The Cordova daily times., 1919-08-13

find it's best prepared, safest, most efficient character. Instantly, what name comes to the thought of all? Just one: the name of Him who was indeed armed and we'll prepared" armed with the sword that was the destruction of every ill, every hard ship, every wrong the sward of Truth that meant life, freedom, peace to every living thing, peace in all trials, all circumstances, peace that still passes mere human understanding; the name of one who upon sea and land, in turmoil, storm, stress, in con- tact with depravity, contagion, sick ness, calamity, death, demonstrated perfect safety and immunity; the name of one who assuaged all sor- rows, healed all diseases, dispelled all sins, fed multitudes, stilled the storms, raised the dying and the
  to his enemies-seeming failure was but the forerunner of the crowning achievement of al efficiency-the achievement of resurrection and as- tension, the demonstration for all time of immortality. Would not all in sacred reverence breathe just this one name, the name of Jesus of Nag areth, Jesus the Christ!
 What gave Jesus the Christ this supreme preparedness safety, efficien- cy? Was it mentality, spirituality or was it materiality, corporeality? Was it not his Christianity, and was not this Christianity his demonstrable knowledge or science, that is, Chris tian Science?- Either it was such knowledge or Science or it was it's opposite, ignorance, superstitution, illusive belief. Let those who will take this view.
 ''The preparedness, safety, effcien cy of Jesus were the result of demon strable knowledge, the Science of be- ing which constituted his Christianity This Christianity was no mere cere- monialism or belief. It was the science of living and of living more abundantly; the science of health, of peace, of blessedness; the science which he came to teach mankind. In a word, it was the understanding of God, the supreme power that is all good and always with us.
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 Must not we then in order to be Christians, to benefit by this Chris tianity, gain this understanding of God? Must not we ask who or what is this God of whom Jesus had such intimate, exact knowledge or science?
 Going to this master Jew, this master Christian, what do we learn God is? Something different from what was in the beginning? Not at all
 Tt should be remembered that Je- sGs did not write; he spoke He spoke to his own people, the common peO- pie who heard him gladly; and he spoke in their tongue. The only in stance preserved to us of what he said in that tongue is in the words which preceded his giving up the ghost" the mere semblance of life, which he said he could lay down and take up again, which he later proved. These words, all will remember, were 'Eloi, EIoi lama sabachthani?' which are translated My God, my God, why hast thou fOrsaken me?" The word Eloi, which Jesus used, is the Old Testiment Hebrew word for what in English is called God. It means strength, or power, meaning which is entirely devoid of anthrOpOmOrph- ism or cOrporeality. According to Je- sus, then, God was his power, the power upon which he always relied, with which he accomplished every thing Nor did he leave us in the dark