The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-12-07
SCRANTON TRIBUNE WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER z. 1893

sick, lame, blind. weak or had met
with an accident. or had caught a cold.
How can His child, made in His inn
age and likeness" have any illusion
fasten itself on him. which could not
fasten itself on His Father, God? We
have not to preach men out of hell but
to cast the hell of sick and evil
thoughts out of men! Nor have we to
preach men into Heaven, but the
Heaven of Gods thoughts of peace.
health. happiness and the harmony of
Heavenly conditions, into the con-
sciousness of men! And we do it scien-
tifically!
MUST ACCEPT THE BIBLE.
Doubtless. you are frequently told
that Christian Scientists deny the Bible.
Instead of refuting that blessed Book,
you will clearly see by the words in
our first tenet that we must accept the
Bible before we can enter the ranks OF
Christian Scientists. That tenet Is as
follows: AS adherents of Truth, We
take the Scriptures for our guide TO
eternal life"
Again. replying to the question. Does
the founder of Christian Science deny
or despiSe the Bible?" let this speaker
answer, as one of those invited to be
present last February to hear her. at
her first appearance in her new church.
Mrs. Eddy read the ninety-tirst Psalm
paper Her rich. clear melodious voice
served to the very best advantage to
emphasize that beautiful passage OF
Scripture which she characterized as
being the Pearl of the Psalter. and con-
tanning more of meaning than is con-
densed into so many words anywhere
else in all literature, except In the Ser
mon on the Mount by the great Cali
lean. She made this Psalm her text
and theme, and. taking it, passage by
passage. eXquisitely brought out Chris
tian Science as applied to practical
life"
WHEN THIS TIME COMES.
Now, whosoever chooses to quit the
so-Called pleasures of sense, WhOSoeNer
wishes to leave its pains and sorrows,
and deliberately decides {" yield to the
domination of the self-life no longer,
shall abide" under the shadow of the
Almighty. When this thought becomes
general in human consciousness, me-
thinks / see i'm that spiritual uplift the
gathered Tribes, twelve times twelve
thousand, stand with solemn hush, as
they realize in it's fullness that through
the understanding of Absolute Truth
they have awakened in His Likeness" "
The at-One-ment of God and His people
is perfected. When we fully under
stand our at-one-ment with God. we
can send up the shout, "A King is in
the Camp" Truth is triumphant. For
He says today. "All power is given un-
to Me in heaven and in earth" Why
was this power ever curtailed or lost?
COnstantine's union of church and state
had the materializing effect upon the
early Christians of deprving them of
this power; for Gibbons History of
Rome says it was exercised up to the
close of the third century, when they
not infrequently raised the dead
Mortal mind ever strives to material
iZe spiritual truth Good. 1t attempts
to persnnalize Good and calls it God.
Then it imagines that Good has an
equal opposite Evil. which it defies
and calls D'Evil. This materialst in
depreciation of what is spiritual is the
cause Of skepticism and infdelity.
Mortal mind-or as our translation
gives it. the Carnal mind, is a limited
application Of the word, mind--Rother-
ham translates it THE mind of the
flesh" which is not simply antagon-
istic, hut as Paul declares, "is enmity
against God'-Good. Spirit. Life, Truth.
Love, and is not subject to the law of
God. Good, neither indeed can be"
Hence it is that mortal mind assumes
to counterfeit the All-Wise. truth, with
its opposite. falsehOod; life. with it's
antipode. death: and love. with it's sub
terfuge. hate. Thus it did twenty GEN.
turies ago. when it thought ii had killed
the Prince of Life. Mortal mind cruel
fled the perfect exponent of this trune
principle, life. truth and love. and It
would do ii TODAY if it could But the
resurrection of Christ. truth. bursting
the bonds of error, has ever liberate
each and all that will reckon self 10
be dead indeed" and let Truth rise tri-
umphant over every manifestation Of
mortal sense.
Let me illustrate this with circum-
stance within my own knowledge. Very
near the spot where we are erecting