The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1920-09-25


mans real business in life is to
know and to glorily God. The West.
minister Catechsm says. MANS
chief end is to glorify God and
to enjoy him forever" If you buy
an automobile you expect the ma
chine to carry its occupants, not to
undergo repairs. Repairs must be
made of course, il the machine does
not run. So likewise. when man is
sick or sinful, he must be healed
before he Is prepared to realize his
sonship with God. But the healing OF
sin and sickness is only the pre-
liminary step by which man comes
to see that his real duty, his ideal
is to understand God, and to live ac-
cording to His eternal laws. The
writer of Ecclesiastes summed the
matter up when he said, Fear God,
and KEEP his commandments; for this
is the whole duty of man. And
so mans regeneration has merely
commenced when he is healed OF
physical ills by Christian Science.
Dimly at first perhaps, but neverthe-
less surely, he begins to see
vision,-a vision of a God who is
Spirit, Life, Love, and man and the
universe spiritual and eternal. He
begins to see a perfect model of MAJ
hood based upon mans eternal son
ship with God. He notes how lamen.
tably inadequate were his former
habits and ideals, and he finds that
transformation of thought must
take place if he is ever to attain
this ideal. And so he begins to
undergo that change of thought
which is described in the Bible by
various terms: conversion, re
generation" renewing of the mind,
"born of the Spirit" reconciliation
with Cod He begins to measure
himself by the model of perfect
God and a perfect man and to grow
to that perfection of thought which
the Psalmist saw when he said, y
shall be satisfied when awake in
thy likeness"
But this process OF regeneration
requires work We do not jump from
matter to Spirit at a single bound
but when man begins to work on
the bases of the aIlness of Spirit
he is on the right road. AS he works
and prays, striving to be led of the
divine Mind which knows all things,
the path of spiritual light sooner or
later stretches out straight and clear
before HIM blessed is he who has
found his work. said Carlyle, "let
him ask no other blessedness." 81
must work the works of him that
sent me. while it is day" said Jesus;
'the night cometh, when no man
can work" And so, as the Christian
Scientist works according to spirit
ual law order takes the place OF
chaos; the ills of mortality are
overcome. perhaps one at time;
sorrow gives place to joy, sickness
to health, poverty to plenty. sin to
holiness, and the fear of death TO
the certainty of everlasting life.
THE VISION SUPERNAL
This vision of the Fatherhood Of
God and all men and women as sons
and daughters of God satisfies, as
nothing else can, the infinite aspira
tions OF man. The effect on the great
Bible characters of seeing the divine
nature of God was far-reaching and
profound. So great was the change
so fundamental its meaing, that even
their very names were changed. You
remember that when Abraham rose
in thought above the human belief
OF polytheism, many gods, and
grasped the sublime conception o.
monotheism. one God, his name was
changed to Abraham. Jacob saw this
eternal reality, and his name was
changed to Israel. Prior to this he
Mad been crafty Mar, praying on
the weakness and follies Of mis- fel-
low-men AT the present time he
would perhaps be called prof.
teer." Whenl however. he saw the
truth about God and man, he was so
transformed that he became
prince. who as the Scripture de
clares, had power with God and
with man" Moses saw it on Mount
Sinai and he was charged to do al
things after the pattern which was
showed thee on the mount Christ
Jesus, on the mountain Of transf'g-
uration. saw this transcendent vision
of the glory of God, and man His
perect expression, and we are told
that "his face did shine as the sun.
and his raiment was white as light