The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-02-03

drink its spiritual draughts; it reveals
to you the divine alchemy of spirit,
by which mortal, SHINING and dis
cordant consciousness may be trans
mitted into an harmonious, immortal
and spiritual consciousness. Through
this divine process Christian Science
Is establishing the kingdom of heaven
on earth, the reign Of individual and
universal righteousness, that right
eousness which is based on the right
apprehension of right thought of God
and man.
1t would be as impossible to tell the
all Of Christian Science, its teachings
and infinite meanings, in one brief
hour as it would be to count the stars
in illimitable space, or to number the
waves on the shore of limitless ocean
This science of infinity whose prin-
ciple is God, the science of Gods eter-
nal laws of good, of health, harmony,
prosperity, perfection, omnipresent
and omnipotent, whose phenomena
constitute the reality of being.
Power of Thought.
Mrs. Eddy has aroused the world to
grasp the power Of thought and this is
restoring to Christianity that lost heal.
ing element through the power of
spirit. LAS a man thinketh in his
heart so is he" She reveals that mind
or thought, is creative, or causation,
and that phenomena must correspond
to thought as cause to effect. Chri +
tian Scientists have already proved
enough to know that when the pre-
ponderance of thought in human con-
seriousness Is on the side of God of
spirituality, love, health, life, immoral
tality-then sin, disease and death
will melt as vapors before the light
will disappear for lack of a cause.
st. John tells us 'sin brought DEATH"
and Jesus said, 81 am come that you
might have life, and have it more
abundantly."
Christian Scientists feel that Mrs.
Eddy's great revelation has taught
them to think more intelligently, logi-
cally and practically about God. She
says God is to be ''adored, understood,
and demonstrated (Science and
HEALTH, and the intelligent utiliza-
ton and application of this true
thought of God is the devine power
and presence that is today leaving
thought, healing the sick, redeeming
and uplifting humanity. To know this
God is not only heath to thy bones"
but is eternal life. All Christians
unite on the same sublime definition of
God as infinite spirit, incorporated
soul, mind-mind of Christ-as life,
our eternal life-as God-supreme
spiritual being, all presence, power,
wisdom -omnipresent, omnipotent,
omniscent, besides whom there is
naught else-'-who is also truth,
life, love.
The scri ptures teach US that God is
the only law giver and that His laws
are perfect laws. David said make
me to understand Thy laws. *Thy
law is perfect law, converting the
soul 80 mediate on Thy law day
and night" Now from this supreme
and ineffable grace-the divine source
from which, as st. James declares
'cometh every good and perfect gift
can any but laws of life, health, har
mony, bounty, blessedness, emanate
When Jesus declared, Il came not tc
destroy the law. but to fulfill the law.
He expressed His attitude to that law
for fulfilment of that perfect law an
nulled the false sense of law result
ing in sin, disease, death. For as st
Paul says, Rom. vii 2, THE law of thC
spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made
me free from the law of the sin ant
! DEATH"
Thus we see that Christianity a:
Jesus taught and lived it is simply tn,
demonstration of Gods perfect spir
itual law, or will, and as all science i.
demonstrable law or truth, Christi
anity can but be scientific Christian
ity. Paul evidently had also this un
derstanding or Christianity, for h,
said, my speech and my preaching
are not in enticing words of man
wisdom, but in demonstration of tn,
spirit and signs of an apostle wer,
wrought among you in all patience, il
signs and wonders, and mighty deeds.
Theoretical Christianity.
For enforcing the theological worlt
has held on to theoretical religion