The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-06-12

or perpetuate disease; and Gods law
of Wilderness, harmony, and health to
man is established.
Christian Scientists Believe in Christ.
It has sometimes been asked if
Christian Scientists believe in Christ.
Who is a believer, the one who preach
es merely, or the one who practices?
Who believes in a science such as the
science of numbers, for example?
Surely it will be answered he who
trusts his affairs to it. Who believes
in honesty? Is it not he who is hon
est? Who believes in patriotism? Not
necessarily the one who declaims
about it, but rather he, who. like our
forefathers, pledges his life, his for
tune and his sacred honor to MAIN
tain the integrity of his country. Who
believes in Christ? They who only
say they do, and fail to do the works
of Christ, or they who trust absolutely
in the teachings of Jesus and strive to
do the works that he commanded? 1
say without fear of successful contra
Christian Scientists believe most abso
lutely in Christ. They repudiate ut
terly the dispersion that they are UNI
christian They accept the teaching of
Jesus Christ without reservation. Or
thodoX religion, on the other hand
rejects the healing power from the
gospel and attempts to explain its fail
ure to obey the command of Jesus to
heal the sick by saying that it was
intended for his time only, although
there is nothing in the Bible to justify
such an assumption. Hear this: "And
as We go, preach, saying, The King
dom of heaven is at hand. Heal the
sick, cleanse the leperS, raise the dead,
cast out devils" (Matthew 1877, 81
If one of his commands was intended
for his time only, then all were, and
the whole Christian religion falls to
the ground. The fact is, the healing
power continued to be exercised in the
early Christian church for about three
centuries. and was then lost through
the introduction of ecclesiasticism. The
TEACHINGS of Jesus rest upon eternal
truth. and his commands were equally
intended for all time. He did not say
that Christ would leave the earth when
he left it. He declared the eternity of
Christ. Before Abraham was, /
am" I will not leave you comfort
less: I will come to you" His career
reveals the power of God to govern
man righteously here through the
mind that was in Christ Jesus, the
mind that Paul admonishes us to have.
Theoretical religion in futile endeav-
OF TO reconcile ICll6AOli Will SlicIlS ms
and shifting human conditions and be-
liefs. has always tried to make an
amalgamation of good and evil Chris
tan Science shows that they are OPP
posed to each other. and that no good
thing is ever attained by means of
evil nor by compromising with it. Like
all other denominations, Christian
Science affrms that God is all pow
er, presence. being, and Mind but un-
like them all, it abides unswervingly
by it's affirmation. lie declares God to
be divine Principle, and then Christian
Scientists reflect that Principle prac-
tically bv trusting God absolutely to
heal and to save.
The Way of Salvation.
The process of being saved involves
progress, The steps of salvation in
Christian Science are not unusual nor
peculiar AS in other evangelical de-
nominations there must be, first, the
admission of sin or conviction, second
sorrow for wrong doing, or repent
ance. and third, reformation mani
tested in a corrected life. Theoretical
beIiaf howeyer, limits salvation to the
CESSATION a o Of sin and the hope of heay-