Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-05-22

that for which men have prayed and
suffered, that for which they have
lived and died and for which they
have been willing to sacrifice all.
This blessed thing is the absolute
Truth, about God and about existence
which expresses itself through divine
Science, and which Mary Baker Eddy
has discovered in this age and found
ed.
"oh, sometimes CLEANS upon our
sight
Thro present wrong, tn eternal
Right;
And step by step, since time began,
We see the steady gain of man.
That all Of good the past hath had
Remains to make our own time glad,
Our common, daily life divine,
And ev'ry land a Palestine.
Thro' the harsh noises of our day,
a low sweet prelude finds it's way;
Thro' clouds of doubt, and creeds Of
fear,
A light is breaking calm and clear.
4Henceforth my heart shall sigh no
more
For olden time and holier shore:
Gods love and blessing, then and
there,
Are now and here and everywhere"
christian Science HymnaI, p. 18.)
GOD AND HIS CREATION AS
UNDERSTOOD IN CHRISTIAN
SCIENCE
Let me then invite you to consider
this Science Of the Christ which en-
bodies, and is based wholly on the
idealism of Christ Jesus. AS Christian
Science pertains wholly to God and to
His creation or to true being, it is Of
course necessary for us to consider
what God is before we can proceed.
Christian Science declares that God
is an eyer-present divine reality, who
is ever available to His own creation,
and is infinitely movable. His pres
ence and power, Christian Science
teaches, are essential to every right
activity and consequently to all health,
holiness or happiness, and to all true
existence. God, Christian Science also
teaches. has nothing in common with
materiality, but He and His creation
exist independent of suppositional
matter and its so-called laws In fact
Christian Science teaches that God is
the source and cause Of all that is
true and, therefore, of true existence.
The Scriptures use several terms for
God which all Christians have accept
ed but which few Christians have I'M
derstood practically and intelligently.
Mrs. Eddy has applied these same
terms to God but she has logical y ac-
cepted the conclusions about God
which these terms Indicate. For in
stance, the Scriptures teach that God
is Love, but they also teach that God
is Spirit, consequently Mrs. Eddy has
that Love is Spirit ard
therefore that Love is not to be found
in material conditions Also the Scrip
lures declare that Spirit or God is in
finite and Christian Science likewise
logically concludes that matter or
material existence, is not the truth
of being. In the same way the Scrip
lures teach that God is the only cause
and creator and Christian Science
therefore accepts the fact that the
only real or true existence there is or
can be, must be the emanation or ex-
preston of this one and only cause,
God. AS God is immutable and is
without shadow of turning, His crea
ton must be an emanation or express
sion of immutable Spirit and must con-
sequently be wholly spiritual.
GOD AS DIVINE MIND, AND
CREATION, SPIRITUAL OR
MENTAL.
Tt is evident to anyone who has stud
led the Scriptures closely that when
Jesus declared God to be Spirit he
was not declaring God to be some in
definite abstraction, but he was reveal
ing and describing the most certain,
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