East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1921-10-04


Jewish church. men communed with I.
God as familiariy as man now con- b
verses with man. AS time went on F,
tine mist OF disobcdieuce and self +.
RIGHTEOUSNESS rose and the jewish d,
church became part ~ the eroauinS
creation. Iu t.me began the dawnlns
Of new era. Iu the days of Jesus
.and the apostles, while The Christian /
church was being realized, the pre- .
.seuce of God was q reality to men, +
land peace and power were ever pre-
sent and We're manifested i'm destroy +
ing sickness and sin, Again there
went mp a mist from the earth,-the {
mist of human domination and mater I
'iaiity, and then the Christian church
Joined its groanings with those Of its
predecessor.
Again we say, the fundamental
panacea for unrest is to know God.
Ana now after fifteen hundred years
of theological mist, darkening the
human mind, comes Christian Sci
enco to this age, teaching men how
TO know God, by d.spelling and des-
ltroying the veil of evil beliefs which
obscure Him.
GOD.
Christian Science is the realm of
definite knowledge. Ecclesiastical
theology is the realm Of indefinite be-
lief. Now as we have Indicated, both
i'm the Jewish and Christian churches,
Theology gradually came to teach that
God is a mysterious Person, remaining
.unrevealed to Il large extent, and in
capable of being known clearly by
men until after death. The Bible
passage which says; Clouds indeed
and darkness are round about Him.
was taken to mean that God wraps
Himself in an impenetrable cloak. All
these texts in the Bible which seem
to Indicate that God cannot be clearly
known and that He is shrouded in
clouds and darkness, deserve special
> attention; for in a sense they all are
true, by which it is meant that GoG
, is indeed behind a Veil but that cur
, tain of cloud and darkness is not made
:. Iby God. rather Is it the result of NOR
, tal-mind ignorance and sinful thought
! In other words, the mist that seems
to sparate man from God rises from
+ the earth. 1t is not a curtain let down
q from heaven.
a Now to the sick and sinful and
troubled. brooding over the the
9 thought of an unknowable God
g Christian Science comes and says
I'Your sores and sictnesses and sins ant
p broken hearts may be healed here ant
, now The veil which seems to shu
= one from God may be destroyed
y through the aid of healing, coming di
o rectly through Christian Science treat
h mont or through the reading of III
textbook, Science and Health witt
q Key to the Scriptures" The onl!
+ Comforter in the universe is God, ant
Il Jesus Christ said This is life eterna
n that they might Know Thee the onl,
= true God, and Jesus Christ whom
@ Thou has sent"
= The puzzle to the human mind ha
q always been this: Since God is in
h finitely great and man seems so small
q how can man expect the Omnpoten
# one to take note of him? The psalm
II ist voiced this when he exclaimed
;t "When [ consider the moon an,
y tho stars, which thou hast ordained
It what Is man that thou art mindful o
y; him."
+. For his comfort and encouragement
Y man needs something concrete, indi
d vidual He needs something which n
n is capable Of understanding, and thi
rs concreteness we find in the teaching o
~ Christian Science. Mary Baker Edd
d in using the abstract noun, good. il
o opposition with the word God, has he
80 queathed to mankind an illuminatm
- thought. by it she enables ustto max
70 active and real religious expression
" which had been to large extent
r. dead letter for practically fifteen hun
=" dred years, namely, ito love God Tn
Il pulpit has preached that to love Co
lr Is absolutely necessary to salNatio
is and the pow has silently answered
40 "lIow can ! love God unless | kno,
IF Him? | can love a friend because
le know him: this is concrete eNporlcnc
ri and | can understand It, but to Low
IF God without knowing Him appears t
IN euce individuallzes God, good. s
Of James says. every good gift an
IN every perfect gift is from above, an
il cometh down from the Father {
O, lights All absolutely good motive
VI aspirations, thoughts; all kind, gentl,
m loving words and deeds come frul
g. God, There is nothing in the whol
1 La NtsI oh 10,
in saving or compassionate hut come
I'd from God and centers in God. Any
ld these qualities manifested i'm men an
of women are positive proofs of the pre-,
ce ence Of God. Therefore, we repea
of that when Mrs Eddy employs II
1d word good IN opposition with the wor
cy God, she causes MS to see at once no
It's simple and practical it is to rccogni,
and to know God; and therefore
ne lovo Him. TO love the manitestatiC
he of anything which is true, honest, jus
pure lovely and of good report, is
love God. Hence, in the wilderness
70. darkness and fear wherein one fee
m. that he is without God In the worl
his comes the voice of Christian Scienc
NJ and through its treatment, its service
he or the reading Of its authorized liter
nut ture, one is assured of the wondert
ne fact that he can know God here an
tn now with as much certainty as he c,
he know the truth of mathematics, al
it. knowing HIM, can love Him.
ost EVIL NEVER BENEFlCENT
)le Tho only chance that evil ever h
o. to succeed is by Stimulating good. L
he der this pretense Of good for ma
of kind old theology and matoria medi
,r- have been busy for ages, in mallil
p- pictures. the main feature Of whi
he has been the claim that good can