Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-27

Three statements in the New Testa-
ment declare clearly and concisely that
God is not the author of sickness and
death. The first is found in Luke's
gospel where he records Jesus as say
ing of the crippled woman. "And
ought not this woman, being daugh-
ter of Abraham, whom Satan hath
bound 10, these eighteen years, be
loosed from this bond on the Sabbath
day?" The second is in the tenth
chapter of Acts, where Peter speaks
of Jesus of Nazareth as one who
went about doing good, and healing all
that We're oppressed of the devil; for
God was with him" The third is writ
ten in the letter to the Hebrews where
the record disclaims any divine author
ity for death, for in speaking again OF
Jesus the text reads: "Forasmuch then
as the. children are partakers of flesh
and blood, he also himself likewise took
part of the same; that through death
he might destroy him that had the
power of death, that is, the devil.
These are indeed strong statements.
"Whom Satan l.ath bound" and OPP
pressed of the devil' leave no room for
the belief that God sends sickness, or
for the theory that His law and His
will manifest themselves in processes
that involve death. Many generations
of good Christians have believed in a
divine origin for human suffering;
many equally good people have turned
from a God who was supposed to
afflict men in such manner Yet all
the while the Scriptures have set forth
a wholly good God and Jesus destroyed
both sickness and death in carrying
out Gous purposes, as readily as he
removed sin. Where have been our
seeing eyes, and our clearing ears"
that we have let so many warped in
tellectual formuae set aside through
their faulty interpretations the pure
word of God? Like former genera
tions we have needed the voice of a
prophet to call us to true understand
ing of God and His relation to man;
and in the teaching of Christian
Science this spirit of prophecy is here.
DISEASE Is IGNORANCE
Having healed herself through turn
ing to God for help after an accident,
Mrs. Eddy, who has established the
Christian Science movement, was no
longer content with the time-honored
sayings that these things are not for
us to understand and that the day of
miracles is past. Convinced that her
own restoration to health resulted from
the opera ton of spiritual lava law
that could be understood and applied
through spiritual knowledge to heal the
unlawful and disordered woes of man
kind-Mrs. Eddy devoted herself to a
study of the Scriptures and found
therein the revelation of God who
places no sin and no sickness upon
man. The logic of this discovery re-
vealed further that the ills of earth
are brought about by our ignorance of
God and His law, never by the will of
God; and the outcome of her investi-
cation into the things of the Spirit
puts before the world in her book
Science and Health with Key to the
Scriptures definite instructions, spe-
cific rules, for applying Scriptural
teaching concerning the destructibility
of sin, disease and death, as the mas
ter Christian destroyed them.
Christian Science demolishes the mys-
terry which surrounds the healing work
of early Christianity. It's teaching de-
clares that the divine law which abol-
ished disease when scientifically APP