The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-04-12


| to yield bountiful harvest Ii we
would demonstrate the principle OF
Christian Science, we must partake OF
| the leaves that are for the heallng OF
the nations, by emptying out OF our
| consciousness, the fruits of the flesn;
such as envy, malice, prejudice, bigo-
| try, disobedience, doubt of GODS all
power, and selfishness in all its condl-
lions. Then will there be room for
the healing balm of divine Love. Inc
inspiration of Truth is more inv1gorat-
ing than any stimulant Nehemiah
says, THE joy of the Lord is your
strength" Our great Teacher says,
HE that will come after me, let him
deny (contradict) himself, and take up
his cross and follow me-" All, this
is the cross-to deny ones self; to be
counted as nothing that God may be
understood as all. The healing power
of Love cannot be expressed whlle
the consciousness is filled with sell
and selfishness. AS the purity of wa
ter cannot be discovered through
soiled glass, so we cannot reflect
Gods ideas while our thoughts are fill
ed with that which is unlike Him.
IL we would think Good, we would
express Good, If we would think
Health, we would express Health; If
we would think Life, we would show
by our daily walk the presence of life,
1t is written: Il am the Lord that
healeth thee Shall we attempt To
pervert Gods word, by saying this
means only the healing of the soul?
He who would work in Christian
Science and keep Gods command
ments. must strive daily to overcome
in himself and for others every
thought that is unlike God. To prac'
tise the Christ teaching we must think
and act Christ-like. We cannot re
fleet Love with an angry conscious
ness: we cannot point the way to Life
with our thoughts filled with fear and
death. We cannot hold up before hui
mainly the true idea of health, while
insisting on the reality and ever-pres-
ence of sickness. We cannot over
come sin in ourselves and for others,
while we defend it's arguments by de-
claring its right or claim to Truth.
Believing in the reality of evil, we
| cannot know the allness of God; be-
lieving in the presence Of sickness, we
seem unconscious of the presence OF
| health. We cannot know our Father,
whom to know Alright is the realization
of harmony, peace, and health, While
we are believing the statements OF
evil to be true. The claim of sick
ness seemed very real to those who
stood about Jesus on the Galilean
shore; but he proved the mastery OF
Truth over error and healed their be
lief in sickness. To be his followers
we must do likewise. Is it a sin tc
declare the supremacy of harmony
when confusion is seen all about us
Paul says, God is not the author O
confusion, but of peace" Is it wrong
to declare that God is in no way the
cause of sickness, but that it is the eff
feet of sin? Jesus said to the maj
who had the infirmity thirty and eigh
years, GO and sin no more, lest
worse thing come upon thee" 1t ma,
be asked where do we get our author
ity for denying the reality of tina
which is unlike God? The Bible il
our highest authority. 1t teaches tn
omnipotence, the omniscience, the ON
nipresence of God on every page. w
cannot declare His allness, and at tn
same time admit the presence @
another ruler, and be consistent, eve
though the pangs of error seem rea
to the material senses. To correctl
work out an example, we must begi
at the first and only cause. God