Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-11-09

science is good. This mind is the anti
| dote of what the bible calls the car
nal mind" or that which Mrs. Eddy
designates mortal mind, the mind of
sin, which is entirely against God.
Disease Not from God.
God is not only life, but has or
dained life and is the law of life and
health for man. The theology of Chris
tan Science is consistently parallel
throughout with this declaration. 1t
also declares that God has created man
that he might have being and not for
the purpose of inflicting upon him in
veterate agony and disease.
I'VE repudiate all assumption that
His law is the law of sin and death
sickness is contrary to God. and God
is contrary to it, 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.
"The supposition that God has in
duced the pangs and horrors of dis
ease and death engenders a fear of
Him-a fear and alarm concerning the
dtlliOI anu Tie Id w anu tliC utSlihy u
human life; a fear concerning the very
foundation of existence. We Christian
Scientists are no longer afraid of God
or of His heaven. which we are learn
ing is with us TO the extent that we
are governed by the mind which was
in Christ
Christian Science explains that
sickness is of a kindred unreal nature
and is to- be obliterated by the same
process. whereby everything that has
no right to exist or continue is to be-
come extinct through Christ and Chris
tianity.
IF insanity and sickness are real.
then God who includes all reality,
must have made them. If He made
them and bestOws or sends them. then
it is sin TO try to get well or to want
to get well.
we believe that Christ Jesus was
the representative of God 10 human
ity: that He was the voice of wisdom
and intelligence. and that He knew
more about God, man. and the uni
verse than all the other people com
bined We believe He came to do the
will of God and to fulfill law. What
God and what law? The God that is
good and whose law is the law of life,
health. harmony and holiness. We be-
Iieve He came ito seek and to save
that which was lost" and that He
found the sinner and the sick man. We
believe that He came TO destroy theI
works of the devil" and that He was
about His Fathers business while
He was doing it.
Christ as u Healer.
UNLESS he was destroying the works
of the devil when He healed the sick.
there must have been q time when He
was not in the fulfillment of His mis-
sion. for He gave much attention tOI
the cure of disease and Himself de-
clared that such healing was a part
of His works" We believe this heal
ing was natural and lawful; that all
His works were done in exquisite ac-
cord with the eternal law of change
less God We believe that the teach
ing of Christian Science through Mrs.
Eddy removes the ministry of Jesus
from the realm of mystery and brings
it within the range of law. order and
a scientific mOdus Operandi. We be
Iieve that God and His Christ are too
wise to be unlawful or to procure or
induce or make use of that which isl
in contravention of law. We believe
that the unlimited divine volition does
not need to upset or undo any natural
law in order to be good.
I'VE believe that the Christ ministry
is an object lesson in demonstration
of the imminent ever available power
of Spirit. God, to destroy evil. We
believe that Jesus manifested the SUI
premacy of spiritual law which is the
law of life, and its power over the fic-
titious law of sin and death.
Healed by Mind.
I'VE think the bible is to be cred
tied wherein it indicates that God is
the natural healer of all our diseases
and we know that this God is Mind
and no matter. How did -Jesus-the
only perfect healer whom history af
fords-hOw did he heal the sick? Med
icine had been in use for 20 centuries.
Was it mind or matter? Christianity
would collapse in the admission that it
was not Mind.
1T is urged that all this is transcen-
dental because contrary to the senses.
So is the hope of Immortality; so is
the belief in God in heaven The
senses testify to the extinction of man
by death and the humiliation of his
individuality and they do not afford an
atom of evidence of God as Spirit
Defends Mrs. Eddy.
In conclusion Mr.. Kimball spoke OF
the antagonism to Christian Science
because it was discovered assmilated,
and disclosed by a woman. He termed
this antagonism as due 10 the bar
barrie belief that mental inferiority in
here's naturally in woman, and said
that he considered it amazing that this
generation needs yet to learn the sci
Cntific fact that there is no reason why |