Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-31

and death; and. third. he is ignorant
of the proper and scientific means of
cure. The materiailst dwells wholly
within the finite. He cannot possibly
depict in consciousness anything that
is higher in the scale of being than
matter. Hence his sense of God or
infinity Is wholly finite. He declares
that God or Spirit is omniscience-
All -knowledge-an then assumes that
intelligence is in matter. His sense
Is that Deity Is a man-God: that is to
say, that God is some object to be
cogniZed hereafter by the senses, and
that on a large scale He acts very
much as a man would act-capricious,
tentative, changeable, full of expert
ments and expedients; involved in all
sorts of evil and under the necessity
of making use of evil in order to bring
out the possibilities of good. His sense
is that God has created everything,
and therefore has created all the evil;
hence that the evils called sickness and
death are divinely Instituted and in ac-
cordance with the law of God. This
theory involves not only the assump-
tion that God has created man with
his ultimate destruction in view, but
also involves the monstrous doctrine
that He has created considerable
portion of the race in accordance with
a system of foreordained or prenatal
damnation. The materialist believes
that God has created the ferocity of
beasts and provided for the hereditary
transmission of countless Ills and he
denominates nearly every disaster as
visitation of God"
Depict Repe lent God
According to popular belief God
strikes dead the infant at it's mothers
breast, and in turn removes the mother
from her helpless brood, despite the
agonizing prayers that appeal for de-
liverance.
The man-made creeds depict repel-
lent God, whose plan of existence in
cludes the sureness of agony, disaster
and death; the certainty of a tortured
and wrecked manhood as the natural
and requisite preparation for either
heaven or hell
No wonder that such people are afraid
of God. II is no wonder that, while
trying to believe that death will usher
them into the presence of God, they re-
sist unto the uttermost the death pro-
cess which is said to be the open door
to heaven. The materialist Will declare
that through sin came death into the
world, and Immediately forgetting that
God is not sin, will compile creed or
religious system that recognizes sick
ness and death as of divine procure
ment. So when PaufS question reaches
his ear his answer is ready. To him
1t is indeed incredible that his God
who has instituted sickness and death,
Will contravene His own law and ma
ture by raising the dead and healing
the sick. His sense of the divine ma
ture Is so defective that it includes no
probability that God will turn aside the
dread destroyer which He has ordained
to do His will.
Humanity Is Deceived
o thou stricken, deceived humanity
To what pitiable depths hath the car
nal mind led thee, bound and fettered
thee, and Cancelled thy Godgiven do
minion over evil! Thy house is indeed
Il left unto thee desolate. for perverted
sense of Deity has substituted an i'm
age of havoc and vengeance for Him
that "healeth all thy diseases" 1t has
involved mankind in perpetual quar-
rel about God and engendered the
atrocity &C sectarian strife and bitter
ness which today stands impeached In
history as having been the monster as
sassin of the race. To such a condition
of thought the supposition that God
will raise the dead or heal the sick is
indeed foolishness and the fact that
there is such a thing as spiritual power
or the action of divine intelligence
able to cope with and master the So
icalled laws of disease Is inconceivable,