East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1921-04-30

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ishinest never made men good, yet F,I
very meaning Of the word, God Is good!
Christian Science Is changing the human
thought OF God from fear to love, and
Christian Scientists are coming 10 ex-
pect e. the hands q loving Father
expect with confidence. the destruction
OF sin and sickness. and TO realize
the consciousness OF health. Thus rear
IL disappearing from human lives be-
cause II Is going out OF human con-
Bciousness. In the absence OF fear, we
can always see good. We are gaining
the higher concept that God Ia divine
Love. ever responsive 10 human needs,
ever mindful OF His own, remembering
His children. When | recall the terrOrs
Of my childhood. my fears OF the very
darkness, my constant expectation OF d.
vine displeasure, and OF tine terrible ad-
IninistratiOn OF His supposed laws OF
disease. and then observe the compare
tive fearlessness and freedom Of the chill
dren OF today, thank God from my
heart for Christian Science. which has IN
one generation so transformed human
consciousness. Christian Silence teaches
men that God is q God not to be feared,
not merely to be worshipped but God
TO be loved and lived and understood.
THE TRuE GOD.
Since time and mortal man began, men
have tried 10 know God materially, 70
TO Him all material phenomena; YET
Jesus words are true: God Is Spirit.
and they that worship Him must Hor-
ship Him In Spirit and In Truth. Inc
human mind has always turned TO :
power outside itself in times OF stress.
thereby acknowledging its own insuftl7
cheney. hut its gods have. been merely
human concepts and have taken matefiai
form and nature Yet even idolaters
bowling down to images conceive them
H. e0N rf
material, The false gods of mortals are
just false beliefs about Deity, they are
the externalized ideals of the human
mind.
Christian Science teaches as most re-
ligious beliefs agree, and as reason con-
firms, that there must be a primary
cause for all things that exist. and that
this great first Cause is the Creator,
or God. Then plainly God Is not an
object. All objects are effects, not
be worshipped as an object. The inf
mite Creator could not be creation, the
first Cause could not be a thing. Hence
God could not be form. however hrEe.
For the same reason God could not De
a person in any limited sense OF form
or outline II popular theology conceive
God TO be a,.pefsan y.iEs the sense OF
form or outline. II abandOns the thought
that God is ompipreseRt for It Is I'm
possible TO conceive OF a form as omni-
presence and power equally and in
stantly everywhere. God can then be
considered as person In the sense OF IN
finite Person only, the one Being or
Cause Cause in its widest sense Is
Principle Mrs. Eddy discerned that
everything that really exists has Cause
or Principle. This Principle ptodueeA-
and controls the object, this Princtpe
gives to It's object both function and
Identity. II is TO be found always in
ha nf -ig tUqRn-
arabic from H. The wonder OF Chris
tian Science is that AS one grasps the
fact that God Is divine Principle. one
loses the false belief that lie Is an OBJ
ness, His eyerpTesenre. As Il becomes
clearer that God Is a God AT hand. one
can reach out and utilize his power.
Because He is Principle. God becomes
available for ones needs, hence the ahtl-
ity of Christian Scientists to demon
strate. God. '}t-
DIVINE UNITY or GOD AND MAN.
Mrs. Eddy's employment Of the word
Principle for Deity aroused inevitable
dissent from those whose thought in
cluded only finite concept OF Principle
as one Of n number of material laws
and forces. secondary and derived; YET
cipie She recognized Cause without ef-
feet to be impossible. and 80 she con-
chded that God without His creation.
man and, the universe, would he irnpos-
sible Therefore fully descriptive term
for Deity must convey also the thought
OF Gods handiwork. Principle. as II
IS used by Mrs. Eddy. lnchides both
Cause and effect. both God and man.
Very early in the chapter Recapithla
tion, in the Christiau Science textbook.
Science and Health with Key TO the
Scriptures. page a6s. Mrs Eddy has asked
and answered question which fully ex-
presses the basis OF true science, the
ology, and medicine The question
reads. 'Is there more than one Mind
or Principle?' The answer follows.
There is not. Principle and its idea Is
one, and this one is God, omnipotent,
omnscient, omnipreseat Being. and His
reflection is man and the universe" II
God is omnipotent. II He possesses all
power. He must be that power itself.
otherwise there would he A source out
side Himself from which TO derive His
power Paul says There 10 no power
but OF God" from. 1910 II God is om-
nipresent and He must be everywhere.
for He is the infinite One. then He must
be the eternal presence. Where shall
| flee from Thy presence. cried the
Psalmist, II God is omniscient. II lie
knows all. He must Himself he the in
finite Mind Job declared; He is I'm
one mind (Job 23:l3l God is thus
the one Being or Principle, who is the
only power. the only presence, and the
only Mind, .s
Principle brings TO the student the reeog-- |
milton OF God and man inseparable, and
the unity of God and man becomes 10
him a vivid reality, lie reahzes why
my Father are one, one as Father |
and Son, one as Cause and effect. one
as Mind AMI idea. Falling TO compre-
bend Mrs. Eddv's use Of the word Priu- !
oiple, some critics might at this point
rty: "Ah. Mrs. Eddy is Il Pautheist''
let us seei rantheism. simply stated,
Is the teaching ulat Col is dusntitative' !
" ills creation, thai God and creation
are $ nonvms, that God is every thing
and everything is God" 1t IL toTbe sTf-7
mitted that msnv relisiops beliefs some
under the banner OF Christianity. do so
dpifv things. and even man. for do not
some teach that Jesus the man was
Cod Does Christian Science properly
come within such CatcRorN2 Emphatic. .
apy. no. Christian Science alone Of all
the, denominations, teaches the oneness,
Mus tho djstin'tness, OF God and man.
IL Il not clear that an idea Is the prod
alton of the funrtloping Of Mind. Now
an idea is not Mind, nor is there guam
fifsttJety any part OF Mind IN. an idea I
lf Mind were quantita lively in It's idAas, /
Mind would deplete aityeifl by thinking. Z
oA;artatReW Mind n its idea and
Imagine an Tiea octSide' OF Mind, mind
less idea. ant more than. an idea'ess ,
Mind" Neither is possible Then does
h not become lunlirpps what Paul
meant when he Quoted: NFor in Hin
r.,, live and piove. an,i have our eeinR.H; ,
fhus exm eSsirs 't6e VnitY 0l God. spd
man Paul disposed of the shallow
charge Of Psuthesm b. adding; For
We an also His otTsprinS," thus stat
ing the distirotness OF God and man.
paul knew that cr;tics world sav "He
il Pantheist. he teaches that We live
and move and have oul being in God.
that man Is a part of God" How con
rlusivrlv Paul refuted this accusation by
the declaration; ''tor We are also Hts
offsprirs." and how diNinelv guided was
Mrs Eddy when she 1nade plain the
oneness and vet the distnctnSss Of Goa