Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1907-05-15

BY Rev. Arthur Reeves VOSburg.
G. S. B., Rochester, N. y,
Member Of The Christian Sci.
enCe Board of LeCtureShip of
The First Church of Christ,
Scientist, at Grand Opera House.

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search and research she came to the
point of understanding, where she
"apprehended the prin-
ciple and rule of spiritual Science
and Metaphysical Healing--in a
word, Christian Science" (Retro.
spection and Introspection.)
For this quest she had received a
preparation along another line of ex-
perlence. In her practice as a
homeopathic physician she had no
I ticed often that prescriptions in
which the drug had been so highly
attenuated that it had practically
| disappeared, healed cases that larger
doses failed to reach. Even utterly
unmedicated water or pellets fire.
quently reached the same result
Only one explanation for this APP
peared, and that was that It was
faith in the prescription, and not the
prescription itself, which wrought
the cure. Out of all these expert
ences she had become convinced that
healing of any kind is always of men
tai procurement, and through her
own healing she reached the under.
standing that God, Divine Mind, is
the true curative Principle. Thus,
she arrived naturally at what she
has given as constituting the central
idea of her discovery-'the scientific
certainty that all causatlon was Mind
and every effect a mental phenome-
non" (Retrospection and Introspec.
tom
Christian Idealism.
This brings us to the basic PORT
of view of Christian Science, which is
that of radical and consistent idea'-
ism. It's position. TO put II little
differently, is that to find the true
explanation, the real nature, mean
ing and substance of things, we must
look to Mind, and not to matter.
One of the fundamental propositions
of the Christian Science textbook Is
There is no life, truth, intelligence
nor substance In matter. All is in.
finite Mind and its infinite manlfes-
iation. for God is All in ALL" Is. &
II. p. 46SD This position is certain
y radical and revolutionary; but any
system that will interpret and dem.
)nstrate the Ideal OF Jesus can bo
'annot admit either matter or evil:
md Christian Science eliminates both
~ either power or reality.
We read OF man who once heal
ID the sick and raised the dead:
Who turned water into wine, walked !
he wave, out of a handful OF loaves
md fishes fed the assembled thou |
ands; who finally came and went
through closed doors. appeared AMI !
and at last passed
fence, not through the gateway OF
cath, but through the unfolding
'ortals OF eternal life. What would
iod's Universe seem to us TO be
ould We gain his insight and secure
IFS point OF view? For what must
ave been his sense of the real pow
n that lies back of chemical activity Z
nd chemical affinity, when he turn.
"a water into wine? What must
AVE been his relation 10 the ele-
nents and forces about him when he {
titled the storm and walked the [
wave? What was his conception of Z
he nature of Life when he healed a
he sick and raised the dead? And u
What his understanding of the law of 4
lind when, with a spoken word or -
n unuttered thought. he restored n
he lunatic and demoniac TO rational [
'oise and power? From all these Il
mighty workings we can be sure OF I
his; that Jesus understood that the '
government of the Universe Is con- a
tituted In spiritual power and spir- I
tual law; but this is only another II
way of saying that Jesus understood {
hat the real universe is spiritual. 4
nd not material v
Jesus teachings and works, ther, {
ct before us an idealism that ex. G
ludes matter and evil, and includes v
II good. The Christian Scientist v
rankly, sQuarely adopts this ideal, D
SIN, and he meets every manifesto. a
ion OF evil, whether OF sickness, sin /
overty, sorrow, disaster, with a "
ostiye denial of its power or reality, 1
nd an affirmation OF the allness and D
oodness OF God; and just in the {
egree of his spiritual clearness and Z
understanding, he supports these o
.atements by demonstration. q
The Practicability of the Ideal. a
The public attitude OF thought re- "