Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-19
MANKIND'S SORRY
SUM OF DISCORD
CONDITION RESULT OF LONG
SUPERSTITION
POSITIVE MESSAGE is BROUGHT
BY CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
Misunderstanding of Faith Teaches
Mortals to Be as Free from III
as Their Goodness Entities
Them to Be

III human beings are more or less
i'll at ease in the happenings of their
daily lives. The ills they have and the
ILLS they fear make a sorry sum
Of discords. in the course Of what they
call a lifetime, to destroy much Of the
happiness for which mOrtals strive.
Many people say that could they have
ideal conditions in this life they would
ask no better heaven; but because
things fail and perish, because things
try and disappoint and wound, mOrtals
are forced 10 admit that there is a
destroyer among them, and that there
is need for a Saviour. In seasons of
enjoyment and health and success
thought may be unaware Of this need
but in hours of reaction, when distress
threatens or even possesses experience,
every one cries out in his own heart
for a deliverer
For this reason-the need for help
from source outside personal re-
sources-the human mind looks about.
when in need, for anything which may
offer help; and because the human fac
ulties are engrossed in matter, they
naturally at first look for help in mat
ter. This accounts for the long cen
turtles Of supersttions and experiments,
involving every human invention from
incantations to material drugs, during
which mortals have tried to ease their
pain in ways material The ancient
races began and the modern age con-
tinues the search for healing in matter
and with no result beyond a fuctuating
belief in the relief of some difficulties
and the utter inability TO cope with
others, Matter cannot save itself from
its own consequences. Its Saviour must
be something other than itself
To this condition Of things Christian
Science brings a positive message con-
corning the one true redemptive actiV-
ity in human affairs-Christian healing
Jewish history records that Moses led
his people to look beyond the evidence
of the physical senses for help, to a
God who is Mind; a God beyond and
above matter and the human mind.
Later prophets Of Israel reinforced the
teaching, encouraging reliance upon the
divine Mind, even though this Mind
was unseen by the physical senses. Fin
ally Christ Jesus brought to the world
such perfect understanding of the heal
ing, saving power of Gods love and
Gods law that he disposed Of every
kind of trouble known to the world-siE
and sickness and death; and he
wrought the climax of salvation In his
own ascension above ii all. II is to re-
state and to re-establish this Christian
healing that Mrs. Eddy has loved and
labored. Christian Science makes plain
the way of healing as the early Chris
tlons knew it and maintains that a life
which is striving to be Christian can
enter this way and be saved somewhat
from its present sins and fears and dis
tresses. As in earlier times, when the
necromancers Of Egypt strove before
Pharaoh, to initiate with human Will
ana superstition the results of Moses
faith in God, or when Jesus accusers
declared his healing to be Of Beelzebub.
so today the unspiritual observer, al
though ready to admit the healing Of
Christian Science, may try to persuade
himself that the desirable results he
sees spring from some trick Of the hu-
man mind, or are of eveH The honest
heart, however, soon passes this stage
of questioning to the dawning l;noWl-
edge that God is with men: that Gods
law operates in the secret hour 10 save
men; that the only true healing is in