The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-20

Christian Science is broad spirited. Q
It is public-spirited. 1t serves the hui t
man race for good in an ever ascending
scale and in a constantly expanding
field of usefulness. The query some G
times arises, does not this idea breed 8
indifference to human needs, by dulling
the sensibilities and checking the sym
pathies7 It dulls the sensihllltles only
by causing people to become less SEN
sible of evil as they grow more anu
more sensible of good; to cease looking
forever on the dark side, forever
prophesying and prognosticating evil,
but rather to look up with fearless,
blameless glance into the face OF the
all Father Mother, God, and to see the
eraces and glories of that face reflected
in all His people and things. 1t teaches
us to sympathize with good far more
than with evil, and by that very fact
helps to bring good to pass.
It will have to rest with those who
oppose Christian Science to prove
wherein it has ever done harm or shown
itself menace to the health or safety |
of any community. 1t has rather been
q check upon contag ion, preventative
of epidemics and the various calamities
that afflict the race. With all due re-
gard to existing civil law and its be-
hests our appeal is always to the higher
code Of spiritual law, wherein God is
Legislator, Executor and Judge. Under
this benign ruling all human rights are
duly subserved.
1t is the idea of Christian Science
and all that is akin to it that gives
the strongest impulse to all modern in
vention; for human thought liberated,
even in a degree, from the belief that
it is encased and entombed in matter,
at once begins to shake off its self
imposed limitations, and 10! the Won
ders Of inventive genius that with less
and less dependence upon matter tend
to overcome time and space and dis
pense with servile toll.
It has been said that Christian Sci
ence is anti educational. Not so. 1t
is true, we are taught that real Mind
does not depend upon the usual means
and modes of development, yet we are
well aware that this great fact
must be made known little by little, as
thought rises to the apprehension Of it..
We know we can never get the perfect
flower by ruthlessly tearing open the
bud. The, tender petals must unfold
naturally in God s sunlight and air. We
would not close the schools, but would
permeate them with higher ideals We
would foster a preference for those
studies and pursuits that enable the
learner to be absent from the body and
to devote attention to the purer, more
wholesome, more profitable contempla-
ton of deathless, limitless Soul.
In view of the fact that alchemy and
astrology, once rated as higher branches
of education, have long since been rele
gated to the shades of oblivion, we
should not hesitate to let anatomy
physiology, hygiene and kindred sub
jects follow in their train, as these
too, are shown to be equally allied with
superstitions outgrown and so we shall
gain time and opportunity to institute
instead a research among the imperish
able resources Of Mind.
The very best training the hand ca,
have to make it skillful in expressing
the beautiful and useful in art is tn
habitual remembrance that God is tn
only power, who Is all and does all
True mental discipline lies not at al
in the laborious conjugation of tn
verbs of dead language, but in tn
living consciousness that God is tn
only Mind, and that Divine intelli
gence rather than human intellect,
the great thought force that moves tn
universe in paths of harmony, healt
and success. Surely that knowledg
which results in peace and freedom an
health and Immortality has a stron
claim to the name of the ''higher ed'
cation,' capable Of bringing into man
Hesitation the noblest possibilities
man.
Christian Science stands for all tn,
is highest and best. It's lofty idea
are attracting and holding the pure
and noblest Of the earth.
The fact that our adherents, tt
numbered by many thousands, are st
few in comparison with the hosts of tt
earth, is no argument against our Caus
for "strait is the gate and narrow
the way that leadeth unto Life, al
few there be that find it, Meth
is the fact that our doctrine is oft
seorned and rejected by the intellectu
element of our day derogatory to o
Interpretation of Truth. The wisdt
- of the world, which is foolishness wi
God, has ever been a barrier to
ready acceptance of the simple los
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of it's best expounder that he "
despised and rejected by this sa
class, but that the common peo]
heard him gladly.
''Truth is sure and can afford to W
Our slow perception y = 80,
Her essence is eternal and she kno
The world must swing round to her 81
or late.'
Every advancing step, even along
most material lines of discovery or
vention, has to slowly work its way i
popular favor, and the more radica
new and different it is the more
human increulDility and prejudice {
opposition it has to encounter, until
has had sufficient opportunity to pr
itself useful and indispensable to hun
need. What shall we say then of
. revelation, which is at the same t
such revolution, in the realm Of Mi
the coming of which is the marking
so distinctive an era in the growing {
2ception Of Truth7 No wonder
thought that challenges each onw
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