Mower County transcript., 1903-11-25

Rest assured that what is really true:
now, will be. so throughout the endless
ages; and what is not good enough to
be true to that extent, is not true now
and never was true. So then, Pilates
query: What is truth?" is q question
not to be deferred to dim and distant
future, but is the all absorbing inquiry
of today; and surely, a most cordial
welcome should and usually does await
whatever may offer anything like an
acceptable answer.
i Those who, in any degree, are read
ing the signs of these times, know that
q marked and important; change in
human affairs is pending, that we are
standing today in daWning light of a
new era. AS to just the nature and
meaning of this transitional period,
there are widely divergent opinions
and much speculation. But the general
trend Of thought and expectation is in
the direction Of the hopeful, the optimis-
tic,- the triumphant view of things.
Moreover, there is a very noticeable
tendancy away from the old material
and a growing favor for me-
taphysical Interpretation and research.
This explains why physicians depend
ing least on medicine and most on mind,
are the ones most sought and employed;
why preachers who expound least OF
creed and dogma, and most of the vital,
spiritual love of God, have the most
numerous and ardent hearers, and the
best success in their good works of re-
form; it shows why SO much time and
study are given by thoughtful people in
general to Emerson, Carlyle, Browning
and kindred writer's. These better
thoughts, loosening their hold upon the
grosser commodities of the senses, are
able to echo somewhat the finer har
monies of the .supersensible and ideal
But the highest point yet reached or
that ever will be reached in the. upward
flights of the human intellect, must
still be "as far as the East is from the
West" from the divine metaphysics of
Eterna! Mind.
And here let us again note that there
is that native quality of aspiration, in
herent in thesoul of humanity thatwhich
will never, in its hope, and ex-
pectancy, and eager pursuit, stop
Short Of the absolute the infinite,
the everlasting Truth itself. This be-
ing the case, there must be an; exact
and unmistakable way to this acme Of
achievement, this longed-for goal, this,
"the> desired of all nations" and we be-
lieYe such away to have been discover
ed and revealed to this age by our
revered. Leader and Teacher, Rev,
Mary Baker Eddy, in what has been
named by her "Christian Science" We
also believe that the teachings of this
Science; once thoroughly understood
and rightly practiced, are fully ade-
quate to the accomplishment Of even
so infinite an end.
am we'll aware that this is mighty
assertion, and that it seems to many, a
preposterous claim. But anyone who,
having ears, will hear or having eyes,
will read what we have to say, will find
that we are ready to give many a reason.
able reason for the hope that lis in us
and that it is simply and wholly out of
deep interest in humanity's veal and in
loving solicitude for its woe, that we ever
offer our doctrine for your contemplation
First Of all, be it known, that Chris.
tian Science is not something that Mrs
Eddy has invented, or manufactured
in some store-house or workshop OF
human conjecture. 1t is not a system
of mental therapeutics in which the
muscles, or organs, or elements OF
mortal mentality are manipulated fo1
the benefit of the sick.
Permit me to go back just here and
repeat a statement made few minutes
ago namely: >"The whole problem of
life resolves itself into a question OF
knowing To know is the main object
in living. knowledge is gen~raly re-
garded as the, one thing needful, the
good part that, cannot be taken away.
The only thing that can be known is
Truth. We believe and think we know
a host of things for time, but presently,
upon further Investigation and with larg-
er experience, we come to doubt, and
question our. supposed know ledge, and
finally to sdisbelieve and discard it alto
gether. Then we see that it was only
belief at best, and. not real. knowledge,
because it! was mot founded upon the
rock, Truth aud did. OF bring desired
results. This may be- said of all the
so-calied sciences. that are based upon a
belief in matter. H. AS the iprocess of
revising and rejecting goes on, each one
.ot these material systems 'undergoes
such changes as to2sbezscarcely recogniz-
able from. one generation. to anotherr ..'
~ Their literature that in vogue in. Lone
generation lis quite, out ofHate in the
xt.55zIhe young medical student fresh
from college, turns eagerly to- the library
left by his professional father as TO a
rich rrltcsh legacy. to find :. there are only two or
three volumes that he cam use in his
practices Well might the wisest man Of
his day on the material plane, say:
"This much do 7 know, that know
nothing" 55. .#s.l'5
! Knowing1i 1isa knowledge, and knowl-
edge IS science; and, assnruth alone can
be known, ,sthe only knowing or knoWl,
edge, OF science, must he that which
pertains to Truth ana achieves The
sssOf ggood, that i'd Christly
knoWledge, Christ stianfst knoW Wedge, or.
CHRISTIAN Science. Hence,s Science, in
order to- be- Science at all, must be-
!; Christian Science; and must always,
from everlasting, have been Christian
Science, co-existent with the Ancient
Of Days. D.
hen the advent, Of Christian Science
at this time, simply means that the dis
c:oVery was made to the pure, spiritual
dlscernment Of Mrs. Eddy, that there is,
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