The weekly true Democrat. (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1905-1912, 1909-03-05

T III. NHNNM ANN ID. IAAHN al"tNlNl ~ WV
letter, aud the ability 90 heal was lost
DOn't yon see from that time 20 this,
mankind has been trying 20 excuse It.
elf Tor its unbelief, because it has not
been obedisnt 20 the WayghOwer BY and
through whom we must reach the King
dom Of God
Let Us all 90 back beyond Const,n-
tire 20 Christ. Let ua forget that Con-
stantine ever existed, and let as take
that simple, plain, sweet. altogether
lovely religion that Jesus preached let
Us take that Word into our homes. into
our business. into our everyday lives.
until we know what il means 70 Love
our neighbor as ourselves. Then We
shall find we can pray the prayer OF the
righteous man, which a8cendeth unto
the throne. and which Accomplishment
much. Then we shall flnd the Truth Of
that statement ASK whatsoever ye
within nv name, believing, and that
shall We surely receive :" there being no
one who can fail 10 receive, who turns
b. God with the same absolute conf
dence and trust with which our Way
shower turned to Him.
Now, what about this belief Of sln,
disease and death being real You
know q universal belief is not any more
a foundation for fact than 1t would be
IL the belief we're confined 10 one per-
son. To illustrate what mean by this,
am going to call your attention 20 the
time OF Columbus. You remember that
he was treated with sc0rn and contempt
and cast into prison because he stood up
before the wise men Of his time, land I
want 20 say this to you that every gene
AL a.
est men that ever were wise, aud the
people four hundred yeats ago thought
lust that, and said, every Une OF your
scientific deductions, every one OF your
scientific theses, every one Of your
scientific experiments 30 prove thai this
earth Is fat do not amount 20 anything
at ali, because the earth IL sphere
Who was right Columbus was right.
Of course, and the wise men We're all
wrong. What effect did the universal
false belief have on the ghtpe- Of the4
eaTtl p? SOde tife earth kept on being
a sphere just the same. What effect
did the false belief have on the people
VINO behaved it To be true 2 So long as
the people believed the false belief 10
be true, they we're 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 if they
sal ell 20 a certain point, they would fall
OF the edge of the earth on 20 that
something or nothing on which Atlas
did or didu't stand when b. did or didu' Z
holp up the earth.
In our Own times we look back and
pity the Ignorance which thought It was
wi dom, and are positive. just as the
contemporaries Of Columbus we're, that
there Is absolutely no question but what
our wise men are the wisest wise men
thai ever were wise, and yet It Is wiinin
the living memory Of many IN this audi
ence when our wise men we're filling the
newspapers and periodicals with at
tacks, warning The unsusp citing pub &c
TO keep their money n their peck q,
and not let IL be drawn away from them
by the trlcksters and shippers who said
il was possible for m n 60 talk INTO
one end of a wire and have man at
the other end. hundreds o miles aw ty,
hear what was said and catch the IN o.
ma ion Of the voice so as 20 be able 20
tell VINO was talking 10 him
Who WIS right Graham and Bel
were right and our wise men wtrt no
wiser than Columbus wise men. What
effect did The false belief have on The
people SO long as they believed o. o.
be impOssible 10 control the viDrd Ions
sufficiently 10 reproduce the vnie they
were held within the narrow confines 81
the letter post and the telegraph for
their REORGANIZATION, whereas,
when that false belief WAS broken, q
was possible within five minutes 70 TAX
fro e. New York 70 Chicago. 10 transaci
business in FIVE minutes that used 20
take five weeks or sometimes months 20
transact Those WIN have emed
themselves wise IN religious matl ers
have held the world for two hundred
and forty thOus md years "a the GRIP ot
the belief that God either directly or ln
directly Is responsible for sin. disea 20
and death, aud untiLwe break that Ease
belief, until we turn sway from 10 ana
DO as Ezekiel lmp!Ored "a 20 do wncn he
said, Turn We, turn We. Tor Why vii
We die" We shall continue % sin, W.
shall continue % be- sex and continue
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God as a supposed creator Of G I'D
and eviI Of L fe and death. in a. d
a., not the God We Chr. .'iir Sci n
lists know, nor u He he God Of the In
spire Scriptures. when tearh u thai
he IL the same yesterday, today ard
forever. without yariablcness OF shad-
ON Of turning. g. 8. ata1ds for CON-
mon sense, and Il meang co nmon sense
because II is ms sense and ycur sense
Il "a eense that belongs 10 All ~ a.
and Chfirtinn Seientietg have nothing
fhtt q not golra and Chrisllsn Scien.