The St. Joseph observer., 1922-12-23
AN OVERFLOW HOUSE
GREETED JUDGE GREENE.
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laughing, talking, learning. I read |
recently letter from the father and |
mother written three years later, in |
which they say: "Our boy at seven
is the hardest, sturdiest strongest
boy I'm all his class"
IL the truth revealed in Christian
Science will heal one, II will heal mil
lions. 1t is the understanding of d.
vine Principle, the eternal law Of God.
1t has always been in the world. 1t
will always be among men to be un-
derstood and applied. Shall we hesi-
tate longer to understand that God is
Spirit and man is spiritual, and TO
apply that understanding in our lives?
Instead of seeing SO much cheating,
lying, stealing, disease, we need to see
that men and women are Gods ideas,
expressions of Gods goodness and
Gods love, reflecting good, existing
to bless one another and all the world.
In so seeing. how much more happi--
ness we would get out of our lives and
be able to give to the world.
Truth, God, understood and applied
In our lives, heals sin, sickness lack,
| sorrow, every unhappy condition.
Someone asks: How did all this evil
| begin? You say God did not send sin
to us?" NO" you say there is no
| dcvil?" mo" How did ever begin
| to think wrong?" For centuries the
world has been stepped in material
| thinking, learning, living. 1t has got
ten away from God, from Spirit, until
| rarely have we thought on Him. Sup
! pose a book were written in the Chi
ncse language, that we had never
studied, and we should open it to read.
We would not know a letter, word, or
! line on the written page. Can we
| blame anybody for our ignorance?
| Can we blame God? Did he make US
| ignorant of the Chinese language? No.
| hn n Aatvl
| We have studied other languages, per-
haps Latin, French. English, to the
| exclusion of the Chinese, therefore we
arc not able to read it; we are ignor-
| ant of it. Likewise are we ignorant
| Of spiritual things because we have
| not studied spiritual things. We have
violated and disobeyed the command
of God: Seek we first the kingdom of
| God and His righteousness. We have
| been seeking first the other things
wealth, power, position. How can we
expect to do well, to be WELL to be
| happy, to be saved, when we wilfully,
knowingly, day after day and year
after year violate Gods command?
Let us begin as children to think
more and to learn more of the things
Of God and His kingdom. Let us not
fear to begin simply, to learn and to
put into practise in childlike simplicity
the commands of God. There is rich
reward in the fulfillment OF Gods
promises as we learn to obey.
The value of childlike thinking and
living is voiced in this quotation from
Mrs Eddy's "Miscella aneous Writings,
(p. 10: 4-12):
Beloved children: The world has
need Of you,-and more as children
than as men and women: it needs your
innocence, unselfishness. faithful af-
lection, uncontaminated lives. You
need also to watch and pray that you
preserve these virtues unstained, and
lose them not through contact with
the world What grander ambition
is there than to maintain in your
selves what Jesus loved, and to know
that your example, more than words,
makes morals for mankind"