Idaho Springs siftings., 1902-05-03
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
lis Promises and Their FuIfiIImenf

ment oil any other system whatever.
Christian Science healing of to-
day is like the early Christian healing
because it effects a moral reform as
well as physical. 1t cancels tempta-
ton, destroys sin and its effects on the
body. 1t touches the real moral and
spiritual nature of man.
Il have sat by the bedside of the
dying and seen them thus withheld
from death. l have seen the tear
stained cheek, the quivering lip, and
the inebriate with his delirium;
have known people who were pros
trated by grief, sorrow, remorse and
the inveterate anguish of disease, and
l have seen all this, yes, more than
this, dispelled by the touch of God
as made known in Christian Science.
Another promise of deep import to
the world is that Christian Science
will reveal and establish an enlarged
sense of the possibilities of salvation,
and in this particular it overturns
many old theories which have limited
the deliverance of men from evil and
prostrated their hopes.
People have speculated about evil
and wondered whether they were go
ing to hell or not, as though evil were
inevitable and natural and hell a
for a moment admitted the possibility
of earthly deliverance and have never
been in accord with the words of
Jesus: The kingdom OF God is within
you. 1t would seem, that instead of
wondering whether they are going to
hell or not, people would much better
address themselves to the endeavor to
get out. Go to humanity and witness
its tears, sorrow and broken hearts;
its strife, woe, sin, disease and death.
Listen to its ceaseless wall of anguish
and its enduring hell upon earth. Now
the question of vital concern to us is,
Can we get out?
Nearly all the philosophy and re-
ligious systems declare that you can
not get out. They hold that most of
the evil is inevitable and irresistible,
and that salvation therefrom is i'm
possible. They contend for the i'm
mortal continuity of evil and then as
sumo that man can escape that immor
tality by the supremely evil process
called death. Christian Science, which
reveals the science of salvation. de-
clares that you can get out. 1t shows
that evil is an abnormal and unlawful
monstrosity which can be overcome,
and as soon as people awaken to a
perception of this, all the deadly
philosophy whose sirens song con-
stantly allures mankind to dreadful
and unnecessary doom will become ex-
tinct, and the perfectibility of man
will come to light. There is no reason
in logic, science or sound theology for
accepting Christ as the way revealed
by infinite wisdom and then assuming
it to be the way of sickness and death,
in spite of the fact that Jesus practical
example abolished sickness and death
because they were unlike God and His
law.
Christian Science promises to re-
establish the natural, God-ordained do
minion of man over evil. The Bible
says that God made man in His own
image and likeness and gave him do
minion over all the earth.
DO you know of any man who
manifests such dominion? On the
contrary, do you not know that every
creature on earth seems to be like a
mere bubble, tossed to and fro on the
sea of capricious destiny; the prey of
disease and the reluctant victim of
outrageous fortune?'
MANY of you have heard of the con-
demned felon who. on the day appoint
ed for his execution, was turned over
to some students for the purpose of ex-
perimenting with him.
They told him they intended to
open an artery and bleed him to death.
They bandaged his eyes; pretended to
open the artery; allowed some luke
warm water to run over his arm and
drop into a pail. and in due time the
man, supposing he was bleeding, died.
A perfectly healthy dead mani What
killed him? Certainly there was no
material cause, no violence, no abras-
ion or wound. Then why did the man
die?
will you permit me to suggest that
he died simply because he did not
know enough to live? He was too
ignorant to live. If he had known
enough to live. he might have done so,
and that knowledge would have con-
stituted his inherent dominion over
his own life.
AT this point l want TO say word
to the business men and all the prac-
tical everyday workers in this busy
life.
Il was for many years a successful
manufacturer, accustomed to large af-
fairs. l know that such people cannot
do business on the basis of mysticism
or blind faith. We find it necessary to
keep pretty close to the line of legitim-
ate cause and effect. And yet how
often our best plans go amIss! How
often our energy is wasted because of
unseen influence, or of default on the