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VIII never end, that 1T is the same yes
terday, today, and forever. The fact i
that Life is and is eternal, is posi-
tive proof that death is not, and leads
us to search the Scriptures that we
may find how to turn from death unto
life
1t will be argued that this statement
of Jesus referred simply to the spirit
ual life; and this is true, for there is
only one Life and that Life is Spirit
God The work which Christian Science
is doing for mankind today is en-
aiding us to eliminate from conscious
ness the belief that there is any life
other than the spiritual, and is bring
ing dominion and power to tire one
who before was held in bondage
subject to all things, master of none.
When Jesus said, eff man keep my
saying, he shall never see DEATH the
saying he referred to was this: "He
that believeth on me- the works that
L do shall he do also; and greater
works than these shall he do; because
| 60 unto my Father" The works
he was doing when he made this
statement were these: he was healing
the sick, cleansing the lepers, casting
out evils, and raising the dead, ''by
the Spirit of God,"-to His glory, and
to the liberation of all those who turn
ed to him.
The Healing Work.
| Unless these same works are being
accomplished today, we are Christians
] in name only. To be a Christian means
/ to be follower of Christ; to be
follower of Christ one must be a doer
of the Word, and must bring out all
brought out by those who followed him
Sin spirit and in truth"
1t is taught that the healing of the
sick without medical agency, as Jesus
healed, is miraculous, and that the
time for miracles has gone BY We
are told that today Gods word is de-
stroying sin and saving the sinner
Just as it did in the early days of
! the Christian era, and that the only
reason Jesus healed the sick as he did
when on earth was to convince the
Jews, who were a stiff necked people,
that he was the Messiah of promise
and the fulfllment of prophecy. Do
we not know that never in the his
tory of the world were there so many
! who need to be convinced that Christ
Is the Messiah. as at the present time i?
Shall 1T be urged that all of the stiff
necked people were jews who died two
thousand years ago? Shall it be
urged that we no longer need proof
. that Christ is the Messiah? Or shall
we recognize the error of our former
ways, and in humility study the life
and teaching of Christ Jesus on earth.
SO that we may be able to fulfill his
promise and show to the doubter and
unbeliever of today that he was 'the
Son of the living God"-the absolute
fulfillment of all prophecy and every
promise which the Bible holds out to
mandkind?
There is no way whereby we can
demonstrate that God is true, other
than by doing His will and manifesting
HIS supremacy in all things. The
Bible teaches us that God is ga very
present help in trouble" Mankind say
that He is in cases of sin. but that
II one be sick, he must turn to medi-
cine II he expects to regain his health.
| There is nothing in the Bible that gives
authority for any one to say in what
kind OF trouble God may be very
present help, nor to say there is a
trouble, that is beyond Gods ability
or desire to overcome and DESTROY:
! and Christian Science teaches that a
man has just as much right to take
a sick trouble to God as he has sin
trouble, and just as much right to ex-
pect freedom from one as the other.
| The general belief is that one must
have great faith in Christian Science
! before any benefit may be derived from
treatment by a Christian Science prac,
tltloner. This belief is erroneous: all
! The faith one needs to have in Chris,
tlan Science at the inception of this
/ desire to be benefited by it. is suffi
Gent faith to find a practitioner and
/ express the desire for treatment. To
/ illustrate the truth of this statement
viii relate my own experience when l
( turned from medicine to Christian Sci.
ence to find health.
Personal Experience.
| was born with a supposedly in
durable organic disease; had never
known well day in my life; | had
taken all kinds of treatment known
i In those days, and had received no
benefit. | had come to the place where
the physicians We're unanimous in saw.
ing that dissolution was at hand. I
did not want to die; | wanted to
stay hereto live, and be well and
able to do as other boys did. About
! this time | learned that in Boston.
Mass, body of people calling them.
selves Christian Scientists were claim,
ing Gods word to be as presently
efilcacious for the destruction of disea Sc
as 1T was when Jesus was on earth:
and that they were proving the truth
OF their statement by healing people
who had gone to them for treatment
after having been pronounced hopeless
and incurable by their physicians. |
accepted the suggestion that / try
Christian Science, in the hope that it