Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-11-06

\ feet Gods power is the keynote to
4 the religion of the future. Jesus illus
i trated TO the FULLEST extent in His
life and work as our way-shower. ano
as the demonstration of this law oil
infinite good. life and love. This law
land proof of spiritual dominion runs
Hike fine golden chain throughout
the entire scriptures, linking all its
eras of development in one perfect de
sign, eliminating in Christ Jesus
'The watch-word of modern pro
! gress is science; humanity is looking
to science as the emancipation of the
race. In the realm of materialism
these laws are changing and feeting
las clouds in summer sky.
"rhe. comforter Christian Science,
/ illuminating the scriptures in flood
of light. shows us that this science has
been, and is from the beginning the
word of God, reconciling man to spir-
itual law 1t shows Jesus to have been
at the same time the most transcend
entail. and the most practical of meni
in him the ideal became the real, and
the acme of philosophic aspiration
was reached He brought the king
dom of God to human consciousness
and the Christ manifest in the flesh;
harmonious phenomenon here and
| now, through subjugation of the flesh.
Law of Spirit.
''In this spiritual realm, only the law
of spirit must be acknowledged, which
| demonstrates life and immortality.
| He that is in Christ is new creature,
old things are passed away. In this
pure realm our conversation is in
heavena The new tongue of spirit
which heals is our vehicle of express
sion. Our basic thoughts must be the
spiritual fact that man is, ever was,
and must be spiritual, not material,
that he never fell from the hands of
omnipotent love. Holding on to these
divine realities in thought. meditation
and talking truth one to another,
we shall become natural to spirit, to
the divine nature, to the immortal
law of harmony and perfection. The
sinless man, the offspring of spirit.
heir with Christ, of power. glory, and
dominion. will become the real to us.
Sin. discord and death will vanish
from the spiritual consciousness.
They will be put off as unnatural, re-
pellant. untrue, and we will see the
new heaven and the new earth
wherein dwelleth righteousness, here
and now, for God is all-in-all to this
spiritualized consciousness. Many in
telligent physicians who recognize the
healing Of Christian Science say their
objection is to the claim of it being
supernatural. Now this is just what
Christian Science absolutely disclaims.
Paul once said. Why should it seem
thing uncreditable with you that
God should raise the dead?' That God
should heal the sick seems divinely
natural to Christian Scientists. To the
understanding of God. the only cause,
the tender. loving father, mother. God,
nothing else could be natural. 1t is
this truth of being that heals. not
human will nor influence.
The healing work of the Christian
Science being the work of breaking
the letters of materialistic law, its
philanthrophy is as broad as the
heavens. and deep as the ocean, it has
no limits. even the creature itself is
to be freed from the bondage of cor
ruption. \ little child redeemed from
the aw of suffering, that redemption
reaches in some degree the child ON
the Gauges and indeed all children.
What is it that makes a material law?
Mrs. Eddy tells us that the cOncen-
sus of human opinions makes a ma
ternal law; if physicians and others
believe in contagious diseases that
makes a law and we have its results
in contagion. But let strong. united
christian thought declare and hold to
it steadfastly that Gods law never or
dained sin or suffering, but that
there is an ever-operative law of the
spirit of life in Christ Jesus that hath
made us free from the law of sin and
DEATH (Rom. Will and humanity will
gradually be redeemed from all evil
and the sin that brings discord and
death. 1t is for this that Christian
Science is striving.
In Full Sympathy.
Christian Science is in full and
ready sympathy with every advance
ment toward purity, benevolence, law
and order. 1t teaches that the ten
commandments and the sermon on the
mount furnish the solution of every
human problem. Its alpha and omega,
is love-. that God is love, infinite and
ever present, that all sects. nations
and races are embraced in that mind
that is love. That there is one father.
mother, God one family, the whole
earth-that man attains his own per-
lection and harmony in proportion to
his own reflection in thoughts and
actions toward all men, his active