Article June 28, 1913 Issue

REALITY OF GOD

F. M. BROWN.

The great need of religion is genuineness. Thousands of well-meaning preachers do their best every Sunday to reach the people and help them. The lack of real interest on the part of the hearers, and their hunger and thirst for something that is available and not far off, is the best evidence of the fact that something vital is wanting. Then, too, the thought is very prevalent that Christianity is not practical, not for use in this world, and that the teaching is only to prepare one for life in some hereafter. The truth is, however, that genuine faith in God and Christ is a very present help, and the most real and important thing in life.

All men naturally seek happiness, and there is a widely prevalent belief that money will bring it; but this is the belief in a graven image, a false god. How many men who seek wealth for its own sake ever find happiness? Either they lose the pleasure which comes from the right use of money by their habitual practise of saving or hoarding, or something happens which turns their fancied joys to wormwood and gall.

Any one who will seriously consider the subject for a moment, however, will admit that the truest happiness they have ever known, came from the innocent enjoyments of childhood and early youth. Men may think that this happy period is gone forever, and that the responsibilities of maturer life render this innocent happiness impossible; but this is not true. The seeking and finding of God, which is possible to every one, brings, as we gain an understanding of the teachings of Christian Science, first faintly, then more and more vividly, a demonstrable sense of power, peace, happiness, and freedom which can only be likened to the joy of childhood. When will men open their minds and hearts to this real power and force which is God?

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