The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1922-10-30

prayer OF right thinking. Prayer IL
a mental activity which the world
has engaged IN Cor mapy centuries.
but In too many instances Il has
been used as cloak TO cover a {
wicked heart or as blind petition
TO a little understood God. Christian /
Science shows thnt true prayer Is
tho process Of scientific thinking
the thinking that unites men with
and Ia the living expression OF the
Mind that la God. To Christian
Scientist prayer IL most vital ANA
active influence ever operative In
thought. the chain OF true spiritual
ny which links him to hls Maker.
Through prayer man gains his
Cod.given dominion over evil. Let
Ma first see what Il IN that evil
falsely claims and then see how the
Christian Scientist mentally com
bats and ovcrthrows II. The claim
might be phrased in some such way
as this. |. the evil mind working
with and through matter. am the
cause and origin of man. Through
my material processes and laws !
conceive him and give him life.
Upon me he II dependent for all
that he has or II. | order his des-
tiny. cause him TO succeed and then
to fail. 10 be healthy and then dis.
eased. TO be happy and then. sorrow
ful. 10 be rich and lhen poor. TO be
tempted, TO sin. and TO die. To me
ard the fear of ne. he Ia ever tribu'
tary. rule him by suggestion and
lying arguments which have made
him too blind to uncover and re-
sigt. He Ii my puppet and maniken.
moved at my will. puff him mp
with pride and turn him from God
with sclflshness and self.will.
Though my power Is nil pretend
to have all power and he believes
my pretension. Myself and my
works are the blending of falsity
ard negation. but so long as man
believes In me | work. when he
awakes TO my nature ! am done.
Christian Science replies to this
lying mind In the words Of Truth
and with The authority OF God. You
are prctendor, liar and cheat.
Without authority from God you
claim to have creative power. pow
er TO give and to take life. to make
and TO destroy. But the one sure
thing about you Is that you lie al
ways. There is no truth in you and
you have no ability to substitute
your lying claims for the truth. You
are without God and SO without life
or reality. Mans true selfhood Is
the expression of God and you are
powerless to dispossess God of his
representative By your unreal ma
ture you place yourself outside Gods
infinitude, and consign you ant
yours to oblivion. Your sickness
sins, malice. and strlfes must flee
as false dream pictures before thu
light and might of Gods love ex
pressed in the thought of men, Yot
are impotant to reach anything tina
God has made You simulate life
and action, but you do not possess
or have power over either, for life
and action belong to God and arr
spiritual. You hate or lust upol
your own, you prey upon your owl
misconceptions, but you have NJ
eye to see the creation or the Great
, ures of God. You are Of yourself
by yourself, to yourself, a lie swol
len and ripe for the destruction
which the Word of God appoints t.
! you. God is all. Beside Hin
there is no Life, no Mind, no power
, Creation in His expression, infinite
! and good and all men live t.
manifest His being. His is th'
kingdom, and the power, and th'
glory forever. Thus is our con
seriousness freed from subjection t
error and brought into unity will
J God. Only as we learn mentally t
assert cur God-given rights shall W.
see them made manifest.
/ OVERCOMING EVIL
If Christian Scientist is con
fronted with what may be called al
| inherited disease how shall h
think? In some such way as this
/ Man as God has made him is alto
gether good and has no fear of sick
I ness or evil in any FORM He de
rives his entire life from God and i
| therefore naturally Godlike. TIL
} claim of evil, that it is mind an
life, the cause and condition of man
/, is false. Matter has never mad
+ man and can never unmake hin
! for he is co-existent with God. Evil
, assertion that it can impose sicl
. ness on man through the belief 0
+ human heredity is without divin
sanction, justice or right and car
2 not stand. Since Cod Mind no
I matter, makes and constitutes maj
2 man inherits only from God, goot
Said John, 'Now are we the son
r of Cod G John 3, q. And Pau
t wrote to the Romans, I'VE are tn
r children Of Cod: and if children
r then heirs; heirs of God, and join
b heirs with Christ" (Romans 8, II
. ~. This inheritance brings to ma
e permanent health, happiness an
e well-being. Through the realizatio
h of these facts of spiritual being tn