Evening journal., 1909-01-18

demonstrating IL upon themselves. and
this in every possible way They are
learning more and more to depend
upon God. the one. the only Good. IL
sickness and in health sorrow and joy.
in pain or pleasure. in weakness or in
strength. in rest or fatigue, in sunshine
or in storm, i'm times of plenty or ia
times of want. in times of peace and
in times of war. they are learning at
all times and under all circumstances
TO follow the Christ through evil as
well as good report. Christian Scien
lists. living more and more in that
principle of inexhaustible plenitude.
learn that certain Independence OF
material ways and means. and a more
perfect dependence upon the one great
Cause whose higher laws of Spirit and
spirituality annul the lower laws Of
matter and materiality and conse.
quently govern all things in the spirit
ual as well as in the so-called material
world And finding as they do this
law of Life made practical, they never
go outside of their own church and
denomination to solicit finances to meet
their current expenses, to pay their
rents. their salaries or their hires.
Christian Science teaches no such
thing as sickness or disease. that sick
ness and disease are an illusion, not
that it is hypocondria or imagination
in the common acceptance Of those
terms, but that out in the great scien-
tifc fact of being, no such thing is ~
can be found: that sickness or disease
cannot properly be said to be part of
being. That being. ina its scientific
purity. is as free from sickness and
disease now as it was possible for il
to be. when being first began, or as it
ever will be. when all seeming evil is
swept away and His kingdom is come
on earth But. although Christian
Science teaches no such thing as sick
ness and disease, yet, to Christian
Scientists there still is sickness and
disease they have not yet overcome,
they are Overcoming these claims, but
for a Christian Scientist to say that
to himself there is no sickness, or 20
say of himself that he knows no sick
ness. no disease, is to say what he has
not yet proven in all its forms; and
for a Christian Scientist to say such
thing. is not only an error in itsels
but is a detriment to our Cause. And
no genuine student Of Christian Science
would ever say such a thing, especially
after he had gotten over the period Of
enthusiasm and settlement, and gotten
to look at Truth in a more reasonable
and scientific way, and to use more
wisdom in his thought and speech.
A Christian Scientist often says there
is no disease. the same as mathema-
tician may say that there is no error or
mistake I'm the science of numbers; but
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an error or a mistake, or that he him
eslf has gotten beyond the possibility OF
such a thing; no more does the Chris
tian Scientist mean that he has gotten
bevond sickness and disease in his own
case II he is earnest and honest he
is demonstrating over these claims.
daily and hourly, and will if faithful az
last overcome and be given ITO eat OF
the hidden manna"-"And shall in
herit all things. Christian Science
teaches health and righteousness as the
real, and sickness and evil as the un.
real. And consequently, its teachings
dwell more upon health than upon
sikness, more upon the right than upon
the wrong; it can write volumes upon
health and holiness. but has very little
to say about sickness and evil, except
I to cOnsign IL TO OollNlOn-
Christian Scientists talk very little
about sickness and evil. Their conver-
sation naturally turns to that which in
terests them most They are searching
for and finding, health and not sickness;
/ they are seeking for, and finding, the
right rather than the wrong, and having
found IT, they find it more lovely than
words can tell consequently, they love
to talk it because it is nearest their
heart. and the one thing they love.
Christ the Exemplar.
Jesus of Nazareth did not use ma
terial means in healing disease. 1t was
the power of the spirit with which He
destroyed sickness as well as sin; al
! though it is stated. and some are using
II as an argument against Christian
I Scientists. that He put clay on the blind
mans eyes when He healed him. But
the wonderful lesson He was teaching
( His disciples in that demonstration was,
that al men (mortaD are born blind,
and cannot see until the clay Of material
sense Is washed away by the cleansing
waters OF the spirit Of Christ, and then
they will see. an dsee clearly. Christian
Scientists are finding more and more
that food does not sustain life; that
while they are eating so-called material
/ food il has no real DEMONSTRATING prop
critics or qualities Take, for instance
a piece OF beefstake that is carefully
cooked until no life is left in il, before
we eat it to save our life. If food could
actually save life, then no one could die
with food in his stomach. Yet Christian
Scientists will never stop eating and
drinking until they have demonstrated
over 1t, and that will not he until they
have demonstrated over the flesh and all
mortality. But how long that will take
or when that will be accomplished "Nc
man knoweth not the Son but the
Father"
II would be the height of folly for any.
one to stop eating until by actual knowl.
edge and practical demonstration he hac
proven that he could live without eating
Christian Science. like the Scriptures
teacher "Wisdom is fhe principal thing
and It certainly would not be wise -tc
jump from the pinnacle Of the temple OF
do any other ncalled-for or unnecessary
thing. They do not stop the use Of drug
remedies until they have found by ex.
perience and actual knowledge that they
have no real curative qualities or health
producing properties. And Christian
/ Scientists are learning more and more
TO let people alone until they have found
this out. before they talk, to them very
much of the Christ cure.
There Is No Death.
Christian Science sounds the tocsin
There is 10 death St. Paul writes IT
his first letter to the Corlnthians-"Th
last enemy 10 be DESTROYED Is death .