Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-09-10
An Interesting Lecture
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spirit of the Word which Jesus por-
trayed. Christian Scientists do not
worship Mrs. Eddy, nor do they in
any sense of the word defy her in
their thought. The whole teaching
of Christian Science leads us to put
self under foot; to have no way and
no will save Gods way and Gods
will; and Mrs. Eddy asks the world,
each one of US, to follow her only so
far as she follows Christ. In her
following of Christ she has been the
instrument whereby the feet of hun
dreds of thousands have been planted
upon the rock of the proved truth of
Gods promises, and against that rock
in the words of the Master, ''the
gates of hell shall not prevail" We
do love our leader, and we give her
all the allegiance and devotion to
which her tireless labor in mankind's
behalf is entitled
[ have related what Christian
Science did for me physically; let me
add more. AS boy and young man
I heard continually that God was re-
sponsible for all things; that suffer
ing and sickness and misery and
wretchedness were in some way as
ISOLATED with His great plan of sal
walton, and in my hours of agony and
helplessnesS | was so overwhelmed
with fear of God that l reached a
point where I had no belief in Him,
and my whole desire was to get away
from Him il it were possible, to find
something that would shield me from
the sickness and misery that [ was
continually called upon to suffer. I
nothing to love, nothing to look for
ward to, and I had come to feel that
| did not care to hear about God, and
church-going had become a burden
to me-
Then Christian Science came, with
the assurance that God is Love; that
He has nothing to do with evil; and
this teaching took away my disease
and my suffering, and took with it
my fear, my dread of God. Christian
Science came to me, and gave me
God, and when l tell you this as my
experience, [ am telling you the ex-
perience of countless thousands all
over the globe. Is it any wonder that
we love the one who has been so
selfless and so faithful in her en-
deavor that through it God has come
to us, that salvation has been brought
within our apprehension? We are
willingly, joyfully obedient to her ev-
cry teaching, because it is through
her continued labors for over forty
years that the mystery of the way of
salvation has been removed and the
glory of God again been made ap-
parent to mankind.
Material Remedies.
Respecting the claims of materia
medica, we can but ask, If God put
! drugs on the earth to preserve and
save the life of mankind, why did
| Jesus, who came doing the will of the
Father, fail to use them in the heal
| ing which he accomplished? Jesus
never used anything for the healing
of mankind from disease other than
the word OF God Here some one
may ask, Did not Jesus use material
remedies when he put clay and spittle
on the blind mans eyes? Now, this
case, when understood. is one of the
most wonderful lessons in the whole
Bible. Do we believe that Jesus
| thought, when he put the clay on the
mans eyes, it would restore his sight?
! If we do, then we believe this was
an instance in which Jesus failed to
to foreknow what would happen, for
according to the story. the clay failed
to accomplish anything. Did the blind
man see while the clay was on his
eyes? No! Not until, in obedience
to the command Of Jesus. he went to
the pool of Sloan and washed off the
clay did the blind man see.
Jesus thus taught us that as we
cast aside all material remedies. no
matter how simple, and go in the way
of his appointing, blindly though it
may be at first, our obedience will
open the eyes that see not, and we
shall behold the glory of God and
of His Son, the living Christ. This
is one of the few places in the Bible
where not only the word but its mean
ing is given: GO, wash in the pool
of Siloam," which means sent" was
the command of Jesus. The man
obeyed; and when he had washed,
he saw. Manifestly it was not the
clay, nor was it the water; it was
his obedience to the word of God,
as it came to him through Christ
Jesus, which made him whole. In
stantly our thought goes back to the
story of Naaman, the leper who came
to Elisha to be healed. The prophet
sent word to him that he was to
go and wash in the river Jordan
seven times. The story intimateS that
he was angry at this advice. declaT
ing that the waters of his own coun-
try were better than the waters of
Jordan, He evidently wanted to be
healed in his own way; but he was
prevailed upon to be obedient to the
word of God, as it came to him
through the prophet. and he went
and bathed in the river Jordan, and
came forth every whit whole.