Arizona republican., 1910-04-05
MR. LEONARD'S LECTURE 0N CHRISTIAN SCIENCE

! creator, must be Life and not death.
 and therefore death. measured by the
 standard of perfection, which is God. is not real but is the suDDositioaa
 absence of or belief in the negation
 of Life. To what then can the belief
 in sin and death pertain save to
 mortal consciousness? This mortal
 consciousness is to be put off with
 the old man and his deeds. if.l as it is put off and is superseded by i'm mortal consciousness. man viii DC i found in the divine image. knowing no sin and death. but forever mani
 festing eternal Life. being perfect i even as his Father which is in
 heaven is perfect"
 l There is universal belief about death that it is either the gateway
 to heaven or the entrance to hell 1 This belief would logically lead us 10 destroy the innocent infant in or der to insure its gaining the king dom, and the action Of the natives of India in casting their babes into the river Ganges would be based on
 sound logic and good reason! How
 manifest is the fallacy of the be- ! lief that death is ever friend, Death to be Overcome. Death is an enemy. Christ Jesus proved its unreality. and overcame it in accordance with the law of God thus indicating ultimate freedom from death for all mankind Is this
 statement impossible Of acceptance? It is not an original one by any
 means. but simply reiteration of
 what Paul has said. Paul did not say that we can go on overcoming all things until it comes to death but that in it's presence we are help less victims He said the last enemy ! to be detroyed is death. and in his
 letter to Timothy he says that Christ Jesus hath abolished death and hath brought life and immortality to light" Do we believe that Paul un- derstoOd what he was saying? Do We believe these statements to be true?
 We, as Christian Scientists. ac- cept them without modification or qualification. because they are so absolutely in accord with what our Master did and said. True. Christian Scientists have not yet reached the point where they have overcome the universal belief in death, nor have they yet reached the point where they heal every case that is brought to them. but like the prodical son of the Bibles story, they have started on their journey back to their Fathers house. They are weary of living in country far away from God; they are weary Of feeding on the husks of words which, no matter how beauti- ful they may be, fail to bring any proof or their truth. When the in- fallible Principle or Christian Sci ence is absolutely followed. We shall reach the Fathers house. solve all life's problems. and realize in full the meaning of the angelic chorus, Glory 10 God in the highest. and on earth peace, good will toward men"
 As to Chastisenent.
 At this point some one might ask. U what you say is true. what are you going t1 do with the Biblical promise. Whom the Lord loveth he chasteueth?" l shall not change a word Of the Bible in order to explain this, but will call your attention to something you all know. namely. that the Bible which we read is transla-
  tongues, n:Gde by a number Of men choseE for that purpose by King James Of EGg and The Greek verb paideuo. translated by these men into English as "chasten." means to in- struct or direct. and nothing else. Liddell and Scott in their Greek Lex icon give as the first meaning of this word. TO rear or bring up children" Joseph Henry Thayer, Professor of New Testament Criti- l cism in the Harvard Divinity School. says that in classic Greek it means to train children In his Memorabilia" Xenophon uses this 1 word in the passage, "E3e trained both | sOuI and body"
 While the preponderance of opin- | ion amongst commentators is that ! paideuo in New Testament usage i means to q fasterr, Liddell and Scott, | Thayer and Cremer gil state that | chasten k net the original meaning | of this Nord. hl is later or derived | and Cremer adds the state ! ment that il is an ecclesiastical one. Tr' facts are. that Timothy. l.2O. | Timothy, 2:25, and Titus, 2:12, the | verb paideuo in the King James yer sion is respectively translated learn" be taughD, instruct" teach" In Hebrews. 12:9 the noun Daideutos is rendered by Cremer as instructor or teacher. It seems un- reasonable to assume that among writers upon the same subject, given word could have been used with such widely differ ant meanings. or course words -hange materially from century to .entury, but iris would not explain he variation in the use of the word between the epistle to the He ,rews. written in 64 A. D., and the et.ers to Timothy and Titus. written n 55 and 66 4. D.. respectively. When this passage, Whom the Lord oveth he chasteneth." is rendered into English as it is literally written in lassic Greek, it would read, Whom he Lord loveth he instructeth." and [ thus becomes another proof of the Christian Science teaching as to the rnormal nature of sin. which Christ destroyed in conformity with the law f God.
 Temptation Never from God.
 In order that there may be sin here must be temptation. and in or er that there may be temptation here must be sin, and they both 1ust proceed from the same source. 8 this source God or mankind? If it