The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-11-23

same yesterday. today, and forever
The fact that Life Is and is eternal
& Is positive proof that death is not
and leads us to search the Scripture
that we may find how to turn fron
death unto life.
! "It will he argued that this state
T ment of Jesus referred simply to til,
spiritual life; and this is true. fo
there Is only one Life and that Life !
, Spirit. God. When Jesus said, "1f I;
man keep my saying, he shall nevcl
see DEATH the saying he referred {,
was this: He that bclieveth on me
the works that | do shall he do also
and greater works than these shal
, he do: because | go unto my Faith
err The works he was doing when ht
: made this statement were these: ht
WAS healing the sick. cleansing the
lopers, casting out evils. and raising
the dead, by the Spirit of God. to
His glory, and to the dcllberatlon of
all those who turned to him.
'It is taught that the healing OF
the sick without medical agency. as
Jesus healed, is miraculous, and that
the time for miracles has gone by.
We are told that today Gods word Is
destroying sin and saving the sinner
Just as II did In the early days OF the
| Christian era, and that the only rca.
son Jesus healed the sick as he did
when on earth was to convince the
Jews. who were a stff-nccked people,
that he was the Messiah of promise
end the fulfillment of prophecy DO
We not know that never I'm the history
lCf the world were there so many who
need to be convinced that Christ Is
| the Messiah, as at the present time
Shall IL be urged that all of the stiff
necked people were Jews who died
two thousand yeads ago? Shall II be
urged that we no longer need proof
that Christ Is the Messiah? Or shall
we recognize the error of our former
ways, and in humility study the life
and teaching of Christ Jesus on earth,
Sc that we may be able to- fulfil his
promise and show to the doubter and
unbelevcr of today that he was tho
SON of the living God'-the absolute
fulnlment Of all prophecy and every
promise which the Bible holds out tC
mankinds?
There is no way whereby we ear
demonstrate that God Is true, othel
, than by doing His will and manifest
! Bible teaches us that God is a yer!
present help i'm trouble. Mankind sa!
that He Is in cases of sin. but tina
if one be sick, he must turn to med
, icine IL he expects to regain hi
a health. There Is nothing in the Bibl
!, that gives authority for any one 4
say in what kind of trouble God ma
be n very present help, nor to sa
al 1 L., ,l,at to nd r,.Ii
ability or desire to overcome and de
n stroy; and Christian Science teache
:, that man has just az much righ
q to lake sick trouble to God as he ha
!, n sin trouble, aud Just rs much righ
= to expect freedom from one as tn
other.
= at Is said that Christian Scientist
> 90 not use the Bible; that all the
@ use Is Science and Health with he
u to the Scripture written by Mrs
y Eddy. No statement could be NOR
h untrue. because the disclosure of tn
: spirit of the Word which maket
Il dlive-and that Is what Christian Sci
V ence is-comcs only as the result u
4 continuous study Of the Bible with tn
v old Of the Christian Science Textbook
O which is what its title indicates,
. Key to the Scriptures
: Nearly all denominations have thei
Bible helps, prepared for the Us
of the lay members by those presume
to have knowledge OF the spiritua
teaching contained in the Scriptures
Science and Health is the Bib
help of the Christian Scientist: It |
the book with which the Bible !
studied and 1t has rent the veil o
| mystery surrounding the letter of tn,
| Word from top To bottom. revealing
the spiritual import of the Scrip
tCrcs. disclosing To us the holy %
folies, wherein God Is revealed I,
Us as no longer an unknown God, n,
longer n God to be ignorautly wor
/ shipped, but a God who is I,ove,--i
God who never turns from His child
ren, Father more tender NOR,
considerable. more Compassio ionate
more loving than human conscious,
ness can conceive.
Probably nothing has been NOR,
misunderstood by people than tn,
statement made by Christian Scien.
lists that sin, disease, and death are
not realm fact. are nothing hut
false beliefs. When this statement Il
understood, II stands out i'm bold re.
lief as honoring God by recognizing
in deed rs we'll as word His omnlpo-
tence, omniscience, and omnipresence
Il --as good, wherein there is neither
elemental evil nor consecutive pass
| lvlty which seems TO recognize evil
and permit its existence. Christian
Science gives us but one standard
Oh measurement, and that standard is
God! Whenever, therefore, anything
II presents itself 10 "A Christian Scien-
tist, Immediately he measures II by
the standard of perfection which Is
God, and if IL fails to measure up
to that standard, 1t Is known To be-
| un-Godlike; and IL un-Godlilke, not
eternal; and if not eternal, not real
How do we know that sin, dis;
ease, and death are not Godllke? How
do we know that sim disease and
death have nothing TO do with God
never did have, and never will :
Sesus told us so, and very plainly. too.
| He said he came to do the will OF
the Father. He also said he came,
pot To destroy, but to fuliil, and he
| Immediately went 10 work to heal the
sick, cleanse the leper, east out evil
Dnd raise the dead, by the Spirit OF
| Cod IN we tnink Jpguo knaw ,phat