The weekly true Democrat., 1905-05-19

| pineBs. Again, in Christian Science sal
vation is not death process. 1t is not
a matter that can be postponed. The
problems Of life are not solved in that
way. Jesus said If man keep my
saying he shall never see death"
Would he have said that II death were
necessary to salvation? The world has
could save itself the trouble of living
correctly. Christian Science teaches that
salvation is a way of righteocsness.
The supposition that heaven is attained
through disease and death Is a theory at
once myterious and wTetched, and so re-
pugnant TO every normal minded per
son that every one naturally desires to
avoid such an experience, even with q
theory of salvation attached to 1t, and
the efforts of all theories of healing as
well as the prayers of theology are in
tended to prevent q person from dying,
or, according to these beliefs from GO
ing to heaven. The path heavenward
10 truly straight and narrow. None
know this better than Christian Scient-
lists, but this path is not strewn with
ashes, neither does it ultimate in disas-
ter. When we learn that the fulness Of
religion may be attained here and now
through truth and love manifested in a
daily life at peace with God and man,
and that such a condition brings heaven
to earth we begin to cheer up. For this
and for other reasons Christian Scient-
lists are a happy class Of people. We
see that we may speak of God and His
laws without sadness or any sense of
mystery. If God is our divine Parent,
He is our best friend. A knowledge of
Him is salvation. We may therefore
speak of salvation and heaven, the one
as q joyful experience and the other as
a natural condition that may become a
present and welcome reality. Heaven
cannot be less than satisfaction and per-
feet harmony and 1t cannot be more.
The psalmist says II shall be satisfied
when l awake with thy likeness"
FOUNDED ON THE BIBLE.
Christian Science Is founded on the
Bible. The text book of Christian Sci
ence is what It purports to be, and in
cludes, as its title indicates, q key to the
Scriptures.
"Science and Health" is a commen-
tary upon the Bible. Other denOmina-
tions have commentaries, but no other
book In the world has ever revealed the
power of truth 10 heal the sick, and en-
abled people to learn the science Of the
Scriptures by which this healing is
achieved. The numerous cases Of heal
ing accomplished by the perusal Of this
book are so authentic as TO be beyond
question. Thousands of people have
testified to such healing, and some of
them have done so under oath, In courts
of law, and their testimony has not
been in the least shaken by cross-exam-
inatiOn. Some Of these cases involved
the most terrible diseases known to
mankind. No material system has ever
succeeded in healing a cancer, but
Christian Science has healed hundreds
of them, as well as other so-called in
durable diseases, such as locOmotor
ataxia, tuberculosis, epilepsy and others
considered less dangerous but equally
incurable, such as asthma, hay fever,
st. Vitas' dance. Christian Scientists
as well as other people, know such in
stances, and the beneficiaries of Chris
tian Science have many Of them testi-
fed to these wonderful cures, and are
generally willing and glad TO do 30 again
II is not pretended that there are no
failures as yet In Christian Science prac-
tice. II would indeed be surprising If,
with all the error that confronts It, our
newborn understanding should reach
the height Of infallibility at once. Chris
tian Science, however, is an exact sci
ence, and we expect that its unfailing
power will be more and more proven as
we grow in grace. For this grace we
are praying daily and hourly. Should
not all good men and women Join in
that prayer, considering that It's object
is the amelioration Of all human suffer
ing In the meantime, 1t is, to say the
least, unbecoming for advocates Of ma
terial systems TO demand no failures of
us, while they view with complacency
the immeasurably greater proportion Of
their own. The healing power in Chris
tian Science Is not attained through any
new Bible, nor through any strange in
terpretation Of the old one, but through
the truth contained in that old Bible,
our Bible, your Bible and my Bible
and Christian Scientists have none other
PREVAILING SYSTEMS ARE MYSTERIOUS.
Mortals are in a state of superstition
about God and man, about heaven and
earth, about sickness and health and
| life and death, and, indeed, about every
other conceivable condition or thing -
| Furthermore, all prevailing theories,
whether religious or scientific, have
/ looked for cause in matter, for God in
His opposite. Is not this the very acme
of superstition ? The self-evident inn
possibility of finding truth in error
seems to have escaped human reason
until Christian Science came to reveal
IL. The superstructure that has been
reared upon such theories is well repre-
sented by the house in the parable,
which was built upon the sand, and
when the wind and waves of adversity,
sickness or sorrow beat upon il, il crlm-
| hlea pODular science Ia aa unscianfi6c