South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-04-22

abandoned the idea that God inter-
feres in the affairs of men at the be-
hest Of this one or that one, or that
he interferes with His own laws.
causing the unnatural or super nat
ural 20 be happening I'm the affairs
of men, Christian Science shows
that Gods creation is already per
feet, complete, consequently the true
mission Of Scientific Christianity IS
to reveal this fact to us and then 10
show US how TO overcome I'm our own
lives and experiences everything ana
every thought that is unlike God and
His creation.
Christian Science is trying 70
teach man that for every human
need ne should look to God. TO the
spiritual and not 10 the material
There is nothing in all Gods crea-
ton 10 fear for God is all I'm all and
one can not fear God or good.
why is mans first thought.
'Wherewithal shall I be clothed and
housed and fed? p Has man so soon
forgotten that Jesus said. Seek we
first the kingdom Of God and his
Righteousness and all these other
things shall be added unto YOU" In
that connection Jesus had just been
talking about clothes and food.
Should il be thought a strange thing
that God does give good things 20
the children of His love? Jesus told
us in effect that much more than
our earthly father does the heaven
/ ly Father knows how 10 give good
gifts 20 them that ask hin. one may
( ask, if Jesus promise means that 10
| take up the study in earnest OF
I Christian Science would result in
health. happiness and prosperity
The answer is found in the lives OF
great host Of men and women the
world around who have sought the
kingdom Of God and His righteous
ness and whose business has pros
pered and whose lives are filled with
health. harmony. love and gladness.
IL is hut a notification Of what the
apostle said. Every good gift and
every perfect gift is from above and
cometh down from the Father or
lights with whom is no variable
ness. neither shadow of turning.
Jesus, The Way-ShOwcr.
Jesus. the man, came 20 earth to
he the Way-shower, or, as Paul says
the mediator between God and man.
He came 10 show men their power
10 overcome in this life. sin, disease
and death He possessed more or
the Christ, the divine Spirit, than
any other person who has ever lived,
and ne was therefore called Jesus,
the Christ. or Christ Jesus
The Christ can no more be con-
fined to an Individual than can God,
or divine Principle or Love, but
comes even as the spirit OF Love In
TO the lives of men as they rightly
seek Him and desire Him. 1t IS
true that Jesus said, / and my Faith
or are one. but this expression IS
not at all inconsistent with Jesus
other statements concerning himself.
He was one with the Father as eX-
planned in the Christian Science text
book. one in quality, not in guam
titv.' even as a drop of water is one
with the ocean. but il is not the
ocean. or a ray of light is one with
the sun. but it is not the sun. So is
every man and woman as an fdca
Of God one with the Father, else
how could PaIl have been correct
W-len he said, For in Him we live
and move and have our being when
Jesus said. Come unto me all ye
that labor and are heavy laden il
was not TO the human Jesus he was
asking us TO come, but 90 the Christ.
/ Truth. that redeems and saves. To
those Of us who have but touched
| the hem Of his garment have but
caught even faint glimpse of this
/ Christ that heals of sin, sickness
sorrow and death. has come the
fulfllment of Jesus promise, And
/ I viii give YOU rest