The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1906-12-14
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE LECTURE


OF inns character and buy u few tick
cts tor himself and some for Il few
near friends, from whom he does not
VISA TO be separated wherever the
transportation might carry them,
~ouiu you not know, every one of you,
til;te tilat man did not state his rea.
InsIy attracted TO the lurld terminus
OF the transportation purchased. IN.
illustration nave employed IS not 1ar-
1etcutu. Few of us indeed have eS-
capped furnishing example OF the SAINT
Apply the test to yourselves! AS
nave said so many times with Paul, In
God we live and move and have our
being which is simply saHyiing m
ana immortality. Yet, you nave gone
from every such declaration to the doc
tor, the druggist or climate, for the
had and only had in God DO you then
believe it? If you say that you be
licye that your life and health is il.
agency, some dull clod of earth for
your life and health. would you n b.
snoniIty sa sSf that You u are so either r' mistats
en- in your belief or that you pace q
very low estimate upon the value of
what What iimcs hh hsye IN Yo GG All io mnM in ma iEe
most beautiful invocation, Let the
words of my, mouth and the negotiation
Of my heart be acceptable IN WY sight
cry"
DO you really think you belieys
y s6a5 R GGa 1z a Sau Yet i hasitste to a go
10 God, and God only, day by day for
redemption from every III that comes
are mistaken in your belief, Your
belief. your trust, your faith is i'll
5he ageney YOU 60 to; your our sSrarn b95
and the druggist your redeemer. You
cannot serve Two masters, and you can
not escape The inex9rapIe rule, by
WHAT you really believe, you do. AS
Il man thinketh, so is he"
Christian Scientists believe tina
STRENGTH and Redeemer, and now
u1ey believe it, demonstrate their be-
i.cI by going to God and God only for
SICKNESS, Sorrow and sin. You say you
believe that God is the great physi.
clan who heals all our diseases but
20 to the great physician, men will
think and God will know you dc. no
believe it. II the question were asked
believe that Jesus was sincere in His
eNery declaration; said exactly, what
He meant and meant precisely what he
said to His disciples: The works thai
/ do ye shall do also, and greater" Do
you believe IT, # yGr do linc youi ~ wiz ~
doing these works. He said to the
eleven when giving them the great
commission to carry the gospel to ev.
cry creature, in order that they might
know whether they were. preaching ef,
fectivcly or not: Certain signs shall
they shall cast out devils, in my name
they shall speak with new tongues, IN
my name they shall lay hands on the
sick and he sick shall recoy ,Gfs , D9
vet have you never put it to the test?
Divine invitation,
What will you, do, good peopie, WIN
the sweetest and tenderest words that
HE ears Of men: Come unto me all
We that are weary and heavy laden, and
/ will give you rest? What does II
mean? Is there one anywhere VINO viii
say that Jesus did not mean in their
very words He spoke, that the blessed
Masters invitation to His disciples was
but a promise to the ear to ne ruin
lessly and wichedlyT na hro nGat to % the
sweet words mean, unless, as we pc
| Iicve exactly what they say? Indeed,
! the promise has been kept. Hundreds
of thousands of happy men and Wo-
maimed. halt, and blnd. they touched
the hem of His garment, laid the bur
dens at His feet. and bore q song
away"
changed their thought of God; they
no longer attribute TO God qualities
that no imam among civilized people
anywhere could acknowledge In, him
self and not meet the ostracism he de-
served. We no longer indulge the be-
lief that God makes us sick, or lame,
or blind for some mysterious purpose
Of His own. 1t is not within the range
Of a reasonable concept of an min
itely good God that He would delib'