Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-05-23


plunged beneath the material surface OF
things and found their spiritual cause. The
Jews, who sought to Kill this man of God.
showed plainly that their material views
we're the parents of their wicked deeds.
TO such materialists Spirit. or God. seemed
Specter, unseen and unfamiliar, and the
Jdy which they laid in the sepulcher seem
TO be substance This materia ism lost
-ght OF the true Jesus but the faithful
Mary saw Him, ana He presented to her
more than ever before, the true idea or
life and substance. We must forsake the
foundation of material systems, however
time-honored. if We would gain the Christ
as our only Savior. Not partially, but
fully, this healer of mortal mind was the
healer of the body. our missionaries carry
the Bible to India, but can 1t be said that
they explain it practically, as Jesus did.
when hundreds die there annually from
SERPENT bites?
Jesus restored Lazarus by the under
standing that he had never died, not by an
admission that his body had died and then
lived again. Had Jesus believed that I.aza-
rus had lived died I'm his body He would
have stood on the same plane Of belief
with those VINO buried the body and lie
could not. therefore. have resuscitated II.
Nhen you can waken yourself others
out of the belief that all must die, YOU can
then exercise Jesus spiritual power to re
produce the presence Of those who thought
they had died. but not otherwise
This material world lie even now becom-
ing the arena of conflicting forces on one
side there will be discord and dIsnav. on
the other there will be science and neace
In the breaking up of material beliefs there
Will be famine and pestilence Sickness
and death Will assume sudden phases and
their nothingness be understood. These
disturbances Will continue until the end
when all material discord will be swallowed
up in spiritual harmony.
Views on Marriage
After marriage it is too late 10 grlimble
over incompatibility of disposition. mu-
tual understanding should exist before this
union and continue ever after Deception
is fatal to happiness. The nuptial vow
should never be annulled so long as its
moral obligations are kept intact, but the
frequency Of divorce shows the sacredncss
OF this relation TO be losing its strength,
and that most fatal mistakes are under
mining its foundations. Separation should
never take place, and il never would IL
the husband and wife were Christian Soien-
lists. Science inevitably lifts ones being
| higher in the scale Of harmony and happi-
ness
Civil law establishes very unfair differ
eEces between the rights of the two sexes.
Christian Science furnishes no precedents
for such injustice and civilization mitgates
Ii in some measure. Still, Ii iS marvel
why usage should accord women less honor
than does either Christian Science or civii-
cation. If a dissolute husband deserts hts
wife, certainly the wronged and perchance
Impoverished woman should be allowed 10
| agreements, hold real estate, deposits funds
and hold her children free from his inter-
| ference.
The danger from audible prayer is tina.
i may lead into temptation. BY 1t We
| may become involuntary hypOcrites, utter
| ing desires which not real and conso-
! ing ourselves in the midst Of sin with the
recollection that have prayed over IL
or mean to ask forgiveness at some later
| day. Hypocrisy is fatal to religion one Of
! the forms of worship in Thibet is TO carry
! praying machine through the streets and
| stop at the doors to earn a penny by grind
| ing out a prayer; whereas civilization pays
| for prayers by the clergy in lofty edifices.
Is the difference very great after all?
Creed Of Scientists.
II would not transform the infant at
once into a man nor would 1 keep the
sucking a lifelong babe. No impossible
thing do I ask when urging the claims Of
| Christian Science. but because this teach
! ing is in advance OF the age We should not
| deny the need of spiritual understanding.
Mankind will improve through science and
! Christianity. The necessity for uplifting
/ the race is father to the fact that mind
\ can do 1t, for mind can impart purity in
! stead of impurtty, beauty instead of de-
! formity and health instead of sickness.
! IF exposure TO a draught of air, while
in a state of perspiration, is followed by
| chills, dry cough, influenza, congesttve
| symptoms in the lungs or hints of infiam-
! matory rheumatism. your mind remedy is
| safe and pure. If you are a Christian
! Scientist such symptoms will not follow
| from the exposure, but If you believe in
laws of matter and their fatal effects when
| tranSgressed you are not mt to conduct
| YOUR own case to destroy the bad effects
| of belief When the fear subsidies and the
| conviction abides that you have broken no
law, neither rheumatism, consumption nor
| any other disease will ever result from eN-
| posture to the weather.
| Christian Scientists" says Mrs. Eddy,
| have not any religious creed, II we accept
the term as doctrinal beliefs. The follow
| ing is a brief exposition of the important
| points or religious tenets of Christian
| Science:
| y. AS adherents of truth. we take the
Scriptures for guide to eternal life
| ''22. We acknowledge and adore one Su-
| preme God. We acknowledge His Son and
| the Holy Ghost, and man as the divine
image and likeness
| sin, in the destruction of sin, and that
| sin and suffering are not eternal
/ "a We acknowledge the atonement as
| the efficacy and evidence of divine love. of
mans unity with God, and the great merits
| of the Wayshower.
! - We acknowledge the way of saliva
ton demonstrated by Jesus to be the power
| of truth over all error, sin, sickness and
| death: and the resurrection of human faith
| and understanding to seize the great pos
| sibilities and living energies OF divine life.
I sc We Solemnly promise to strive, watch
and pray for that mind to be in which
| was also in Jesus Christ to love one an
| other. and II be meek, merciful, just and
pure"
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