The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-28

gospel and to sheal the SlckS1' or Wors5
still, try to revile those who do, or who
manded, and the wide river. of material
ism will continue to broaden and flow
on, quite unchecked by any ripples of
oratory or by any fervidness of exhor-
tation. The happiest music heard in
heaven is over chris t5t deed deed done one
dead, just like faith. The growing, en-
lightenment of the world is demanding
and has the right to demand, that, pro-
fessed Christians confirm their words by
STATIONS. W henever real" Doc Sifers,"
in the description by our loved Hoosier
: wi With perfect faith in God an man
A-shinin' in his eyes,
shall succeed by the Christ-method in
hart to use Isaiah 8 phrase; shall be
able to heal call manner of Sickness
as drug medication confesses it cannot
do; shall rejoice over some chronic IN
valid walking, and leaping, and prais-
ing God,' at the gate of some TWEEN
tieth century "temple called Beauti-
full let human voices revile as they
please, another voice will say unto him,
"Well done, thou good and faithful SER
vantl'
a. Christian Science is not the invention
of new religion. 1t is humbly and
the Christ religion freed from the &C
cumulated dust and debris of the CEN
turtles, with discovery of it's higher
spiritual meanings and logic. Jesus did
not invent any new truth. He taught
and made practical unto men, before
relations, existing between infinite in
telligence and man in His spiritual
image and likeness. These divine rela-
tions exist today, and will always exist,
precisely as they existed nineteen. cen
turtles ago, and always have existed.
today and forever. Jesus made to all
mankind the promise: "Ask, and it
shall be given you; seek, and We shall
fndj knock, and it shall be opened unto
you.' Every true rule in mathematics
has always existed and always will ex,
1st; but 1T can do us no good except
we study it, learn it, and seek to apply
it. And so with the eternal verities in
the divine relations between man and
infinite mind. We must seek, ask and
to grope in darkness and despair. 1t
Is only by honestly seeking, asking and
knocking that we can hope to find the
truth, and then we have the glad assur-
ance from the lips Of our Wayshower:
t.tR : E e shall know the TRUTH and the
the truth, so that the rusty maEacles
shall be stricken from our fettered con-
sciousness, means more than mere blind
faith and belief. A mere blind trust in
q mathematical law cannot help us.
We must seek to understand it, and we
Blind credulity is little better than SUI
perstition. Neither faith nor prayer can
| alter the ways of deity. Their office is
| to put us in a better attitude and condi-
ton spiritually to receive the benefits of
the divine relations between God and
ma rxyhn thn1r IL,
Calvary, prayer and faith are to recon
Gle man to God, not God to man.
. When any form Of theology regards
sin and sickness as entities, or realities
Of being, 1t enters upon series of blum
ders and makes the very important mis-
as if it were the real man. Making this
mistake, it is no wonder that it cannot
deal with call manner Of sickness and
all manner Of disease according to
the Christ method. The man made in
the image and likeness Of God is neither
sick nor SHINING. This is the real man
as Christ regarded him, as true read.
Testament warrants us in saying. This
is the real man as Christian Science
Classics him.
o., The false criticism has been made
that Christian Science encourages con-
tinuance in sin by teaching that it is
not, a.realitY of, being but. is temparal
and destructible. If it weret'a reality
try to- destroy it, If God made sin, is
it right to destroy what God has made
Christian Science teaches what sin is
that its supposed pleasures are sure
to eventuate as punishments; that il
Is a false sense and can be destroyed
and that it is both wisdom and duty or
our part to seek assiduously to over
hot 10 h
ing is shown in bettered thoughts ant
lives.
If Christian Science had not arrived
at a correct scientific classification o.
sin and sickness, and had not thu
evolved working doctrine, it coult
have accomplished nothing in its prac
teal ministry of dealing. thru spiritua
the other hand, by rightly classifying
sin and sickness and arriving at a sci
entifc working doctrine in respect t.
dealing with them thru spiritual meth
DDS, its practical works in this grea
and high ministry have demonstrate,
two important facts. One fact thu
proven is the truth of it's teaching
and the usefulness and grandeur of it
mission. Another fact thus proven i
the substantial historical verify and &C
curacy of the Biblical narratives of tn
works of healing the sick thru purel
spiritual methods which were per
formed by Jesus and his followers. TIL
verifcation Of the Biblical narrative
Of healing which is thus furnished thr,
their substantial duplication in Chris
tian Science work is useful to tw
classes of doubters. One class of thes
doubters is usually known as agnostics
and is found outside the churches. An
other class Of these doubters is to b
found giving themselves no distinctly
name, but preferring to remain anony
nous. The reason Is not difficult t
find why both these classes have com
to be numerous. The agnostics hav
often been men and women Justly dc
scribed as really religious minded an
inclined to search honestly for spiritua
truth, whatever mistakes they ma
have arrived at. But dogmatic re
igion repealed them on account Of it
numerous man-made creeds and do(
trines which they could not accept O
true. The unnamed class Of doubter
some of them consciously, some o
them unconsciously-hav had thei
earlier faith and zeal gradually cooled
and sometimes quite frozen, thru creed
and doctrines inducing process Q
spiritual refrigeration. Turnout til
world there are too many frozen Chri.
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