Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1905-07-15
NOTHING Ais YOU"
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Itual meaning of the Scriptures. Spir-
ituality, not intellectually, discerns
the true meaning of the Scriptures. Do
minion over human difficulties is the |
only satisfying evidence that what one
believes is the Truth.
Why do you think Jesus and the |
Apostles and prophets had so much |
trouble with the people of their time? |
1t was because the spiritual interpreta- |
ton of God and His universe never |
agree with an Interpretation given by |
a carnal, material and sensual mind;
this latter so-called mind is known as
the five physical senses or carnal mind
which Paul says is enmity to God.
You say, God sees, else how does
He direct the stars in their courses?
He can hear, because Scripture says
he does hear. The Lord God
walked in the garden in the cool of the
day." This Interpretation of the Scrip
lures makes God a mighty hero with
body parts and passions" and de-
velops into the belief that he sits on a
throne and sends evil as well as Good.
This has helped to produce many inf
dels as they could not harmonic their
sense of justice and infinite Love to a
being who created evil and sent 1t
upon them and then punished them for
being in this evil.
Now, Mr. Editor, your idea of God
and man begins in the second chapter
of Genesis, which is the material ac-
count of creation and which represents
the Adamic or false and material sense
of God, man and the universe. Do
you not think you have overlooked the
first chapter of Genesis, which is the
real and spiritual account of Creation?
God is Spirit, then He is nothing else.
God is infinite Life, infinite Truth, in
finite Love, then he is not finite matter
that walks on the earth. Both cannot
be true. Which will you accept? Chris
tian Scientists understand the Scrip
lures to teach that God is universal
eternal Love that sends no evil upon
man. We understand that man is spir-
itual, the image and likeness of inf
mite Love; then He is not material and
mortal Both cannot be true. Which do
you accept? Christian Scientists know
that matter, sin, sorrow, disease and
death are real in human experience,
and must be grappled with manfully
through a mighty struggle and over
come in the understanding of divine
Law. We do not hold high heads and
pass by, "a certain man who went down
from Jerusalem to Jericho" with the
heartless saying, Nothing ails you"
No set of people on earth are spending
more time with the sick and the sor-
rowing than are Christian Scientists
and they are doing it tenderly and low
ingly and this is why the multitudes
are coming into Science for it is not
an ARGUMENT about the meaning of
the Scriptures, but is Gods living
presence that delivers them from their
sorrows. If it be true that we prac-
tice Nothing ais you" why should
we build churches, write books, give
away literature and visit the beside of
the sick? One moments candid con-
sideration of this subject would be suf-
ficient evidence to warrant any one in
thinking there must be some wrong
notions handed around about what
Christian Scientists believe and about
their understanding of the Scriptures,
as we'll as what they mean when they
say, disease and all discord are not
real and are no part of Gods creation"
We agree with you, Mr.. Editor that
all creations are real entities; but we
believe that God and all His creations
600 .,>;,;tuo1 harmonious and eternal