Arizona republican., 1920-06-15
"CALMNESS"
Written for The Christian Science

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 Tn the hurly- burly of living one philosophy after another, one system Of ethics succeeding another. and learned men in countless numbers have sought after solace and caimness in human affairs. They have given va- rious names to what they were seek ing. Their aim was to discover that which would be for them fountain head of peace. which would be avail able to them in whatever stress they met with, and would afford restful- ness. Modern books of ethics" give successive steps which an individual should take in any given situation in order to arrive at the highest good" and obtain calmness and quiet con- fidence As misfortune seems to over whelm persons and nations in the form of disease and disaster. they seek to find something beyond the utter in adequacy of ordinary human devices to which to turn for comfort. It is then that systems multiply and complicated recipes for obtaining release from trou- bles accumulate. But all the while there is close at hand an unfaiing Giver of peace, what Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Chris tian Science has termed the Source of Calmness." on page 366 of 'sScicnce and Health with Key to the Scrip tures" The Leader of this new old movement says: The sick are terrified i by their sick beliefs. and sinners should be affrighted by their sinful 1 beliefs; but the Christian Scientist will be calm in the presence of both sin and disease, knowing. as he does, that Life is God. and God is All" The mar ginal heading of the paragraph con- taining the extract is titled Source | of Calmness."
 i Could anything be simpler? God ! is All" There is the open secret for mankind of peace and joy. Emancipa- ton from sorrow, discord and the com plete round of mortality is in the com prehension of these three words. For,
 because God is All. where is there room
 for anything more than Him? And God. being All, all there is. is infinite,
 because if there could possibly be any
 place where divinity is not found He
 would not then be unlimited. He
 would be finite, and there would be
 some existence besides God, having
 entity and presence And because
 Deity is infinite, that is, without end
 He is indestructible. contains no ele- ment of destruction. and so does not
 know aught that can destroy. God
 exists and is all there is. Christian
 Science proves that fact, from which emanates the knowledge of the end
 Iessness of good. so comforting to men Thus God is the source, the one
 cause, and God is good. All the false
 concepts about the divine One that
 do not conform to this truth must
 simply be placed in the discard. in the oblivion in which they have in reality
 always been. The beliefs then that
 God knows evil, or is the source o1 wrong must simply be abandoned And as the false beliefs about God
 who is divine Principle. are given up the misconceptions concerning His universe all that He has created. al:
 that really exists, will vanish also F'aultless cause can produce only fault l less effect. for the product necessarily coincides with what produces it.
 Thus. in Christian Science there i: metaphysically but one course to fol ? loW-adhcrence to Principle. Thi
 Science has it's textbook and it's guide , for accomplishing this obedience tc intelligence: "Science and Health witt
 Key 10 the Scriptures" and other writ