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

works than he dld in preaching 1t. An eloquent deed as a follower of Christ is worth far more than a thousand eloquent words. One instance of heal ing sickness according to the method taught, exemplified and commanded by Jesus, is of far more, power for the persuasion of mankind than thousand exhortations. Cure a cancer without drugs or surgery, especially after drugs and surgery have confessed their in- ability to cure 1t, and you are then do- ing something to convince the most skeptical of the Christ gospel. On the other hand, obey only half of the com mandment to preach the gosper' and to heal the sick" or, worse still, try to revile those who do, or who even faithfully try to do, as Jesus com handed and the wide river of material ism will continue to broaden and flow on quite unchecked by any rlpples or oratory or by any feryidness of eXhor- tation. The happiest music heard in 1 heaven is over Christ-like deed done on earth. Words, without deeds, are dead, just like faith. The growing en- l lightenment of tic world is demanding i and has the right to demand, that pro, 1 fessed Christians confirm their words ! by their works, their doctrines by dem- l onstrations. Whenever real Doc 1 Sifers,' in
 With perfect faith in God an man
 A-shinin in his eyes.
 shall succeed by the Christ method in making the lame man to leap as an art, to use Isaiah's phrase; shall be able to heal "all manner of sickness" as drug medication confesses it can- not do; shall rejoice over some chronic invalid Walking and leaping and praising God" at the gate of some twentieth century temple called beau- tiful," let human voices revile as they please another voice will say unto him mighty things of the universe, while mere theories are among the feeblest Whenever a theory, creed, or dogma is permitted to usurp the scep- tre and crown and govern facts, false- hood is liable to triumph until the us urped authority of the theory is over l thrown. Though ye believe not me, believe the works" said Jesus. And so says Christian science. Christian science is to-lay, my friends, healing ''all manner of sickness, and all man ner of diseases" to make use of the New Testament phrase, throughout the 1 civilized world The witnesses to it's cures are in every city, and are be- ginning to be found in almost every county in the United States. They come up to the average standard for I intelligence, responsibility and veracity. They are of all business pursuits ana of all ranks of life. They know that they have found the pearl of great l price" that they have attained the peace that passeth understanding. They have arisen from beds of pain and apparently hopeless invalidlsm and they are crying out in their gratitude, T know that my Redeemer liveth. ' They have seen the grim enemy, death, shaiowlng the thresholds of their homes, cottages and proud mansions alike and threatening to enter soon and bear away some loved one of their | family circles, they have heard their faithful family physicians desparingly admit that their efforts were all in vain; and then they have had recourse, often as the last resort after every- thing else had failei them, to Christian science, and 10! their fading loved ones have been restored to their arms, with the roses of health once more bloom ing in their cheeks and the light of re- stored happiness beaming again from their eyes.
 The practical effects of the teach ings of Christian science, supported and rendered conspicuous on all sides
 by its practical and evidentlal works
 are of such a high character as to de- serve the most grateful recognition on
 the part of all true lovers of their fel- lowmen, For example, As the direct
 corollary of it's teachings that all dis
 ease is of primary mental causation, il
 has constantly iterated to it's followers
 and to the world that such cankering
 passions as greed, hate, lasciviousness
 malice and their like, and such des-
 tructive emotions as fear, care, worry and their like, are the fell enemies oi : human life and health, as well as oi
 happiness. As another direct corollarS of it's doctrines, 1t has insistentls taught it's followers and the world tht mischievous effects of talking sickness and that the contagion of sick thoughts
 is to be avoided as a deadly peril by |, physicians as we'll as their patients i The current literature of the daS . proves how widespread have become , the beneficent effects of these persis tent Christian science teachings, It l.
 with rejoicing and gratitude tha Christian scientists discern these sign'
 of the times,
 They discern that the heaven of trutl is doing its work--a work often unsus !. pected by the world at large.
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