Arizona republican., 1899-06-01
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
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 passingly rare in it's power of pene- traion, it's comprehensiveness it's strength and dignity, it's loving sweet ness, it's moral exaltation was be- stcWed the gift of interpretation. Every Christian Scientist will know at once that l refer to the Rev. Mary Baker t4. Eddy.
 IL is safe to assume that all cf you arc familiar with everyday teachings regarding the Christ. It is also safe 10 say that the majority of you believe in His life, in His so-caIled miractt- lous works. in His at-cne-ment with the divine. Assuming this, 1 wish to ask one question: What do yCu COZ ceiVe to have been the means employed when he made men well physically and spiritually? Whatever it was. it was effective. And the question is not q sacrilegious one, it is net profane at tempt to pry into the infinite mysteiy. or tc step unbidden into the Holy of Holies, for not only did Christ in His love and infinite goodness sweep away the shadows caused by false cOncep- tions, and invoke the overwhelming power Of the divine but he most dis tinctly taught that such works were the natural heritage of those who truly believe
 constant stream Of healing flowed from Christ's presence during all the years of His ministry; he encouraged His followers to believe that they could do the same works he asserted positively that they could do greater. and they went about preaching the good tidings and healing most success fully. Again l ask, what do you con ceive to have been the means em- plOyed? Surely you need not find it difficult to answer. Did not Jesus al ways refer the healing power to the Father? T speak not of myself. but the Father that dwc.leth in me. He dOeth the works" But how did the Father do it? And neither is this sacrilegious query. It can be given all the answer necessary to cur purpose by merely saying that it was throug1 the effiuX of His own perfect and there fore cleansing and healing spirit from himself to those he healed. And phys lcal heath and the power Of bestow;ng It, or, rather, the power Of removing the shadows Of seeming ills. seemed to be the natural and invariable accom- panlments of true belief. And I wish ! to repeat right here that all the cures i wrought by Christ were wrought l wholly through the power of divine |
  lie all the secret and the | whole doctrine Of Christian Science. | We believe not only that the divine | love, light. life, i5 the true bath of | perfect health, but that it is within the | reach of all who can set aside their false beliefs and with perfect reliance | upon the divine promise come into the ! light, and that no real and permanent ! cures, TO perfection Of body. mind. or spirit, can ever be attained without it
 The New Testament is net alone in | this idea-it is as old as God, and was gwen to men as lCng ago as His worr All through the Cid Testament we are taught that man should lock to God GOT healing and for all temporal bless lngS, and that they should CIoey his law Tn order to preserve their health
 In the history Cf King Asa is a plain animation that man has choice be- tween doctors and God when he E SICK, and Asa is an object lesson of the mistakes men make in seeking lnto doctors instead of unto Gcd. Tie Psalms are reDlete with promises of l9a-ing to those who wait upcn the i Lord The XCI Psalm is particularly -Ic1 in assurances Of complete pr3fof- ion to those who trust in God. II i3 }-e-eminently q Christian Science Isa.nl.
 It is not in tha least strange that af all the 5cnco.s which have attempted Q neal the sick and make life better Torth living, Christian Science should )e the most successful; the strange le15 hes rather in the fact tha- 90 many ages should pass before those yhO were studying the sacred texts hou.d nave found their meaning. their iteral application. The founder of Christian Science showed her true ;reatness in taking the life Of the treat Healer, the only Physician who lever made a failure, who never lost | [ case, who always perfectly and in tantiy cured, as q key to the true reatment of disease. It has often been claimed that Chris ian Science is merely the successful { ut upwitting practice of hypnotic i uggesticn. We deny it emphatically ( nd think we can show you points Of ssential difference. Hypnotism in it's ; pparent design (whatever may be it's rue working) has the human being or the basis of it's power. in it the hu-