The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-16

is that mortalS sometimes believe something to be law which is not law at all, but merely man-made and a nan-projected theory. Still, if one believes in Q false law, he may suffer from it's effects just as much as if 1t really were a law, not realiz- ing that he has a right to rebel against 1t. To return moment to our illustration: if the children play ing on the sidewalk should happen to find someone perhaps newly arr rived in our country, who could not yet speak our language, and so did not understand what was going on, they might extort from him the coveted penny. But he would only be paying tribute to his own igno- rance. So it is with us, sometimes. We obey a false law, not by reason of any power inherent in the law it. self, but because we do not know any better.
 Oh, those pennies which we pay, day after day, and year after year, under the mistaken conviction that we must! Thousands, millions, are toiling along lfe's road today. bear ing burdens more crushing than any ever laid upon the shoulders of a helpless people by relentless Pha- raoh. To cite just one example and we all know of many others. There is @ so-called law named "heredity," claiming that certain characteristics Usually undesirable ones), may be transmitted from one generation to another. Most of the world accepts this as law, and yet was there ever anything more cruel and unjust, that little child should be compelled to suffer for another's sin or mistake? It is inhuman and repellent, and yet the very ones who love that child the best are usually the first to fasten about his neck this yoke of bondage.
 Christian Science challenges all such conclusions. It says (Science and Health, p. 227), Citizens of the world, accept the glorious liberty of the children of God and be free! This is your divine right" Because someone, somewhere, thirty or sixty or a hundred years ago was addicted to drink, or was 8 business failure, or had a bad temper or poor diges- tion, do we have to have them, too? No. Gods law is law of Love, and of justice. It says that mortals can pay no penalty except for their own wrongdoing, and that even that penalty ceases as soon as the sin ceases. It says that there can be no dangerous inheritances, since God is the Father and Mother of all. It says that the real man is never overcome by fear, overwhelmed by impending disaster. He never was in bondage to any unrighteous condi- tion. He never had handicap, physical or mental. In true con- sciousness, your consciousness, there is never any belief of weakness, pain, deformity, abnormality. True consciousness admits no insurmount- able obstacle, no irreparable loss, no unforgivable wrong, no implacable hatred, no unconquerable sin, no in- curable disease.
 Perhaps some have come here to- night who have been struggling with problem which is not physical. but financial. And it may be that the general situation does not seem to be responding as 1t should, consid- ering how long and how earnestly the prayer to God for freedom has been carried on. It may be that someone is discouraged. He feels that no matter how hard he tries, nothing seems to move. Perhaps he is thinking, T wonder if I shall find out tonight what is the matter?" Perhaps. May I help you to ana lyze the way you are handling this seemingly stubborn difaculty, your treatment, your prayer-for they both mean the same thing. It sometimes happens that in ones mental work on . claim of this kind he, all unconsciously, may have been including in that prayer the definite way in which he would like to see 1t answered. In his natural eagerness to see 1t work out" he may have forgotten. just for the moment, that prayer which outlines its answer is not prayer at all, as Christian Science under stands it. It may be that he has practically been saying, Tt does look so right for me to have thisl Dear God, won't you help me to get it?"
 How do we always know what is best for us? Misguided human sense is 50 easily deceivedl A chair may look like something quite different during the mist. Perhaps many of us can recall some time in our past experience when we were asking for something which, at the moment, looked SO very fair and pleasant, SO obviously right for us to have, that we could not understand why God, in His great wisdom, did not give it to us. But God, in His great wisdom, did not. For some time after that we possibly went about in quite . rebellious and unhappy state of mind, because, for some unex- plained reason, our prayers had not been answered.
 Someone once wrote of mortal man, "So weak is he, so ignorant and blind, that did no. c.. sometimes withhold petitions which we ask
 we should be ruined at our own re-
 questi" God will not let us be ruined at our own request. He loves
 us too much for that.
 We cannot force e demonstration
 Gods law works easily, quietly, nat.
 urally. It Is like the so-called law of nature, in accord with which without effort, the ice-bound brool meits its letters, and nipples onward
 toward the sea. leafiess bough, hang out fresh garlands of lowell.
 ness; fruits mature, golden grainl
 ripen. How it rests one to remember
 thisl No more sense of hurry, worry
 and impatience. no nervous strair
 and tension. We are now convinced that if this thing for which we lonl ie really in accord with what Is heS