Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1899-05-18

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The world needs Christian Science 10
settle its temperance question: the adj
vocates Of temperance, cry Total alb
stinance,' a. cure for intemperance
but the poor inebriate cannot abstain,
he has lost control Of himself, his APP
petite has gotten the better Of him; 80
that, while he knows that, Taste not
touch not, handle not the unciean
thing" is his salvation, and his only
salvation, yet he cannot avail himself
Of IL.
just az long as the world continues 10
believe in the power Of matter over
mind, that matter has power TO de-
throne mind, or that matter Is equally
potent with mind, will intoxication pre-
vail in the world, and men continue 70
become intoxicated. And that the
world is believing that matter has
power over mind, is evident on the face
Of II and that it is in helpless and
hopeless state Of inebriety needs nothing
10 vindicate IL. And that il needs
| Christian Science TO extricateit from its
thraldom, is also plain; and that Christ
ian Science has come, and is filling that
very need, is what the world il slowly,
but surely waking up 20 comprehend
and acknowledge.
The world needs Christian Science, TO
settle its financial question. Men of all
classes Of calibcr, from the lowest, TO the
highest and greatest craftsmanship I;
have made it their life study; and IL is
no nearer a solution now, than il was a
thousand years ago; and it never can be
solved, 20 long as gold or any other ma
terial commodity is made the basis Of
value. Gold, or silver, or precious
stones, or houses, or lands or property
Of any kind,or in any country cannot be
made the basis Of value indeed, there
is no real value there.
And where shall value be found, but
in the Kingdom Of Heaven, THE
pearl Of great price, when men learn
through Christian Science--''In God
we trust, learn il, really and truly and
scientifically as taught in the science Of
being then, every dollar and everything
will be transformed; then, gold, or sill
YER, or any other thing, will be found,
having no value Of il OWN, but will still
be found OF value aud invaluable and
whose value cannot change or be lost,
because it is based upon divine princi-
ple-the basis Of all things, "That il yes
terlay, 30 lay and forever the same"
rnE WORLD NEEDS CHRISTIAN SCIENCE,
TO SETTLE Irs RELIGIOUS COSTROyER-
SIZES.
Looking down through the vista Of
six thousand years, since the alleged be-
ginning of time, the eye grows dim,
and the cheek grows pale, at the rivers
Of blood that man has drained from his
fellow man, ON account Of some religious
differences that neither one knew any
thing about, but each one believed in !;
and, judging from frite standpoint,
each thought he had sufficient proof TO
sustain him in his belief
And from this finite and limited con-
ception, or rather misconception, aud
consequent misjudgment,- religious con-
troyersies, quarrels, feuds and wars have
arisen, that have separated kindreds
and friends alienated peoples and ma
tions; man going forth with fire and
fury, reeking his merciless sword in the
blood Of his fcllowman, and all in the
name OF u changing belief that was
builded upon the sands.
The pulpts today are storming the
citadel Of mortal mans greatest capac-
tiles; trying to get him 10 believe some
thing, that they themselves only half
believe and do not az all understand
Each separate church, aud almost each
separate preacher, having his own pc
culiar belief or doctrine that he is trying
TO impose upon his ielluwman until no
one knows what 10 believe, or whether
to believe anything; and il he does
iinally coutrive to believe something, he
still is in doubt as 10 the truth Of il, for
b'liei implies doubt; for no matter
what the belief may be, whether il be
good or bad, true or false 40 long as it
remains belief II has not reached the
understanding, and consequently re-
mains Ia be- proven and is therefore,
an open question; and because OF 80
many doubts, and 50 little proof and So
much hawking Of beliefs, the religious
world is in dreadful scattered, torn up,
and unsettled state, and needs something
Ia rescue it from its unsettled, dissat-
ished and doubtful condition.
No questions are answered, no prob.
lems solved, and no controversies set.
tied
The honest inquirer is met everywhere
with beliefs, opinions and dogmas, un.
al discouraged and disyusted, he con.
eludes, and rightly, that one belief is
about rs good asanother and that 10 have
NO belief, is about as good As any. but,
Christian Science comes 20 settle this
religious controversy; Tor il does not
come, adding another belief 10 the al. |
ready countless numbers, for il has NO
beliefs to offer 20 any one; il has moth. /
ing but facts, 10 prvsent % the world !
and every fact isprSoi-positiye and con-
elusive every fact is irreiutable and uu-
deniahle every fact is purely practical
and highly demonstrable.
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