Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1905-01-24

Acting on this assumption, I beg you
attention while speak briefly of til
Christian Science text-book-for Their
is such text-book-as we'll as of tn
life and character of it's author.
The Textbook,
A few words, then, ss to the ttxs
book. This book, of which the Rev
Mary Baker G Eddy is the author, wol
first published in 1875. I bears the title
of Science and Health, with KY tc
the Scriptures" and contains the entire
text of Christian Science. It is treat
Use on healing through the power o
God, or the Divine Mind, Or, rs we
claim, it is thorough exegesis of the
Scriptural method of healing all man
ner of diseases and of curing all manner
of sin through the understanding OF
God as all-present, all-powerful, all
wise and universal Mind. In short, il
is a spiritual Interpretation of the Bi.
bic; hence it's title, ''Key to the Scrip
lures"
Life and Character.
And what of the life and character OF
one who has established such religls
Gus movement? I am sure few words
in reference to these will be welcomed
by every sincere inquirer.
Born enid the beautiful but rugged
hills Of Bow, near Concord, New Hamp-
shire, of sterling and strictly religious
pareats, descended from long line of
worthy and distinguished ancestors,
Ms Eddy was favored by nature with
advantages which fitted her for her flu
ture career. Her early environments
were such as to nurture end enIarg
her inherited gifts. She was a student
by natural bent and intuition. Tuis
native trend was strengthened by care.
| full training in schools and academ e.,
as well as by competent private tutors,
among whom was her brother, Alb
| Baker, graduate of Dartmouth Coz
lege, and a distinguished lawyer, a.
though he died when young man.
Among her other instructors were such
wellknown New England educators of
a past generation as Mrs. Sarah J Bed
we'll Lane, Mr.. Corser of Sanbornt n
Bridge Academy, and Prof. Dyer Fl.
Sanboru, author of Sanborn's Grammar,
This early training has been supple
mented by long years of careful and
thorough research and study. She is,
from every point of view, a woman of
sound education and liberal culture.
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, meroiful,
just and pure.
| Copyrighted and used by permission
of Rev. Mary Baker G. Eddy, the
author.)
will say with reference to the third
tenet that the sense in which evil is
here defined to be unreal is briefly this,
that it is not created by God. He never
sent it into he world. It has no place
in the eternal realm of Infinite Truth
where ell is pure and holy. Therefore
Christian Science places it on the hu-
man plane, On this plane it is resi-. Sc
real that the Bible was sent 10. awaken
the world out of it's sinful condition
SO real that Jesus Christ was sent to
redeem the world by pointing the way
out of sin, Sin is real as human be-
lief, but not as divine fact. Il is tenn
poral because subject TO destruction
II it were real in the sense that it is
eternal it never could be destroyed. II
which case mankind would be IL hope
less plight. In this sense and this sense
on " is sin here de fned to be unreal.
Use Bible as Guide.
Mrs. Eddy is the author of these ten
cts. No one can read them without be-
coming aware that every person who
subscribes to them adopts the Bible as
his guide and IS the Word of God. 1
cannot, therefore, be truthfully charged
that Christian Scientists are unbelieYeri
in the Scriptures. The fact is, they are
ardent believers in the Bible, reading
and studying it daily and making Il
their constant companion. An intell!-
gent pe1usal of these tenets leads TO tht
following clear deductions: Tae abso
Lutte supremacy of God; the divinity o
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the forgiveness of sin through the de-
struction of sin; the at0E ement for sir
and all of its consequences thEougf
unity with God the Father, OK IN O,hel
words, through obedience to hie divine
law; salvation from sin, sickness and
death that this salvation is free 10 all
that the spiritual man, as Gods uni
versal snd eternal SOP, occupies rela
tionship to God that can never II any
true sc nse of that relationship, lie eeY'
cred or destroyed; that this man as
Gods image and likeness can no more
be destroyed than can God himself bt
destroyed; that if this man could b.
destroyed he would not be the image
and likeness of God in any correc
sense, of the meaning of these words,
and the declaration of Genesis tha
iGod made man IN his own image ar
likeness would hense be faIsIty.
Lead Christian Life.
/ The sixth and last tenet comprehe1 ds