The Greeley tribune., 1908-05-07

at first the beginner does not need
to fasten his thought upon evil and
endeavor to account for 1t. He has
never been able to do 30 by any theo
ries or thoughts which have come to
him from ordinary religious teaching
or from material science II should
not appear unreasonable to him that
at first he be required to put these
inquiries aside until he shall have
proved something of the Affirmative
statements OF Christian Science. When
he shall have accomplished that much,
he WILL for the first time. begin to
understand the nature or evil and an
swer for himself the questions as to
the seeming reality of the human ex-
periences involved in sin, sickness,
and death. Let 1t be here said, how
ever, that Christian Science does an.
swer these questions satisfactorily,
and that 1t provides a complete and
perfectly satisfactory solution of all
problems Of human existence. 1t is
the only system in the world which
has ever done this. and while Chris
tian Scientists do not pretend that
they have solved all problems, they
do generally declare that they have
gained great satisfaction and happi-
ness through even a partial demon
stration Of the sublime facts of Chris
tian Science by which even the most
personal and unutterable thoughts
are being purified. and the possibility
Of the divine promise In some mea-
sure realized: Il shall be satisfied,
when / awake, with thy likeness.
Through progress and proof of his
own understanding Of Christian Sci
ence, one begins to comprehend the
explanation made by 1t as to the ma
ture of evil wherein it is seen that
sin. sickness, and death are no part
of God, the Mind which is holiness,
health and life; that, therefore, sin.
sickness, and death are without God
or science or truth in the world, and
are due to false, finite, material, in
adequate unscientific and untrue sense
of being as existent in matter.
BELIEF IN CHRIST-This separa-
ton of all evil from our thought of
God is unquestionably the way of sci
ence. the way of the first command
ment 1t is the way indicated in the
teachings of Jesus the Christ. That
Christian Scientists should be misun-
derstood in their practical application
of those teachings by systems and
any practical application of them, is
perhaps inevitable, but whether so or
not, the fact remains that practical
proof indicates scientific understand
ing. The sick have been healed
and are being healed in Christian
Science through scientific thought and
thinking as indicated in the teachings
of Jesus. He clearly showed the ne
cessity for obedience to the first COM
mandment. He said: "A good tree
cannot bring forth evil fruit" Again
he said: there is none good but one,
that is God" and he indicated the ma
ture of prayer when he declared at
the tomb of Lazarus, Il knew that
thou nearest me always. No one
should think that the works of Jesus
could be disassociated from absolute
truth and therefore from science.
His gospel is unquestionably the gos-
pei of truth and must therefore be
in the nature of scientific knowledge.
He proved himself to be the only GER
tain healer of disease that has ever
| lived upon the earth. Was his meth
cd less scientific than others because
il combined the compassion of love
with the accuracy of truth? The
world has been taught to believe that
his works were miraculous. and no
doubt they were so to those who did
not understand or have not understood
them. Science is always wonderful
or miraculous to ignorance. We daily
do many things which would be mira
culous to the savage. 1t is not in the
nature of absolute truth. not in the
nature of God. to set aside his i'm
mutable and eternal law. No such
demand was made upon Him in the
righteous prayers of Jesus: rather
were they a recognition of the avail
ability of divine power, of the pres
ence and omnipotence of good. He
did not set aside law, but he fulfilled
the law of health and harmony to
man, law which is ever powerful in
right thought and right thinking, the
righteous prayer (which availeth
Thus we begin to see what is meant
by the mind which was in CHRIST
Jesus, since we recognize that Mind
must be the healing and saving power.
Jesus never said that Christ would
leave the earth when he left it. but
declared the eternity of Christ in such
words as these, Before Abraham was.
| am" II will not leave you com
fortless;" 10. l am with you always.
even unto the end of the world" Mis-
understanding as to Christ has led to
the belief that the personality of Jes-
us constituted the saving power, and
yet he was always instructing his dis
ciples to turn away from personality,
their own as we'll as his. He said,
Deny thysef," and again, for if |
go not away. the Comforter will not
come unto you" showing clearly that
the need is always for individual un-
derstanding. This must be the refiec-
tion of the divine Mind, and it consti-
tuted the mind of Jesus the Christ.
Its nature is ever that of absolute
Truth. II could not leave the earth
since there is no place where omni-
present Truth is not. Do Christian
Scientists love Jesus less because