St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-02-13
Hiss Sutton breaches Her
First Science Sermon in
st. Paul.
A Good Audience Out to Hear
Her at WeStmOreland
Hall.
The Fundamental Principle
Of the Doctrine Laid
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john, XIV, Z.
What power did Jesus seek to place
in the hands of men? The power to heal
sickness and sin.
How was this power to be gained and
exercised? Through His words.
What! Did Jesus mean to teach that
His mere WOrdS-the material sounds,
repeated by human tongue, possessed
power; or that the ideas expressed by
the words possessed this mighty power:
He certainly meant that all power lay
in His ideas. because these ideas were
spiritual truth, which destroys error.
Hear him: The words that l speak
unto you, they are spirit and they are
life;
They are spirit-or spiritual; that is,
they are true ideas, and these ideas, not
the words, are life. ''The letter killetl,
but the spirit giveth life" SO the mere
words repeated would continue to bring
sin, sickness and death, while an under
t standing of their spiritual idea would
unfold life.
Jesus command was to preach His
ideas to all the world, and the Scriptural
promise is that this preaching would
convert the work.! to Christianity and
bring in the millennium.
HIS words have been industriouSly
preached for eighteen hundred years,
and only small portion of the world is
ChriStianZed. Without correct I'M
Outstanding of the ideas He meant to
convey, these words might be preached
eighteen hundred years longer, and the
millennium he as far in the distance as
today.
The First and Underlying Idea
to be gained from His doctrines is that
man is, in his normal condition, spirit
ual and divine. That he has the same
mind that was in Christ Jesus" Hav-
ing this mind, he will have jesus I'M
Outstanding. With this understanding
he will be consciously in the same init
mate communion with God that Jesus
was, and receive the same answer to
| prayer.
Now, go back to the text and let us
see what we can make out OF it. If We
abide in me and my words abide in you,
We shall ask what We will and it shall be
! done unto YOU" We cannot abide in
| Jesus personality, and the ME" re-
| ferred to here is plainly the Christ
mind, divinely natural to every child OF
| God. My Words" as we have learned,
| means my ideas or my understanding.
Therefore, behold the Interpretation of
the text: If ye cons ciously exist as the
| Christ-mind, my understanding being
yours. -ye shall ask what ye will and it
| shall be done unto you.
How simple and how self-evident is
this Interpretation OF course, having
His understanding our prayer and its
answer would be what His were.
All His words contain ideas as spir
itual, as far above the human lnterpre-
tation, as this one quotation. Spirit
ually discerned, they convey meaning
which completely changes mans entire
understanding of himself, of God, yea,
| of life itself. But to human sense. His
teachings leave things, mainly, as they
were before. To such dull apprehen-
sion he said: SPY (materlaD hearing We
shall hear. and shall not understand;
| and seeing materially We shall see and
| shall not perceive"
| All agreed Never man Spake as this
man." CarnaI mind said this, because
his words we're mystery to them; but
| they who discerned spiritually, because
| of the wonderful truth He uttered.
Ihe whole Christian world preach
| His words, but because their spiritual
meaning is not discerned they are of
| comparatively little practical benefit.
| For instance, Jesus said: "Give and it
shall be given unto you; good measure,
pressed down and shaken together, ana
| running over, shall men give into your
| bosom. For with the same measure
| that We meet wlthal it shall be meas
ured to you again." But have known
| good Christian people who lived accord
| Ing to this rule and almost starved to
death on it. Why? Because there is
A Spiritual Understanding
to be gained which they had not.
This understanding is taught today
and is known as Christian science. 1t
not only interprets Jesus words Alright,
but does His works. And we know he
! taught that they who understood HIS
words would do His works. Did He not?
Listen: "He that believeth on me the
works that do shall he do also" That
''me," as we have already seen. being
| the Christ-mind or ideas, the sentence
may be rendered as follows: He that
understands my words shall do my
works. Now, who is doing His works
today? Who is healing the sick and
casting out sin? Orthodoxy? No! for
| orthodox Christians are as subject to
| sickness as they who do not profess
Christianity. So it is evident sin is not
cast out, only smOthered, for sin alone
causes sickness.
1t is vain to say we understand the
| words of Jesus if we cannot do his
works. for, according to His own teach
| ings, an understanding Of the words is
what does the works.
The works alone demonstrate the
words.
Orthodoxy expects to demonstrate
Jesus doctrines when they get to
heaven; meanwhile they have man
made doctrines for earth: but Jesus
babe man pray "Thy kingdom come Oh
earth, as in heaven"
Truth is the Christ, Jesus said; and
truth heals sickness and sin. There
fore,if we cannot heal we have not the
truth.
What is the truth? l tell you the
truth is the opposite Of what the human
sees and understands as true. Jesus
| made true statements. Christian sci
enee accepts these statements, neither
adding to nor taking from their mean
else not really believing, admits
them as matter of faith and
then adds the opposite statement, I'M
sderstandlng these to be true instead;
as when Jesus said, Call no man your
father upon the earth. for one is your
+ Father, which is in heaven" Matt.
xiii, 8. This teaching was from the
standpoint of spirit, wherein 'God Is
all and in all,'' and material things are
myths which disappear as man awakens
to spiritual reality. the only life. Hence
Christian science accepts the truth that
the spiritual is real and the material
unreal; that God is actually the only
Father, and the material parent is what
is taught by that sense is opposed to
Jesus teachings. But Orthodoxy first
declares God alone is Father-copying
Jesus words-and then teaches that the
material parent
rs an Actuality.
"But is not the material parent an
actuality?" you ask. Not if Jesus
statement is true. According to His
statement. that God is the only Father,
then God is also the Mother, and this
corroborates the twenty-seventh verse
of the first chapter of Genesis-'So God
created man in his own image. in the
image of God created he him, male and
female created he them" Thus is re-
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