Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-03-18
CHRISTIAN
SCIENCE TALK
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turc. At this point all similarity between
its teachings and those commonly accepted
cease. because Christian Science reveals to
us God as "A very present help in trouble.
Now. without discriminating as to the kind
of 1rouhic: while the ordinary teachings
put off the promised help until an mde-
sired future after death. and even then for
most of makes it rather doubtful. !
Christian Science teaches lis to live and
win while theology has taught us we had
to die 10 win. Christian Science teaches us |
What life is and how to live it. and is !
worthy the most ryhAn~'ive invest igation.
All will agree thar there must be Il
primal or first cause. and all thristendom
vcncrat"S ii rs God. the giver of all good.
We have never had any realization of what
God is and the relationship existing be
tween Him and man until Christian Science
has taught us III u practical way tina! He
is Love and that man is really. not allrgori
rally. Gods idea about Himself This
means nothing SO long as il is confined TO
words, but when it is made Il livable ar
ruaIitN and We know through Christ ian Sci
enrr how 10 heal the sick cleanse the
loprrS. aud cast out DEVILS. needing and
using nothing save Ills Word. separating
religion from systems ri medicine for time
ana eternity, "" realize His in"tfable Low"
for all Ills children. and Know that tiod'S
man has never failtu. TN" realization thai
God is Love- which is our protect ion and
salvation, is No, psslriy wrath unto all
THINGS unlike Him because ii is to them an
initiation and destruction.
Thousands Of years OF false edllcalUmA
theories. handed down from generation 10
.CurIAt ion. have led lIS TO form n ruucrl,.
1i"n "i cod modelled on til" lines Of mortal
man Th" umnprcScnc" Of God destroys
The possibility of Ills being personal. a''-
r"rdin- I" til" accepted definition Of tn"
word. Ahd ln' fact that tn" Bib" teaches
tine hnE''"in "i heaven Is within y"n Ger
Iainly destroys III" theory shat heaven is a
place h"Hnil"lN set of in part OF I'll" i'll
finite spa" for Ills "rrnphn''\. Th" teach
Ing X very clear jIlAj HE kingdom u! heaven
Is in the divine, infinite Mind, and W" may
find il there aud mHk" it present r"alizA-
ti"n if We will search tn" Scriptures sri"n-
tiiicnlIy and With the Spiritual intelligence
which Christian Science reveals {" us.
The Stat"uN IL that Heaven is not place
or location is moi Il contradiction Of the
llth chapter Of jn!ln. wherein tn" Master
say: II - lr rr"uar" y l,lac" for you.
This does NOT moan 'IvIini" lorntion. h1'.
from tn" SiAndpninl "i spirit. teaches lis
that ''"d'> nous" is Love" and that we. IN"
"t%mpirS OF the Living cod. are His CT
Loves mnHN indi1h!1A! r"ll"rli"n>
III" general belief is that everything W"
see. hear or know whether good. bad or in
different, i created Ivy lin Tor SOM" my~-
1erious purpose. and thai in some nnihink
nj % is niN trI
iii everything. Ii" matter how horrible it
may nr
'i"d aS a supposed creator Of good and
evil. Of Life ANA death, is not the cod we
Christian Scientists know, nor is He the
God OF which The inspired Scriptures teach
Us. The Bib" tells that cod is good.
and that He is omnip"tPnt nmns"icnt, and
ouniprcSent. and the same yesterday. today.
and forever. THIS being true. 'hat which
He creates or does must be always the
sam" and always good. How then tto be
loGi"aD. could He give Lii" and Life be
good and then give death and have death
be good: When life was good what would
become Of death. and when death was good
what would become Of Life: Let us look
at ii from another point.
II God created both Life and death. and
they are part Of His finished creation.
and therefore as eternal their CrcH or.
how cam they both exist eternaIly. when
one is as certainty The AnihiIalion of the
other as tight is Of darkness:
Again. W" ar" Taught that the wages Of
sin is death;' if This is true then we
hav" T." admit that God. if He be the
creator Of death. is tn" creator of sin You
cannot 'Sr"r" TINS conclusion by sayin" that
it Inp its Sin f,,r IL