came tn inevitable clash between Truth an, error.
 The discoverer and founder of Chris tian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, show clearly the relation of spiritual un derstanding to hope when she write on page 446 of Science and Health
 ITO understand God strengthens hope