UNADULTERATED TRUTH

There is a straight white line of Absolute Truth upon which each one must walk if he would have demonstration. The slightest swerving in either direction from this line results in nondemonstration, no matter how earnest or intense one may be.

The line is this: There is only God; all seeming else is a lie.

Whosoever is suffering today from sickness, poverty, failure-any kind of trouble is believing the lie.

We talk largely about the Truth, and quote with ease and alacrity the words of the Master, "The Truth shall make you free." Free from what? Free from sickness, sorrow, weakness, fear, poverty. We claim to know the Truth; but the question to be driven right home is, are we free from these undesirable things? And if not, why not?

Let us get right down to a good, hard-pan, practical basis about this matter.

We talk much about the Omnipresence of God. In fact, this is one of the basic statements upon which rests the so-called New Thought. "God is omnipresent, omnipotent, omniscient." When I was a child in spiritual things, I thought as a child and understood as a child. I believed that God was here, there and everywhere, within hailing distance of every human being, no matter whether under the sea or on the mountain top, in prison or outside, in the sick chamber or at the wedding feast. In any and all places He was so near that in an instant He could be summoned to help. To me this was God's omnipresence. Then His omnipotence meant to me that while sickness and poverty, sorrow, the evil tongue of jealousy or slander, etc., had great power to make one suffer, God had greater power. I believed that if He were called upon to help us He surely would do it, but it would be after a fierce and prolonged combat between the two powers of good and evil, or of God and trouble.

I wonder if there are not others today whose real, innermost thoughts of God's Omnipresence and Omnipotence are much like this.

Are you one of those who believe in God and -? God and-sickness? God and poverty? God and something unpleasant in your life which you are daily trying to down by applying a sort of plaster of formal statements of truth right over the sore place of your trouble, while at the same time you are giving in your own mind (if not also in your conversation) about equal power to the remedy and the disease? If you are in this category let me tell you, you will never escape from your bondage, whatever it may be.

Try for a moment to think what really is meant by Omnipresent Spirit, remembering at the same time that what applies to our bodies applies equally to every other form of human affairs or conditions.

Each little atom of one's physical body, taken separately, is completely filled, permeated by Spirit, Substance, Life. This must be true because there could be no external form to the atom without first the sub-stans, that which stands under, or as the basis of all material things. The Spirit permeating each atom is now, always has been and always will be

absolutely perfect because it is God, the only Life in the universe. These atoms are held together each moment by the same Spirit. They work together in perfect harmony because the Spirit pervading them is one Spirit and not several spirits. Not one of these atoms can change into a diseased or imperfect atom, even for a moment; because if it did that would be one place where, for a time, there is lack of God, Perfect Life. And one place for one instant where there is lack of God breaks up the entire law of the Omnipresence of God, which cannot be.

Jesus said, "The Truth shall make you free," but he prefaced this statement by the word, "Ye shall know the Truth." It is then knowledge of the truth which sets free. The truth is, we are free now, but we do not know it. You may be the child of a king; but if you do not know it you may live in poverty and squalor all your life. We are all, today, this very hour, free from all sickness, because God, who is Perfect Life, unchangeable and indestructible, abides within and fills completely full every atom of these bodies. If God, Divine

Substance, fills every part, every place and space as the atmosphere fills the room, there is certainly no lack of life in any part. Then if today we are manifesting sickness, it is because we have believed the lie about ourselves, and have gotten the results of the lie, that is, apparent lack of health, in our consciousness.

All that is, is good, but lack of God in any part is not, that is, does not exist. Such a thing is a moral impossibility.

Many earnest people are greatly puzzled right here. They are told that "there is no evil; all is good because all is God," etc. When they find themselves or others suffering apparent pain, sickness, lack of money, etc., they are staggered in faith, and begin to say, "Surely this is not good; lack of health is not good, sin is not good, poverty is not good. What is this?" For an answer they are often told, "Oh, yes, this is good, for there is nothing but good (God) in the Universe. This is unripe good, like the green apple."

Now the truth is that all which is not good (God) is no thing. It simply is not. It is the lie, and has only to be definitely characterized