The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-02-03

the historical Jesus lived and did Hi
mighty works that this divineely mai
ural God-like man really came, tn,
Son of God, and the Son of the Virgin
the Mediator between flesh and Spirit
between God and men, as the apostle
declares there Is Zone Mediator be
tween God and men, the man Chris
Jesus" Jesus left the rich legacy Of
His transcendent life an example for
mortals to follow--"deny self and fol
low me-" In his short ministry he
transcribed all human limitations. he
healed all manner Of sickness, the
naked lunatic was clothed and in
his right mind" he cast out sin and
disease by the power of Spirit, he fed
the multitude, the 5000 and the 1000.
he stilled the tempest, he walked over
the waves and reproached Peter be-
cause he had not sufficient faith to do
likewise.
Mrs. Eddy tells us very simply of
matter and space. He raised the dead
and spiritualized humanity. He made
the blind see, the deaf to hear. the
dumb to speak, the lame to walk-the
repentant Magdalena became a deeply
spiritual woman, the tribute money
was found In the fishs mouth, and all
this without material means as aid.
as not only the Scripture teaches,
but as even the historian, Gibbons.
declares was the accepted belief about
the early Christians.
Correct View of Man.
Mrs. Eddy tells us very simply how
Jesus healed (Science and Health.
pages 1929: Jesus beheld in science
the perfect man, who appeared to Him
where SHINING, mortal man appears to
mortals. In this perfect man the
Savior saw Gods own likeness, and
this correct view of man healed the
sick. Thus Jesus taught that the
Kingdom of God is intact. universal
and that man is pure and holy.
Standpoint Of Spirit.
Jesus viewed man from the stand.
point of spirit, not matter; soul, not
sense; and that is the secret of Jesus
and Of Christian Science. He came
as we are told in the Scriptures, to
judge not after the seeing of the eye,
nor the hearing Of the ear, but to
Judge righteous judgement. The very
basis of Christianiay is faith. which
the apostle describes as "the sub
stance, cause, causation it is the evil
dence of things not seen, or, better,
the conviction of unseen realities. Paul
tells us of the wonders wrought by this
mental condition. The dead were rails
ed, the lame. the manned were re-
stored, the mouths of lions were
stopped. fire was quenched, victories
were won, the walls of Jericho fell
down, Elijah was translated that he
should not see death.
Now, remember that you can have
this mental condition as we'll as Jesus,
Peter and Paul, and the ancient
worthless and it should and will bring
about the same results; 1t is a uni
versal law of cause and effect. But
in order to do this you must deny the
physical or visible evidence and stead
lastly. persistently hold on to what
you do not see.
This is Christianity in its eternal, |
primitive purity, perfection and power |
This is what Jesus and Peter and Paul |
and the ancient prophets did-they
held on in thought to the unseen eter-
nal yerities Of being, in spite of, and
In reversal of material evidence and
in that consists the sublimity and sim
plicity of their methods and works.
Jesus came rebuking the universal
sin of the world, which Is seeing af-
ter the flesh instead of after the Spir-
It." He came reversing the prevailing
theory that man is mortal and ma
terial, or the worm in the dust the
ory," as absolutely as Capernicus re.
reversed, repudiated and ignored the
Ptolemaic theory, and every conclu-
sion derived therefrom. Now the
earth looks just as flat and stationary
as it ever did, and the stars and moon
and sun seem just as subservient to
he earth as when the human mind for
accepted that absurd and
United theory Astronomical educa-
ion and research have released us
rom that limited and false sense of
he stellar universe, and have opened
o our vision the splendors of limit
ess conception of neutral suns and