St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-01-04

The religion that does not make prac-
teal today is not OF Christ.
When will the world be ready to fol-
low the Christ, as Jesus and His
disciples did, by setting aside the things
of this world that they might gain the
liberty of the sons of God"
Christian science stands before the
world today in the same attitude and i'll
the same relation that Jesus stood 1900
years ago. He came to the world in
answer to demand for better under
standing of Gods spiritual law and His
relation to man.
The truth of Christ has come again in
answer to the same demand. In the
glimmering light of the morning dawn,
like the wakeful shepherds of old, be-
hold the first faint rays of light, ere
eometh the risen monarch that diSpels
from our consciousness all sense Of
darkness. fear and doubt. Man today,
as in times past, looks upon man and
the physical universe from a purely
physical standpoint, and because of
this false conception he entails upon
himself all the ills Inherent in the flesh.
Mans bondage is the result of his
own subjective thought: this is easily
proven, because his suffering and fear
of suffering exist to him only, and last
only as long as he believes they have
power over him. The only sense of dis
cord there IS exists in the belief that
man needs improving, and he fosters
the belief, by seeking to improve the
body, showing concluSively that he be-
lieveS man is material and God created,
but Is trying to improve the works of
God.
JeSIs was teacher of man, and. His
word being truth, 1t was the liberator of
man and this truth, understood, makes
free today.
Not that Christian science is intend
ed to meet and combat the quack sys-
TENS OF healing so-called diseases
not so.
The mission of Jesus was to teach
truth, and if Christian science is follow
ing the expressed thought of the Mas
ter, it, too, must teach the truth that
makes alive, that frees the coptive from
the false and aSSumptive claims of NOR
tai existence, and reveals Life hid
with Christ in God, eternal in the heay-
ems"
Christian science stands alone in the
world today, as Jesus stood alone. tear
ing the dark mask from the mind that
sees and believes man to be material
and structural, that presages all the
prerogatives of the child of Infnity-as
Paul said to Timothy, ''Deeeiving and
being deceived, ever learning and never
able to come into the truth as it is in
Christ, reprobate concerning the faith,
from such turn away"
This beliigerent enemy is found ever
encamped near. and besieging the
truth, and for no other purpose than to
deceive and lead aStray, and so success
fuI has 1t been i'll classifying that it has
darkened the world of religious history.
In the work Of
DemOIishing These Errors
Christian science asks no quarter and
grants none. 1t challenges to mortal
combat, by the law of love and truth, all
the man-made creeds, all the traditions
OF the elders that ever have beeu
stumbling block in the way of truth.
thereby ''making the law of God of
none-effect."
1t declares the teachings of Jesus to
be scientifically true, or else they are
valueless. 1t declares His teachings to
be an absolute and imperative state
ment of truth, founded on eternal, un-
changing principle that cannot pass
away. Ii He was teacher sent from
God, than His words cannot be anything
less than eternal truth.
Christian science Subscribes to no blind
the truth that is Christ.
1t does not claim to have apprehended
all Of the truth, but it does assert that
1t has caught enough of truth to prac-
tlcally demonstrate a portion of the
statement OF Jesus true; aud, like the
mathematical principle. we can demon
strate so far as we know, and because
we can demonstrate a portion true, we
know the whole statement to be true.
thus proving the only mystery there is
in truth is our ignorance of it. If Jesus
was teacher Of truth, and could impart
the truth that enabled them to do the
work that He did. it must be done to-
day: and the systems that do not teach
and practice the truth as He taught and
practiced it are false, land must give way
to those that do teach it. q
The multitude are a gain seeking
truth on the open plane, and b ave fol-
lowed the Master through, in the morn
ing dawn of truth. to the Galilean sea
of error. where thep behold the broken
nets and sinking ships of vain and hy-
pothetlcal theories, inadequate to meet
the demands made upon them for divine
truth; they must all be forsaken.
Jesus was unable to teach the disci-
pies in the three years he was with
them how to use the God-giyen power
which they possessed. What God has
given to one He has given to all. If it
had been i'll the province of Jesus to
nave delegated any special power to the
disciples he could have done it in less
than three years. But the fact, as given
by the narrator, shows that man can
be heir to the throne of eternal har-
mony, and be none the better unless he
reaches out and lays hold of what by
divine right is his now and appropriates
it to his own benefit. Jesus has simply
shown the way, and has come again to
inquire If they have made use of his
teachings. The question was precisely
the same as propounded at the first call,
and has brought out the same identical
anSwer-nO, we are still looking to the
senses for light, and we find nothing but
darkness. have toiIed all night and have
caught nothing.
Then comes the command again, Coast
your nets on the right side" and when
they obeyed they found fish.
Prior to this Jesus had been unable to
turn their minds from the old fishing
boats to His divine, glorified sense of
love and life.
Therefore He says, "Chidren, have
you any meat-has not my teaching
been enough to turn your minds from
sense to soul as the life of man?" Then
He invites them to come and dine, come
and partake of the bread und meat that
cometh down from above, and He asks
them to bring of what they have caught.
Previous to this second spiritual infiuv
of light they have nothing; but this last
meal with the Master has opened their
understanding to such an extent that
they are never found at the fishing
boats again.
IN THE FIGHTING FIFTH.