The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1903-11-25
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revelation, simple but profound lesson

revelation, simple but profound lesson,
The nature of this lesson is four-fo'd, its
scope universal, and its character divine.
First The eternal reality of Good as
God and the unreality of evil. Second:
The reality of Mind or Spirit as Supreme
Sole Cause and the unreality of matter or
flesh, i. e., materialism Third: The
inspiring fact that sin, sickness and death
are no part of the divine plan, but errors
Of human belief and material existence,
Fourth The final conquest of all that
wars against harmony and individual
perfection, through the actualities of
Divine Science, which is divinely natural
but not miraculous or supernatural.
Prayer without ceasing, silent, aspir-
ing, deep.hearted, is especially the custom
of Christian Scientists. Such PRAYER re-
moves mountains. heals disease, binds up
the broken hearts of earth, and widens
the minds HORIZON Prayer of this sort
brings the thoughts Of man into oneness
with the divine Mind and the worship of
God becomes the daily reelection OF the
Mind which moves only in Loves grooves
and thus governs all in harmony
Christian Science claims for its basis
anl operation, exactness and practicable
| iy, AS Science it is logical and in its
varied applications demonstrate. This
latter fact removes the system from the
realm of the so-called inexact sciences,
and places it virtually at the head of all
religious therapeutical and social science.
This science or exact knowledge of God as
divine Mind must b demonstrable under
standing of Omniscience. The practical
application of such Science must cover
the whole era oflife and perfectly govern
each part, as in its flu lncss it rules the
whole Die.y or God being Mind or In
teligence, the only Science that can re-
veal the nature and laws God must De a
mental Science. or that Science which re-
l"tes wholly to menta' laws of cause and
effect. Such system is Christian Science
It goes to the logical ultimate of metaphyi-
cal and psychological reasoning and
affirns that pure Monotheism alone is
natural and real 1t denies the oithestic
or dualistic theory of two opposing prim-
airy elements. mind and matter And in
this denial we are brought face to face
with the great basic truth of Christian
Science. namely its statement All is in
finite Mind and it's infinite manifestations,
for God is All in all. (Science and Health
p. 464) BY teaching the omnipotence of
God as Mind and Proclaimins that the
changing and decaying forms of matter
are but the phenomena of the human
mind. it avoids the shoals of panthesm
1t thus reveals the fact that the belief in
the reality or divinity of matter as we'll as
Mind constitutes genuine pantheism-- the
theory that God is not only all, but that
all that materiality that exists in God and
His creation
In D,trn Hnn.f!ln nj
For many years after the founding of
Christian Science, religious and scien ifc
and philosophical basis, viz its teaching
that All is Mind, there is no matter.
The dual theory of two elementar, forces,
mind and matter, in life or nature, had
been so long believed that system that
absolutely denies what to the general
mind was an automatic truth was at once
stamped as unscientihc. absurd and un
demons,rable Again, the rapid develop
ment and celebration of the theory OF
| evolution and its almost worldwide &C
ceptance. seemed to many to be positive
confirmation of The theory of dualism in
/ nature; hence organic evolution has been
accepted by a large part of the scientific
would as the true theory of the creation of
the universe and man. But as progress
is the law of Life. and as there are no
permanent stopping places along the
highway of Truths eternal unfolding, it is
but natural that the ultimate statement of
true, spiritual and natural evolution should
be announced almost simultaneously with
the first public deductions of the worlds
greatest evolutions. In 1866 Mrs. Eddy
first gave to the world the keynote of the
| Christian Science in The statement: "A /
Causation is Mind and every effect is d
mental phenomenon.
The present age is peculiarly in need
Of Christian healing and conspicuousy in
wantof an exact system Of mental thera-
peutics. The practical results of Christ
ian Science prove that this need has been
met. A carefut study of Christianity as
its Founder lived and taught it, reveals
that healing was to thousands perhaps the
greatest proof of devine nature of the re-
ligio of Jesus. Release from bodily woe
AMI suffering prepared many hearts in that
hour for the acceptance OF the truth that
! Jesus taught Freedom from ali types If
organic and functional disease has pre-.
pared thousands Tor the Gospel OF health
and practical Christianity that Christian
Science plrce'Si1ns. Healing and moral.
spiritual reformation proved the divinity
and genuineness of Jesus's teaching In
this age The same evidences confitm the
claims of Christian Science. and establish
ii as an agent OF reform aud as the restor-
alton of PRINT We Christian healing.
Christian Science declares that all the
commands of j sus 10 his followers should
be obeyed. Chief among these is to be
found the command TO heal the sick. Jesus
established the pr cedent for all healing,