The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-12-07

New York city,
Flourlshing churches are also organ
lzed IN London, England Paris FrahcS
Dresden and Hanover, Germany, and
in Canada, Brazil and Scotland.
The mother church IL IN Boston,
Mass. An others are the branches.
These, churches are emphatlcally heal
ing churches ! have witnessed the
crippled carrying crutCher walking and
those deaf thirty years, hearing.
DEMONSTRABLE CHRISTIANITY
Christian Science Is demonstrable
Christianity, Through the spiritual
understanding OF the teachings OF
Christ Jesus, its followers are enabled
to obey His command to heal the sick"
and do the works He and His disciples
did 1t Is not faith cure because It
does not perform its wonderful works
through blind faith In personal God.
1t is not mesmelism or hypnotsm. be-
| cause it denies absolutely the power of
the human mind and human will, and
| claims no will but Gods. Through rec
| ognizing the one Mind and man as the
reflection or Idea of that Mind. II for
ever establishes the brotherhood Of
| man, 1t Is the perfect salvation from
sin, disease and death Christ Jesus
came tu bring. Christian Science, in a
| word is the law of God good prinCi-
| pie being, life, truth, love and eternal
| harmony,
The Bible contains the Gospel. which
| in Anglu-SaXOu H. Gudcspell or Good
| news, better news of the good" Now
| good, proclaimed to and appropriated
| by suffering humanity makes them
| whole, emphatically. through this Good
| News Df Wilderness.
Webster helus to n true. scientific
! definition of this word. holy; Health,
| salvation, happiness, whole. well. The
| word whole is defined a well, sound.
! healthy, hol". possessing or being in a
! state Of health ana sOundness." So
/ practical Christian Science enables us
/ to obey Pauls wore. Present your bod
| les living sacrifice wholly acceptable
| unto God. which IL your reasonable SER
/ vice That is, if YOU exercise your
/ reason as sane men should you will
! come to the understanding that you are
| able to respond to the question Of Jesus,
wilt thou be made whole?" for in
! Acts, ix:3. we read Christ Jesus
| maketh thee whole" More than a milf
ion in this country have responded to
! the question In the affirmative. and
! proved the Bible absolutely true. as
| Christian Science enables mankind to
| understand it. 1t is FUN Of the hid
! treasure of healing, truth. This hid
| treasure is discOverahlc only to those
! who understand the principle of being
of mans relation To God. and so live
and move ana have their being" in the
| one Mind
CIRCLED THE RANGE.
In Colorado we once journeyed up to
| the altitude of 10000 feet by the loop
| line, which. a. it climbed the noun
| tam, Circled the range and came over
| itself triumphantly-a marvel OF on
| gineering skill. As it crossed itself, we
| saw before us magnificent panorama
| of the Rocky mountains which We
| could not have seen on the lower line.
! This L. a lesson To Christians of every
| name. We find in Christian Science. as
! well as in all Christianity. that only as
| mortals sra the nOthingnesS of a self
! apart from God, and thus overcome it,
! do We make triumphant progress up
ward and onward 10y the demonstration
| of Spirit, which alone has power to up
| lift us. This is the privilege. yea. the
| right of every true Christian who is
| willing L. open his eyes to the under
| standing. Even Luther said: Il fear
| that pope, self, more than the one sit
| ting in Rome Let us manifest the
| like determined purpose to fulfill Pauns
| injunction in Romans, WIN, Likewise
| reckon Ne also yourself to be dead. in
| deed, unto sin. but alive unto God
| through Jesus Christ our Lord Aban-
| don self, and see its nOthingnCSS, and
| as opposed thereto, your real conscious
ness, resurrected through impersonal
| truth and Omnipotent love. and alive
| unto God. Spirit. Thus we will see the
| force of Psalm, cvii:2O: He sent His
| word and healed them ANA delivered
| them from their distinctions"
| When a silver Plume. Col, We found
| two Iorkshiremer who had left their
| homes and those dear to them, risking
| life and health chiseling their way into
| the very heart of the Rocky mountains
| in their eager desire for hid treasure
What distances will not men go. what
| risks VIII they not run. in the hope of
gaining wealth, ana what seems to be
lost health, But if men amass wealth
by the million, or billion. and have not
health, they NAV deplorc with Jere-
| miah, surely our fathers have inher-
tied lies vanity ana things wherein
| there iS no profit" Now Christian Sci
! enCe enables us t. leave the prOfitleSs
| environment of the mortal senses, and
| the difficulties and sorrow OF the past,
| as we'll as tn" claims of i'll health
| AwakinG from its dream, we strike
forth for the imperishable. 1t requires
! God-given mOtiVe-uOwer to chsc
through the rocky mountain of self
| Not being satisfied with materialistiC
| belief about God and man. we sinh
deep shaft through the quartz OF
! mortal life ana love, ana daily smelt
down our rewards of diligence into the
| pure metal of life, truth and love.
COMES IN INFANT FORM.
Christian Science comes at first {,
every consciousness in infant form. We
| tenderly care for and nurse it, At first
| We can do little more than admire il
and watch its gradual development. 1t
| grows stronger each day. reaches out
! begins to discern truth from error, dis
| tinguish between the things God made
| and the things God did not make be-
| tween the material and the SDiritual
| the real and the unreal, and soon is
| able to speak for itself, as Jesus did
| even at the age of twelve. He bOtl
| heard and answered the questions Oi
! the doctors. But we are not to remain
| infants indefinitely.
our Master the Prince of Life, took
! a living text. a little child. He bade
| his disciples become as that little child
in their guileless reCcptiVity Of truth
| ReceptiVitY was His one point The
first knowledge a child receives is the
| alphabet. Now let us reverse all Oul
mortal senses of years and unlearn al
our old ideas about theology and medi.
cine. These two words have had a mes
merle influence upon us. We have been
| perhaps, like the agent of a western
| railroad station, who at the close Oi
! day, would put his ear to the rails
| listening for the sound of the coming
| express. Soon he would see a flicker.
| ing light approaching. Then, as he
stood spell-hOund by the rapidly near.
| ing headlight, he slowly awakes to his
| danger. BY one supreme effort he
| leaped at the last instant to the plat
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