Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1941-02-06
There Is Hope

lHERE is no hOpeleSSneSS to
those who trust in God as the
loving, omnipotent, omnipresent
Father and protector that He has
been through all the ages. In periods
of deep distress, such as the world
is now passing through, the sugges-
ton of futility presents itself over
and over again. The belief in fatality
attempts to establish the sense that
man is helpless victim of evil.
During times of war this false
sense may say: ''What is the use?
What car be gained? There is 10
certain way out" But there is hope.
There is always way out. Even
when the evidence before the physi-
cal senses seems aggressive, God is
All, His glorious supremacy I'M
changed. When thoughts are deeply
stirred, then do the words of Christ
Jesus come clearly to us Quke
21:28), "And when these things begin
to come to pass, then look up, and
lift up your heads; for your redemp-
ton draweth nigh"
Every effort of mortal mind to tear
down, to. destroy, turns thought to
the power of God and His goodness;
for the destruction which seems to
rage requires of us clearer realiZa-
ton of the eternal fact that since
God is omnipresent, He is ever at
hand. As we turn to Him unreserv-
eddy, the loneliness of divine reality
appears to OUR spiritualized thought.
Mary Baker Eddy writes in "Sci-
ence and Health with Key to the
Scriptures" (p. 97), ''The more de-
structive matter becomes, the more
its nothingness will appear, until
matter reaches its mortal zenith in
illusion and forever disappears. The
effort of evil is to make all men ac-
knowledge that it is something, and
that it has power; that the world is
in a critical condition; that civiliza-
ton is threatened; that evil can over
throw good; but the old adage comes
to thought with renewed clarity: ut
is always darkest just before the
dawn" In the midst of strife and
darkness it may seem hard to COM
prehend the allness of God; but the
childlike trust which loves Him, finds
Him always at hand. -.
The disappearance of evil is as
sured, even when error attempts to
make itself heard above the ringing
voice of Truth. Because of the OPP
pressiveness of error one may seem
to be hypnotized by it. But if, in
stead, one maintains his poise and
quietness of heart, above the discor-
dant cries of mortal belief the clear,
ringing call of Truth will be heard.
1t can never be silent, but one re-
quires spiritual listening, in order to
be aware of it. Truth is not in the
detonations of error, but one must
lift ones thought to be able to hear
the tones of good.
The Bible continually points to life
as eternal, and reveals man as one
with God, Life. There should there
fore be no dependency, no despair,
no sense of uselessness, no lack of
hope. We are not looking sadly upon
the ashes of our endeavors. Rather
are we looking up to see materiality
disappear in the revelation of true
being. Today offers rich opportuni-
ties to prove the supremacy of Spirit.
Only in this way can we overcome
the seeming aggressiveness of evil,
and realize that God, good, is All.
1t is easy to yield to utter hopeless
ness in the face of evil claims of
large numbers, greater force, or
cunning craftiness; but Mind is able
to destroy any seeming cleverness
that mortal mind may present, and
there is never a moment when Mind.
is absent. Man is always in the pres
ence of his heavenly Father. Mind
illumines, protects, and leads from
darkness into light. No matter how
clouded the way, how desperate the
situation, how befogged the mental
outlook may appear to be, the one
omnipresent divine intelligence leads
into the enlightening knowledge of
safety.
In her Message to The Mother
Church for 1902, Mrs. Eddy writes
(p. ~, Divine Love waits and
pleads to save mankind--and awaits
with warrant and welcome, grace
and glory. the earthweary and
heavy-laden who find and point the
path to heaven. THE Christian Sci
snce Monitor,