The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1908-10-21

periodicals with attacks, warning the
unsuspecting public to keep their mon
ey in their pockets, and not let it be
drawn away from them by the trick
sters and sharpers who said it was
possible for man to talk into one end
of wire and have man at the other
end, hundreds of miles away, hear
what was said and catch the intona-
ton of the voice so as to be able to
tell who was talking to him.
Who was right? Graham and Bell
wiser than Columbus wise men. What
effect did the false belief have on
the people? So long as they believed
it to be impossible to control the vi
brations sufficiently to reproduce the
voice they We're held within the mar
row confines of the letter-post and
lcations, whereas, when that false be-
lief was broken, it was possible with
in five minutes to talk from New York
to Chicago, to transact business in
five minutes that used to take five
weeks or sometimes months to tran
sact Those Who have deemed them
selves wise in religious matters have
held the world for two hundred and
forty thousand years in the grip of the
belief that God either directly or in
directly is responsible for sin, disease
and death, and until we break that
false belief, until we turn away from
it and do as Ezekiel implored us to
do when he said, Turn ye, turn ye,
for why will We die we shall con-
tinue to sin, we shall continue to be
sick and continue to die.
God as supposed creator of Good
and evil, of Life and death, sin and
| disease, is not the God we Christian
Scientists know, nor is He the God
of the inspired Scriptures, which teach
us that He is the same yesterday, to-
J day and forever, without variableness
or shadow of turning. c. S. stands
for common sense, and it means COM
mon sense because it is my sense and
your sense; it is a sense that belongs
to all of US; and Christian Scientists
nave nothing that is not yours; and
Christian Scientists are simply using
what the non-Christian Scientits are
letting lie dormant in their thought,
to be awakened sometime.
Now, if God is changeless, how
could he give life and then give death,
When life was existent what would
become of death, and when death was
existent what would become of life?
If God created them they must both
be as eternal as their creator How
can they both exist eternally when
one manifests the absence of the other
as certainly as light annihilates dark
mess?
Our bible tells us that death is the
wages of sin. Do you believe it?
The Bible does not say that in one
/ case uedlu is lue wages OIL SIN aHQ
that in another case death is the wages
of goodness. 1t makes the unquali
fled statement that the wages of sin
is death. Then if God created death
He must have created sin. You can
not escape this conclusion by saying
that He only permits sin; for to per
init it He must know it, and how can
He know 1t when the Scriptures tel
us that God is of purer eyes than to
behold evil and cannot look upon mi
guilty.
If God is of purer eyes than to be
hold evil and cannot look upon mi
guilty, if he created death, and dealt
is the wages of sin, then it logical,
follows that God created sin; and is
everything He created is good, it fur
Their follows, logically, that sin is MOI
evil, but is good, an argument tha
cannot for an instant be sustained
and our hearts are filled with JOY whe1
We know, as Christian Science teache