Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-08

ness, now.
Christian Science stands for ration
al spiritual Interpretation of the Scrip
tures and the adoption of the inspired
Word of the Bible" as a sufficient
guide to eternal Life" (Seience and
Health, page 497)
1t stands for all of this and more.
Having told something of that FOR
which Christian Science stands, ana
having indicated to some extent tnat
which it claims to do for those VINO
are sick and in trouble, may 1t not be
of interest TO say something about what
Christian Science is doing to 1ulniI llA
promises and something of the way
in which it is being done?
In the state of Illinois alone there are
thousands of people who, through the
ministry of Christian Science, have
been healed of disease and redeemed
from sin. and many who have oeen
turned back from the very gates OF
DEATH Among these thousands there
are those who have been raised from
beds of unspeakable pain, those VINO
have been rescued from depths of deg
radiation. those who have been freed
from the bondage of poverty and IN
eompetency 1t is possible that some
of these people would have recovered
from their sickness under other forms
of treatment or without any treatment.
It is probable that some of them would
have been reformed by other means
and that some would have become
prosperous in another way. but II Is q
fact that the great majority We're Ut
terlv hopeless and apparently helpless
in their misery until Christian Science
showed them the way out of 1t. These
people. it is safe to say, would still De
in the hell of physical and mental tor
ment. and some indeed would have
passed into the valley of the shadow
of death had Christian Science not
come into their experience just when
1t did.
How People Are Healed
How were these people healed of dis
SOS which in many instances had bat
fed the most skillful physicians? Tney
were healed by the Christ truth Wnlcn
takes away the sins and heals the SICK
ness of the world. They were healeu
bv reason of the knowledge that SICK
ness Is unnatural to Gods man and
that therefore man need not fear or en-
dure it. These people have been hfted
from the maelstrom of poverty and vice
by gaining the understanding that pow
erty is an imposition and vice a frahd,
and that Gods man cannot be imposed
upon or defrauded: by being convinced
that the fear of evil is unnecessary Tor
the reason that every phase OF eYll IS
temporal and destructible; by being
educated into the understanding that
none of the Ills to which flesh Is heir
are part of the real or right man.
Thus have they been enabled to prove
that these ills are entirely foreign TO
the man who is created for the pur-
pose of rnanifesting and expressing the
power and perfection of his Creator.
Results Have Demonstrated
Christian Scientists believe that they
have demonstrated by results already
attained that Mrs. Eddy has surely
discovered and correctly set forth the
principle and law by which Jesus
healed all manner of sickness and all
manner of disease among the people
of his time. Jesus said of his work, Il
can of mine own self do nothing. The
Father that dwelleth in me, he
doeth the works. The Father re-
ferred to by Jesus as being the Prin-
ciple of his works was according to
Christian Science, the divine Mind.
Jesus further said to his followers,
'sThe works that l do shall We do also
and greater works." Christian Scien-
lists believe that as followers of Christ
Jesus they have right to do MS
works. They believe that the meaning
which he did was lawful and was done
according TO a principle which he un-
derstood. They believe that this Princi-
ple is God. They believe that divine In
telligence is available to man now Just
as it was in the time of Jesus They
believe that God and His eternal Christ
are entirely adequate to save under all
circumstances and from all conditions.
Christian Scientists are, however, SEN
sible of the fact that they have only
oegun to understand and apply the
g nd
pretend that they are always success
full in its application, yet they do know
that Christian Science has proved it
self to be efficacious in the healing or
thousands of cases of disease, acute
and chronic mental and physical. This
is recorded fact and should silence the
claims often made that Christian
Science is good only for nervousness
and hysteria, claims which are usually
associated with the erroneous state
ment that cures wrought by Christian
Science can all be explained as result
ing from blind faith, will power, or
mental suggestion.
Fear of Poverty Causes Suffering
Christian Science shows the victim
of poverty and limitation that these
evils are due to a false sense of mans
separation from his all-knowing prin-
ciple and a consequent belief in the
necessity for dependence upon human
ways and means. 1t explains to the
poverty-stricken individual that what
really causes his suffering is fear or
poverty. 1t shows him that while
philanthropy or benevolence might tenn
porarily remove the condition of pow
erty, nothing can permanently destroy
the fear of lack but a knowledge OF
mans inseparable unity with the one
Mind which includes within itself an
inexhaustible and ever-available abun-
dance of all that is necessary to man
welfare.
Christian Science woos the sinner
from his sin by convincing him that
he need not fear sin and cannot love
it because it is not of Gods 1t shows
him that God does not create sin, that
He does not permit its existence, and
that He does not make use of 1t. 1t
teaches him that God is of too pure
eyes to behold evil and that man as
the likeness of God cannot know
something which God does not know
1t explains that evil is entirely illegiti-
mate and contrary to the will of God
Thus it induces the sinner to abandon
his belief in the reality of sin and
enables him to win forgiveness by for
saking sin. Therefore it will be seen
that it is a mistake to suppose that
in teaching the unreality of sin, Chris
tian Science encourages the indulgence
of sin. The facts are that 1t awakens
the sinner to the absolute necessity Of
gaining a love for goodness that will
| enable him to willingly abandon not
only the fragrant forms of immortality,
but also the more subtle phases Of
evil.
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