Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-16

mountain, Remove hence to yonder
place; and it shall remove; and moth |
ing shall be impossible unto you"
Suppose Jesus meant this in a literal |
sense, it might we'll seem to his lis |
teners in that far-away time that he
was propounding the very limit of i'm |
possibilities in thus proclaiming the
power of faith, the understanding of
God, and yet today the civil engineers, !
though they think of law as material, |
are attempting and accomplishing
kindred tasks. What is 1t that years
ago swung the great bridge across Mia |
CARA river, and year by year is working |
yet more marvellous things, until today
these erstWhile marvelS are the COM
monplace facts of everyday life-what
is it but the mustard seed of faith,
faint glimpse of the creative activities
of divine Principle which may be util
lied 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
mans ability to overcome all material
conditions, not by faith in the occa-
sional Intervention of a personal God,
but by knowledge of the truth which
he said should make man free, his
declaration certainly points to the
naturalness of that spiritual dominion
through which he walked the waves,
healed the sick, raised the dead.
False Sense of Limitation
Not more than fifty years ago it
would have been said-perhaps it was
said-that any man who would assert
and believe that the human voice could
be heard at a miles distance was the
victim Of delusion, and yet, let us ask
ourselves this question, Is the telephone
creation, or is it the result of the dis
covery of the possibility of carrying the
human voice to any distance? Did the
possibility of speaking to person five
hundred miles away begin when the
telephone was invented, or had it al
ways existed as a law of being? Is
the apprehension of this law, which is
today expressed in the telephone and
which tomorrow will be expressed in a
wireless telephone, an arbitrary pro-
duction of mans brain, or is 1t the re-
moval of a false sense of limitation.
which never had reality as to fact, by
the discernment of law and consequent
faith in it? Are the physical scientists
of today victims of delusions when they
prophesy an ever-increasing freedom
through ever-increasing faith or knowl-
edge of truth?
AS we turn to the realm of health,
we find there has been perpetual be-
wilderment, discord, and fear, perpetual
confusion and disagreement, perpetual
failure and bondage, despite several
thousand years of tireless research for
remedies and release from pain. In the
latter part of the nineteenth century
there came into this realm of thought,
through the writings. of Mrs. Eddy, the
perception of the true law of health,
viz, the specific activity of divine Prin-
ciple, which is adequate to the estab-
lishment and maintenance of health in
just the same way that the reign of the
90 ff1s, AoJ,I =
maintained harmony in other realms.
And now the world is hearing the de-
mand, Have faith in the power of di-
vine Mind to heal the sick, which de-
mand means simply this: Learn the
truth on this subject learn the true re-
lation of man to his Maker; learn the
ever presence of divine law to regu-
late and control all human conditions
and having learned the truth, you will
instinctively trust it, have faith in it,
and all your fear pain and discord
will naturally disappear.
Attitude of Thought Changed
In the realm of morals also there is
to be seen a changed attitude of
thought. The supposititious forces of
sin have been strengthened by the theo-
logical teaching that a personal God
created material man with power and
will to sin and put him into an evil
world with no hope of salvation except
through the faith in a far-aWay God
who had allowed His only son to be
put to death, thus in some mysterious
way to effect redemption for mankind;
or else by the more modern but equally
hopeless ethical teaching that man is
the result of heredity, environment,
education, etc.,-a creature of irresisti-
BILE forces over which he has 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 proved it's immortal
ity because, though not clearly under
stood and at times almost overshad-
owed, it has never lost its radiance.
Through the scientific explanation 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 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 possibility through an
understanding of the divine fatherhood
and divine sonship, which includes and
maintains all good and excludes and
destroys all evil.
II has become evident to students of
Christian Science, as they even in small
beginnings learn the truth and receive
the resultant release from bondage TO
disease, fear and sin, that Jesus Christ
was not 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 4
miraculous faith i'm a personal God,
but an enlightened knowledge of the
true nature of God and His universe