The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1904-01-27

W Inc spIltuul ptittptitb
of the eternal existence of the good and
real in man.
o. 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
ciful, just, and pure.
copyrighted and used by permission
of Reverend Mary Baker G. Eddy, the
author.)
Mrs. Eddy is the author of these te-
nets. So much are they a part of the
essential teachings of Christian Science
that they are incorporated into the text
book to which | have referred. 1t will
readily be seen that these tenets teach
not only the highest morality, but the
very essence of Christianity. No one
can read them without becoming aware
that every person who subscribes to
them adopts the Bible as his guide and
as the Word of God. 1t cannot, there
fore, be truthfully charged that Chris
tian Scientists are unbelicvers in the
Scriptures. The fact is, they are ardent
believers in the Bible, reading and study
ing it daily, and making it their con
slant companion. These tenets further
clearly set forth the absolute suprem-
acy of God; the divinity of the Christ;
that there is but one Christ; the forgive
hess of sin through the destruction of
sin; the atonement for sin and all of its
consequences through unity with God
the Father; in other words, through
obedience to His divine law; that sal
the salvation Jesus taught and proved
in His life and ministrations; that this
salvation is free to all; that the spir
itual man, as Gods universal and eter
nal son, occupies relationship to God
that can never, i'll any true sense of
that relationship, be severed or destroy
ed; hence man as Gods image and like
ness can no more be destroyed than can
God Himself be destroyed; that if man
could be destroyed, he would not be the
image and likeness of God in any cor
rect sense of the meaning of these words
and the declaration of Genesis that God
made man in His own image and like
ness would be II falsity.
The sixth and last tenet comprehends
all the preceding tenets. The solemn
admontion to strive and pray for the
Mind of Christ is call to live the
highest possible Christian life. He who
attains to that altitude of living where
in he has in him the same Mind that was
in Christ Jesus is surely Christian.
He who earnestly strives and prays ia
that Mind is surely, to that extent and
in that sense, leading Christian life.
though he may yet have to travel a long
way before reaching the high goal Step
by step, he may climb the ladder whose
top marks the full measure of the stat
ure of manhood in Christi Jesus.
a chief point in Christian Science j.
that sickness is not of God He is not
its creator He does not send it. 1t is
no part of His law. 1t is, rather, the
This is surely true of those kinds of
sickness that are we'll known to be the
direct result of sin. / do not wish to
be understood that every kind of sick
ness is due to wilful obedience of the
divine law, of the law of right living.
for | am aware, as you are, that some
of the best people the world affords seem
to suffer most from some forms of sick
ness. What | do wish to be understood
as saying is that every kind of sickness
is the result of long ages of human
error, of straying away from Gods law,
and the innocent suffer with the guilty.
because we are all. more or less, under
the ban of these long ages of trans.
gression until we come into an under
standing of the divine law by virtue of
which these human conditions may be
overcome and destroyed. Jesus came to
make known this divine law to man
kind, and he did make it known by prov
ing the possibility of overcoming these
human conditions in his own works.
If these conditions, one or all of them.
were in accord with Gods law, or were
in any sense, sent by God, why should
Jesus have overcome and destroyed
them. and why should he have left be-
hind him plain and peremptory com
mand that they who followed him
should continue the work that he be-
gan? He not only left with his immed-