Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-28

spiritual Truth would bring them the
material Injuries which they desired,
would in plain English place the flesh
pots of Egypt within their grasp. what
Jesus thought of such teaching ne
showed on the day when he rode into
Jerusalem, in fulfillment of the prophe-
cy, "Tell we the daughter of Sion, Be
hold, thy king cometh unto thee, meek,
and sitting upon an ass, and colt the
foal lof an ass" He was the king OF
the earth, and that kingship gave him
dominion over the earth and the senses.
over the desire for the very things
which appeal to the senses. And at
once the slaves of the senses described
his as a wine-bibber and glutton.
Jesus, of course, never preached ascot
icism He knew all about the value OF
fasting which led men to disfigure their
faces. The value of fasting to him was
the proof 1t conveyed to the individual
of his ability to demonstrate the fact
that life was spiritual and, as Mrs.
Eddy says, neither in nor of matter"
But in order to fast in this way he
knew that Ii would first be necessary
to fast from appetites and passions.
Moral and Physical Healing
The meek who inherit the earth are
those then who have followed suf-
ficiently close in the footsteps of Christ
Jesus to have gained the dominion over
the appetites and passions which make
men of the earth earthly. Mrs. Eddy
tells a story of this nature of one who
was healed from the last tortures of
dyspepsia, of one who, when healed, so
lost the appetite of pleasure in food
that "she never enjoyed her food as she
had imagined she would when, still a
slave of matter, she thought of the
flesh-pots of Egypt, feeling childhood S
hunger and undisciplined by self denial
and divine Science" Any one who has
had any experience of Christian Sci
ence healing must be aware how close
ly the moral and physical healing of
the patients accompany one another.
This is inevitable, for spiritual healing
cannot be degraded to a mere attempt
to give man physical ease in the
senses, but is the attempt, in the words
of Mrs. Eddy, ito attest the reality of
the higher mission of the Christ-power
to take away the sins of the world"
The only man in all the New Tesla
ment on whom the attribute of meek
ness is bestowed is Christ Jesus, and
Christ Jesus is the way. If, then, his
disciples will strive to follow closely
in his footsteps they will find that they
will inherit the dominion over the earth
which was his. With a word he healed
all manner of sickness and raised the
dead; with word he stilled the tenn
pest, and brought the boat TO the
shore; with a word he turned the wa
ter into wine. and fed the multitude
with word he filled the drawnet. and
eound the tribute money.
| No man ever possessed such riches
and such power, and yet the very
meekness, the very certainty that the
son could do nothing of himself but
what he saw the Father do, which
placed this power and riches within
his reach, so exposed the vanity of
material acquisition to him that he
flung them all from him in the words
of the sermon on the mount:-"Lay
not up for yourselves treasures upon
earth. where moth and rust doth cor
rupt, and where thieves break through
and steal; but lay up for yourselves
treasures in heaven. where neither
| moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where
thieves do not break through MOI steal;
/ for where your treasure is there will
your heart be Christian Science
! Monitor.