St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-08-01
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SERVICE
Sure Salvation Proclaimed by a
EroOklYn Scientist.

Sure Salvation Proclaimed by a
Brooklyn Scientist.
Rev. Frank E. Mason. c. S. D.. pastor
of the First Church of Christ (scientist)
of Brooklyn, n. Y, preached in the
Christian science rooms in Hotel Bar
teau yesterday morning before large
audience.
His subject was "A Sure Salvation"
and he took for his text Paul's words
found i'm Heb. iX., 2S: Unto them that
look for him shall he appear the second
time, without sin. unto salvation" Tue
reverend gentleman said, III commence
ment, that it might be presumed to be
presumptuOus to speak upon such
subject when six thousand years Of
religious instruction had failed 20 bring
the 0ueSted hope of immunity from the
thraldom of the flesh, bnt, he continued,
it is fact that salvation is at hand in
the spiritual recognition Of man and the
universe. The speaker divided his SER
mon into three assumptions, from which
he dwelt at length. FirSt-A spiritual
perception of man is the only salvation
that exists. Second-rhe salvation of
man consists in the understanding that
evil has no ponafide existence, that
goodness alone is the real and the eter-
nal. Third-Everv thought that rises
above the human apprehension OF
things heralds the coming OF the per-
feet man of Gods creating.
For 5000 years man has been conSid-
cred to be.a creature of the duSt-a
mortal. human corporal creature, and
for 5000 years sickness, sin and death
in fact all of the conditions of the flesh
have teen entailed upon him, and for
no other reason than because he (man)
cannot rise above the human concep-
ton of himself. Seed brings forth after
its kind, and, inasmuch as discord is ia
herent in the flesh, to consider man to
be flesh makes him target for these
conditions. Man is, spiritually speak
ing, the child of God. and When this
fact of being is realized, the abnormal
conditions of the flesh will cease to ex-
iSt. The conditions OF the flesh con-
tinue only so long as the human mind
makes concessions to them. Regard
less of the contrary evidence of
the senses, man is a child Of
God, spiritual and perfect. 1t is the hu-
man sense of man that poStulates sick
ness, sin and death; they are not the
facts of existence, but the falsity of
human belief. Annillilate the human
sense of man and physical effects will
cease to exist. There is but one power
the power Of spirit, this is omnipres-
ent, leaving 10 room for any other
power. If thereswere another power,
God could not be all-powerful. Evil mas
no legitimate power, but manifeSts the
power we falsely ascribe 10 it. When
lhe realization OF the allneSs of spirit is
paramount i'll consciousness, evil will
cease to exist. 1t cannot longer be mani
tested, because spirit (good) abSorbS the
thought. The human mind has produced
the human apprehension of all things
from Adam TO Jesus. If there had never
been human mind there would never
have been human Jesus. The
crucifXtion is the result OfQ COM
bining spiritual ideal in the
habiliments of the flesh. 1t is
the flesh that wars against the spirit
and the spirit that wars against the
flesh, and simply because they are Op-
posites. Meteria medica has done alb
solutely nothing toward the annihilia-
ton of disease. At the very best it is
but palliative. Christian science de-
stroys the cause of disease and thus an
initiates Its effect, leaving no cause to
again express itself. Religion holds
before man the fact that he is fallen
image of God, when the fact of being is
that man is Gods spiritual image and
likeness. 1t is impossible to regenerate
man from the hypothesis that he has
fallen. for it is an utter impossibiiity to
evolve spirituality from materiality.
Seed brings forth after its kind, and to
establish man in the true facts
Of life as the offspring of God
we must commence with the con-
viction that he is spiritual.
Spirituality is question of recognition,
and not one of time nor of death, for
death never makes one more spiritual,
and time adds nothing to the spiritual
Tim UnrlI haS m11p IaCuc
the Christ remote and an isolated
being, and has crowned Him as the eX-
elusive child of God, but this is not
true. for ''God is no reSpecter of per-
sons" and what He does for one He
does for all. The Christ is Gods image
in man, and when man awakenS to the
fact that the Christ is the spiritually
perspective picture of himself, he (man)
will come into possession of his BIRTH
right of dominion over all things"
Man, as Gods image and likeness, re-
fleets every attribute and condition of
his Creator. for. if God possessed attri-
butes that man did not and never could
express, they would he utterly useless,
for who would know them? To be Gods
image and likeness means to represent
God in every detail of his being. Jesus
maintained His oneness with God, and
this crowned Him with the marvellous
power He manifested. If we were as
conscious of our affinity with God as
was Jesus. we, too, would manifest the
inherent spiritual conditions.
Mr.. Mason is the guest of Mr.. Barteau,
of Hotel Barteau, and will remain in
this city long enough to teach class in
Christian Science. Tonight he will de-
liver parlor talk at the residence of
Mrs. George NJ. Brush, SIT Fourth street
south MINNEAPOLIS.