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

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oped that only fifty-three per cent
OF the diagnoses were correct. In
other words, nearly one-half of the
time the doctors had made an in
correct diagnosis.
This shows that we need never be
unhappy about these grave dag
noses. for they are unreliable and
misleading. When you analyze
sense testimony 1t Is easy 10 see
how 1t is unreal You cannot see
God with the sense OF sight; you
cannot hear God with the sense OF
hearing; you cannot apprehent
Spirit with any OF these physica,
senses. None Of the realities come
through the physical senses. As
Paul says The things which ara
seen are temporal; but the things
which are not seen are eternal"
We must turn from this material
OIL physical sense testlomny to the
apprehension OF spiritual things. We
must begin 10 know and understand
that there IS a spiritual law. the
supreme law OF the universe. We
must bring cur thinking into har-
| mony, into consonance with this
spiritual law. Someone asks: But
what do you meant How do You
apprehend spirituality" One OF the
simplest thoughts that came to me
of God being Spirit and God being
! all-good in the beginning of my
study Of Christian Science was when
| / looked upon the suffering of
babe. I thought. II God is good
surely He would not send suffer-
ing into the life OF child. The
child has done nothing for which
he should suffer; he knows moth
ing OF the so-called laws OF health
that we have been taught to OBJ
serve, and l deny that there can be
any evil come TO this child from
God. who is good. IL we take some
simple thought like this and at
every opportunity deny the posi-
bility of anything so unloving as
Gods sending evil into the life of
| child. then affirm that which IL
true. we shall find our thought i'm
proving, through right thinking and
knowing, until with this spiritual
lied consciousness, we can see that
the child is not the recipient Of evil
Is rejecting only good. that it is
the manifestation OF Spirit, not mat
ter. Likewise in this larger view
we can see that man is spiritual.
not material, and that God is the
great governor of the universe,
sending good. and only good into
mans life. and that abundantly and
INCREASINGLY: then we begin to know
that all good is ours and we pre-
pare ourselves to receive that good
and understand that there Is no
truth In the belief Of evil or devil.
OF which we hear so much In the
eighth chapter of John, 44th verse.
we read ghat Jesus when speaking
of this devil or Satan said He was
a murderer frcm the beginning, and
abode not in the truth. because there
is no truth IN him. When he speak
eth lie. he speaketh of his own,
for he Is a liar. and the father OF
it"
That great bug bear. that bogy OF
the ages we must set away from. |
by realizing that God is all. Did
you ever stop to realize that when |
you make a reality OF this devil or
Satan you are violating the First |
Commandment: Thou shalt have |
no other gods before me-? In our |
so-called orthodox beliefs we have
sometimes paid more attention to |
soaring men through a belief In this |
so-called devil than we have to |
helping them through loving and |
unders tandiag God.
Salvation
To progress in our spiritual I'M
Outstanding we need TO be more
child-like and simple. with more /
confidence in God. We are too ma
terial. too Intellectual, or too for
NAL in our seeking. " hen the ques-
ton was asked of Jesus who would |
be greatest in tho Kingdom of |
Heaven, he did not take any of -hc |
great lawyers. or merchants, or ply |
and point to che of them as the |
great one / nthe kingdom. but lie
took the simplest, purest example
that he could find, little child,
and set him in the midst and said
He that humbleth himself as this
little child shall be greatest in the
kingdom of heaven"
We need more OF this child-lke
understanding of God. love TO
think of some of the instances of
child-lilse faith and understanding
that have come to my attention In
a western city recently I heard of
z little girl. six years old, who had
attended the Christian Science sun
day school for year and was much
interested. Presently she had a
spell OF sickness. and the parents.
not being Christian Scientists, called
in a doctor. 1t was severe illness Il
and no cure was effected by the
doctors. They finally said that she
could never be well as she had
of the spine. After the
doctors had given her up she asked
her mother if she might see her
Christian Science Sunday school
teacher. Upon the occasion of the
teachers visit. when she saw the
little bent figure sitting in the bed.
the first thought that came to her
was. God makes crooked things
straight" and involuntarily she re-
peated this. The child looked up
with great wonderment and asked.
Where does il say that?" The
teacher pointed out TO her the 10th
verse of the AND chapter of Isaiah.
where it Is found. The mother states
that the little girl kept tho Bible
by her in the bed and studied the
verse until it seemed to become a
part of her own thought, and she
would say to her mother day after
law, Don't feel too sorry for me- L