The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1922-10-24


thing. This morning 1t is breath
If you had your breath you doubt
less would be wondering where you
could get orders in your business.
and IL you had them your desire
would probably be to get more. If
you had all you wanted you would
then be wondering where you could
get some material pleasure or recTe-
alton. But / have never heard you
asking for help to know how you
can give anything. Il you will learn
10 give you will not have 50 much
difficulty IN getting"
Realizing his sslfishness, the man
began to see what he could give to
help the world and the men and
women around him. As he learned
to give, he found that he did get
his breath. and his businesssalso in
creased. proving thu truth OF Jesus
statement: Seek ye first the king
dom or God and His righteousness.
and all these things shall be added
unto you"
The world needs much giving.
You ask: What can / give? You
can give anore consideration. pa
| thence, love. thoughtfulness. justice.
unselfishness, Joy. tenderness and
| when we bring these treasures to
Gods storenouse we shall find that
we have already received abundant
ly more than we have brought.
Do we stop TO consider the atti-
| tude OF mind that is ordinarily
| brought to God in prayer? In our
| limited thought of prayer have we
| not prayed much like the little girl
| OF whom / read who knelt at moth
| er's knee and prayer for father,
mother, brother and little sister. and
| finally wound up by saying: And.
| oh Lord. please make Rome the
Capital OF Turkey" Her mother had
| never heard a prayer like that. She
| said: why. daughter. what IN the
world do YOU mean ~ praying like
that?" The child answered: ION.
| Mother. He must answer that pray
er or I am ruined. because that Is
the way I wrote it down today Oh
my examination paper" The little
girl was not thinking about all the
| inconvenience it might have brought
to Italy and Turkey by changing
their capitals. but only of her ez-
animation marks.
We have cried out to God to do
this or that, without ever stopping
to consider whether ii would help
anyone else or not. and so we can
understand why our prayers nave
not been answered. We can see
why men have been driven from the
church because they hav thought
there is no answer 10 prayer. They
have not known how to pray II
you go to a blackboard to work GU
problem in mathematics you vii!
not stand facing the board and cry
out to the principle of mathematics:
Tell me how to solve this prob
lem" If you do. 1t will never be
solved. You .tuoy to understand
the principle Involved and then to
obey the rule. and with this under
and obedience you are able to solve
your problem correctly.
All of US are called TO stand be-
fore the great Principle Of all being
to solve our human problems. and
we shall only solve them correctly |
and happily and finally as we get
the right understanding of God to |
be divine Principle. and apply that |
understanding in their solution.
After all, it resolves itself into |
one great problem. and that is TO |
know the nothingness of matter or |
material existence which Is summed |
up in what is known In Christian !
Science to be the scientific state /
ment OF being.
There is no life. truth, intelli-
gence, nor substance in matter. All /
is infiuite Mind and its infinite man
Hesitation. for God is All-in- all.
Spirit is immortal Truth: matter is
mortal error. Spirit Is the real and
eternal; matter is the unreal and
temporal. Spirit is God. and man is
His image and likeness. Therefore
man is not material; he is spiritual
Is. & H. p. 46S).
Did not Jesus enunciate this basic
truth when he said to the woman
at the well In Samaria: God Is
spirit, and they that worship Him
must worship Him in spirit and in
truth; bringing home to the world
consciousness the absolute opposite
of the belief in material existence
To know God to be Spirit and man
to be spiritual Is the need of the
ages, and this Is the thought that
Christian Science brings to the
world today. If man would I'M
derstand God Alright he must I'M
derstand God to be Spirit; lie he
would understand man Alright and
know mans power and possibility
in his right relation to God, 1t must
be through knowing spiritual man.
This is the message of Christian
Science.
John, the beloved, writes: BY
Him were all things made, and
without Him was not anything MADE
that was made" If this be true, the
things we call pain, lack, sorrow
and death are untrue. because GOD
never made them He could not
have made them; Tie could not have
been the author of anything so I'M
like goodness as the pains, aches,
and imperfections of our human be-
liefs.
Someone said: well. where do
these beliefs originate?" They are
illusions. decisions. false beliefs;
they are the result OF our wrong
thinking, our ignorance Of God, our
belief in the false testimony OF
what we call the physical senses
We have hid great store by the
testimony Of the senses-sight'
hearing. touch. taste. and smell. yet
we have only to test few results
70 see how unreliable and how un-
true this sense testimony really is | '
Taixn the sense of sight for in {