Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1902-01-23


ton Of the supremacy of Spirit
Mind, God, is the basis, the in
spiration, the soul of Christian
Science. It follows that, in oul
thought, Christian Science is 6
religion and only religion; the
gentle, beautiful, hopeful religion
of love that Jesus preached anC
taught and practiced. If God is
spirit, infinite in goodness, mercy
truth and love, then it is not diff.
ficult to understand Tin fact, we
cannot avoid the conclusion) that
He is the only God, the only
Spirit, the only Good, Truth and
Love, the first and only cause, the
principle of all that is, if God is
all then, of course He is every
where present always with us
A circle, the center of which is
everywhere and the circumference
nowhere. With this concept of
God we easily can understand
how He is in absolute reality our
strength and our Redeemer, in
whom literally 'we live and move
and have our being And we
may easily know also that man
Gods man-is not a mold of clay,
a fashion of matter, but is spirit
ual the image and likeness of
Spirit, the reflection of God, and
hence abides in health, truth,
eternal life.
christian Scientists simply
are trying to live the life Jesus
lived. His mission was not only
to preach the gospel, but to heal
the sick. This was the prophecy
of Isaiah concerning Him, a pro-
phecy Jesus declared fulfilled by
His own presence on earth. The
declaration of Jesus to His discip-
les, the works that l do We shall
do also, was made to the people
of this day as certainly as to the
apostles and the people among
whom they wrought; and Chris
tian Science has demonstrated
that they have been included in
this declaration of the Master by
accomplishing many of the mar
velous works that Jesus did.
1t must not be understood that
Christian Scientists heal, or pre-
tend to heal, the sick by virtue of
any power of their own, but only
by the virtue of the power of God.
They do ungrudgingly all that
Jesus gave them to do, and rely
unfalteringly upon all the promi-
ses that He made. They believe,
too, in the inexorable law: with
what measure We mete it shall be
measured to you again. that you
cannot enthrone human reason
without in the same measure de-
throning God; that if you give
shadow for substance you will re-
ceive the bitterness of hollow
seeming for abiding reality.
With the Holy Scriptures as
their guide to eternal life, and the
Great Master as their teacher and
exemplar, Christian Scientists hold
with much force of reason, that
theirs is the religion that Jesus
established, taught and practiced.
"The pathway of Christian Sci
ence has been smooth and carpet
ed with flowers; thorns and cross
es have everywhere beset it, as
long as they stung and held in
crucifixion the sweet Herald of
peace on earth
christian Science meets to-
night, and for thirty years has
met, the ecclesiastical antago-
nism that every new phase of re-
ligion or new thought of God has
been compelled to encounter; but
sooner or later, in Gods own time,
the clouds will break, and crowned
and glorified, the truth will be
seen like a star, dwelling apart
in it's own glory-always It's own.
| We do not complain III bitter
ness of the opposition that Chris
tian Science has met. Our perse-
cution has simply been the asser-
ton of inherited belief that has
for centuries antagonized every
new though of God. Our fathers
endured this before us, and their
fathers before them, yet the world
has constantly grown brighter and
freer and better. 1t is our duty
to add to the good that came to
US from the generations gone, and
to our children will add still an
other good, born of the greater
light of their own day; until bye
and bye-free from superstition
and superior to fear-'the mystery
of godliness' will be lost in the
sweet simplicity of perfect love.
intellectual integrity is not
easily attained. We must, though
ever SO reluctantly, concede the
fact that while it is comparatively
easy to appear honest with oul