The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-07-28

lief or the oarnal mind, unlawful,
unrighteous, and unnecessary, mon
strosities of unnatural existence.
We believe that Christ Jesus was
the representative of God to human.
ity. We believe he came to do the
will of God and TO fulfil law. What
God, and what law? The God that
is good and whose law is the law of
life. health, harmony, and holiness.
We believe that the teaching of
Christian Science through Mrs. Eddy
removes the ministry of Jesus from
the realm of mystery and brings 1t
within the range of law, order, and a
scientific modus operandi. We believe
that the Christ ministry is an object
lesson in demonstration of the Inn
manent. ever-present, and ever-avail-
able power of Spirit, God, to destroy
evil. We believe that Jesus mani
tested the supremacy of spiritual law
which is the law of life, and it's pow
or over the fictitious law of sin and
death.
Sin and disease are in immediate
kinship. They are allied as cause and
effect. The Scriptural statement that
through sin came DEATH is scien.
tific. Every physician knows, or
ought to know, that anger will arrest
digestion, that grief, revenge, and
envy will impair the integrity of the
body.
If Jesus came to save from one,
then he came to save from both. He
could not possibly save from one with
out saving from the other. He clear
ly indicated this to those who heard
though they could not understand
When Jesus healed the sick did he
destroy the work of God or devil
Was it the mission of Jesus to destroy
the work of God? If sickness is the
work of devil then is God for OF
against it. If God is against and
contrary to 1T, are His laws for OF
against it? If His laws are against 1t
are they available to man? Has God
created man who is without possible
recourse to His law and power? II
He has, then why pray for an inn
possibility?
Mrs. Eddy answers all these ques-
text book, "Science and Health with
Key to the Scriptures, and thereby
reconciles reason to God, and dispels
the mystery which has obscured the
science of Life.
This book encourages us to live &C.
cording to the Commandments and
the Sermon on the Mount, and in
obedience to the highest conceivable
moral standard. 1t teaches us to be
loving, charitable, merciful, meek
and pure, and as followers of Christ
Jesus to obey every mandate of Goo
and Christ. even to the extent of for.
saking sin, preaching the gospel, an6
healing the sick. We are taught tt
love and to rely on one infinitely good
God, who is Love; and that we may
trust Him to the utterm ost indeed
we are led to believe we cannot trus
God too much nor expect too muct
from infinite Love. We are taught tt
rely on the supremacy of Spirit ant
to know that no other reliance ant
no lack of reliance is acceptable tt
God or of avail to mortals We ar,
taught that the mission of Christ is il
demonstration of an un-mysteriou
salvation, and that we may expec
more and gain more through Chris
than If we were to minimize the scoop
, and efficacy of his mission.
If to be thus obedient, or to be to,
exploit in obedience, be dangerous
then we are indeed the most danger
GUS people that cucumber the earth
We differ concerning the nature o
man. The Bible declares that Go,
made man in His own image an
likeness and gave him dominion owe
all the earth. Do you know of an
, such man? No. Is there somethin
,, wrong with God or with the man
The trouble is with man, and he con
fesses it by declaring himself falle
man FALLEN from some high estate)
and by his oeaseless prayer and efoI
to get back.
= Christian Science declares tina
disease is unnatural and should
. resisted, and repudiates the theor
that, from a scientific standpoint
disease is inourable. Jesus, the onl
perfect healer, actually demolishe
the theory by healing the multitud
of all manner of diseases.
The practice of Christian Soienc
is in it's infancy. No pretence
made that such proficiency and effit
iency have been attained by practi
TONERS as to preclude any failure, BIT
already this practice has resulted i
9 the cure of practically every diseas
that is included in the long list of il
, curables. In other words, Christia