The weekly true Democrat., 1905-05-19

mortal man be more Just than God ~
If ye then, being evil, know how to
give good gifts unto your children; how
much more shall your Father which is
in heaven give good things to them that
ask Him.
ACCOUNTS FOR EVIL.
One of the most erroneous phases of
human belief is to be found in it's at
tempt to account for evil,
One of the popular theological ways
of accounting for evil, especially when
manifested as sickness or death in the
instances of good people or blameless
children. is TO ascribe It to the inscruta-
BILE wisdom of God. Inscrutable indeed
would be the wisdom that,is infinite
Love and Life, and that could cease His
nfinity long enough to affiict His chill
dren with disease and death. Christian
Science takes no part in any such lame
and illogical attempt to account for evil.
Indeed, the infinity of God, or Good,
would be thereby obliterated, for God
would cease to be good to the extent
that He recognized evil; cease to be in
finite; no God. Because sin, sickness
and death are not good, they could not
originate in God: the Mind. that is hoh-
ness, health and life, and they have.
therefore, merely fabulous existence
far apart from truth, or science, or God.
This false sense Of being is self-contra-
dictory, a theory of Opposites. Its
goodness may at any moment become
evil; it's strength weakness; it's health
disease; its action inaction; its harmony
discord; its order disorder; its life death.
These, with all the human beliefs and
theories that accompany them, Chris
tian Science classifies together, and de-
nominates the whole cOnglOmeration OF
falsehood as mortal mind. The Chris
tian Science practitioner operates who'll
ly in the realm Of mentality with science
which declares the truth of being and
denies the error that usurps its place in
consciousness. This fictitious mortal
mind, as a general belief or universal
false claim, is utterly Invested of all
supposed influence, power or law to
cause or pepetuate disease; and God 8
law of Wilderness, harmony and health
to man is established.
CHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS BELIEVE in
CHRIST.
1t has sometimes been asked whether
Christian Scientists believe in Christ.
Who is a believer, the one who breaches
merely, or the one who practices? Who
believes in science such as the science
of numbers, for example2 Surely 1t
will be answered, he who trusts his af-
fairs to it. Who believes in honesty
Is it not he who is honest. Who believes
in patriotism Not necessarily the one
who declaims about IL, but rather, he
who, like our forefathers, pledges his
life, his fortune and his sacred honor to
maintain the integrity of his country.
Who believes in Christ? They who only
saw 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? | say
without fear of successful contradiction
that Of all people on earth, Christian
Scientists believe most absolutely in
Christ. They utterly repudiate the as
persiOn that they are unchristian. They
accept the teachings Of Christ Jesus
without reservation. Theories as to
what constitutes orthodox religion, on
the other hand, reject the healing power
from the Gospel and attempt TO explain
their failure to obey the command OF
Jesus to heal the sick by saying that II
there is nothing in the Bible TO justify
such an assumption. Hear this And
as We 90, preach, saying, the kingdom
of heaven is at hand. Heal the sick,
cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast
out devils" Matthew 10: Z, 81 II 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 leftit. He de-
clared the eternity Of Christ. Before
Abraham was, am. 4" 81 will not leave
YOU comfortless ! 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 endeavOr
TO reconcile religion with changing and
shifting human conditions and beliefs,
has always tried to make an amalgama-
ton of good and evil. Christian Science
shows that they are opsOsed to each
other. and that no good thing is ever at
tanned by means Of evil, nor by compro-
missing with it. Like all other denom-
nations Christian Science sffirms that
God is all power, presence, being in
mind, but unlike them all, II abides un-
swerVingly by It's affirmation. 1t de-
clares God TO be divine Principle, and
then Christian Scientists reflect that
Principle practically by trusting God
absolutely to heal and TO save.
THE WAY or SALVATION.
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