The San Francisco call., 1905-03-27

ton. AL that he has made and done is
good. His laws are good, and he has
already done everything that is essen
tial to the supreme welfare of man.
LAW OF LIFE.
God is not only life, but has or
dained life and is the law of life and
health for man. The theology of
Christian Science is consistently par
allel throughout this declaration. 1t
also declares that God has created man
that he might have being, and not for
the purpose of infiicting upon him in
veterate agony and disease.
We repudiate all assumption that
his law is the law of sin and death.
Sickness is contrary to God, and God
is contrary TO 1t. God is the natural
healer Of the sick. and is able, willing,
and ever ready to save mortals from
the evils imposed upon them by an ut
terly perverted sense OF existence.
Concerning the divine Christ there
is among men much conflict of opin-
ion. Most Christians believe he was
the Son Of God, and was divinely COM
missioned; that his mission was TO
preach the gospel of reform and re-
generation, to set forth the way and
promise OF salvation after death, by
reason of his mediatorial atonement.
1t is believed that, incidentally, he
did many mighty works. 1t is also
affirmed that he is the only Messiah
or Savior, and that his way is the only
way Of salvation.
Christian Scientists believe all this
and yet their sense of Christianity diff
fers from that of all others. We know
that Christ was and is divine: is our
Savior or Messiah; is the Way. and
we can prove it. We are confident that
when this way is scientifically under
stood and becomes scientifically opera
tive, it will manifest its saving eff
cacy by Transforming the race.
Christian Science teaches that this
proof-the deeds, the achieved results.
the mighty works-is to illustrate the
way of salvation to them that need
salvation, and that Christian salvation
is for the sick man as well as the sim
ner All this is different from the be-
lief that his work was miraculous.
meaning that 1t was mysterious and in
the way of Intervention or violation of
law and nature.
Jesus never intimated that his work
was mysterious. On the contrary. he
indicated the universal nature of the
divine animus by declaring: These
works shall ye do The contrary be-
liefs of men which have filtered their
way down through the dark ages lead
to the most absurd conclusions and
tax to the utmost the credulity of man.
When Jesus healed the sick did he
MISSION OF JESUS.
destroy the work of God or devil? Was
1t the mission of Jesus to destroy the
work of God? II sickness is the work
of the devil, then is God for or against
1t? If God is against and contrary to
II are his laws for or against 1t? II
his laws are against Ii are they avail
able to man? Has God created a man
who is without possible recourse to his
law and power? II he has. then why
pray for an impossibility?
Mrs. Eddy answers all these oues-
tions and hundreds OF others in her
text book, Science and Health. with
Key TO the Scriptures. and thereby
reconciles reason to God and dispels
the mystery which has obscured the
science of life.
This book encourages us to live ac-
cording to the commandments and the
sermon on the mount, and in obedience
to the highest conceivable moral stand
ard 1t teaches us to be loving, char
liable, merciful. meek and pure, and
as followers of Jesus Christ to obey
every mandate of God, and Christ. even
to the extent Of forsaking sin. preach
ing the Gospel. and healing the sick.
We are taught to love and to rely on
one infinitely good God, who is love;
and that we may trust him to the ut
termost: indeed, we are led to believe
we cannot trust God too much nor ex-
pect too much from infinite love We
are taught to rely on the supremacy of