The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-12-26

taught by the science of Christs life.
The speaker was very calm, dignified
and deliberate in his style of oratory,
IL indeed his speech could properly be
classed as oratory at all He Impressed
one as being a man who had a clear
understanding of his subject, one who
had an experience, and one who had a
message worth consideration. He had
been healed, himself, and wanted the
world to know the power that healed
him. In part he said:
A FEW ARGUMENTS.
Like other scientific revelations Chris
tian science. antagonized by the various
condition of antiquated thought, and,
like every other blessing With fds
been divinely bestowed, it has forced its
way to the affections of the people in
spite of the most virulent opposition
on the part of the leaders in the pre-
valent medical vagaries and religio-
philosophical systems of the day. AS
of yore, this gospel of healing and
deliverance coming as it does like a
dove of peace, and bearing on it's
wings the promise of improved morals,
better health, and happier, holier life,
meets precisely the same brutal enmity
which murdered Jesus on Calvary, and
from precisely the same source; namely
the chief priests and rulers of the carnal
mind of material sense of life and God
which always war against the
spiritual.
Christian Science does not come to
supplant historical christianity, but to
reinforce and supplement it. We re-
joice in every good effort that is being
made to improve the morals Of and to
christianize the race, and when religi-
Gus people get over their scare about
what they enormously think Christian
Science is, and take the same pains
to learn it's nature that they now do
to denounce their own foolish opinions
of what 1t is, they will find that is is
giving new and added impulse, energy
and efficacy to all christian endeavor.
Jesus is called the Messiah because
He came to seek and to save that
which was lost" eand to present the
way of salvation. What did He do in
order to affect this salvation and point,
out the way? He reformed the sinner
and healed the sick. He thus mani
tested the divine volition and law, be-
cause He said He did the will of his
Father. The healing and reforming in
huence was divine. There is no possible
evasion of this proposition. How did
He reform the sinner and heal the
sick? Was it by means of the divine
mind or divine matter? A New York
minister, in a recent pamphlet, reject
ing the proposition that christian heal
ing is scientific, suggested that perhaps
Jesus healing was in consequence of
great bodily vitality, and that He exert
ed the force of physical magnetism on
the sick and thus effected cures. If
this could be established, it would be
apparent that instead of being endowed
with the spirit He was simply over
with electricity, and that the
supposed Redeemer of the world was
nothing but magnetic doctor.
The revolutionary nature of Chris
tian Science is supplanting all made
luate beliefs about salvation and leads
to the enlarged expectation that saliva
ton means escape here and now from
both sickness and sin. 1t is also trans |
forming the nature of thought concern
ng the nature of evil. The common |
thought of humanity is that God has |
treated everything, and therefore has |
created all the evil; hence that the |
evils called sickness and death are |
livinely instituted and in accordance
With the will of God. This theory in
yolves the assumption that God has
'reated man with his ultimate destruc-
ion in view, but also involves the
nonstrous doctrine that he was Great
ID a considerable portion of the race
n accordance with system of pre-or-
Iained or prenatal damnation. The
laturalist believes that God has created
erocity of beasts and provided for the
hereditary transmission of countless ills
nd He dominates nearly every disaster
IS visitation of God"
According to popular beliefs, God
trikes dead the infant at it's mothers
reast, and in turn removes the mother
rom her helpless brood despite the
gonizing prayers that appeal for deli
erance.
The manmade creeds depict a repeI-
ant God whose plan of existence in
ludes the sureness of agony, disaster
nd death; the certainty of a tortured
nd wrecked manhood as the natural
equisite preparation for either heaven
r hell.
No wonder that such a people are
fraid of God. 1t is no wonder that
'hile trying to believe that death will
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hey resist unto the uttermost the
cath process which is said to be the
pen door to heaven. 4
Christian Science shows that all the
iws of God are contrary to disease. 1t
hows that sickness is not in accord with
atural law or with any fundamental
wv of divine ordination. 1t shows that
ne so-called laws of disease inhere in
ne universal mortal or human mind,
nd that they act not as law, but as
uman belief and fear only.
The grace and might of omnipotent
iod have no need of pills and plasters
lrough which to filter His will and
ne action of spiritual law which domi-
ates disease. / can with much pro-
riety and gladness presume to speak
the vast benefits which are accruing
mankind because of it's discovery
nd OF its demonstrative ability. Hav- /;
lg been rescued, as it were, from the
rave by Christian Science, after all
se had failed me, with deep gratitude s
bear witness in behalf of Thousands
nee dying but now In health and
aDDineSS. whose praisea a ra anoiroIina |