The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-01-11
EMING'S LECTURE
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| not KNOW, every one OF you, every
child in the house know, that that man
did not state his real belief, or II he
did, that he was amazingly attracted
to the lurid terminus of the transpor-
tation purchased. The illustration l
have employed is not far-fetched. Few
of us indeed have escaped furnishing
example of the same Inconsistency.
Apply the test to yourselves! AS the
years have come and gone, you have
said SO many times with Paul, "In God
We live and move and have our be-
ing" which is simply saying and only
saying in God we have life, health and
immortality. Yet, you have gone from
every such declaration to the doctor,
the druggist or climate, for the life
and health that YOU declared you had
and only had in God. Do you then
beliece it? If you say that you be-
lieve that your life and health Is in
God and then go to some human
agency, some dull clod of earth for
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greatly surprised If your neighbors
should say that you are either mistak-
en- in your belief or that you place
very low estimate upon the value
of what you have in God?? How many,
many times have YOU all joined in the
most beautiful invocation. Let the
words of my mouth and meditation of
my heart to be acceptable in Thy
sight, 0 Lord, my strength and my
Redeemer?"
Dou you really think you believe
that God is your strength and your
Redeemer, and yet hesitate to go to
God, and God only, day by day and
hour, for your strength and for re-
demption from every i'll that comes
to humanity? If you do am sure you
are mistaken in your belief Your
belief, your strust, your faith is in
In the agency you go to; your real
belief is that the doctor is your
strength, and the druggist your re-
deemer. You can not serve two mast
ers, and you can not escape the in
exorable rule, by their works We
shall know them" What you really
believe, you do. CAS- q man thinketh,
so is he."
Christian Scientists believe that
their life is in God, that God is their
strength and Redeemer, and know
they believe it, demonstrate their be-
lief by going to God and God only
for life. strength and redemption from
all sickness, sorrow and sin. You say
you believe that God is the great
physician who heals all our diseases"
but do you really believe it? If you
do not go to the great physician, men
will think and God will know you do
not believe it. If the question were
asked every one of you would say
that you believe that Jesus was sin
cere In His every declaration; said ex-
actly what He meant and meant pre-
cisely what He said. Do you really
believe it? Jesus said to his disciples:
THE works that do We shall do also,
and greater" Do you believe it? If
you do you will prove your belief
In His sincerity by doing these works.
He said to the eleven when giving them
the great commission to carry the COS
pei to every creature, in order that
they might know whether they were
preaching effectively or not: "The signs
shall follow them that believe; in my
name they shall cast out devils, they
shall speak with new tongues, they
shall lay hands on the sick and the
sick shall recover" Do you believe
that He meant this, and yet have you
never put it to the test?
Divine Invitation.
What will you do, good people, with
the sweetest and tenderest words that
ever fell from the lips of God upon the
ears of men: Come unto me all We
that are weary and heavy laden, and
will give you rest? What does it
mean? Is there one anywhere who
will say that Jesus did not mean in
their simplicity, sweetness and love
the very words He spoke;- that the
blessed Masters invitation to His dis
ciples was but promise to the ear
to be ruthlessly and wickedly broken
to the hope? No, no, no! Then what
do the sweet words mean, unless as
we believe exactly what they say? In
deed, the promise has been kept.
Hundreds of thousands of happy men
and women testify to it today. Weary,
worn, MANNED, halt, and blind, they
touched the hem of His garment, laid
the burdens at His feet, "and bore a
song away"
Christian Scientists have radically
changed their Thought of God; they no
longer attribute to God qualities that
no man among civilized people any,
where could acknowledge in himself
and not meet the ostracism he de-
served. We no longer indulge the
belief that God makes us sick, or lame,
or blind for some mysterious purpose
of His own. 1t is not within the range
Of reasonable concept of an infinite
ly good God that He would deliberately
hold in torture and crush in despair
pure sweet mother for the purpose
Of making some bad man better. Be-
ing infinitely just, If He were admin
istering punishment for reform and
dispensing rewards for virtue, He
would cruelty the bad man and en-
throne the good woman.
We believe that God is not only
the embodiment of good; but that He
is good: the Great Physician" who
heals all our diseases" who gives sur