The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1908-04-30
Demonstrate Religion.
Continued from Page -

that false belief. until We mr. away
from il and do as Ezekiel imyiored us
to do when he said. Turn ye. tun
We, for why will We die" We snail
continue to sin. We shall continue to
be sick and we shall contin;e II
die.
God as a supposed oreat~r Of GoJt
and evil. of Life and dea't, sin and
disease, is not the God We Christian
Scientists know. nor is He the God
Of the inspired Scriptures which teach
day and forever, without va-iablencss
or shadow or turning. {. s stands
for common sense. il is .: sense that
belongs to all Of us; AM Christian
Scientist have nothing that is not
yours. and Christian Scientists are
simply using what the nOn-Chrlstian
Scientists are letting lie dormant in
their thought, to AWAKEN sometime.
Now, if God is c~hangeless. how could
he give life and then give death?
When life was existent what would be
Come Of death. and when death was
II God created them they must both
be as eternal as their creator. How
IAN they both exist eternally when
one manifests the absence Of the 9th
er. as certainly as light annihilates
~larhness?
Our Bible tells us that death is the
wages of sin. DO YOU believe it? The
Bible does not say that al n case
death is the wages of sin and that in
another case death is the wages of
goodness. 1t makes the unqualified
statement that the wages of sin is
leath. Then il God created death. He
must have created sin. You cannot
escape this conclusion by saying that
He only permits sin; for to permit it
He must know it. and how can He
know it when the Scriptures tell us
that God is Of purer eyes than TO be-
hold evil and cannot look upon in
iquitv.
If God is Of purer eyes than to be
hold evil and cannot look upon iliQui-
ty, if He created death, and death is
the wages of sin. then it logically fol
lows that God created sin; and as
everything He created is good, it fur
Their follows, logically, that sin is not
evil, but is good, an argument that
cannot for an instant be sustained;
and our hearts are filled with JOY
Vhnn we know. as Christian Science
teaches us, that God neither sees nor
knows sin.
Life is creative and death destruc.
tive, so that God, the only and primeal
creator, must be life, and not death,
and therefore death, measured by the
standard of perfection which God is,
is not real but is ,he suppositiOnal
absence Of or belief in the negation
of Life. Then where shall we look
for the origin of the belief in sin and
death except in the mortal conscious
ness. The mortal consciousness is to
be put off with the old mar and his
deeds; as it is put off and is super
coded By immortal consciousness, man
shall cease to know sin and death
and manifest eternal Life, being per.
feet even as his Father which is il
hcaJen is perfect.
The question naturally presents il.
self at this point, "Nhere did morta'
consciousness ONE from" Ny an.
swer is that ! do not know where il
came from, but ! do know it didn't
come from God, because it manifosts
discord. IS there anyone in the andI
u c who knows where the belief that
the world is a fiat surface originatndG
Is anyone still sticking to the belief
that it is Il fiat surface. Just becauae
they don't know the name and address
of the man who started that foolish
belief? OF course not, 1t has bee'
proven to be a sphere, and Jesus, the
Christ. proved to the world, by his
words and works, that sin. disease and
death are no part of Gods creation
and that His children do not live
nor move. nor have their Being there
in.
The universal belief about death i;
that it is either the gateway to Heav
en- or the entrance down below. This
belief should lead US logically to des
troy the innocent infant in order t,
insure its gaining the kingdom, ant
the action of the natives of India ii
casting their babes into the river Con
ges, was based on sound logic ana
good reason: bat the belief that daarl
is ever a friend is fallacious.
Death is an enemy. Christ proved
its |unrcality. and oyercame it in ac
cordance with the law OF God, tou.
indicatin" ultimate freedom frou
death for all mankind. DO YOU thipI
this a statement impossible Of acrert