Article July 2, 1921 Issue

Interference

FRANK BARNDOLLAR

Humanity has long been conscious of the fact that God is able to destroy as evidence all seeming conditions of inharmony; yet has it been prone to believe that God was afar off and oftentimes blind to its struggles and deaf to its appeal. Gradually it was believed that there was a possibility of something getting between God and the one in need of assistance, and later this something, or this false belief desiring recognition as a fact, obtained its desire and was believed to be the power of evil, a power apart from God. Now all this is contrary to the teachings of Christ Jesus. Not one bit of evidence obtained from the material senses, that seeming source of evidence apart from a spiritual source, was permitted by Jesus to go unchallenged; he proved that the material sense of sight, of hearing, or of feeling is not true; he proved blindness, deafness, and death itself to be merely false beliefs or so-called facts contrary to the true state of being.

In this particular period, however, it remained for Mary Baker Eddy to rediscover and give to humanity the rule of demonstration, that God might be seen near at hand and found to be ever present and omnipotent. It is because of these rules and true Principle as set in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," that Mrs. Eddy will always be thought of with the deepest sense of love and gratitude. Conscious of the importance of the substance found in the very first chapter of the Holy Bible, where a clear concept of God as omnipotent and omnipresent is gained, Mrs. Eddy definitely informs all mankind, on the first page of the Preface to Science and Health, "Ignorance of God is no longer the stepping-stone to faith. The only guarantee of obedience is a right apprehension of Him whom to know aright is Life eternal." The following definition is an assistance in gaining this right apprehension (Science and Health, p. 587): "God. The great I am; the all-knowing, all-seeing, all-acting, all-wise, all-loving, and eternal; Principle; Mind; Soul; Spirit; Life; Truth; Love; all substance; intelligence."

Thus it becomes quite evident that there can be naught else in reality but the consciousness of joy, freedom, happiness, and harmony. The question is then asked, "What then, is all this apparent evidence of jealousy, hate, malice, revenge, sin, sickness, disease, death, and numerous other conditions which seem to cause so much inharmony and distress, and seem to interfere so frequently with the realization of happiness?" Christian Science explains what these seeming conditions are and how to are to be disposed of. It is giving to humanity the true idea of God and His creation such as John had when he declared, "And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea."

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