The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1922-11-19

without ending. Life, which manlfeets
Itself 20 be the eternal activity and
creator. Life. that We are all longing
and looking for. ANY one knows that
God and Life are one. and We are all
working for Llfe-we all believe in
Life. and that Is why We are working
for Il. and 70 because We believe In
Life we do believe In God.
II have called attention 10 the
Biblical teaching that God II Life. and
because God IN Life II IL natural and
normal that. all Of us should be striy'
ing 10 know Life and striving 10 dem
onstrnte life. That II the reason that
calendar In such a liar, When II
says life Is born. II lies; II lies when
II says that II Is year old. II lies
when II says IL II forty years old; the
calendar lies when II says that II II
dead, II never did tell the truth and
II never Will. because II tries TO fix
Life between the point called birth and
aonthor point called death. The time
for us 10 refuse 10 have anything 10
do with the calendar is when we begin
10 think. not waiting until our hair
In white or gone. Begin IL and cling
10 II. and keep on cllnging TO the
thought that II does not make any DIFF.
ference TO us what the calendar says.
that we know that God In Life, and
that man. the image and likeness Of
God. knows that He Is not a God OF
the dead but n God Of the living, and
that mans birthrlght IL Life
Now, wo Christian Scientists do
not claim that we have yet reached
the point where we completely over.
come what In universally termed sin.
disease. or death, but we do call at.
tentlon 10 the fact according 10 the
returns Of the 1910 census--I have not
been able TO get the figures yet OF
l520-that during the 2J years pre-.
cedlng that time there was an average
Increase OF longevity OF 10 years. and
that was the first rs years during
which Christian Science had become
universally known and was being
practlced the world over. II IN the
first 70 years OF this knowledge OF the
allness and changelessness OF God as
Life In our feeble grasp OF II, II could
have produced such condition as
that, we know that. as we come to a
better, and higher, and holier, and
a purer knowledge OF God. we shall
continue TO grow In longevity until
we shall again have upon the earth
the age OF the antedlluyans, and then,
| IL that sense of limitation will pass
away. we shall know God and Jesus
Christ whom lie hath sent, and to
know Him IL eternal Life, as the Bible
teaches US.
THAT age OF the antedlluyians has
been an unhappy feature for the
natural scientists. They could not ex-
plain II away. They could not get
NF l.tsf
that they could get around 1t, for 1ust
before going TO Europe last spring a
little magazine published In New York
was sent 10 me in which the editor
expressed himself as delighted 10 think
that the scientists-not tho Christian
Scientists, but the natural scientists
had found the explanation for the age
OF the antediluvlans The magazine
went on to say that they had resolved,
or rather had determined, after all
these years Of research, that the only
measure OF time the antedlluyians had
was the lunar measure OF time, which
would mean a month, and that there
fore IN these stories OF the age OF the
antediIuvians, wherever the word
year" appears, there should be sub
situted the word MONTH" AND then
Adam lived to be nine hundred and
thirty years OF age, and the word
month" being substituted, and those
months being resolved into years by
the division OF twelve, 1t would show
that Adam lived to be about seventy
eight years of age, which was a rather
close approximation to the theory OF
three.score and ten being the natural
life or man upon earth
Now, that sounds quite logical, and
coming from the natural scientists IL
is bound to have good deal Of force.
But there are one or two little things
that interfere with the acceptance OF
that theory, and / want to call your
attention to two OF them. In the same
story In the Bible where they teach
us that Adam lived to be $50 years
Of age 1t also tells us that when Seth
was born Adam was 1870 years of age.
Call that months, resolve 1t into years,
and II shows that Seth was born when
Adam was ten and onehalf years of
age; and he already had two children.
1T is even worse with Methuselah,
because the Bible says that when
Methuselah was born his father Enoch
was 65 years of age, and reading that
Methuselah was born, Enoch, his
father was five and one.half years
old.
1T Is not amazing that every at
tempt on the part Of human theory to
explain away the almightiness Of the
Word Of God and its truth always
Stays itself, because 1t is not and can
not be logical; but when it is pre-
scented to us as 1t should be the
logic is clear to us and brings to us
the thought of the old patriarch, who
cried to us, Turn we, turn We from
your evil ways; for why will we
die p"
II have been much interested in an
advertising sign that is literally
sprinkled all over the United States.
Part of the legend of that sign Is this
"Eventually-why not now"
THAT is the question which Chris
tian Science is asking. Eventually you
will turn, then why not now? l want
to say that nothing that was ever
good in all Of our life. nothing that we
ever found good in any OF our own
experiences, theories, or beliefs, but
that we shall find when we come to
grow to knowledge OF God and our
Lord and Master. wherein there Is no
limitation in our thought about His
ability or His willingness to help.
I'VE are no longer to think that the
Word of God is given just to heal
from sin, but we shall know that II Is
given TO heal from every one of the
Ills 10 which the flesh is heir We |
shall find coming TO us more and more |
a knowledge OF the almiehtness of |
God, and the more we know He Ia al. /
mighty the less shall we be concerned |
with the human theories. and we shall /
learn that there Is no power apart I
from God that can thwart those who /
have the wish and desire TO make the |
measure of the children of men unto |
eternal, everlasting Life.
I'VE shall find that the more we
turn 20 know God as Christian Science
teaches God 10 be. the more loving We
shall be, the more consciousness ~
Life We shall have. the More Truth
We shall discern. and az every step
presents itself unto as the more We
shall become conscious of the Prin-
eipla o. right thinking 81 that We
can make ne mistake, but shall so on