Weekly Arizona journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1903-1908, 1904-01-27

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on cannot escape the memorable 9
ule, "By their works We shall know n
HEM. What you really believe you il
10. 'As man thinketh, so is he. il
Christian Scientists believe that e
heir life is in God, that God is their il
treIgth and their Redeemer, and {
NOW they believe it, demonstrate {
heir bleief, by going to God and God b
,nly for life, strength and redemption T
Iom all sickness, sorrow and sin. i
lou say you believe that God is the
great Physician who heals all our q
diseases, but do you really believe /
TT If you do not go to "the great
men will think and God !
will know you do not believe it. If ,
the question we're asked, every one
Of you would say that you believe
that Jesus was sincere in his every
said exactly what he
and meant precisely what he
said. Do you really believe it? Jesus
said to his disciples, 1.-The works that
/ do ye shall do also, and greater.
DO you believe it? If you do, you
will prove your belief in his sincerity
by doing these works. he said to the
eleven when giving them the great
every creature, in order that they
might know whether they we're preach
ing effectively or not, certain signs
shall follow them that believe; in my |
name they shall cast out devils, in my /
name they shall speak with new /
tongues, in my name they shall lay /
hands on the sick and the sick shall |
recover" Do you believe that he /
meant this, and yet have never put it
TO the testl
What will you do good people, with |
the sweetest and tenderest words that
ever fell from the lips of God upon
the ears of men: Come unto Ne all
We that are weary and heavy laden and
| will give you rest?' What does it
mean? Is there one anywhere who
will say that jesus did not mean in
their simplicity, sweetness and love
the very words he spoke, that the
blessed Masters invitation to his dis
ciples was but a promise to the ear to
be ruthlessly and wickedly broken to
the hope? No! mol mol Then what
do the sweet words mean, unless as
we believe, exactly what they say?
Indeed, the promise has been kept.
Hundreds of thousands of happy men
|
worn, MANNED, halt, and blind. they
touched the hem of His garment, laid
/ their burdens at His feet, land bore
song away"
Christian Scientists have radically
changed their thoughts of God, they
no longer attribute to God qualities
that no man among civilized people
anywhere could acknowledge in him
self and not meet the ostracism he de-
served. We no longer indulge the be-
lief that God makes us sick, or lame,
or blind for some mysterious purpose
of His own. 1t is not within the
range of a reasonable concept of an
infinitely Just, and infinitely good
God, that He would deliberately hold
in torture, and crush in despair pure
sweet mother for the purpose of max
ing some bad man better. Being in
finitely Just, if He were administer
ing punishment for reform, and DIS
pensing rewards for virtue, He would
cruelty the bad man, and euthrone
the good woman.
We believe that God is not only
the embodiment of good, but that He
is Good; the "Great Physician, -
''Who heals all our diseases" Who
gives surcease to sorrow, Who literally
wipes all tears away; and we conf
IDENTIFY go to this Infinite Source of
life, and strength, and JOY for re-
demption from every ill that comes to
humanity.
1t is not difficult, | am sure, to I'M
derstand that one who believes that
God makes him sick, would hesitate to
go to the provoking cause for relief
from the i'll he suffers. If you be-
lieve that God fills your life with
grief, for some wise purpose, believe
in His goodness, justice and power,
you should bear whatever attilctiOn
comes to you without a murmur, and
should be reasonable and logical
enough not to attempt to balk the
purpose of the infinite God by seek
ing the service of some doctor, drug
gist, or climate to make you we'll.
Ii God makes you sick, when His pur-
pose in doing so is SUBSCRIBED, be will
make you we'll again, and your little
children will tell you that until Hi:
purpose is subserved no medicine OF
man can make you we'll.
= Christian Scientists believe that
when Je. US went into the synagogue
on the Sabbath day, ard read from the
prophecy of Esaiss concerning him
self, prophesy written hundreds OF
years before His coming, telling Of
His coming, and of the office DE
should hold when He. came, wherein
it is written: ''The Spirit OF the
Lord is upon me, because He haiti
anOinted me to preach the Gospel tC
the poor; he hath sent me to heal the
: broken hearted, to preach deliyerance
to the captives. and recovering OF
( sight to the blind, 10 set at liberty
/, them that are bruised, and closing
the Book. Jesus the Christ said to His
congregation: This day Is this
Scripture fulfilled in your ears"
Now tell me, good people. for nc
J one wants to be mistaken about &
matter of such vital import as this, il
] Christian Science is a myth, that will
90 out with the dawn of tomorrow
; sun, then Christian Scientists al
? round the globe want to know thai
fact, and know it tonight, if may be.
5 And on the other hand, if Christian
Science is the sweet story that Jesus
] came to tell, then you good people OF
2 the old churches, am sure, want tC
r know that fact, and know 1t tonight,
if any be. Then answer to yourselves
= when you are alone with your OWL
2 conscience: Is there longer any reason
t for you or for me to question what
, the mission of Jesus into the WORLD
r was, with this prophecy concerning
His coming and the declaration Of
Jesus that the prophesy was absolutely
, fulfilled by His own presence in the
r world, can you or l hesitate longer
to believe that His great mission, from
} the Father was to preach the Gospel,
2 and to heal the sick, and almost may
} we not say to preach the Gospel by
healing the sick. And if anything
, were lacking in our minds to establish
the last proposition would it not be
labundantly compensated in the sweet
life of Jesus in the world; ana may
5 we not learn from that life of works
of sympathy, of kindness, and unfal-
: tering ministry, just what His thought
/ was of the redemption He brought,
, and His own way of giving it to the
J world.
5 Have you ever though for a moment
of the tremendous import OF the fact
that Jesus never preached but one SER
mon in all His life, and never repeat
] ed that: far less than one tiftieth part
: of His active life was given to the
letter of the Gospel, and all the bal
, ance of it to its spirit, to its practical
application. to doing, not saying, to
bfaling the witbered hands of men, to
breaking the jaws of death, and Civ
ing the sons and daughters of men
back to life and love and hope.
. l. r,r,Na. Of NJ N