in Divine Science to many as yet unanswered questions. With the omnipresence of God as our basic principle, we Divine Scientists feel that we are speaking with authority. We shall endeavor to answer all questions from the point of view of omnipresent good.
Much of the thinking of the race has been negative. Men have seen evil, sickness, poverty, suffering, decrepitude, in human experience; and judging from appearances they have been unwilling to accept a philosophy that proclaims God as all, visible and invisible. "God must be the invisible power, but he must remain in the unseen, for if he is in the visible, how can you account for the wrongs of the world?" is the question that we hear repeated so often. Men have said for ages, "This is a mystery." They have accordingly continued to visualize places and conditions where God is not.
Do the appearances of inharmony that men [6] call sickness, poverty, evil, and death, deny the principle of Omnipresence? From which side are you thinking--the inner or the outer? To many the outer is more real than the inner; to such I can only say, "Detach your thought from that which is without and fasten it to that which is within." We have lived in the external for so long that it seems much more real to many of us than the internal or eternal. We have lived with our eyes fixed upon phenomena, and now we are beginning to look through the phenomenon to find the cause. Detached thinking has done much to lead us farther and farther from reality. We have seen the
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