The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-12-02
ABOUT CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
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meaning Of the Holy Scriptures.
I'm the great work of her devoted ant
beautiful life she took, as she declares
herself, the Bible as her only guide, and
she does not announce any principle
doctrine or practice of Christian Sci
.ence that she did not find and that you
each of you may not find in the Bible
Wherefore Christian Science offers tt
the world no new Bible or mythical
construction of che old one. 1t en-
thrones no new divinity, but re-en
thrones and declares unto you the only
living and true God, so long wor.
shipped.
1.-The older Christian churches urge
as an objection against what they con-
ceive Christian Science to be that it is
sheer impiety for any person to assert
that he is clothed with the power OF
God to heal the sick. The striking
weakness of this objection Is that Chris
tian Scientists do not profess any such
thing. AS 1t was in the time of Jesus
so now the power that heals the sick is
the power of God.
christian Scientists assert that the
beneficent God of 1900 years ago, Who
so loved the world that He gave His
Son to suffer to reconcile man to God,
to. enable man to know God, is our God
to-day with all the power, all the ten
derness, all the love, all the sympathy
for man that he manifested 1900 years
ago, and that it is the exercise of that
same power and love that makes the
lame to walk and the blind to see.
1.-THE only argument that Jesus ever
used to establish His divinity was the
one He sent to the questioning John:
Go tell John the blind receive their
sight and the lame walk, and that is
the argument we use to-day to estab-
Iish the divine origin of Christian Sci
ence this makes it a science. The
lame do walk and the blind do see, and
all the logic in the world cannot lessen
the force OF this fact.
''However, the old churches may not
deny either the power or Willingness of
God to heal the sick They have be-
lieved, or thought they believed, for
centuries that God could and would
heal the sick, for every Sabbath from
every Christian pulpit in the whole land
prayers are publicly offered for the sick
and afflicted the widow and the or
phan, the heavy laden and the broken
hearted, and certainly you would not
petition God for relief that you either
questioned His power or His willing
ness to bestow. And / am sure that
can say of each one of you that when
serious illness comes to one of your
loved ones at your family affairs every
morning and night you ask God to re-
store the loved one to health and give
him back to your arms and home again.
You believe with Christian Scientists
in divine healing, yet do not act upon
1t as they do? Perhaps it is only after
the doctors and patent nostrums have
left YOU helpless and hopeless that you
go 10 God With your sick loved ones,
and then not quite assured that He
will give you relief, for do you not"pray
with medicine in your pocket and con-
sulting physicians in the adjoining
room? You may believe that in God
YOU live move and have your being,
vet do not trust your life and health
entirely in Gods keeping?
Really, your lack of trust in Gods
is the natural result of ancestral opin-
ion. Our fathers believed and taught
us to believe that God makes us sick;
that God makes us blind and deaf and
lame and therefore we can easily I'M
derstand how reluctantly and doubtful
lv one who believes that God is the
fruitful source of all his sorrow and