Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-09-10

and as everything He created is good,
it further follows logically that sin is
not evil but is good, an argument thai
cannot for an instant be sustained, ,
| and our hearts are filled with Joy
when we know. as Christian Science
| teaches us, that God has no con
SciouSneSS of sin.
Life is creative and death destruc-
tive, SO that God, the primal and only
| creator, must be Life and not death,
and therefore death, measured by the
standard of perfection which is God,
is not real but is the suppositional an
sence of or belief in the negation of
Life. To what then can the belief iii
sin and death pertain save to mortal
sciousness is to be put off with the
old man and his deeds, and as it is
put off and superseded by immortal
consciousness, man will be found in
the divine image, knowing no sin and
death, but forever manifesting eternal
Life, being perfect even as his
Father which is in heaven is per
feet
There is universal belief about
death that it is either the gateway to
heaven or the entrance to hell. This
belief would logically lead us to des-
troy the innocent infant in order to
insure its gaining the kingdom, and
the action of the natives of India in
casting their babes into the river
Ganges would be based on sound
logic and good reason! How mani
fest is the fallacy Of the belief tnat
death is ever a friend
Death to Be Overcome.
Death is an enemy. Christ Jesus
proved it's unreality, and overcame it
in accordance with the law of God,
thus indicating ultimate freedom
from death for all mankind. Is this
statement impossible of acceptance?
1t is not an original one by any means
but simply reiteration of what Paul
has said. Paul did not say that we
can go on overcoming all things until
it comes to death, but that in it's
presence we are helpless victims. He
oclo tuc ldoI SllSIuy W Dt utSlIOy eu
is death, and in his letter to Timothy
he says that Christ Jesus hath abol-
ished death, and hath brought life
and Immortality to light Do we be-
lieve that Paul understood what he
was saying? Do we believe these
statements to be true?
We, as Christian Scientists, accept
them without modification or qualifi-
cation, because they are SO absolute
ly in accord with what our Master
did and said. True, Christian Scien-
lists have not yet reached the point
where they have overcome the uni
versal belief in death, For have they
yet reached the point where they
heal every case that is brought to
them but like the prOdigal son of
the Bible story, they have started on
their journey back to their Fathers
house. They are weary of living in
a country far away from God; they
are weary of feeding ON the husks of
words which, no matter how beautiful
they may be, fail to bring any proof
of their truth. When the infallible
Principle of Christian Science is alb
solutely followed, we shah reach the
Fathers house, solve all lifes prob
lens, and realize in full the meaning of
the angelic chorus, GLORY to God in
the highest, and on earth peace, good
will toward men,
AS to Chastisement.
At this point some one might ask,
If what you say is true, what are you
going to do with the Biblical promise,
Whom the Lord loveth he chastin-
eth?" | shall not change word of
the Bible in order to explain this, but
will call your attention to something
you all know, namely, that the Bible
which we read is a translation into
English from the original tongues,
made by a number of men chosen for
that purpose by King James of Eng
land. The Greek verb ''paideuo,'
translated by these men into English
as "chasten," means to instruct or
direct, and nothing else. Liddle and
Scott in their Greek Lexicon give as
the first meaning of this word, "To
rear or bring up children Joseph
Henry Thayer, Professor of New Tes
lament Criticism in the Harvard Di-
vinity School, says that in classic
Greek it means ito train children"
In his Memorabilia Xenophon uses
this word in the passage, He trained
both soul AMI body"
While the preponderance of opin-
ion amongst commentators is that
'paideuo" in New Testament usage
means to chasten, Liddle and Scott,
Thayer and Cremer all state that
chasten is not the original meaning
of this word, but is later or derived
meaning, and Cremer adds the state
ment that it is an ecclesiastical one.
The facts are, that in l Timothy, 1920,
2 Timothy, 2 %, and Titus, 2 II,
the verb ''paideuo" in the King James
version is respectively translated
learn" Qiterally, be taught lin
struct," teach" In Hebrews, 1879
the noun ''paideutas" is rendered by
Cremer as instructor or teacher. 1t
seems unreasonable to assume that
among contemporary writer's upon
the same subject, a given word could
have been used with such widely diff
ferent meanings. OF course words
change materially from century to
century, but this would not explain
the variation in the use of the word
between the epistle to the Hebrews,
written in "a 4 D. and the letters to