The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-11-22

Countless other ways, In the BOOK
# Kings We read how. through his
understanding Of Gods omnipotent
.aw, Elisha caused the aX-head to
Loaf i'm the water. how he restored
o life the Son Of. the Shunamite
how he multiplied one small
,ot Of oil so that all the vessels at
land were filled To running over;
low one hundred men were fed on
.venty barley loaves with much left
and to spare. Then in the Book
Daniel We sec how this Law Of
iod delivered Daniel from the hunger
IF the lions and how the three He
,rew young men. Shadrach, Meshach
md Abed-nego, demonstrated the abil-
ty of Gods Law to save them from
The furnace Of fire and to deliver
hem therefrom without so much as
he smell of smoke remaining to bear
all history are we con-
with the unmistakable evil
lence of the forever existence of this
Law of God which is always at hand,
always available and applicable TO our
every need If we will but understnd
and apply it. In the first Psalm we
have this most %reassuring promise:
blessed is the man that walk
eth not in the counsel of the I'M
godly, nor standeth in the way
OF sinners, nor stitch in the seat
Of the s%cornful. But his delight
H., Il, tLn latp Of tho Lord and in
his law doth he mediate day
and night. And he shall be like
a tree planted by the rivers of
water that bringeth forth his
fruit in his season; his leaf also
that shall not wither; and what
soever he doeth shall prosper"
The Bible is full of just such prom
Uses, my friends, and, what is more,
il is full of accounts, for our instruc-
ton and guidance, Of the wonderful
works accomplished by those who
have learned and understood and put
into practice this Law of God.
Life and Works of Jesus
Coming down to Jesus time we
find in the life and teachings of the
humble Nazarene the most complete
explanation and exposition of this
Law of God ever given to mankind.
In his turning the water into wine
at the wedding feast, his first public
demonstration Of the power of Gods
Law, he at once proved that all true
law is spiritual, or mental and what
we term matter is, Of itself, not a
lawmaker; that all the so-called
OF matter may be annulled and
set aside completely by an intelligent
application of Gods Law. In his
healing of the son of the nobleman
at Capernaum when he was a n
distance from the sick man, and in
his instantaneous transportation OF
the ship across the sea Of Galilee
Jesus not only proved the omnipc-
tenee Of Gods Law owe material
manifestations but he proved, at the
same time that even material exist
ence, as such. is but the product or
a mistaken mental concept, and that
time ana place and space are but
phases Of this mental miasma or
dream-drama. When he walked the
waves he completely overcame one
of the most unvarying material laws
Of which we have any knowledge.
In this instance Jesus proved that
true substance is not materially COM
posed and that there is but n r
attraction, the attraction of God, or
Gods Law. When he fed the thous-
ands in the wilderness with a Few
loaves and fishes Jesus repeated and
emphasized what Moses and Elisha
had accomplished centuries before. In
each of these instances it is proven
that not only is mans supply inf
mite and ever available but that the
multiplication enjoined upon man by
God, in tho first chapter of Genesis,
is a process dependent wholly upon
submission to the Law Of God and
not upon any human concept Of pro-
pagation and increase. And what did
the many, many instances Of healing
of the sick, the MANNED, the halt
and the blind, by Jesus, accomplish
for us? These thousands of instances
of healing, most of them %instantan-
eous, show us that there is a Law
OF God which, when applied, can
heal all our ills, be they what they
may: that God is not the author OF
sickness and that matter has no
authority MOI power in itself TO Gre
ate. to heal or to alleviate sickness
and disease. When he raised from
the bier the son Of the widow of
Main, when he called forth Lazarus
from the tomb and when he accom-
plished his own resurrection he prov
cd not only the power of Gods Law
to overcome what we have thought
to be "a most relentless law of mater
ial existence, but he proved, in addi-
ton, that through the experience OF
death we are not ushered into the
glories OF n heavenly existence. Jesus
final exit from the flesh, in his ascen-
sion shows conclusively that the only
roadway to heaven lies in the over
coming, through the application of
Gods Law, of all material conditions
of existence, V to that of death
which we have been so enormously
taught is a stepping stone to heaven.
II there are two things which stand
out above everything else in the
teachings and works of Jesus they
are, first, that death is an enemy
which must be overcome through the
correct understanding and applica-
ton Of Gods Law and, second, that
heaven is not u locality off some
where in the blue empyrean but that
heaven is. rather, a divine state of
consciousness which may and must
be be obtained here and now through
mental regeneration. Jesus said, The
kingdom of heaven is ut hand not
afar off. did he not? And YOU will
recall that on one occasion h. was
asked relative to the whereabouts OF