Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1898-08-04
Christian Science.

EDITOR JouRNAL.-No OF wishing the
errors which have been put before the
public to be accepted as true, | submit
the following quotations from Science
and Health with Key to the Scriptures
by Rev. Mary Baker G. Eddy, for
publications:
I'm Christian Science mere opinion is
valuetess. Proef is essential to due
estimate of this subject. Sneers, at the
application of the word Science to
Christianity, cannot prevent that from
being Scientific which is based on di-
vine Principle, demonstrated accord
ing to a given rule, and subjected to
proper tests. The facts are so absolute
and numerous in support of Christian
Science, that misrepresentation and de-
nunciatiOn cannot overthrow it. Saint
Paul alludes to doubtful disputa-
tons" The hour has struck when
proof and demonstration, instead of
opinion and dogma, are summoned to
the support of Christianity, making
wise the simple n-Lines II, page 2S7,
to line 5, page 2SS.
us not mortal mind ignorant of Gods
method? This makes it doubly unfair
to impugn and misrepresent the facts,
although, without this cross-bear;ng,
one might not be able to say, with the
apostle, None of these things move
me-" The sick, the halt, and the
blind look up to Christian Science
with blessings, and Truth will not
be forever hidden from the quickened
sense of the people by unjust parody"
Lines to IA, page 2S6.
In following these leadings of
Scientific revelation, the Bible was
my only textbook. The scriptures
were illumined, reason and revelation
were reconciled; and afterwards the
Truth of Christian Science was dem
onstrated. No human pen or tongue
taught me the Science contained in
this book, Science and Health, and
neither tongue nor pen can ever over
throw it. This book may be distorted
by shallow criticism, or by careless
and mischievous students, and it's
ideas may be temporarily forced into
wrong channels; but the Science and
Truth therein will remain forever, to
Lines Is to q, page 4.
"a child can have worms. if YOU saw
so,-or any other malady, timorously
holden in the beliefs of those about
him, relative to his body. Thus are
laid the foundations of the belief in
disease and death, and children are
educated into discord. '-Lines 9 to 6,
page 4l2.
Faith is higher and more spiritual
than belief. 1t is a chrysalis state of
human thought, wherein spiritual evil
dence, contradicting the testimony of
material senses, begin to appear, and
Truth, the ever-present, is becoming
understood. Belief has it's degrees Of
comparison. Some beliefs are better
than others. Beliefs in Truth are bet
ter than beliefs in error, but no human
beliefs are founded on the divine rock.
They can be shaken; and until belief
becomes faith, and faith becomes uu-
derstanding, thought has little rela-
ton to the actual. "-Lines 20 to 30.
page 1888
'The measurement of Life by solar
years robs youth and gives ugliness to
age. The rising sun of virtue and
Truth marks the morn oi .~.-.t Its
manhood is the eternal noon, una. IT,
med by a declining sun. AS the phys
ical and material sense of beauty fades,
the radiance of Spirit should dawn up
on the enraptured senses with brighter
glories. Lines II to II, page l42.
'Only as we rise above all material
sensuOusness and sin, can we reach the
Heaven-born aspiration and spiritual
consciousness which is indicated in the
Lords prayer, and instantaneously
heals the sick"
Here let me give what understand
to be the spiritual Interpretation of the
Lords Prayer:
Our Father which art in Heaven,
Our Father and Mother God, all
harmonious.
Hallowed be Thy name.
adorable One.
Thy Kingdom come,
Thy kingdom is come,
Good is eYer present and on7ni-
potent
Thy will be done in earth, as it is in
Heaven.
Enable us to knoH.,-as in Hear
en-, SO on earth,-God is All in
all.
Give us this day our daily bread:
Gre us grace for today; feed
Thou the famished affections:
And forgive US our debts, as we forgive
our debtors.
And divine Lore is reflected in
love;
And lead us not into temptation, but
deliver us from evil;
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