The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-20
ent and ever operative for the con-
summation of the highest possible

OF the hlghest Possipie
good. e
Through the peculiar method Of our a
Church service, in which the entire q
is privileged to partici- :
pate, our people are turned to closer t
and more general study of the Holy {
Scriptures. It would be impossible to
find any class of people more devoted /,
to the study of the Bible than the
Christian Scientists are, for they have
learned to regard it, not so much
history Of the past nor prophecy OF
the future as a revelation Of eternal
Truth, which is "the same yesterday,
today and forever and which conse-
quently applies with full force to the
needs of the present time.
So this Science that is religious be-
cause it is of God, and this religion
that is scientific because it is founded J.
upon eternal fact, instead of fancy or
blind faith, are welded into one sound
and demonstrable doctrine, whose verify
is attested by "signs following "My |
doctrine is not mine,' said Jesus, "but |
His that sent me. If any man will do
His will he shall know Of the doctrine,
whether it be of God or whether l
speak of myself
Christian Science is a religion Of
works. Its adherents must express their
overfowing thankfulness and praise and
devotion to God in active service IN the
name Of Christ, in healing and doing
good to the erring, suffering, wandering
ones. Jesus did those things, prov
them to be possible, and he indicated
not only the possibility, but the GER
tainty of the repetition of them. s'He
that believeth on me, the works that
I do shall he do also, and greater works
than these shall he do, because 60 unto
my Father,' meaning that all true be-
levers, in all ages and places, were not
only to emulate the wondrous works
that He had done up to that time, but
were also to follow his further demon
STATIONS of control and dominion, until
all personal sense and self were
vanquished in the presence Of the
one real Ego, Spirit. That the first
part of this prophecy was fulfilled re-
peatedly for several hundred years fol-
lowing is a matter Of familiar history,
and this fact gives fair assurance of the
further continuance and completion Of
these divine. works when done in
Christ s name.
Now we believe Christian Science is
a rediscovery Of what Jesus taught and
demonstrated as to what God is and
what God does. It is man s discovery
Of himself in the image, the character
Of God, Spirit, Mind, instead of the
effigy in matter, that physical sense
testimony would have fastened upon
him.
The only evidence we have of mat
ter is the testimony of the physical
senses, which take no cognizance what
ever Of God. All will admit that God
is Truth as the Scriptures declare. 1t
is plain that. the physical senses do
cognize matter and all it's apparent con-
ditions But, as they know nothing of
God, Truth, then it cannot be that mat
ter is Truth, but quite the opposite.
Truth being real, its opposite must be
unreal, and that is just what Christian
Science says of matter.
Again, spiritual sense, thru which
we do apprehend and love God, Truth
reality, reports absolutely nothing in re.
gard to matter; another very good rea,
son for placing matter outside the pale
of reality. ,E--. -.t=7
The Scriptures say man was created
in Gods image and likeness. Is God
made of matter, either wholly or in
r partF No! What then is there in Coz
that is the basis of, or resemblance
J to material man? If God is all Spirit
, is not spiritual man really his likeness
3 hence the only real mans Origen, writ
ing in the year 125, defined baptism az
can escape from matter-the Lore
3 leading us into light that is shadow
r less, and is material no longer.' From
g this it appears that the early Christians
: held this same view Of the nothingnes
e of matter.
/ But it no longer rests wholly upor
/ Christian Scientists to prove the non
n existence of matter In these latte,
J. days of liquifed air and purified
4 thought, matter is rapidly losing it
t supposed consistency as substance, an,
all merely material knowledge is beins
l. relegated to it's proper place among tn
s superstitions Of the past. Ever
to the sense of the more advance,
r material scientists, matter is rapid,
j. dissolving under the more direct ray
j. Of Truth, and is being resolved into it
f original element-thought. A learne
e professor in a German university saws
v "Matter is thing Of thought, whic
r we have constructed for ourselves rathe
k imperfectly to represent what is pei
7, manent in the change of phenomena.
y Since God is good and infinite. t
is know God is to know good only Wer
Y we not from the first forbidden to kno,
d both good and evil? 'sOf the tree O
n the knowledge of good and evil tho
s. shall not eat of it, One of til
e strongest arguments brought forward i
e support Of evil is the claim that Go
is its author and sustainer; that in som
r inscrutable way, that nobody unde
lie takes satisfactorily to explain, God hs
1T assigned to evil a large and useful plae
n in the divine economy; that H
i. theodicy requires an admixture of tw
n opposite and conflicting forces to brin
IF about an ultimate result, which, aft,
all, is a total failure, in that Meth,
IN one of such contradictory elemen
at could ever attain to supremacy.
in 1t has already been shown that God
r. creation, must be like Him; must fai
tn ly express and represent that which
x in God to be expressed, as an effect mu
Of always be like it's cause. Admittir
Of this, if we undertake to give evil
ne place in God s universe, we find on
tn selves in the dilemma of either Or