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He also said he came, not to destroy
but to fulfil, and he Immediately went
to work to heal the sick, cleanse the
| leper, cast out the evil, and raise the
dead, "by the Spirit of God" Do we
think Jesus knew what he was do
| ing? Do we think he told the truth
when he said that he came not to de-
stroy but to fulfill? If we believe that
he told the truth, then we are forced
| to admit that he destroyed nothing
when he cast those evils out, for not
otherwise can the truth of his state
ment that he came not to destroy
| but to fulfil, be upheld.
More than this, let us recall Christ's
statement in speaking of a woman
who was i'll, when he said that Satan
| had bound her. Did he mean that in
man because she was bad and in an
other instance God would do the bind
ing because q man was good? Does
the statement which Jesus made in
dicate an agreement or partnership
between God and Satan, God making
some i'll because they are good, and
Satan making some i'll because they
are bad? Let us recall the man who
was sick of the palsy, to whom
Jesus said: Man, thy sins are for
given thee" and the man took up
his bed and walked. Again he said,
IF man keep my saying, he shall
never see death" Do we believe this
statement? Oh what a call that is
to us to follow in the footsteps of our
Master; how it says to you and to
me: The time now is when ye shall
do the works that the Master did,
when ye shall take the word of God
and heal the sick, cleanse the leper,
cast out evil, and raise the dead in
the name of Truth.
We shall have every one of these
things to do either here or hereafter,
in the self-same way that Jesus did
them, whether we want to or not, be-
cause there is no way whereby we
may enter the kingdom save through
him. If he is 'the way" and the
only way, then you and [ can reach
that kingdom of God which is within
by doing what he did, and as he did,
to the accomplishment of our indi-
vidual salvation in the manner that
Jesus indicated.
Universal Belief Cannot Alter Facts.
What about this belief of sin, dis
ease, and death being real? A uni
versal belief is not any more fOun-
dation for fact than is the belief of a
single person. To illustrate let me
call your attention to the time of
Columbus. You remember that he
was treated with scorn and contempt
and cast into prison because he stood
up before wise men of his 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
sphere. Who was right? Columbus
was right, of course, and the wise
men were all wrong. What effect did
the universal false belief have on the
shape of the earth? None whatever!
The earth continued to be a sphere
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false belief have on the people who
believed it to be true? So long as
the people believed the false belief to
be true, they were held within the
narrow confines of that belief, and
stayed on that little speck of the
earths 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
themselves wise in religious matters
have held the world in the grip of
the belief that God is either directly
or indirectly responsible for sin, dis
ease, and DEATH and until we break
that false belief, until we turn away
from it as the prophet Ezekiel i'm
plored the Israelites to do when he
said, Turn ye, turn ye from your
evil ways: for why will ye die" we
shall continue to sin, we shall cOntln-
ue to be sick, and continue to die.
God. as the supposed creator of good
and evil of life and death, sin and dis
ease, is not the God of the Christian
Scientists, nor is He the God of the
inspired Scriptures, which teach that
He is the same yesterday, today, for
ever. without variableneSs or shadow
of turning. The letters G. S. stand
not only for Christian Science, but for
common sense as well, and it is COM
mon sense, because it is my sense
and your sense: it is a sense that be-
longs to all of us; and Christian
Scientists have nothing that is not
yours: they are simply putting 20 use
What Christian Scientists are let
ting lie dormant in their thought.
Life and Death Opposites.
If God is changeless, how could He
give life and at the same time give
death? When life was existent what
would become of death, and when
death was existent what would be-
come of life? If God created them,
they must both be as eternal as their
creator, How can they both exist
eternally when one manifests the alb
sence of the other as certainly as
light annihilates darkness?
The Bible tells US that death is the
wage of sin Do We believe it? The
Bible does not say that in one case
death is the wage Of sin and that in
another case it is the wage of good
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