Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-19


God, whereby to designate Deity. The
final conclusion is that God is supreme
as power, action and law, and In view
of the fact that by general consensus
of belief God is Identical with good,
it may also appear that the supremacy
of power, action and law is good.
Then there comes the question, is
the law and power of our supreme
God available for a sick man? The
only convincing answer to this ques-
tion must be in the form of proofs.
Jesus declared that Gods power is
lawfully available and he vindlcated
his statement by means of proof.
Christian Science declares the same
thing, and unnumbered instances of
healing through its practice constituted
the same proof. If 1t We're not so, we
would be obliged to conclude that He
created man, "the noblest work of God,
as an outcast or outlaw and thrust
him into existence without any re-
course to divine law and power; sub
iect only to the spurious law of sin
and death. Would infinite good do
that? The Christian Science patient
then. instead of appealing to nothing,
is relying on the supreme power of the
universe. God has created no origin
or cause of disease and no law for the
procurement of sick man or his dis
comf1ture On the contrary the ma
tents and purposes the law of recon-
struction. recuperation, restoration and
recovery for the sick. AS soon as NOR
tails discern and prove this scientific
verify they will enter. the door of
heaven.
To Gee Way and Walk Therein
No evil suggestion has sought more
industriously or senselessly to restrain
the inquirer than the one that Christian
Science has been introduced to the
world by a woman, and for that reason
does not deserve acceptance at the
hands of an intelligent people. Please
pardon me, dear reader, if with uncon-
ventional familiarity l ask you to
imagine yourself in an old-fashioned
fire-and- birthstone hell. We will as.
sumo that you have been in it long
time and have endured the intermln-
able fire of its wretchedness, and nave
had enough of it, Now let us suppose
that it is made known to you that
there is a rope hanging over the brink
of hell, and that if YOU can find the
rope it will, in some way, pull you out,
what would you do? Why you would
spend days and nights looking for that
rope. No invitation to remain longer
to enjoy the pleasures of hell would
turn you from your imperative pur-
pose In the course of time it would
! occur to you that you were not be-
slowing any favor or advantage on the
rope by looking for it. You would dls-
miss the thought that because or your
social position or the unusual import
ance of your personality, the rope
ought to look up and insist on
your allowing it to bestow some great
service upon you. In the course OF
proper search for the rope, humility,
reverence, simplicity and purity of mo-
tive would mark the progress of your
pilgrimage like milestones, and your
! hearts deep petition would be that you
! might see the way and walk therein.
Now, let us suppose that you have
! found the rope, and that as you APP
proach it you see a large concourse of
people, all of them in the throes of
more or less damnation and all in Su-
preme need of deliVerance. Among
/ those people there is much discussion
and debate You wait long enough to
observe that many persons are cling
| inC to the rope and are being reclaimed
and lifted out of the pit. Finally some
one comes to you, at the moment when
hope should be high and your pitiful
appeal be nigh unto it's answer, and
tells you that he has decided not to try
the rope because it's color or texture is
not according to his Judgment and
! fancy, and because it has been sus-
pended over hells awful abyss by a
woman What would you do? Would
you, for such a reason, turn back and
cast yourself again into the havoc
which is so utterly without promise of
it's extinction that people have for ages
called it eternal? Again, let us as
sumo that you are stirred by the
thought that perchance the rope is we'll
enough, per Sc, and it would be entitled
to your respect and devotion if it had
been introduced into the scene of hu-
man turmoil by man, or by some one
of our great men. What is to be said
concerning this?
Know the Truth and Be Free
The rope and it's undeniable achieve