Mower County transcript., 1903-11-25

many, spirits many. Mental healing is
sometimes attributed to the action of
mortal minds; but Paul said "The car
nal. mind is enmity against God" It
tnen could never have been the basis
OF any God directed cures. =7 ,..
This scientific unity of all things
reai; IS especially noticeable in tho two
great avenues: of intelligence, science
and religion. In no respect is the in
spiration Of this system more anparent
than in this: matter of -.idenfifying
science with religion. -
=. At the great concourse of ;religionists
held in Chicago some years ago, a learn
ed speaker made the statement. that the
world is waiting for the man of genius
to come forward and establish union be-
tween science and Christianity Little
did this good brother know that the
woman OF genius had already come for
ward and established, not only the union,
but the unity OF true Science and ali
true religion; that, rightly.understood,
THESE two are not antagonistic and des-
tructive to each other, but that they have
a common basis, motive and object.
Science is simply knowledge made
practical and applied. and all real
knowledge must be divine Ch istian
Science is then the practical applications
OF the doctrines set forth by the Naza-
rene teacher, explicating by precept and
proof, the deep ard everlasting import
OF His words and works.
Religion has been defined by one deep
thinker, as IA daily walk with the Eter.
nal; and by another as, "The conscious
relation between man and God, and the
expression OF that relation in human
conduct" In answering Johns inquiry
"Art thou he that should conner" Tesus
rested the evidence of his divine appoint
ment, upon his works rather than his
words: "Go and show John again those
Things which ye do hear and see; the
ollnd receive their sight, and the lame
walk, the lepers are cleansed and the
deaf hear; the dead are raised up. and
the poor have the gospel preached tc
them"
What were the motives of Jesus life?
Surely not worldly ambition for posses
sion and power. 1t is tersely said of him
that be went about doing good. The
one mighty incentive in all his works
and words was love for God and human.
ity, so all-absorbing that it was his very
life itself. He we'll knew that real being
is only God, Spirit, and that all the
Elusive belief in material life must be
dlspe'led. Just beyond the veil of the
tiesh, worn so lightly by him, he knew
there was the reflection Of the eternal
spirit known as spiritual man. He was
the highest earthly representative and
embodiment of the one and only and
eternal Christ, the spiritual and perfect
ideal of God, who said. Before Abraham
was, am" and whose perpetual promise
to all ages is: "Lo, am with you Away
even unto the end of the world"
At last, when his divinely appointed
mission was complete, when the last
mortal thought gave up the ghost on the
cross OF Calvary, the veil of the temple
the belief in the flesh, was rent in twain
from the top to the bottom, and he enter.
ed in once for all, into the Holy of
HOLES. Thus was the divine presence
and power better known, as not confined
in "a little, limited space. to be invoked
by means of material objects and
ceremonies, but the glad tidlngs were
declared all abroad, that God is every
where present and all in all that man is
spiritual wholly, not partly, and that he
IS immortal now, not by and by, because
he reflects the eternal energy of divine
Life, Truth and Love.
The narrow, ceremonial element in the
old )udaic religion, with its chilling Law
and its killing letter, was destroyed anc
superseded by the glad tidings of peace
and good will, the gospel of love to Coo
and love to man: Jesus showed Love t.
be the divine Principle. the Substance o
all being, thus building, in place of tht
ruins of the old false structure, the truel
temple wherein God is worshiped ii
Spirit and in Truth.
Christian science teaches that thu
two Christian Offices of preaching tht
gospel and healing the sick are SO in
separable, so equal in Importance, anc
so identified in purpose and method
that ones Christian life is incomplete
if either one is omitted. In a system
wherein Science and Religion are one
the theology must be curative. Oul
text book says: "The best sermon eve1
preached is Truth practiced, and the
demonstration thereof, the destruction
OF sin, sickness and DEATH"
Christian Scientists have been called Z
prayerless people, but like many of the
statements concerning them, this one i:
quite the opposite of the tact. Indeed
it is only; through the teaching of thi.
Science that we have found it possible
to obey the scriptural Injunction: ;"Pray
without ceasing." While no one can be
continually>in the: attitude of prayer, MOI
forever repeating it's words or formulas
one can always be in silent prayerful
communion with the one God. Believing
as we do, that we are created and sustain:
ed by the One Divine Mind: who gives
and does"exceeding more abundantly
than we can ask or think. our prayers
assume less the form of petition, . and
more that of grateful acknowledgement
and thanksgiving. ..s.::,-:.
Does your child appear at: your, we'll
filled table only to beg for bread?=i Does
he ask you every day to love him, and
care for him? Does he not rather thank.
fully accept your bountiful provision
and rest in the serene consciousness OF
your protection and love? "If ye then,
being evil, know how to give good gifts
unto your children, how much more will
your Heavenly Fatherfgive good things
to them that ask him? So far from
|neglecting to prav, the fact is that Chris.
tian Scientists rely 60 entirely, SO absolute.
~ upon this avenuelof the divine favor,