The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1920-06-28

either to succeed or fail, be saved OF
lost. This false teaching has a sub
tie hold on many people today, caus-
ing them to think of God as finite,
limited person. Instead of being "all
in ALL" according to the Scriptures 7
deism says He is only part OF all
Such people, when they pray to Cod
think of Him as being at great DIS
lance, so that their petition must be
sent over a vast stretch OF desert pc
fore it reaches Him. Christian
Science teaches with logical and splr-
itual exactness that with God are no
vacancies, no absences. MIS-. Eooy
gave God a new name which SO APP
peals to human reason that 1t destroys
The sense of aloofness and coldnesS
inculcated by deism. She defined COD
as devine Principle. He who begins
20 see and to know God as Principle
can no longer view Him as limited
person dwelling somewhere. To 40
SO would be like declaring that the
activity of the multiplication table is
confined to the United States-that t
is imperative in all other countries
EXCEPT when very earnest petition
on the part of some one persuades 1t
to act temporarily elsewhere. In the
realm of human knowledge, the NUT
ual attraction of the planets, the
law of gravitation, the harmony OF
music, and the rule of addition ana
subscraction are absolutely contlnu-
Gus and applicable everywhere all the
time. and so constitute a principle Tor
human activity. Divine Principle is
not onlv continuous and unerrlng, but
it is also loving, guiding, protecting
healing Father Mother God.
JESUS
1t is we'll at this time to rehect
somewhat on the meaning OF inc
words Christ Jesus. The teaching OF
Christian Science is clear as opposed
to that confused thought held by
MANY people concerning him known
as Christ Jesus. Christian Scientists
learn to speak and love to speak yer!
GENTLY and CONSIDERABLY on religious
matters. They earnestly seek to avol'
that wounding of others senslbilltle
{ which has been so RTE IN the pas:
One of the results of che old theologl
r cal systems was to lead men to the De
, lief that Christ Jesus was 200
/ Jesus himself explicitly denied that NJ
~ was God in the words: "Why Gales
thou me good? there is none good bu
] one. that is, God" Mrs. Eddy say
: on page 1872 of Science and heat
= with Key to the Scriptures: Jesu
, was the son of virgin. He was ar
t pointed to speak Gods word ana
V anuear to mortals in such a form
1 humanity as they could understand
: we'll as bercieve." Jesus was not Go'
e This is proved by the fact that ne We
: tempted and suffered. II ma,
f what. then, the difference peswIe
him and US? 1t may be answered .h We
: he was able not to trangress 1ou
n law at any ~oint; we are able, at VI
O nresent stage of our growth not
O transpress at some points. Goa Is ]u
o as near to us as he was to Jesus, W
: Jesus was spiritually awake and khe
re Cod was at hand: we are asleep d
l. knowsit not. This is the dlllelei'
n between the man Jesus and ourseiVe
" q difference which through the lea
$. inr of Christian Science should gro
D less and less. ,u, -. 3,
Y. Jesus m.5SIoA W. - ~ ''tt.
e teaching and example how 70 aIt az,
W to the fullness of truth. 10 acco u
:, nlish this he came to men Oh :.
e. p Name on which they liVed VI
S. thought. and spoke to them IN d ID.
G. onare which they understood !
of waw of illustration, we know that !.
,e 'SaSohon;c. in utilizing electric currei
J. meetings is compelled to reduce
ne ~ correspond with receiving cap
n ci+v In like manner, truth i"
IS taToht bv Jesus, who said: i ma
a Wet MANY things to say unto YOU D
it We cannot bear them nov. u T,,,t
g. Jesus the activity of Chtlst' ll o,.
he appcared to men in gracious W.T. va,
u and loving, healing works 30 COZ 10.
is plete did this realization Oh CIV Givi
mower become that Jesus the onr'
boldlv declared: "He that hath Sc
TO- no hath seen the Father" Wh
of Insns had demonstrated over the tel
cd noraI nt every point, all mater
is needs and suffering dropped aw .
it. from him forever. ms comps
20 victory over matter and so-caiied II
an tcrial laws is known in Christian p'
m lance as the ascension. HIS asc'
as sion was not an isolated eXperlel
pr in his career, but a process whlch
nd gan with his birth at be Scum !,
nd and reached perfection on that q
re- when the disciples saw him van
IAN from mortal sight. Jesus was
an older brother, marking the way
ON iourncyed toward and attained TO
nv GOAL Of freedom from matter; so n
the we do the same
us THT CHRIST
,ep Josus became the mode for US
ac- because he was always actuated
yho gnidd bv Christ Truth. The suppt
1ho tious distance which delsm puts
md tween God and man is filled and e
To has boen filed by the unceaslng a.
, is vitv Of Christ, Truth. Mrs. E'
l saws on page $50 of Science
old, Health with Key to tie Scripture
and "Christ is the true idea volcing ro
cal the divine message from God to n
no sneakng to the human conscio
Y is ness" The active love Of the eter
cd? Father is over all His works.
Iese This love is the Christ. Christ Is
nee a competitor of God, but an ema
cs," lion from God and an impaired
cor from God Every manifestation
ind, rood in human peace, joy, health,