The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-11-23

If and walked. Again he said. 'Tf ,
II man keep my saying he shall ncve
IL see death DO we believe that state
n ment? Oh, what a call that is TO M
e to follow i'm the footsteps of oul
=. Master: how 1t SAYS to you and I,
l. me: The time now is when We shal
[, do the works that the Master did
IS when ye shall take the word of Goo
II and heal the sick, cleanse the Ieper
cast out evil. and raise the dead II
! the name of Truth
o "We shall have everyone of thes,
= things to do, either here or hereafter
. In the self-sanc way that Jesus did
a them, whether we want TO or not
y because there Is no way whereby We
o may enter the kingdom save through
:. him. IT he Is the way and tho
+; only way. then YOU and | can reach
J that Kingdom of God which is within
: by doing what he did. and as he did
G to the accomplishment of our indi-
Z vidual salvation i'm the manner that
e Jesus Indicated
What about this belief of sin, dis.
: ease, and death being real? A uni
versal belief Is not any more a foun-
cation for fact than is the belief of
a single person. TO illustrate: let me
call your attention TO the time of Coz
lumbus. You remember that he was
treated with scOrn and contempt and
cast into prison because he stood up
before the wise men of the time and
said that every one OF their scientific
deductions, all Of their scientific
theses. all their scientific experiments
TO prove that this earth Is fiat were
! worthless, because the earth is a
sphere. Who was right? Columbus
was right, of course, and the wise
men were all wrong. What effect did
1 the universal false belief have on the
shape Of the earth None whatever,
The earth continued to be sphere
Just the same. What effect did the
false belief have on the people who
/ believed ii to be true? SO long as
the people believed the false belle,
. to be true. they were held. within the
narrow confines of that belief. and
stayed on that little speck of the
earth's surface because they feared
, that If they sailed beyond a certain
= point they would fall off the edge OF
, the earth on to that something or
. nothing on WHICH Atlas did or did not
stand when he did or did not hold up
the earth.
For ages those who have deemed
u themselves wise ia religious matter.
have held the world i'm the grip OF tn,
= relief that God is either directly OF
: indirectly responsible for sin. disease
y and death; and until we break that
'alse belief, until we turn away from
y /; as the prophet Ezekiel implorcd
: the Tsraelltes to do when he said
. Turn ye, turn yc from your cvi
= ways: for why will ye die we shal
u continue to sin. We shall continue /,
T.! be sick. and continue to die. God, a
y the supposed creator Of good anC
evil, of life and death sin and dis
ease, is not the God of the Christian
% Scientists, nor is He the God of tn,
" inspired Scriptures, which teach tina
- He Is the same yesterday. today. an,
u forever, without vuriablcness or shad
y ow of turning. The letters c. 5
stand not only for Christian Science
Is but for common sense as well. and
y Is common sense. because IT is IN
y sense and your sense; II Is II sens
!. that belongs to all of us: and Christia
'e Scientists have nothing that is no
lc yours; they are simply putting to MS
II what non-Christian Scientists are let
l. ting lie dormant in their thought.
Ii "lf God Is changelcss, how could II
Ic give life and at the same time Civ
<, death? When life was existent wha
Il would become of death, and whei
death was existent what would be
lr come of life? II God created them
'e they must both be rs eternal as thci
d creator. How can they both exis
Il eternally when one manifests the alb
$ sence of the other as certainly a
@ light annihilatcs darkness?
Is THE, Bible tells us that death 4
Is the wage of sin. DO we believe IT,
II The Bible does not say that in on,
e case death Is the wage of sin and tina
& i'm another ease II is the wage of good
= Ecss. 1t makes the unqualified state
VI mcnt that "the wages of sin is death.
o If God created death, He must hav,
g CT Gated sin. We cannot escape this
: conclusion by saying that He only
= permits sin; for to permit IT He mus
know IT, and how can He know il
when the Scriptures tell us that Cod
, Is of purcr eyes than TO behold cvi
: and cannot look upon iniuuity : II
God is of purcr eyes than to behold
: evil and cannot look upon iniquity
IL He created death and death is the
: wage of sin, then 1t logically follows
Z that God created sin; and as every
thing He created Is good IL further
. follows logically that sin Is not evil
but is good, an argument that cannot
! for an instant be sustained; and our
hearts are filled with joy when we
know, as Christian Science teaches us
that God has no consciou usness of sin
Life Is creative and death de-
structive so that God, the primal and
Cnly creator,t must be Life and not
DEATH and therefore death, measured
: by the standard of perfection which
! is God. Is not real but is the suppo.
sitional absence of or belief I'm the ne
: cation of Life TO what then can
; the belief i'm sin and death pertain
save to mortal consciousness? Thi,
mortal consciousness is 10 b. put Oft
with the old man and his deeds, ana
AS 1t Is put off and Is superseded b.
. immortal consciousness, man will be
found i'm the divine image, knowing
nc sin and death, but forever mani
Testing eterunl Life, being perfcc,
even as his Father which is in hcav-
en- is perfect"
There Is Il universal belief about
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