Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-08-10


hence to yonder place; and 1t shall re-
move; and nothing shall be impossible
unto you"
Suppose Jesus meant this in a literal
sense, 1t might well seem to his listen
ers in that far-away time that he was
propounding the very limit of impossi-
bilities In thus proclaiming the power
of faith, the understanding of God, and
yet today the civil engineers, though
they think of laws as material, are at
tempting and accomplishing kindred
tasks What is il that years ago swung
the great bridge across Niagara river,
and year by year is working yet more
marvellous things, until today these
erstwhile marVels are the commonplace
facts of everyday life-what is it but
the mustard seed of faith, faint
glimpse of the creative activities of di-
vine Principle which may be utilized as
man exercises his dominion? If it be
assumed that in this utterance of Jesus
he was not referring to literal mound
of earth but was speaking OF man, S
ability to overcome all material eondi-
tions, not by faith in the occasional
intervention of a personal God, but by
knowledge of the truth which he said
would make man free, his declaration
certainly points to the naturalness OF
that spiritual dominion through which
he walked the waves, healed the sick,
rdlSeu Itle uedu.
Ethical Teachings Hopeless
Not more than fifty years ago 1t
would have been said perhaps 1t was
said-that any man who would assert
and believe that the human voice could
be heard at miles distance was the
victim of delusion, and yet, let US ask
ourselves this question, Is the tele-
phone a creation, or is it the result or
the discovery of the possibility. of car
rying the human voice to any distance!
Did the possibility of speaking to a
person five hundred miles away pegln
when the telephone was invented, OF
had il always existed as law or De-
ing? Is the apprehension of this law,
which Is today expressed in the tele-
phone and which tomorrow VIII De eX-
dressed in a wireless telephone, an ar
bitrary production of mans brain, OF
is it the removal Of raise sense OF
Limitation. which never had reality as
to fact. by the discernment of law and
consequent faith in it? Are the physi-
cal scientists of today victims of deIu-
sions when they prophesy an ever
Increasing freedom through eVer-ln-
creasing faith or knowledge OF truth
AS we turn to the realm OF health
we find there has been perpetual be-
wiIderment discord and fear. per-
netllal failure and bondage, despite sew
eral thousand years of tireless research
for remedies and release from pain. In
the latter part of the nineteenth CEN
tury there came into this realm OF
thought, through the writings or MIS-.
Eddy, the perception of the true law
of health. viz, the specific activity ana
maIntenance of health in just the same
way that the reign of the laws OF math-
ematics established and maintalned
harmony in other realms. And now
the world is hearing the demand, have
faith in the power of divine Mind To
heal the sick, which demand means
simply this: Learn the truth on TINS
subject; learn the true relation OF man
to his Maker; learn the eyer-presence
of divine law to regulate and controi
ali human conditions, and having
learned the truth, you will instinctlVely
trust it, have faith in 1t, ana an your your
fear. pain and discord will naturally
disappear. -, l..
In the realm of morals also there rs
TO be seen a changed attitude Oh
Thought The suppositious forces of
sin have been strengthened by the the
illogical teaching that personal Goa
created a material man with power
and will to sin and put him into an
evil world with no hope of salvation
except through faith in far-away GOD
who had allowed His only son to De
nut to DEATH thus In some mysterlo-
Gus way to effect redemption for man
kind. or else by the more modern but
Equally hopeless ethical teaching that
man is the result of heredity, environ
ment. education, etc.--a creature or IT.
resisitible forces over which ne mas
little or no control.
Into this world of blindness, strife
and hopelessness the light of Jesus
teaching has been shining for many
centuries, and has proven its immor-
tality because, though not clearly I'M
derstood and at times almost over
Swallowed, it has never lost its radl-
ance. Through the scientific explana-
ton of these teachings which Mrs.
Eddy has given to us in the Christian
Science textbook, Science and Health
with Key to the Scriptures" is found
a true statement of man as he Is,
which when understood and acted upon
sets us free from the temptation to
sin; and we learn that salvation or
freedom from evil is a present posi-
bility through an understanding of
the divine fatherhood and divine SON
shin. which includes and maintains all
good and excludes and destroys all
evil.
It has become evident to students
of Christian Science, as they even in
small beginnings learn the truth and
receive the resultant release from
bondage ana ulSedSe, l6dI, anu SILL
that Jesus Christ was OF miraculously
endowed with power to set aside divine
law, but that on the contrary he healed
through knowledge of divine law; and
that his faith in his power to heal
was not a miraculous faith in a per-
sonal God, but an enlightened knowl-
edge of the true nature of God and His
UNIVERSE perfect understanding of
divine law or truth and a consequent
faith in it's control in the realm of
health as well as elsewhere. So we
see that through the enlightening and
benign influence of Christian Science
in human consciousness the spiritual
force of faith as the necessary require
ment of salvation from disease as well
as from sin, has found its true defini-
ton as that spiritual understanding of
truth which our Master promised
should set us free.-Christian Science
Journal.
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