Omaha daily bee., 1899-05-10

? NNlfV we 10 no WNdA I IfNiI NNllNeNA NiH
possible, because | have learned that God
/ Is the only Mind. Il has made the Bible
dear to me ln an ever increasing sense. 1t
has made the world beautiful because It
I has taught me that all things In nature are
| but hieroglyphics OF Deity. 10 has taught
me gratitude to the church Of my childhood,
wherein learned so much OF the great pos
/ sibilitios Of Christs teachings. and l could
I not rest until | had found the full content
I of Christianity in Christian Science
Gods Healing Power is Ignored.
1t is claimed by a good many persons
that the great good which Christian Science
teaches is also taught by religionists of
other churches and that doctors admit and
employ the power of mind in healing dis
eases. / can speak both for myself ana
hundreds of others whom / have known
since being a Christian Scientist and never
in a single instance do l know of a minis
ter telling a poor sufferer that God could
and would restore him; that the same
power prevailed today as in the bygone
Centures-nor did my physicians ever once
suggest that there was power In mind to
warrant me in resisting disease and over
coming it. On the contrary, l was continu-
ally warned against taking any risks from
overeXertion, or by neglecting the precau-
tions, all of which tended to exclude mind
4 and limit its possibilities.
After this marvellous experience came to
me an unfolding took place, to which human
lips can never do justice-but that 1t viii
be understood l am certain for it has been
the experience of many thousands who have
been healed in this same way, and thou
sands more are awakening, and all would
say with the psalmist, Il shall be satisfied
when l awake in Thy likeness" l had
been born again, had seen in a flash of
light, as it were, the true meaning of life.
In my long, dTeary struggle ! had often
wondered what life could be--for even phys
ical science showed that it was not the phe-
nomena of eXistence-that there was a wide
difference between the thing which lives
and life itself. 1t did not seem possible
that life could be that which was mani
Tested by savage beasts and no less savage
men, and yet, where was life to be found? =?
In reading Science and Health" all this
was made plain indeed-that life is not a
blind force, subject to matter and its limit
ing conditions but that life is God Mind
Spirit, Soul, Intelligence, Truth and Love.
Here then is to be found the meaning OF
Christs statement, 81 am come that ye
might have life, and that ye might have
it more abundantly." This Life is what
heals the sick and at the same time saves
from SIM for this Life embodies in itself all
moral power and what is equally important
it is all in all. THE Lord is God and there
is none beside Him. This Life recognized
becomes such a mighty transforming force
that it sweeps away both fear and every
thing which does not represent God.
Thought the Basis of Everything.
1t is an astounding fact that after nearly
1000 years Of Christianity the only absolute
basis of unity in human thought is the be-
lief in DEATH for of earth's millions there
are many who do not believe in God at ALL
and amongst the multitudinous sects but
little agreement as to the nature and laws
Of God, while all are agreed that whatever
is uncertain, death is the one certainty.
Yet st. Paul wrote, in burst of triumph
that Christ hath abolished death, and hath
brought life and Immortality to light" We
a tnl N he
thnketh so is he. Christian Science is prov
ing beyond all question that thought is the
basis of everything. Can you conceive OF
anything which did not first exist as
thought whether in art commerce or in
venton? A mans thought is the basis of
all he is and does. 1t determines his words,
deeds and destiny, so far as mortal exist
ence is concerned. In view of this fact
think of the human race holding in thought
continually the idea of death and talking
constantly of the evils which lead up to it,
r! sin and sickness, and see how, through
this blindness, God is shut out of human
existence as it were.
Now, suppose this were all reversed, and
God made the basis of all thought and con-
sideration, which is done by genuine Chris
tian Scientists always. Let all the toiling
and hopeless ones of earth turn away from
this belief in death, and instead think or
God as their life in simple, practical way.
Let this Life be the basis of unity in the
n,,' :. -, I'I,,,u,, ,l,a,,o Of ooneidara-
Make II yout ~. i5n,, nIar and exe-
t eiUiI' 'n1 - ,o +hjnl, of Tho revolution If
ouIe, i Srn "ii io,,t i'm tbo tynrIdq Would if
mouil OiIns "D'uy .Snd u, dlSolIing With men
no. r og Ia iinoe oe,,I, no tbeir G6d9" If with
I ,Ii ,,pn toto nc vour model the Christ
az ms, SU" Won vii SEQ that life was a
~ tt iro Tvs ,.i,icb Jn dwelt and toward
'riat 10 diractod al thought. He told
t,r, % th, hraaJ of lifa and of the water
~ iieo " md tnward the close of the fourth
e,osIidI tbe beIovad discinIe saws that all
T+hat H. r;,ten Of Him is that "belieyipg.
,ro r,igbt have life through His name"
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sciehce "'e'S " VI
That Christian Science meets world
wide need is surely self-evident so far as
healing is concerned-for materia medica
has no relation whatever to the permanent
element in life, even the moral ana spirit
ual. Not only do drugs fail to heal the
sick, but the whole system makes mortar
man u veritable slave to his body, and ac-
! cording to this mistaken belief MIND whlch
= is the greater, is made subject unto the
lesser, even the body
/ do not for a moment deny the phlianS
thropy and fair motives Oh large numbers % y.
physlcians' put thls uoeS ioI ai'et ui,e ttlo ~
that tneH niethouS az t,a,od mon 1ivine
cause IheS are t,.o L0o tha foct that man is