Mower County transcript., 1903-11-25


all hypnotic influence and control. ;.
a habitual declaration of mans unitv
with the divine Life, the real and in
destTuctible Substance, the infinite and
omnlpotent love, is the :effectual PRAYER
that availeth much, in that it heals and
redeems the sin-sick and bodily infirm.
and casts out all manner of evil To
the extent that prayer ceases to be an
attempt to inform 0mniscient Wisdom.
or petition Infinite Love, it becomes the
prayer of faith that shall and does save
the sick. "A poet once said: "More things
are wrought by prayer than this world
dreams off," and this is very true. But
how are they wrought? Not by chang.
ing the actions or purposes of God who
IS without varlableness or: shadow of
turning, whose ways are always right,
and wise above human power to conceive,
Wonders are wrought by prayer, in that
a nearer approach ifgained to clear
state OF consciousness, through which
are revealed the infinite resources and
blessings OF divine being-always pres
ent and ever operative for the consum-
nation OF the highest possible good.
Through the peculiar method of our
church service, in which the entire con-
gregatlon is privileged to participate,
our people are turned to closer and
more general study of the holy scrip
lures. 1t would be impossible to find
any class Of people more devoted to the
study OF the Bible than the Christian
Scientists are, for they have learned to
regard 1t, not so much as history of
the past, nor prophecy of the future,
as revelation of eternal Truth, which
IS "the same yesterday, and today, and
forever" and which consequently ap-
plies with full force to the needs Of the
present time.
SO this Science that is religious be-
cause it is of God, and this religion
that Is scientific because it is founded
upon eternal fact, instead of fancy or
blind faith, are thus welded into one
sound and demonstrable doctrine.
whose verify is attested by "signs fol-
lowing" "My doctrine is not mine,"
saith Jesus, "but His that sent me. If
any man will do His will, he shall
know of the doctrine, whether it be of
God or whether I speak of myself"
So Christian Science becomes a re,ipion
OF works. Its adherents must express
their overfowing thankfulness and
praise and devotion to God and His
emissaries, in active service in the name
OF Christ, in healing, and doing good to
MS errlng, suffering, wandering ones.
Jesus did those things proving them to
be possible, and he indicated not only
the possibility, but the certainty of the
repetition OF them. "He that believeth
on me, the works that do, shall he do
also, and greater works than these shall
ne DO, because go unto my Father
meaning that all true believers in all
ages ed in all were not only
to emulate the wondrous works that
ne had done up to that time, but were
also to follow his further demonstrations
OF control and dominion, until all per.
sonal sense and self were vanquished, in
presence OF the one real Ego, Spirit.
That the first part of this prophecy was
fulfilled repeatedly for several hundred
years following, is matter of familiar
history, and this fact gives fair assurance
OF the further continuance and compile
ton OF these divine works when done in
Christs name.
Now we believe Christian Science is
a further discovery of what Jesus
taught and demonstrated as to what
God is and what God does. 1t is mans
discovery of himself in the image. the
character of God, Spirit, Mind, instead
OF the effigy in matter, that physical
sense testimony would have fastened
upon him.
The only evidence we have of mat
ter is the testimony of the physical
sense, which takes no cognizaHce what
ever OF God. All will admit that God
is Truth as the scriptures declare. It is
plain that the physical senses do cognize
matter and all it's apparent conditions.
But as they know nothing of Truth,
then it cannot be that matter is Truth
but quite the opposite; Truth being
real, its opposite must be unreal, and
that is just what Christian Science saws
of matter.
Again, spiritual sense, through which
! we do apprehend and love God, Truth.
reality, reports absolutely nothing in
regard to matter: another very good
reason for placing matter outside the
pale of reality.
The scriptures say man was created
in Gods image and likeness. IsGod
made of matter, either wholly or in
part? No. What then is there in God
that is the basis of, or resemblance to.
material man? If God is all Spirit. is;
not spiritual man really his likeness.
hence the only real man? Orlgen, writ.
ing in the year 125, defined baptism as
ian escape from matter" From this it,
appears that the early Christians held
this same view of the nothingness Of
matter.
But it no longer rests wholly upon
Christian Scientists to prove the nom
existence of matter. In these latter
days Of liquified air and purified
thought, matter is rapidly losing its
supposed consistency as substance, and
all merely material knowledge is being
relegated to its proper place among the
superstitions of the past. Even to the
sense of the more advanced material
scientists, matter is rapidly dissolving
under the more direct rays of Truth,
and is being resolving into its original.
element; thought. A learned professor
ina German University says: "Matter.
is thing: Of thought, which we have
constructed for ourselves: rather inn.
perfectly, to-. represent what is per-
manent in the change of phenomena
Since God is good and infinite, TO.
know God is; to know only good. Were
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