The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-28
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permitted to usurp the scepter and
crown and govern facts, falsehood is
liable to triumph until the usurped au-
thority Of the theory is overthrow.
"Tho ye believe not me, believe the
works, /" said Jesus. And SO says Chris
tian Science. Christian Science is to-
day, my friends, healing 81 all manner
Of sickness and all manner of disease, !"
to make use Of the New Testament
phrase, thruout the civilized world. The
witnesses to it's cures are in every city,
and are beginning to be found in al
most every county in the United States.
They come. up to the average standard
for intelligence, responsibility and
veracity. They are of all business pur-.
suits and Of all ranks in life. They
know that they have found the pearl
Of great price, = that they have attained
the peace that passeth understand
ing They have arisen from beds of
pain and apparently hopeless invalidisr:,
and they are crying out in their graft
tude, II know that my Redeemer liv-
eth! - They have seen the grim enemy,
death, shadowing the thresholds of their
homes, cottages and proud mansions
alike, and threatening to enter soon
and bear away some loved one Of their
family circles; they have heard their
faithful family physicians despairingly
admit that their efforts were all in
vain; and then they have had recourse,
often as the last resort after everything
else had failed them, to Christian
Science, and 10! their fading loved ones
have been restored to their arms, with
the roses Of health once more blooming
in their cheeks and the light Of restored
happiness beaming again from their
eyes.
Christian Science teaches That man g
highest reason affirms the Biblical teach
ing that "God is Spirit and that. man,
who is in Gods image and likeness,
must, therefore, be spiritual being.
Christian Science teaches that it must
follow that intimate divine relations ex-
list between God and man; that these
divine relations cannot exist uselessly,
but must be both useful and usable;
that, therefore, man can make use OF
these divine relations for his higher har-
mony and happiness, according to the
measure Of his understanding of these
relations and their uses. Christian Sci
ence bases it's working doctrine upon
the understanding already attained, and
proves and exemplifes it by its practical
and evidential works in overcoming the
phenomenon of evil. Let use a brief
illustration. Take the fading plant in
the dark cellar. What does it needs
It needs that some one with the right
understanding should restore it to its
right relations. In other words, it needs
to be taken out of the darkness ano
into the light. It is the same with man
All about us is spiritual universe, the
unperceived by our physical senses. DC
casional glimmerings Of spiritual light
reach u.s. The fact that we can dis
Germ any spiritual light at all, instead Of
total spiritual darkness, serves to prove
both that we have spiritual perception
or faculties, and, are, therefore, spir
itual beings, and that there is an album
dance Of spiritual light awaiting us
Already, this spiritual light which ha
always reached mankind in some degree
begins to stream upon us more radiantly
thru half-opened doors. Why SHOULD
any one turn his back upon this sligh'
in order to adhere to the companionshil
of the shadowy dogmas and tradition
Of the past which are fleeing from tn,
lights >s4s,s
s. Christian Science repudiates the no
tion that evil can be used as the instru
ment to bring about good. It refuses t.
employ that which can produce disease
to produce health. It says to every
thing, whether poisonous drug or fals'
belief, which can harm man, "Get the'
behind me, Satan' It refuses the peril
GUS services Of evil altogether. It doe
not believe that sweet waters and bite
can flow at the same time from the SAM
fountain. It teaches it's followers t.
cling steadfastly to that which is alto
gether good, and to eschew all that i
evil. The means employed by Christian
Science have not been hidden away TO-
thousands of years in the depths Of Pc
ruvian forests, or distilled as deadly in
toxicants thru alembics devised b,
men 3 cunning appetites; but they ar
Gods free gifts to all His children
alike. All Of Gods gifts to His chill
dren are alike for rich and poor, veal
and powerful, prince and pauper. AM
they are perfect gifts to Gods children
for they are the gifts Of infinite love
They are not like the calomel, whicl
leaves behind it a belief of decayin,
bones; or like the choral or cocaine tina
help people to insane asylums-they ar
not concocted banks which are believe,
to affect SO powerfully the nerve cen
tiers that deafness and occasional heart
failures are said to be the immediat
consequences in many instances. No
4 infinite Intelligence does not need toni,
evil and good together in such stupi
and laundering way as this, and yo1
may rest assured that infinite Low
neither would nor could be thus guilty
Christian Science has history whic]
is unique and extraordinary It's text
book, "Science and Health With Ke
to the Scriptures, y by Rev. Mary Bake
G.. Eddy, was first published in 1875, an
lit has now passed it's three hundred an
twentieth edition of one thousand copie
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