The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1922-05-04
around everywhere doing good.

around everywhere doing good.
Christian Scientists make no strong
er pretensions of belief in the Bible
than do other professed Christians, but
Christian Scientists go farther than
mere belief: they trust, and strive to
understand. And according to the
measure of their understanding they
make practical application of Bible
truths and achieve demonstrations.
One might believe in mathematics fer
vently, devotedly, unwaveringly, ever
lastingly, without ever getting further
than belief. Mere belief would never
solve a problem in figures. One must
take chalk, or pencil or pen in hand
and work the problem out in accord
ance with the principle of the science
II anything is TO be accomplished.
Christian Scientists, following the in
struction of Mary Baker Eddy, and ad-
herring to the Principle which she dis
covered, prove the truths in the Bible
through their understanding and their
work as they go along. and bring real
ization of its prophecies and its prom
ises into their daily experience.
AN INTELLIGENT UNDERSTAND
ING OF GOD
Christian Science is not blind faith !;
it is an intelligent understanding of
God and of mans relationship to the
Supreme Being, the ominpresent, ON
niscient and omnipotent Creator. 1t is
an understanding of God which admits
of no limitation, question or doubt with
regard to His aIl-seeing wisdom, His
all-inclusive power, His all-embracing
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Father Motherhood of the Eternal. 1t
is an absolute acknowledgment that
the God of our Bible reigns, governs,
controls the universe, and that there is
none other beside him.
A WORLD NEED TO-DAY
Never has there been a time in all
history when men were in greater
need than now of that clearness of
sight, that steadiness of purpose. that
strength of character = that probity
perspicacity and unshakable moral
stamina-which are impaired through
spiritual discernment and spiritual un-
derstanding. 1t is the mission and
purpose of Christian Science to bring
the kingdom of God to earth, by dis
pelling the illusion that materialism,
sensuality, money-grubbing, money-get-
ting, money-spending. can satisfy the
human desire for contentment, peace
and happiness. The wreckage all about
US of hopes, aspirations, ambitions
based upon the attainment of mere
worldly success, should constitute an
impressive warning to the business and
professional man as we'll as to the So
cial striver of our day.
Wrong thinking is at the bottom not
only of individual troubles and SORROWS
and sufferings, but it is the cause of
all the narrowing evils that beset the
family, the community, the nation and
the world at large. Christian Science
offers right-thinking as a corrective
as an obtainable, feasible, and, in
fact, as the only possible cure for this
evil. If the thoughts of
humanity were in harmony with the
divine Mind, with the Commandments,
with the Beatitudes, with the Proph-
cts, with the teachings of Christ Jesus
and his disciples, with the Principle of
Christian Science, as revealed through
and expounded and taught by Mary
Baker Eddy, the world would be freed
from ferment, confusion and tumult.
Christian Science corrects, exalts and
strengthens the thought of the individ-
lal, and the thought of the community,
the nation and the world will be |
elevated and strength
sned proportionately with the increase
in the number of individuals who shall |
claim, and win, their natural inheri-
lance of light and who engage in the
work of spreading it among their
fellows.