Idaho Springs siftings., 1902-05-03

understood the mysterious hidden in.
affairs, and have not known how to
cope with and master them.
Christian Science reaches every
nook and corner of everyday work,
duty and opportunity. The under
standing of it enables every man and
woman to accomplish greater results
in every field of endeavor.
"One of the most pernicious infiu-
ences that prostrates the race is fear.
1t palsies hope and expectation, limits
and dwarfs the capacities, impairs
human judgment and reason, and
opens the door to many of the failures
and ills that harass the worlds work
ers and shatter their hopes. 1 was
what is called a broken-down busi-
ness man because of overwork,
anxiety and fear, but l know that l
would not have broken down if l had
had the understanding of Christian
Science which casts out fear and can
cells its penalties.
Nov we are learning that God, who
is the intelligent basis, source, origin
and creating cause of all that has
actual existence, has ordained for man
nothing but health, holiness, perfec-
ton and life.
I'VE are learning that humanity is
awry, not because of God and His law,
but because it is involved in the viola
tion of law and has entailed upon itself
the wretched penalties which it has
come to regard as natural.
Christian Science promises to COM
pose the dreadful religious strife
which with appalling industry and
continuity has mangled and murdered
mankind throughout the ages, and stfll
mangles it.
christianity means Christian reli-
gion, Christian theology. Christian
theology includes the understanding
and acknowledgment of one infinite,
individual, supreme God, who is, as
the Scriptures declare, life. truth and
love; who is omnipotence, omniscience
and omnipresence, the sole creator OF
the universe, including man. He is
the source, origin, cause and principle
of all that really is. He is infinitely
good. He is all-inclusive and self
existent spirit. He includes all law
and government. He hath already
done all things well, and there is none
beside.
This understanding of God impels
man to learn His will and do 1t. Man
thus governed learns that God healeth
all thy Diseases and is an ever-pres-
ent help in trouble. Christian Scien-
lists are learning to trust this God and
rely on His promises. They are prov
ing that God is life and means life
that He does answer the righteous
prayer and lead His own in the way
of life and peace.
True Christianity involves the ad-
-F iot x%F
as the only way that is according to
the will of God, including the saliva
ton from disease as demonstrated by
Jesus. 1t includes the necessity of OBJ
serving the highest possible standard
Of morality and of individual and so
cial purity.
1T includes prayer without ceasing;
the constant desire to live r1ghteously,
to love both friend and foe. and to find
the life that is void of offence before
God and man.
"As Christians we believe in the
atonement; the resurrection and
ascension; in the spiritual import of
baptism and all the essentials of
Christianity as taught by Jesus.
I'VE believe that Christianity should
reconcile mortals to the abandonment
of evil and should satisfy and com
pensate them with the joys of holiness.
Christian Science has not appeared to
supplant historical Christianity. but to
supplement and reinforce it, and to
add new impulse and larger scope to
its efficacy.
"'Ye shall know the truth, and the
truth shall make you free Free
from what? Is this a tangible and
available promise based on divine
law and warranted by the funda-
mental principle of being? Or is it
merely a sentiment which first excites
a transient emotion and then mocks
the hope of the bondsman who is to
look in vain for fruition? Is it really
true that knowledge of science or the
truth will make men free from evil?
Christian Science answers this ques-
tion affirmatively. 1t discloses the
science of life which delivers. 1t pre-
sents the rule for demonstration, and
substantiates both principle and rule
by means of millions of proofs which
are in faultless verifcation thereof.
THE ages have hoped and prayed
for the same measure or deliverance
which Christian Science reveals as
possible and natural.
objection has been urged to Chris
tian Science because it has been dis
covered by a woman, as though
woman were not fit to know the truth,
and in spite of the fact that all re-
vealed truth has found its way to hui
manity through the consciousness of