The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-03

co-workers in the eternal domain of truth.
 Christian science teaches, and proves by Its works (for 1t could not perform the least of them if it's teachings were not true), that we are citizens of a spiritual universe. Each of us, all of us have an immortal spiritual destiny. The grave has never been the final goal of humanity, and the tombstone has never. been more than milestone on mans journey. We are too prone to burrow in dirt and darkness like the mole, and to forget the nobility and grandeur of our destiny as spiritual beings. In our self-seeking efforts for power, place and money, all of which are really so transitory, we are too prone to lose sight of the true perspec- | tive and proportion of things. We hold the dollars so close to our eyes as to shut out not only the celestial man, but even what is fairest and sweetest about us throughout the dusty high ways of our lives.
 1 Christian science teaches that mans highest reason affirms the Biblical teaching that God is spirit" and that man. who is Gods image and likeness, must therefore be a spiritual being Christian science teaches that it must follow that intimate divine relations exist between God and man; that these divine relations cannot exist uselessly. but must be both useful and usable; that therefore, man can make use of these divine relations for his higher harmony and happiness, according to the measure of his understanding of these relations and their uses. Chris tian science bases it's working doctrine upon the understanding already attain ed, and proves and exemplifies it by it's practical and evidential works, over coming the phenomenon of evil.
 Tn the Bible we find it stated that man has God-given dominion over the things on earth.
 As spiritual being in the image and likeness of God, why should be not both have and exercise His domin- ion?
 When he seems subject to material conditions is it not because in his lg- norance he submits himself to their bondage?
 If so, what is the remedy? We have 1t defined in the words of Jesus: eYe shall know the truth. and the truth shall make ye free. D
 What shall we be freed from through our understanding of the truth? Freed from the bondage of falsehoods and false beliefs.
 And Jesus exemplified what these are. He freed through His understanding of the truth. those whom He helped from sin, sickness, suffering and even the last enemy" death.
 He even treated death as false be- lief, saying to the soldiers daughter whom He restored from the bed of death-"she. is not dead, but sleepeth."
 Christian science. recognizes in the scrptural declaration that God is love"-the great dynamic truth of the universe. It seeks to make this dy- mamie truth the basis of its entire sys- tenn of doctrine and practice.
 Hence it seeks to establish our thoughts and lives on the high table lands of purity and peace, faith and Ifaithfu1nessl And, therefore, Christian science can have no doctrine Which recognizes or admits, directly or re- lmotely that such a phenomena as sin, sickness and suffering are the creations of God, and so sanctioned and perpetu- lated by infinite love. It refuses to sanction the teachings that while God
 is always willing and abundantly able
 to save the sinner, yet, for some in-
 scrutable reason Els all embracing
 providence is either not able or it is not willing to save the sick. It refuses
 to sanction the dogma that God dis
 criminates between the classes of man.
 kind needing His loving kindness. SC
 that the virtuous sick man would bt further away from God, for all praetic-
 al purposes than the robust sinner. Il
 denies that God is partial or unjust ir
 His benefactions. It denies that Gods iproteeting care is limited or finite. | denies that Gods arm is shortened SC
 that 1t cannot reach and help man ir : lall his distresses. It affirms that thu
 virtuous sick man, as well as the robus sinner, has the right to appear fo
 hell without limiting his faith in God , or his obedience to the command O
 Jesus. Have faith in God" Have faith in God -four short, sim. pie words, but they make up a price less jewel that lon the stretched fore. , finger of all time," shall shine forever My friends, take these four words home with you, and make them par , of your daily thoughts and conscious , ness, and they will prove a priceless blessing to your homes and lives. And words of gold is the very frs sentence in the Christian science tex : book, where Mrs. Eddy writes. 'Tt those leaning on the sustaining infinit l to-day is big with blessings" And Christian science teaches tha whatever successes, or whatever dan gers, disappointments, or disasters ma, . seem to visit our mortal lives; how . ever our earthly fortunes may seem t prosper or to darken and decay; stil we should find humility, peace, ant } content in the abiding assurance tha 5 the arms of divine love are around u 5 and beneath us always, that behind al appearances is the eternal unity O good, and over them all, wise provi l dence of divine and absolute lovin l kindness.
 y The man-made dogma that God em
 ploys evil to accomplish good has to
 long taught men to initiate what the Q have supposed to be the divine exampl a themselves using evil means and agen l cies and deceiving themselves with tn