Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1939-01-05
Solving Problems
by KET

m HE world today is faced with
many problems = social, eco
4 nomic, financial, political, ply
sical, and mental. Harassed human
ity looks this way, then that, for
some remedy for its individual and
collective difficulties. Too seldom
does II find q satisfactory solution.
Yet it Is a divinely scientific fact that
for every problem there is q right
solution.
The first chapter of the Holy Scrip
tures states Genesis III, 81: I'm
the beginning God created the hesv-
en- and the earth. And God saw
every thing that he had made, and,
behold, 1t was very good" And In the
New Testament, John declares OF
God (1:3), N"All things were made
by him; and without him was not
any thing made that was made" DO
We believe these Biblical statements?
Do we motivate our daily activity by
this standard? Johns clear vision
enabled him to see "a new heaven
and a new earth" (Revelation 21:D.
May not each Individual, in de
gree, attain this pure perception?
And as men attain this understand
ing, is it not certain that world con-
ditions will improve?
Theoretically, that is true" ad'
mits the earnest inquirer; "but how
shall we proceed to bring about an
effectual change in human thought"
Mary Baker Eddy, in the Christian
HCn{nnnn and
Health with Key to the Scriptures"
gives succinct reply Up. 31S): "The
material senses originate and sup
port all that is material, untrue, sell
fish, or debased. They would put soul
into soil, life into limbo, and doom
all things to decay. We must silence
this lie of material sense with the
truth of spiritual sense" and, also
(p. 1881, Spiritual sense, contrA-
dieting the material senses, involves
intuition, hope, faith, understanding,
fruition, reality"
Certainly, since the Bible state
ments in relation to creation are
true, and Christendom generally ad-
mits that they are, then whatever is
not good is not authorized by God,
duu lS IucIClOlG uOC LAuC. " AORtIES
this fact is to prove 1t true In ones
own experience. In proportion a. It
ID understood, one may utilize 1t 10
the exclusion of any discordant
argument or circumstance, just rs
one rejects statement that two and
two Is five when he knows that It is
four.
Nehemiah, while living in comfort
and security himself as cup-bearer to
the king of Persia, heard that his
people were In sore straits. Having
asked divine guidance, he obtained
permission from the Persian king TO
return and rebuild the walls Of Jeru-
salem. After the work was begun,
many were the suggestions of mate
rial sense as to lack of numbers,
authority, strength, and ability, but
Nehemiah steadfastly refused to come
down from his God-given work to
parley with false arguments, and the
wall was completed. For, says the
record nehemiah 4:6), 1.-THE people
had mind to work" So will the de-
lenses of the world today be strength
ened in proportion as those with
0RAA1 Lu0A NASAOA WOAh WAIhOAt SOfSohAo
In the cause of Righteousness and
peace.
The primary problem of the world
today Is to gain an understanding Of
God. When men can be induced to
give attention to this endeavor, they
will find world problems being solved
as naturally as are problems in
mathematics when the right rules
are applied.
God is Love. With love as the
leading motive in the world. what
would become of war? Does anyone
wish to kill beloved friend or to
deprive him of anything? And as
men know God, the loving, all-pow-
erful Father-Mother, giving liber-
ally of good to all, what becomes of
unemployment? The problem is
solved Is one expresses whatever of
good lies within his present oppor-
tunity. AS his right activity increases,
he will find not only that he himself
u Of more and more help to others,
but also that others are more and
more gratefully helpful to him. Thus
will the worlds varied difficulties be
diminished and finally overcome.
Christ Jesus, the Way-shower, has
given US the perfect example in low
ing service, in his overcoming of the
world. Though there may be
frequent overturnings, God is work.
ing His purpose out" as the words
from hymn declare, and those not
mesmerized by the worlds mistakes
made in the effort to solve It's prob
lens, are joyously advancing and
aiding In the true solution. The
CAristian Science Monitor.