Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1909-09-30
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.


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other instance God would do the bind
ing becauee woman was goodf Does
the statement which Jesus made indi-
cate an agreement or partnership be-
tween God and Satan, God making,
some Ill because they are good, ana
Satan making some Ill becuse they
are bad? Let us recall the man who
was sick Of the palsy TO whom Jesus
said: "Man, thy sins are forgiven
thee \" and the man took up his bed
and walked. Again he said, 9lf
man keep my saying he shall never
see DEATH" DO I'VE believe that state
ment? oh, what a call that is to US
to follow in the footsteps OF our
Master; how it says to you and to
me: The time now is when ye shall
do the works that the Master did;
when We shall take the word OF God
and heal the sick, cleanse the leper'
cast out evil, and raise the dead In
the name Of Truth.
We shall have every one OF these
things to do. either here or hereafter
in the self-same way that Jesus ala
them, whether we want to or not be-
cause there is no way whereby we
may enter the kingdom save through
him. If he is the way" and the
only way, then you and can reach
that kingdom Of God which is within
by doing what he did. and as he did
to the accomplishment Of our indi-
yidual salvation in the manner that
Jesus indicated.
Universal Belief Cannot Alter Facts.
What about this belief Of sin, dis
ease and death being real? A uni
yersal belief is not any more a foun-
dalton for fact than is the belief OF a
single person. To illustrate, let me
call your attention to the time OF Col
unbus. You remember that he was
treated with scorn and contempt and
cast into prison because he stood up
before the wise men of his time and
said that every one Of their scientific
deductions, all of their scientific
theses, all their scientific experiments
to prove that this earth is flat were
worthless, because the earth is a
sphere. who was right Columbus
was right, Of course, and the wise
men we're all wrong. What effect did
the universal belief have on the shape
Of the arth, None whatever! The
earth continued to be a sphere Just
the same. what effect did the false
belief have on the people WAC believ-
ed It to be true? So long az the
people believed the false belief 70 Be
! true, they were held within the mar
row confines Of that belief, and stayed
on that little speck OF the earth's sur
face because they feared that II they
sailed beyond q certain point they
would fall off the edge Of the earth
ON to that something or nothing on
which Atlas did or did not stand when
he did or did not hold up the earth.
For ages those who have deemed
themselves wise in religious matters
have held the world In the grip Of
the belief that God Is either directly
or indirectly responsible for sin, dis
ease, and death; and until we break
that false belief, until we turn away
from 1t as the prophet Ezekiel i'm
plored the Israelites to do when he
said, "Turn ye, turn ye from your
evil ways; for why will ye die" we
shall continue to sin, we shall eon-
tinue to be sick. and continue to die.
God, as the supposed creator Of good
and evil, Of life and death, sin and
disease, is not the COO Of the chri-
tian Scientists. nor 3 He the Cod Of
the inspired Scriptures, which teach
that He is the same yesterday, today.
and forever without vafiableness or
shadow Of turning. The letters g.
S. stand not only for Christian
Science, but for common sense as
well, and 1t is common sense, because
II is my sense and your sense; II is
sense that belongs to all Of us; and
Christian Scientists have nothing that
is not yours; they are simply putting
to use what Christian Scientists
are letting lie dormant in their
thought.
Life and Death Opposltes.
II God is changeless, how could He
give life and at the same time give
death? When life was existent what
would become Of death, and when
death was existent what would be-