The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1922-10-24
ny right hand shall hold me"

There Is no problem. no condition
that can come to us but Gods power
is ever available for It's satisfac
tory solution.
Continuing this same thought o.
the multiplication table. ask g
schoolboy how long he thinks eight
time eight have been sixty four ant
| ten times ten one hundred. Doubt.
less his answer VIII be always
How long he thinks It will remain
so7 Answer-'slwayr" And tha1
is correct. AZ idea Of Principle doe,
| not change, so tho multiplication
table, as idea of the principle OF
mathematics can never change
Principle does not change nor does
| Its idea or image. Likewise divine
| Principle ls eternal. inviolable, un.
| changing, always operating. Prin-
ciple is not moved by the breath OF
praise or flattery. or by entreaty OF
| threat. In the thought OF God be-
Ing Principle, Christian Scientists
have gotten away from the old be-
lief that God interfores In the at
fairs of men because they are ask
l.
| other thing. or that God causes the
| unnatural or supernatural to be hap
pening in the lives and affairs OF
men. 1t teaches that Coos work
Is already perfect and complete. In
| deed the Bible says that God saw
everything that he had made. and.
behold. 1t was very good"
The mission OF scientific Chris
tianity is to reveal the perfectness
and completeness OF Gods work, to
enable us TO overcome in our own
lives and experiences everything
and every thought that is unlike
God and His creation. Does not
this thought bring US back to that
rule OF conduct which Jesus gave,
that we should do always the thing
that is in accord with the Fathers
will?
Healing
Someone asks: What has this to
do with the healing OF my sick body.
or sick business. or sick home. OF
sick city? These are the practical
problems that concern US today.
Christian Science does furnish the
solution for everyone Of them. How
ever serious your Particular prob
lem may seem to you, however sig
nificant and burdensome, or how
ever long you may have had II. tt
is not necessary that God should do
any specific or individual thing in
your life to solve your problem. Too
long we have been seeking God in
a purely material way. much as we
have sought q friend for favor or
a banker for loan. crying out in
our ignorance, our distress. with the
hope that God would manifest him
self in some supernatural or mirac-
ulous way. Then we begin to think
there is no power in prayer be-
cause we do rot see this unusual or
unnatural manifestation. Jesus
condemned this style of prayer when
he said: The heather think that
they shall be heard for their much
speaking. Be not We therefore like
unto them: for your Father know
eth what things ye have need of
before We ask Him
Our prayers are answered In the
realization that Love is always
meeting our needs. The truth OF
this comes to me in a homely illus
tration from my boyhood. In child
hood 1 lived en- a farm in Kentucky.
and I remember that in the spring
time We always wanted tomato
plants to set out in the garden
about the middle or latter part of
April. Accordingly in February
E.
a box IN the house. and then when
the sun came out he took the box
out of the house and put IL on the
porch In the sunshine, with a glass
over it. and as the suns rays beat
upon the glass they warmed the
ground. the seeds broke open. and
the tender plants stuck their heads
through the ground. and as they
were carried into ths sun day after
day they grew. until presently they
were large enough to put out in
the garden.
Now the sun was not shining for
our box alone; 1t came down to
warm the whole earth and to bring
again the miracle Of springtime and
growth, and when we took our box
out into fine Sunshine we saw
growth and life manifested.
Likewise with every human prob
lem. Because of evil. hatred, jeal-
ousy. injustice, envy, or secret sin. |
our consciousness Is darkened and |
we have a problem. which we call
disease. lack. sorrow, or death We |
need to bring the darkened con-
seriousness into the sunlight of
Gods truth and love. then the dark
ness is dispelled and the trouble |
Is mist before the morn |
ing sun.
But you may say: II have tried |
but 1 cannot bring my problem out |
Of the dark" There is a way pro- |
vided The Bible and the Christian |
Science textbook helr you to un- |
derstand divine Principle whereby |
you can bring this problem out OF
the dark. If you will read the last |
chapter in the textbook you will |
find many testimonials from men |
and women from widely separated |
sections of the country, testifying |
to how through the. study of this /
truth they have been able to bring |
their problems to the light and find /
their solution.
II 1T should seem to be beyond |
your present ability TO demonstrate,
here are Christian Science practi-
toners, consecrating all their time
Ind thought TO this work. and they
ire ever ready. when the problem is
90 heavy to be borne, to help us
20 bring It to the light. to that right
of God. to that reali-
ration, as Mrs. Eddy. expresses it,
~ mans a+ape-rnant with God