The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1908-10-21
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
EXPLAINED
FRANK H. LEONARD, c. S. B., OF BROOK.
LYN, SPEAKS.
LECTURE WAS A GREAT SUCCESS
Positions Of Mrs. Eddy Defended. Nearly
Complete Recital Of Christian Science
Address Of Last Week.

realm fact are nothing but false
belief! When this statement is under
stood it stands out in bold relief as
honoring God by recognizing in deed,
as well as word, His omnipotence, and
omnipresence; as Good, wherein there
is neither elemental evil nor CON
sentive passivity which seems to rec
ognize evil and permit it's existence
Christian Science gives us but one
standard of measurement, and that
standard is God! Whenever, there
fore, anything presents itself to
Christian Scientist, he Immediately
measures it by the standard of per-
lection which God is, and if it fails
to measure up to the standard, it is
known to be un-GodliAe; and if UNI
Godlike, not eternal; and if not eternal
not real.
How do we know that sin, disease
and death are not Godlike; how do
we know that sin, disease and deoth
have nothing to do with God; never
did have, and never will? Jesus told
us so, and very plainly, too. He said
he came, doing the will of the Father.
He also said he came, not to destroy,
but to fulfil, and imm ediately he went
to work to heal the sick, cleanse the
leper, cast out evil and raise the dead
with the Word of God. Do you think
Jesus knew what he was doing? DO
you think he told the truth when he
said that he came not to destroy but
to fulfil? If you do believe he told
the truth, then you are forced to adj
NIT that it was nothing that he de-
stroyed when he cast those things
out, for not otherwise can the truth
of his statement that he came not to
destroy but to fulfil, he upheld.
More than that, do you remember
the man who was i'll that he spoke
to, and said, Satan hath bound thee?
Do you suppose he he ment that IN
just that one instance Satan had bound
the man just because he was bad, and
that in another instance God would
do the binding because a man was
good? Do you think the statement
Jesus made indicates an agreement or
partnership between God and Satan
God making some ill, because they
are good, and Satan making some ill,
because they are bad? OF course you
don't believe anything of the kind.
Then, remember, that other man who
laid sick of the palsy, to whom Jesus
said: Thy sins be forgiven thee;"
and the man took up his bed and walk
ed Again, he said: IF a man keep
my saying, he shall never see DEATH y
Do you believe it; do you believe that
statement? Oh, what call Tia. is
to us to follow in the footsteps OF oul
Master; how it says to you and 70
me: The time is now when We shall
do the works that He did; when ye
shall take the Word of God and heal
the sick; shall cleanse the leper; shall
cast out evil, and shall raise the dead
in the name of God.
We shall have every one of these
things to do, either here or hereafter,
in the self-same way that Jesus did
them, whetht we want to or not be
cause there is no Way whereby we may
enter the Kingdom save through Him
If he is the Way, and the only Way
then you and l can only reach that
Kingdom of God which is within us
by doing what he did, and as he did
to The accomplishment of our individ
ual salvation, in the manner Jesus
Indicated.
We all know the works of healing
from sickness and raising the dead
Jesus accomplished with Gods word
as well as the sin he overcame with
1t, and we also know that he said:
''He that believeth in me, the works
that do shall he do also and greater
works than those shall he do; because
| go to my Father Do you believe
this statement? DO you believe in
Him? Then why don't you do the
works He did so as to be prepared to
do the greater works of His promise
We have been taught for ages that
the time for miracles, SO called has
gone by. That He only did the heal
ing of the sick that the Jews, who
were stiff-necked people, might be
convinced that He was the MESSIAH
Are there no stiff-necked peope on
earth today who need to lie con-
cinced that He is the Messiah?
Where, i'll the Bible, do we find tae
permission given to anyone TO separate
any part of this promise from the
rest OF it? Whence comes the author
ity to say that Gods Word may still
be used to destroy sin and save sin
ners but it can't be used to destroy
sickness and save the sick?
Does 1t not come dangerously neal