The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-12-05

2. We acknowledge and adore one su- preme and infinite God;-We acknowl- edge one Christ-His Son, Christ Jesus; the Holy Ghost or divine Comforter; and maR as his image and likeness. l 3. We acknowledge Gods forgiveness of sin in the destruction of sin, and the spiritual understanding that evil is un- real, hence not eternal. But the belief in sin is punished 50 long as it lasts. 4. We acknowledge Jesus atonement as the evidence of divine, effieaeious love. unfolding mans unity with God through Christ Jesus the Wayshower. 5. We acknowledge that man is saved through Christ, through truth, life and love as demonstrated by the Ga1ilean prophet in the healing of the sick and the overcoming of sin and death. Also, that the crueifxion of Jesus and His resurrection served to elevate faith and understanding to perceive eternal life the allness of spirit and the nothing ness Of matter.
 6. We solemnly promise to strive, watch and pray for that mind to be in us which was also in Christ Jesus; to love one another; and to be meek, mer- eiful. just and pure.
 Copyrighted and used by permission of Reverend Mary Baker c. Eddy, the authof.)
 I will say with reference to the third tenet that the sense in which evil is here defined to be unreal is briefly this, i that it is not created by God. He nev- CT sent it into the world. He has no place in the eternal realm of infinite truth where all is pure and holy. Therefore Christian Science places it on the human plane. On this plane it is real So real that the Bible was sent l to awaken the world out of it's sinful condition. So real that Jesus Christ was sent to redeem the world by point ing the way out of sin. Sin is real as 3
 human belief, but not as divine fact. It is temporal because subject to de-
 struction. If it were real in the sense
 that it is eternal it never could be de-
 stroyed, in which case mankind would be in a hopeless plight. In this sense Eand this sense only is sin here defined ] to be unreal
 Mrs. Eddy is the author of these ten |ets. No one can read them without be-
 coming aware that every person who
 subscribes to them adopts the Bible as
 his guide and as the Word of God Ii cannot, therefore, be truthfully charged } that Christian Scientists are unbeliev- 8ers in the Scriptures. The fact is, they l are ardent believers in the Bible, read ] ing and studying it daily and making it their constant companion. An intel 1 ligent perusal of these tents leads to l the following clear deductions: The l absolute supremacy of God; the divini- lty of Christ; that there is but one i Christ; the forgiveness of sin through the destruction of sin; the atonement 1 for sin and all of it's consequences through unity with God the Father; o1 ] in other words, through obedience tc j His divine law; salvation from sin sickness and death; that this salvation l is free to all; that the spiritual man, as
 Gods universal and eternal son, occu-
 pies a relationship to God that car
 never, in any true sense of that rela. l tionship, be severed or destroyed; thai 1 this man as Gods image and likeness
 can no more be destroyed than can Goo
 Himself be destroyed; that if this mar scould be destroyed, he would not be the
 image and likeness of God in any cor l rect sense of the meaning of these
 words, and the declaration of Genesis
 that God made man in His own image
 and likeness would hence be a falsity
 The sixth and last tenet conlprehendS l all the preceding tenets. The solemn admonition to strive and pray for the
 mind of Christ is a call to live the high
 est possible Christian life. He who at tains to that altitude of living wherein
 he has in him the same mind that wa; < in Christ Jesus is surely q Christian
 He who earnestly strives and prays fol that mind is surely, to that extent and l in that sense, leading a Christian life I though he may yet have to travel 9
 long way before reaching the high goal lStep by step. he may climb the ladder I vyhoSe ion marks inc full measure o1