Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-22
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
SPREADS DOCTRINE
THROUGH EXAMPLE
FOLLOWERS SCoRN TO USE
COERCION
Results Visible from Belief In Faith
Sufficient to Show Teachings
Make, for Health and
Happiness

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Let this Mind be in you," wrote Paul
to the Philippians, (which was also In
| Christ Jesus" TO the Romans the
| apostle wrote: BE not conformed to
this world; but be ye transformed by
the renewing of your mind that ye may
prove what is that good, and accepta-
BILE and perfect, win of God" The
| Mind which governed Christ, every stu
! dent of the Scriptures knows, is that
perfect divine Mind which enabled
| Christ Jesus to prove himself the
Saviour of the world. Through what
| he knew of God he destroyed sin and
sickness, and in three notable in
| stances death, for others; he fed the
| multitudes and walked on the water,
| holding in allegiance the so-called phys
! ical laws of nature, and he overcame
with the mighty forces of divine Love
the malice of the crucifixion, thereby
rising triumphantly above the death
and it's grave. 1t is not generally be-
| lieved that Paul expected of Christ
| Jesus followers an immediate conquest
| OF all sin, sickness and death; he is re-
corded as saying elsewhere, 1.-THE last
enemy that shall be destroyed ia
DEATH" but he urged upon men the
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| est and steadily, to begin the correction
or their own thinking, and by this
means to reach the ultimate perfection.
Value of Teachings Admitted 2
LET this Mind be in you which was
| also in Christ Jesus" should engage,
then, the attention of all men. For
whether we be protesting Christians or
avowed unbelevers in the present-day
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ethical value of Christ's teaching; and
we all believe that we would have a
transformed world if men would move
| in the direction of it's ideal. The way
faring mao. bound by the f1eshly in
! heritances of generations, may see but
dimly his way to better thinking, and
il is to just this man, heartsick, and
tired of his sin, that Christian Science
| brings it's helpful message. To learn
| that God no more upholds evil than
! the basic law of number sustains the
mathematician mistakes; to be as
sured that the evil in ones own think
! ing may cease so fast as God is under>
stood and obeyed, just as the mistake
| in applied mathematics VaniShes when
the rule Is demonstrated; to be con-
vinced that the evil In our lives is no
more real than our education and
| training and practice have made it
seem to us; and that il can be de-
| stroyed by the understanding of di-
vine principle Just in the same way
| that the mistake in the blackboard
| problem may be corrected by the sci
| ence of numbers-to perceive all this is
| to find fresh courage, and 70 see ones
way out of the sad tangle of sin and
pain; while to prove something of this
| is to prove, somewhat. in personal eX-
! perience, the presence of the knowl-
edge of Christ
Should Govern Hearts of Men
|, All Christians and all high-minded
people who are not so designated,
| agree, it is admitted, that the Mind
which was in Christ Jesus" should
govern the hearts of men. Not all who
advocate its adoption, however, note
the way in which Paul writes. let
! this Mind be i'm you" To permit, to
| allow, to suffer the divine Mind to enter
! evident meaning of the apostle; and
| this admission of Christlike thinking
| in ones daily coming and going means
| that one shall love Christ-like-nes
shall desire it above all earthly gain,
and shall make a place for 1t to enter.
Mrs. Eddy writes: The thunder of
! Sinai and the Sermon on the Mount are
pursuing ard will overtake the ages,
rebulting in their course all error and
/ proclairning the kingdom of heaven on
earth" rhe truth of being is inexor-
! able OF that stone which 'is become
the head of the corner" the Master
said; "On whomsoever it shall fall, it
will grind him to powder" That NOR
! tai is indeed blessed who sets aside ap-
| petltes and the weaknesses of what he
| calls "himself' - his mortality - and
thereby let's the understanding of Cod
illness prevail in his affairs and begin
| to grind to powder whatever is not
the likeness and image of the infinite
God.
Coercion Not Employed
To let spirituality govern consistent
| ly his own daily life is, then, the prob
| lem of the Christian Scientist. To let
God govern, without human interfer-
enee, the lives of other men is also one
of his problems. So filled with graft
tude is he who has been healed of sin,
or pain, so Jealous is he that all man.
kind shall find the same saving way,
| that he is sometimes tempted to force
his way of thinking upon his fellow
men, That which appealed to him in
his hour of extremity is good for all
men, at all times, he argues. And this
is true; but the genuine Christian Sci
| enlist remembers that the coming of
| Christ to the heart OF his neighbor is
! a matter which God alone governs and
which the neighbor also determines.
| For this reason he takes care that he
shall not in any way coerce his neigh
boris thinking, but that he shall only
| lovingly persuade him by his own i'm
proved behavior. Let your light so
| shine before men," Jesus said, upon the
| Mount, that they may see your good
works, and glorify your Father which
is in heaven" This is the only way in
which Truth itself may ever be brought
home to ones fellow men. This better
| living may, of course, include a glad
testimony to the efficacy of Christian
Science a clear and logical answer
concerning the reason for ones faith,
an illumined understanding which can
but carry conviction to another who
may want to find his way Godward,
Yet with it all must abide the spirit
of tolerance and goodwill, the spirit
of respect for every advancing foot