The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1922-04-24
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must be made practical n A n 10
prove remedial or constructlvo The
gospel OF healing must accompany
the gospel Of preachinE. Il the Word
- to be with power. Il Il what
Christians do, mort than what they
say that conythces one that there
10 salvation IN religion.
Because Ch.istian Science has
healed its thousands and hundreds
OF thousands In Jesus way. Il has
won ds right to recognition as a
TACTICAL religion. The best way 10
inspire a mans faith In God. Ia to
heal him morally and physically.
thereby proving TO him the power
Of Emmanuel. God with u.s." and
giving him breadth and freedom Of
thought with which TO recognize the
groat need OF demonstrable re-
ligion. His experience OF healing
soon does away with his innate op-
position 70. spirituality. Those spir.
itually he(ied In Christian Science
have nothing TO say against Christ
Jesus. nor against the religion which
he lived to establish. Their one dc.
afro II to understand God and Hit
Christ and to make their religion
practical.
GOD 10 LOVE.
The story Is told Of n man. who
when small child became separat-
cd from his parents and was made
10 believe that he had most un.
kind and cruel father. one who was
always severe. unlovIng. and unloy-
able; one who was relentless and
unforgiving. showing neither mercy
nor pity for his own. The child
listened TO this portrayal OF his
fathers character. which naturally
made him very unhappy; and he
grew TO manhood. actually believing
It all to be true.
Finally, a traveller, who was well
acquainted with his father. found his
way to this man and told him what
was really true about his father.
The man soon saw that he had been
laboring under a woeful misconcep-
tion of his parent. who was now
represented to him as most loving
rather, full of goodness and COM
passion toward his children, never
angry nor wrathful, but full Of gen.
tleness and tenderness and kindness
Just the opposite OF what he had
been taught to believe.
Many Of us have been educated
to believe what is just as untrue
concerning our heavenly Father; and
not until Christian Science entered
into our lives did we learn. that God
is Love, full of goodness. mercy. and
compassion; that he sends no evil,
sin, disease nor death upon man;
that He is never angry nor wrath
full with His children, but unutter-
ably kind and loving.
Who but a God who is Love, a
kind and considerate Father, full OF
compassion, and gracious. long-suf.
fering, and plenteous In mercy and
truth Ups. S6-15), could say to us:
"Come now, and let Us reason to-
gether,--though your sins be as scar
let, they shall be as white as snow;
though they be red like crimson,
they shall be as WOOL lisa. 1879.
When one experiences forgiveness
of sin, one can say with the Psalm
ist, 20 give thanks unto the Lord;
for He is good, for His mercy en-
dureth forever" (Ps. 106:D.
Some of the terms employed In
Christian Science to define Deity to
human consciousness are Love,
Truth, Life, Spirit. and Mind. TO
one trained to believe in a God of
wrath and vengeance, these syno-
nyms for God when studied in the
light Of Christian Science, reveal an
entirely new sense Of heaven and
earth and man.
The life of protesting Christian
should prove to humanity that Love
manifested is the greatest thing In
the world, that 1t is the one thing
worth while, the pearl Of great
price. How can there be more than
omnipotent omniscient, and omni-
present Love and its infinite mani
festation? All other terms used to
define Deity are but different names
for divine Love.
Christian Science reveals the spir-
itual idea, man, as forever insepara-
BILE from God. To know, then, that
God is Love, makes men fearless,
unselfish, loving, kind, and compass
sionate To know that God is Truth,
makes men truthful, truthworthy up
right, and honorable. To know that
God is Life, makes men more men,
tally awake, active, and useful, and,
therefore, increases longevity. To
know that God is Spirit, increases
spirituality and leads thought away
from the body. To know that God
is one infinite Mind, qulckens ones
mental faculties of perception and
comprehension, and enlarges ones
capacity for right thinking.
Loves Invitation, given to the
world through Christ Jesus twenty
centuries ago, "Come unto me, all
We that labour and are heavy laden,
and will give you rest" (Mats
1928, is reiterated today in the
Christian Science textbook, Science
and Health with Key to the Scrip
lures" by Mary Baker Eddy, the
Discoverer and Founder Of Christian
Science. 1t comes with healing in
its wings, revealing the sacred mis-
sion OF Christ Jesus, to teach and
to demonstrate the lesson OF divine
Love. II we would become acquaint-
ed with the Father, we must learn
to love, for what saith the Scrip
ture? Beloved, let us love one an
other for love is of God; and every
one that loveth is born of God, and
knoweth God. He that loveth not
knoweth not God; for God is love-
"a John 4:7-S).
THE SAVIOUR.