The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-21

and Unitarian, Jew and Gentle, religonist and
scientist, agnostc and intdel, all find within
its teachings that which satisfies. 1t shows that
the Mind which is God abides in the holy tenn
pie of the purified thought and chastened heart
of every regenerated man and woman. 1t is
religion of love, tolerant, progressive, comfort
Ing, renewing Love, pure and undefiled, Is the
genius of Christian Science. This Love makes
of one family all the children of men, 1t re-
moves the possibility of human and personal con-
tention, binds up the broken-hearted heals the
sick. converts the unbeliever, spiritualizes the
mind and affections, renews the hopes paints the
gray clouds of life with a golden border, and re-
veals the eternal plan of God; namely, that
Love, Infinitely tender and Infinitely pure, con-
stitutes the abiding atmosphere of Heaven and
pervades the Holy of Holes which exists In
every true heart that has been purged of world
illness and human depravity.
Founded on Bible.
Christian Science is founded on the Scriptures.
1t throws the light of spiritual Interpretation
upon the Bible from Genesis to Revelation. 1t
reveals clearly in the divine plan Of atonement.
the advancing Messiah the Impersonal Christ
marching majesticaly down the centuries
the Prince of Peace, the divine Purifier and
Healer of mankind. Because of. its close adj
herence to this ideal many Hebrew religionists
of this hour are accepting Christian Science in
Its Religion as we'll as its healing. The deduc-
lions of modern scholarship relating to the in
spiraton and authorship of the books of the
Bible In no way affect the Christian Science in
depreciation of the Scripture. While these de-
auctions are forcing revolutionary changes In
the doctr1nal standards of Christendom, Chris
tian Science, stated In Its textbook, remains
untouched, revealed and demonstrable Science.
The reason for this is most simple 1t is be-
cause Christian Science atfirms that the Bible
teaches on an ascending scale. through parable,
argument, logic, and revelation, simple, but
profound lesson. The nature of this lesson is
four-fold. 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, /. e., mate
rialtsm. Third The inspiring fact that SIM
sickness and death 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 per-
lection, through the actualities of Divine Sci
ence. which Is divinely natural but not mrac-
ulous or superna tural.
Prayer without ceasing, silent, aspiring, deep
hearted, Is especially the custom Of Christian
Scientists Such prayer removes mountains
meals disease, binds up the broken hearts of
earth, and widens the minds horizon. Prayer
or this sort brings the thoughts Of man into
oneness with the divine Mind, and the worship
of God becomes the daily reflection of the Mind
which moves only in Loves grooves, and thus
governs all In harmony.
Christian Science claims for its basis and
operation, eNactness and practicablity. AS
Science it is logical and in It's varied ap-
pllcations. demonstrable. 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, thera-
peutical and social science This science
must be the demonstrable understanding of
omniscence. The practical application of such
science must cover the whole area. of life
and perfectly govern each part, as in its fulness
1t rules the whole. Deity or God being Mind
or Intelligence the only Science that can reveal
the nature and laws of God must be a mental
Science, or that Science which relates wholly
a system Is Christian Science It goes to
the logical ultimate of metaphy steal and psy-
Geological reasoning and afirms that pure Mono
the1sm alone is natural and real. 1t denies the
ditheistc dualistic theory of two opposing
primary elements, mind and matter. And in this
denial we are brought face to face with the
Its statement IAN is infinite Mind and its inf
mite manifestation, for God is All in all" (Sci-
ence and Health. p. 464.) By teaching the
omn1potence of God as Mind and proclalming
matter are but the phenomena of the human
mind, 1t avoids the shoals of pantheism 1t
thus reveals the fact that the belief in the
reality divinity of matter as we'll as Mind
constitutes genuine pantheism-the theory that
God is not only ALL but that all materially that
exists Is God and His creation
Is Pure Monotheism.
For many years after the founding of Chris
tian Science, religious and scientific critics per-
sistently opposed its scientific and philosophical
basis viz, It's teaching that "All is Mind, there
is no NATTER The dual theory of two ele-
mentary forces, mind and matter, in life or
nature, had been so long believed that sys-
tenn that absolutely denied what to the general
mind was an automatic truth was at once stamped
as unsc1ent1fc, absurd and undemOnstrable.
Again, the rapid development and elaboration
of the theory of evolution and its almost world
wide acceptance, seemed to many to be posi-
tive confirmation Of the theory of dualism in
nature; hence organic evolution has been ac-
| cepted by large part of the scientific world as
the true theory Of the creation of the universe
and man. But progress is the law of Life,
| and as there 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 evolu-
tionists: In 1866 Mrs. Eddy first gave to the
world the keynote Of the philosophy of Christian
Science in the statement: 'All Causation is
Mind and every effect is mental phenome.
non."
! tan healing and conspicuously in want of an
| exact system of mental therapeutics. The prac
tcal results of Christian Science prove that this
need has been met. A careful study of Chris
| tianity as its Founder lived and taught it, re
veals that healing was to thousands perhaps the
greatest proof Of the divine nature of the ren
gion of Jesus. Release from bodily ant
suffering prepared many hearts in that hour fo
the acceptance of the truth that Jesus taught
Freedom from all types of organic and func
tlonal disease has prepared thousands for thu
Gospel of health and practical Christianity tina
Christian Science proclaims Healing and moral
spiritual reformation proved the divinity an,
genuineness Of Jesus teaching In this ag
the same evidences confirm the claims of Chris
t1an Science, and establish it as an agent O
reform and as the restoration of primitive Chris
tlan healing. Christian Science declares tina
all the commands of Jesus to his followers shout
be obeyed. Chief among these is to be foun
the command to heal the sick. Jesus estab
llshed the precedent for all healing namely
divine or mental healing without drugs Thi
healing was called by the people of that ag
the healing of the sect Of the Nazarenes an
OF its great teacher, the man from GaliIee
Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus and his follower
We're christian metaphysicians to whom tn
: healing of bodily disease was as natural a
, the healing of SIM The union of spiritna
and physical healing has been re-estat
lshed In Christian Science and in tbi
age Is known Christian Science Mind h ealing
In that age It's nature and spiritual character
put not It's science, were taught by Jesus an
his Apostles. To-day, with the exactness of
demonstrable and applied science the ments
, therapeutics of Christian healing are taught an
scientifically demonstrated Therefore thi
healing Is Scrfptural and a necessary accom-
pan1ment of evangelical as we'll as liberal Chri,
tianity.
There have been many prophets Of the goo
new days In which live Emerson wit
lofty optimism wrote: 81 believe that the law
OF nature, which are the angels of the Mos
High, are rolling to the time when the chill
snail die a hundred years DID, when sickness
snail fade from the world, and with it the sir
OF the soul \ glory is coming to man such 3
the most Inspired tongues of prophets and c
n poets nave never been able to describe
mental therapeutics as exact preventive an
y curative system, is a we'll established Scienc.
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