Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-31

The opacity of materialism includes no
such possibility in it's estimate or
cause and effect
"Why should it be thought a thing
incredible with you that God should
raise, the dead" and heal the SICK!
What have the sick and dead meant to
humanity? What is the educated sense
of this generation on this subject? In
what direction does it look for causa-
ton and natural law? What is its
theory as to the inception of disease
and of mortality's processes? Ihe
answer is this: That notwithstanding
the awful penalty which the MATERIAL
ist pays for his idolatry, he locates in
telligence and cauSation in matter; as
signs for every material phenomenon
material cause, and holds that matter
has inherent power and action, gov
erned by material law and mindless
principles. This fatal conception in
sures it's own defeat, and man thus
deceived and governed is indeed NOR
tai man. With matter for his life,
matter for his foe, matter for his brain
or mind, and a mental image for ms
personal God, what else is there Tor
the man who is governed by a mate
rialistic philosophy of being, save to
endure all the ills it ordains for him,
and to plunge headlong toward an un-
known doom?
The Mystery of Evil
Midway he is involved in the innu-
merable woes which he calls the mys-
terry of evil that has so greatly baffleo
and perplexed mankind. In its endeavor
to solve this mystery humanity mas
made the dire mistake of deciding that
part of the evil is caused by Goa, OF
the God-ordained laws of nature, ana
part of it has been caused by the devil.
Also that both God and devil are
immortal entities and co-eXiStent rae
tors in an eternity of both good and
evil. Notwithstanding the fact that
this is utterly inconsistent with the
declaration that God Is infinite good,
life, truth and love, nearly all the
philosophy and religious beliefs or the
world are permeated and fatally con-
taminated by this evil assumption.
This supposition that God is natural
source of evil, and particularly or
sickness and death, logically excludes
all hope of divine deliverance, ana
would oblige the sufferer to contend
against God himself in order to escape.
If God procures sickness and death,
what sacrilegious folly it is for man
to seek to frustrate the divine inten-
ton by the employment of physicians
and drugs! Indeed, under such cir
cumstances the only consistently
Christian course would De one VI dpSo-
lutte reconciliation to disease and res
ignation to such will of God.
The world will never emerge from
the area of disease until it shall have
solved scientifically this problem, the
answer to which Is Of the most vital
concern to this race: Is God for or
against disease and death? That is to
say, is that which is origin, source,
causation, basis, law, government.
power and action for or against the
| inception and continuance of sickness?
| Today Christian Science, uttering it
self through it's Discoverer, Mary Baker
| Eddy, declares itself to be the demon
strable Science of Life. 1t substanti-
ates every salient and true statement
concerning the infinity of God as om-
niscience, omnipresence and omnipo-
tence; as Spirit Life, Truth, and Love,
and has made known the Science there
Of in such exact form as to meet the
most urgent demands of logic and rea-
son. 1t excludes all seeming necessity
for conflicting man-made creeds, and
religio- philosophical theories, and is in
and of itself true Science. true religion,
and true philosophy.
OVerturns Previous Conjectures
1t overturns nearly all previous con-
lectures as to the nature of evil and
the cause of human woe. 1t discloses a
knowledge of God and of life which is
so precisely true and scientific that an