Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-17
BY MARGARET BEECHER WHITE

every sickness and every disease
among the people,"
No distinction was made between or
ganic and functional disease Never
did our Master say God can heal this
trouble but He cannot heal that" He
did not classify disease or diagnose it.
He did not work along material lines
nor prescribe material remedies and he
was neither hypnotist nor a mes
merist.
He worked in accordance with Gods
law The Bible says, He sent his
word and healed them"
l bought a copy of the Key to the
Scriptures, by the founder Of Christian
Science and returned home determined
to find whatever was good and true
in it.
L studied it, searched for its reasons
tried it and progressed. At last l.
had found God-an infinite, limitless
Poweri
L saw this Science to be a revelatian
of Life and laid down according to linz
that seem new to all-and yet they ar
not new. 1t is only in the sense that
1t is fulfillment of the teachings of
Jesus in their spiritual import, such as
has not been taught in the religious
study of the Christian age. Newton's
law of gravitation was new. and yet
1t was as old as the stars themselves
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Scientist feel as though Isaiah must
have had my case in mind when he
wrote that the blind would be brought
in way they knew not, and that dark
ness would be made light before them,
and crooked things straight. The
prophecy is certainly being fulfilled in
my life.
In my six years experience in Chris
tan Science 1 have seen nearly every
| disease known to human existence
healed through the understanding of
this Truth.
Lays Aside Glasses
| Personally 1 was healed of a severe
astigmatsm and had been enabled to
lay aside my glasses. My daughter
was healed of the same trouble My
son was healed of lockjaw in four treat
ments.
1t proved to me that we have entered
into period where the so-called mir
| acles are lifted out of the unnatural
and the incredible into the purely nat
ural through the operations of an es-
tablished spiritual law.
Man is beginning to respond to the
clarion call. Awake thou that sleepest,
arise from the dead!
He is turning to the highest and most
intelligent power instead of depending
longer upon limited sense to sustain
and heal him.
At first, when investigating Christian
Science, 1 remarked that / had always
been, taught to believe that God was
omnfpotent. When asked, Have you
proved it, or are you proving it," 1 had
no answer.
When we are sick we do not say. mo,
God, you cannot heal me, but this drug
which has no intelligence can"
I have noticed that those of us who
do not understand their relationship to
| the Father believe in His power while
| the sun is shining and the sky is clear,
but let the clouds appear and the
| storms rage and see how quickly we
| leave the path of spirit to find shelter
in the houses built with hands beside
| the way.
| In looking back I can see how foolish
1t was that I was SO obstinate in not
being willing to investigate Christian
Science long before 1 did. We know
the results and effects of this science,
for they are seen on all sides. It's bene-
! fits to mankind are not only In the
physical healing, but are seen and felt
in the purifying of thought and the de-
struction of fear.
| Feels Its Influence
| It's uplifting influence is felt in all
phases of life, in the home, in society
and in business circles. We hear of the
failures here and there, to be sure. but
it seems to me the cause, if fairly in
vestigated, would be lack of Christian
| Science.
| That it's principle is absolute we
know, and those who are in the higher
classes of spiritual mathematics arc
better able to solve their problems cor
rectly than those who are starting in
with the first rule of numbers. No one
criticizes judges and condemns the
science of mathematics because some
of it's students fail at times to prove its
rule.
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that 1 should speak of the boundless
debt of gratitude that Shristian Scien-
lists owe to Mrs. Eddy, the revered
| founder of their religion. All their
| blessings have come to them through
her spirituality of thought, which has
enabled her to rise high enough to
grasp the realities of life. Her divine
courage has established this truth to
the world and made it practical to hui
man understanding.
Mrs Eddy says in Science and
Health: Moral courage is the Lion of
the tribe of Judah the king of the
mental realm Surely she has not
lacked in the demonstration thereof
The reason why / am a Christian
Scientist is that Christian Science has
met my needs. 1t has given me joy in
the place of great sorrow, and has
brought into my home wonderful peace
and harmony. In it I find practical
Christianity-one that is really doing
something for humanity--giving proof
instead of theory. by their fruits ye
shall know Them
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