The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-05-21

changeable God? If we would take
into our consciousness that changeless
love, that changeless religion which
Jesus the Christ preached, there would
be no doubt, no fear, and we would go
to God in prayer with the serene con-
fidence, the implicit faith, that He
VINO heareth i'm secret will reward US
openly; which, as the Master taught,
is our birthright and heritage.
This is what Christian Science is
asking us to do; this is what Christian
Science is laying before us; this is the
table that is prepared for us in the
presence of our enemies; his is the
bread which cometh down from heaven;
this is the water of eternal life--it is
YOURS, it is mine. Let us accept the
feast that God has put before us; let
us recognize the Comforter, the Way
shower, agCn in our midst; the COM
forter which Jesus promised to send
when he said it was expedient that he
90 to his Father. Then there will be
no more broken hearts, there will be
no more sorrow, no more tears, no more
separation. no more sickness, no more
suffering, and no more sin, for we shall
have entered into the realization that
this is the day of the Lord; and with
that realization there will come to us
peace,-that peace which God has prom
ised us, that peace which may be
found only in the straight and narrow
way wherein our Master leads us, into
no kinoHom of God within
The Discoverer of Christian Science.
The revelation of Christian Science
came to Mrs. Eddy as the result of a
lifetime spent in continuous search and
desire for the spirit of the Word and
the things of God. As religious re-
former she occupies position unique
in the history of the world-unswerv-
! ing in her trust in the goodness of
God, and unquestioning in her obedi
ence to His commands. This calls on her
for such meekness, humility, and self
sacrifice, that she never could live such
life were it not for the protecting
care of real, livable, demonstrable re-
ligion, wherein she finds immunity from
| the sufferings of those who turn away
from the Christ concept of God.
Ever since 1866 Mrs. Eddy's life has
been devoted to the work of bringing
to mankind this revelation of the way
of salvation She has done this with
such singleness of purpose, that man
kind is awakening to the recognition
of her work as inspired, that Christian
Science is the spirit of the Word which
Jesus portrayed. Christian Scientists
do not worship Mrs. Eddy, nor do they
in any sense of the word defy her in
their thought The whole teaching of
i Christian Science leads us to put self
under foot; to have no way and no
!. will save Gods way and Gods will; and
i Mrs. Eddy asks the world, each one
of us, to follow her only SO far as she
follows Christ. In her following of
Christ she has been the instrument
whereby the feet of hundreds of thou
sands have been planted upon the rock
of the proved truth of Gods promises,
and against that rock i'm the words of
| the Master, 1.-The gates of hell snail
not prevail" We do love our leader,
and we give her the allegiance and de-
votion to which her tireless labor in
mankind's behalf is entitled.
l have related what Christian Science
did for me physically; let me add more
As boy and young man heard con-
tlnually that God was responsible for
all things; that suffering and sickness
and misery and wretchedness were i'm
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/ plan of salvation, and in my hours of
agony and helplessness | was so over
whelmed with frear of God that |
reached point where l had no belief
in Him, and my whole desire was to
get away from Him if it were possible,
to find something that would shield me
from the sickness and misery hat | was
continually called upon to suffer. l had no
God. | had nothing to trust, nothing to
love, nothing to look forward to, and had
come to feel that did not care to
hear about God, and church going had
become a burden to me-
Then Christian Science came. with
the assurance that God is Love; that
He has nothing to do with evil: and
+, this teaching took away my disease and
my suffering, and took with it my fear,
my dread of God. Christian Science
came to me-. and gave me God, and
when | tell you this as nv expert
ence, am telling you the experience
lof countless thousands all over the
globe. Is it any wonder that we love
the one who has been so selfess and
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so faithful in her endeavor that through
| lt God has come to us, that salvation
has been brought, within our appre.
hension? We are willingly, joyful
obedient to her every teaching, because
1t is through her continued labors for
over forty years that tine mystery of
the way of salvation has been removed
ana the glory of God again been made
apparent to mankind
Material Remedies.
Respecting the claims of materia me.
dica, we can but ask, If God put drugs
on the earth to preserve and save the
life of mankind why did Jesus. who
came doing the will of the Father. fail
to use them in the healing which he
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