St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-01-23

seemed to think that although these
questions were III the mimi, no sin was
committed If we only kept still about
them. Now Jesus taught sin to be in
thought and desire. SO iswll be no
more sinful for me to ask than for you
to think those things; and [ am going
to ask some Of the questions you and
asked when we were children, before
we learned to bury them. Here they
are: Since God is perfect, how could
He create evil and Satan? If He did
not create them, who did? Who is this
evil creator? Ii Satan were once Gods
perfect work, how could he become i'm
perfect. and if he became imperfect
will not the whole of creation and God
Himself become so? If God be greater
than Satan, how can he (Satan) control
more people than God? If God created
man capable of being tempted to sin, is
it right for Him to punish him forever
because the love of SIN so blinds him
that he sees nothing in good to love? Is
1T right for Him to eternally torment
person who has always been almost
wholly under evil influences? Why is
mot every man able to repent and re-
form through God-given gracep If God
is just and kind, how can He continue
to create mortalS to be forever pun
ished? How could an All-Wise Being
do anything unwise to repent of?
- Thinking people have felt that if God
makes mistakes He should
Not Hold Vi an Responsible
for mistakes. The creature could not
be more perfect than the Creator. In
fact, Christians have longed for an all
loving, all-WiSe, all-poWerful and con-
slStent God whom they can truly love,
Nd N
they have felt the need of a better nat
ure within themselves than the human
to begin with. They know that what is
termed human nature is incapable of
attaining to that standard of perfection
Jesus held up as the only Christianity,
for Jesus never taught nor demon
strated Christianity as anything less
than perfection. Why, the human feels
it to be almost an impOSsibility to love
our neighbor as ourselves; yet Jesus
babe us to 20 even higher than that
to love our enemies! He taught us
that the real children Of God blessed
those who cursed them, did good to
those who hated them, and prayed for
those who deSpitefully used and perSe-
cuted them. BE we perfect" said
Jesus; but how Impossible to the
human! The Master said the pure
should see God, and human sense is I'M
purity itself. Why, some of the best of
men argue that certain resorts of in
iquity-sporting houses-are necessary
evil. How helpless, then, does man
feel before the claims of impurity! He
knows he needs very different nature
from the human to walk in that pure
way to heaven Jesus walked Yet
Jesus said, II am the way"
Christian science comes to feel these
too long-felt needs. The revelation of a
better Creator and better creature than
we have hitherto pretended. AS |
have said. we preach no newly invented
IDEAS; but divine science. unfolds the
ideas taught by Jesus. yet SO darkened
as they come down to this generation.
In christian science we understand
that Gods only nature and creations are
90 cd. "And He looked upon every
thing that He had made, and behold. it
was very good" Hence. God created
no evil and there is none as an actaal
creation. The sense of evil is false
One which becomes nothing when the
truth of being (goodne5S) is attained
Nv hen mortality is swallowed up OF
lifey' In this diSsolving of evil, Satan
and all the lesser lilies" will disappear.
hum Ian nature (D itself will be lost sight
OF as mere sense of limitations; and
man will be found the image of his Gre
ator, perfectly divine and spiritual, and
hence above the love of evil and it's
seeming power.
z But we must first recognize his divin-
ity, for his belief in human helpless
ness. in the reality of a human nature,
is all there is of helplessness and hui
maniity. His belief is
go The Only Chain
that binds him. 1t is glorious to know
that, with the human, the material is
swept away. ''ln me, that is in my
flesh, is no good thing" said Paul. ana
as all God made Is good He did not
create flesh or any materiality. The
ever crumDling forms of matter conSti-
tute the appearance Of things which do
temporarily present themselves to the
human sense of limitation. 70 the
spiritual all things are spiritual, surely.
No one outside of Christian science
has any idea of the regenerating power
of mans true consciousness of himself
as divine, spiritual. This is mysterious
to such as reject these doctrines; but
Jesus religion and its power was no
mystery to Him, and it is not
to US, and we can scarcely realize
we ever believed otherwise. The riches
of the world would not tempt us back in
She old ways. The rel gion of Jesus de-
StrOyed sin and sick ness and death.
This trio of evils are mans enemies,a and
the last enemy is DEATH" that is, it is
the last Of the three over which we will
gain the victory. Christians have looked
back with longing eyes to the healing
works Of Jesus and His disciples, and
longed for return of the days of mir
acres to lift them from beds of pain and
WEAKNESS; to strengthen the feeble foot
steps; to restore the falling sight and
lost hearing; TO obliterate the overpow-
ering passions Of mind and body; to
turn sorrow into jow and weeping into
smiles. Lift up the dropping head and
cherries heart, for the day OF mir
acles''ls here. 1t has never passed away,
for Jesus said: "WhoSoever Delieveth
on Me the works that do shall he do
Also" ''Whos0eyer'' means His true
followers throughout all ages. You will
say. Il am a sincere believer, yet l can
not heal the sick" Yes. but you do not
understand and believe Him as do.
and my faith heals the sick. Then mine
is the truth, for "by their works you
shall know them" My idea and appli-
cation of ChristS unity also destroys
sins that l could not effect before l came
into Christian science. These are the
''SlgnS IIlaG IOllOW. Cdn you uOb us
Germ the signs of the times?"
FRIENDS ARE AT WORK
To Secure the Reinstatement of
Margaret Street Officers.
The friends Of the Margaret street
police officials who were asked to re-
sig by the mayor are working hard to
have them reinstated. 1t is claimed
by those best acquainted with the men
that they have always given satisfac-
ton and are capable and efficient Off
GERS. That they were asked to resign
on such grounds Is considered a hard
ship. At the assembly meeting Thurs
day night it is expected the mayor will
notify that body of bis action in the
premises and ask for approval. Ac-
cording to statements made by friends
of the officers, several of the assembly
men are not satisfied with the mayors