Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-19

of which Lucifer is here pictured as
personalized type; but whether typicaiiy
or literally construed, the fact Of ami
hilation distinctly appears.
If the humiliation of the Satan or the
Lucifer of the Scripture is here clearly
shown, the humiliation of hell as clearly
appears in Revelation 20:14: And death
and hell were cast into the lake of firei
the fire here typifying burning or de-
struction.
II would seem that when Satan ,as the
nersonsl representative of SIM and nell
las the place, or locus, of sin) are ahiii-
Inflated, there is nothing le1t OIL sln,
Now ~ sin were real in the sense that
Il Is an essential part of Gods creation
could n he thus annihilated? If we ADMIT
mai part of Gods creation can De
dastroved we must logically concede thaI
az ,,,,oIe could be- and thus we woula
hove temporal instead of an eterhai
creation. ..4,,oo,, counles
sin. sickness, and death togetheT a
ss,riod of errors" (Science and Health'
rege 9o91 It's teaching is that sickness
e. q consequence of sin, and all aonilIs
+ba+ death is a result of sickness. II
siclEness and death are result OF SIN
ond sin is unreal. it follows that sickness
and death are likewise unreal An utli ca,
canee cannot produc~ a real effect Such
logic would be absurd.
Always Aware OF Life
A. e. siol,ness II may be asked, is 1t
NOT real to the suffering invalid? Hu-
-,,.,1,, snealxing. yes distressingly real
lille II lasts: but when it is entirely gone
daetroved-by whatever means, where Is
,+s -ealitv In the Christian Science use
of +be term? II was-if we may be al
loved the paradox-a temporary realty
The most ardent advocate OF the rea,ity
of pain surely will not MAINTAIN INA
pain is eternal. If it were there "ouIu oe
little use in either physicians or Chris
tan Science endeavoring to prevent IT,
In thousands of instances the Christian
Science practitioner has been called TO
The bedside of persons writing In pam
which seemed to them unenduraole, Out
in a few moments 1t was gone, and the
natient resting at perfect ease, or in
peaceful slumber. After the pain was
thus destroyed will it be said that II IS
vet real? 1t was real to the senses OF
the patient while it lasted; but this is not
the kind of reality meant by the Chris
tan Science use of the word. Nor Is II
an unwarranted juggling with words 1t
is but the logical distinction between
the temporary and permanent-the tenn
poral and eternal
Then what of death? If. as all who be-
lieve in a future life at all admit, 1t is
but a change from one state or condition
to another, 1t is not more real in the
logical sense of reality, than its prede-
cessors, sin and sickness. However
awfully and painfully real it may seem
TO the purblind sense of mortals this side
the veil If life is continuous, who shall
say that death is real to the sense of him
who has passed beyond the veil? To his
sense he is yet alive. He may be fully
aware that he has passed the portal of
what mortals call death, but If he is
alive he is aware of it. and, therefore. he
is not really dead. He has but passed
through the belief of death-the tenn
poral conditions which bring about the
change called DEATH but which conditions
are not and cannot be eternal, else death |
would be eternal; this would be, not
death, but extinction.
1t will be observed that the passage
above quoted from Revelation couples
death and hell together; both are cast |
into the lake of fire-that is. destroyed |
Thus death as a human belief becomes |
but man who is born of Eternal |
Life never becomes extinct. He forever |
retains his true relation to the God who |
created all good.
We wish it distinctly understood that !
our textbook does not treat sin, sickness, |
and death lightly, as some seem to think. |
On the contrary, it teaches that. human
ly speaking, they are to be overcome and