The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-11-30

The True God.
Since time and mortal man began,
men have tried fn know God mate
RALLY. to worship him materially. /
and tu attribute To Him All
material phcnomonaj yet Jesus, |
words are true '6od " spirit am
they that Worship Him must wor- !
ship Nm lu Spirit and In Truth |
Tho human mind has always turned |
To- mower outside itself In times |
Of stress. thereby acknowledging ~
own insutficicncy but its gods nave
bocn merely human concepts q |
have taken material form and
uaturc. Yct even .dplatets bo"lnH
down 90 images conceive them to DC
representatives ~ power NOT ma
trrlal The false gods ~ mortals
are lust false beliefs about Deity
they are tho cNtcrnalized Ideals Of
the human mind.
christian science teaches. as most
religious beliefs agree, ana az reason
confirms. that there must De a pr.
mary cause FOR an things that exist
and that this great first Cause II IN.
/ Creator, or God. Then plainly Goa
ia not an object. All objects are or
fccts. not cause. Therefore Coo
| can not properly be- worshlpped ~
IAN object. Tho infinite Creator
could not be creation, the Or"
/ Cause could not he a thing Henr'
I God could not be a form. hoWeve
/ large. For tho same reason God
| could not Boz person IN any limited
youso ~ form or outline. IT pop
.u'lr theology conc GIVE tod 10 Do y
pCfsun ln the sense of FORM or out
limo If ahaudOna the thought tha'
GOD ls omulprcseni, for u II impos
. slbIr TO conceive of n form as omui
nreront. Nevertheless God is infin-
TO Drrponcc and power cnualIv nN0
instantly everywhere, God can then
ho runeidarod as OcrRou lp tnr son
Of infinite Person only the one
Being on Cause. Cause In itS WIZ
cat sense is Principle. Mrs. EddF
diqecrucd that everything that really
ieNista has a. cause or Principle. Thl'
\ princfpl. pruduoos and controls IN"
object. this Principle give TO its OBJ
icrt both function ana Identity, II D.
tn be found always In the presence
~ It's object and Us inAoparable from
H. The wonder Of Christian Science
iq that ms one Rrasps tho fact thai
/, God ia divine principle. one loses
tho false bcliof that lie In an object
yet gains the sense ~ ms nehrness ...,,'
, Ills evcrprcsence. As II becomes
, clearer that God IL n God a. hand
ono can reach out and utilize Hi'
, novycr. Becauso He Ia Principle
, God becomes available for one
: needs. hcnce the ability OF Christian
= Scientists to demonstrate God.
% Divine Unity of God ana Man.
- Mrs. Eddys employment OF tn
10 word PRIV ciplc for Do.ty aroused IN
$ cvltable dissent from those who's
q though included only finite con
:, cept OF Principle as one OF numbe
~ of material. laws and forces. sec
n ondnr,. and derived, yet sh" ho.d
Il nroclained God 10 be Principle. Sh
! recognized Cause without erect I
d he impossible. and so she conclude
n that Goa without HIS creation. ma
n and tho un'vcrse, would be impos
x slhlr. Therefore a fully desctipuN
'r term for Deity must convey also IN
X Thought of Gods h5nitwork. Fr.n
lc ,Inlc. ms Il is used by Mrs. Eddy IN
p cludes both Cause and effect DOT
" God and man. ~
re- Very early In the chapter Reca
Is .,ItuIaiIon. in the Christian Scienc
n textbook. Science and Health Wit
Kcy to the scriptures page ass, Mr
Eddy has asked and answered
- question which fully expresses III
ia basis of true science, theology an
81 medicine. The question reads,
M there more than one Mind or PriI
cri ciplo >" The answer follows lhei
n. Is not Principle and its ldea ls on
. ana this ono Is God. omnipoten
30 "mniscicnt, omnipresent Being, ar
at Iris reflection Is man ana u
n uniyerse." IL God is omnlp'
n" tent. IL Ho possesses all poV
e. err lie must be that power itsei
n ,tbprUisc there would be "a sour'
H. outside Himself from which TO a.
"a. ,iye Ills power. Paul says: Ihe
or ts no power but OF COD tNol
so ,3ll II God is omnipresent; NJ
lie must he everywhere, Tor re
at ,ho infinite one. then re mus
a the eternal presence. w mere snMa
OF fles from Thy presence cried u
"A rs,I,rist ~ Cod is ownisctont,
no ue knows all, He must Himself,
al the inf It. Mind Jon aes,a,e
nd ttn N IN ono mind" tJoh 20 u
Vi. God Is thus the one Being or Pr
PSI ,lple who is the only power
81 only presence, and the only Nina
'f- Mrs. Eddy's exposition OF God
an he Principle brings TO the stuuv
n ne recognition OF God ana man
ne aepnrable, and the unltS OF Sou ~, ~
ms man becomes to him vivid reaH
rr- -,Jc reaii2es why Christ Jesus
his holaly inserted. 81 and my Fath
at src ono one as FRthe" and
mt ono as Cause and effect, one
ed, uind and idea. Failing TO compi
m mend Mrs. Eddy's use OF the We
lod principle, some critics might at u
10 ooint cry: "Ah. Mrs, EDDY ~
OF Pantheistl" Let us see! Panther,
Ing .lmply stated, Is the teaching I,
Tor ,;od Is auantitivsly His CREATION !,
OF God and creation are synonyms; VI
OF God is everything and everything
ave cod" IL is to he admitted that ma
the roligious beliefs, some under
mas banner OF Christianity, DO 30 DE
me- ,hingg, and even. man, Tor 90
'ey'I .ome teach that Jesus the man '
else ,5odT Does Christian Science pr
lse- INV come within such catego'
NY e.mphatically no, Christian sciel
'oa' ,,Ione OF all the denominatio
aat- ,eaches the oneness, plus the
% ,tnctncss, OF God and man is
ave not clear that an idea Is the proc
sent ~ Mind? II is the'result OF or
n9t lion OF the functioning OF Mind y
nia, an idea is not Mird, nor IL IN
rec ouantitatively any part OF Mind
Nv Nv IN idea. II Mind were luanutatl'
enio In its ideas. Mind would deplete
'yn- self by thinking. QualItatively NJ
aSo 100 Is i'm It's idea. and tho idea Is alw
Ius, .i., in Mind. Can you imagine an !
,Ws's outside OF Mind. a mindless idea