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

Health with Key 10 the Scriptures, by
Mary Baker G. Eddy--anl see II such a
savior is not already come 10 tho world
and Is demonstrating these things, and
ye know IL not
Mortal sense IL IL true has il degrees
Of evil, and its degrees Of what
II calls good; Il has its degrees
Of wrong, and its degrees Of what IL
calls right but even its highest degrees
Of good are still not good because IL has
evil in the premises; and it's very high
est degrees Of right are still wrong, be-
cause mortality is wrong 10 begin with
there IL nothing right about IL Hence
we see the necessity, Of something out
side Of ourselves, 90 save us from our
selves 10 save NJ from the evils and
wrongs, the which we find ourselves
in possession Of; NAY which we find
ourselves the embodiment of
And II only stands 10 reason, that
whatever that saving power may be, II
could have no error In IL whatever that
power may be that will save men from
their own thraldom, IL must be the
embodiment Of purity and perfection
Of absolute correctness and right.
Such saving power isthe religion Of
Jesus Christ the herighteous, that comes to-
day.in the name Of Christian Scicnce-the
Science Of being-admitting ofno evil, no
wrong admitting only perfect God,
and perfect creation perfect God and
perfect man, 10 al a long felt need; In
Il there can be no wrong, 'else Being
itself were failure, and the Great 81
ANA myth.
The peace maker cries peace, peace
let us have peace But they know not
how To bring II about because In
the world there IN no peace. The
oratoron the stand, Is telling hishcarcrs
what ought 10 done 10 save our nations
honor but he cannot: tell them how
to do Il because he has nothing but
mortal, material, n changeable basis,
The minister In the pulpit, IL telling
his flock, they ought 10, and must do
better, In order 10 escape eternal pnn-
ishment, and gain more happiness here,
and heaven, by and by but just how
much better they must do, or just how
10 do better, he cannot tell. Because
he il judging all things from human,
a mortal, a material, standpoint. Even
happiness, the hope Of heaven, and the
escape Of eternal punishment, lac bases
upon the efforts Of mortality, which
mortality itself lisa failure, and has
failure written all over H.
The doctor at the bedside, Ia telling
his patient she must be more cheerful +,
but be cannot tell her, how 60 be more
cheeriuli because he Is looking at
cheermlness in the person, instead of
la the Principle
The reiormer proclaims with great
eloquence, I've must oiyilise or We
must porish9" HUT just how 10 ciyi.
lizo, or just what true civilization Is,
hc cannot tell because he bases re-
formation and civilization upon people
andthings, where there II no stand.
ard, rather than upon eternal law. +.
and unchanging Principle that Is
standard itself; that IL always civil.
liscd, and never needs to inform.
The civilized world needs Christian
Science, ON account OF It's education
aud consequent living in, and bondage
a., sickness, disease and sin, Il IL a
lameniable, and almost universally con.
coded fact, that civilization has moro
sickness, more Diseases, practices more
deception, commits greater crimes, and
more dreadful atrocities, than the bar.
harons, aud unoiyiliscd nations and
people OF the earth today, and IL is
also lamentable aud almost uniyer.
sally conceded fact, that this condition
Of things il growing Worsc instead of
better
Christian Science doses not teach that
because the civilization at the world Is
not true, Ne NIGH, therefore as well
lapse into unoiyilitation, Ignorance and
harbarism, hat demands a higher clyi.