Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-11-24

cept We become as little child, 80
| shall In no wise enter into the kingdom
! of heaven" We know full we'll he did
not mean that adults must shrivel
backward in stature and years until
they again become little physical chill
dren before they could enter the king
dom Of heaven, and Christ Science re-
veals to US that in that statement he
was calling our attention absolutely to
the mental attitude Of the little child.
| Why do we send a little child to
school? Do we send it there that 1t may
learn something new? No, but that its
ignorance relative to things that al
ready are may be eliminated. So when
a child has been a short time in school
a teacher comes to 1t and with PEN
Gil puts down on paper. I, and under
it another /, then, drawing a line UNI
derneath, puts under the line the fig
ure 2, saying to the child. zone added
/ to one makes two. Do you understand
! that?" The child instantly replies,
! "Yes"
| AS matter Of fact 1t does not I'M
derstand it at all. for we never under
stand anything that we have not made
our own thru actual Individual labor
and endear, but the child has intelli-
gerre enough to have faith in the
source whence comes this information.
! and because it has this intelligence and
faith 1t proceeds to demonstrate for
itself that one added to one does make
two and when 1t has accomplished
that, has made that knowledge its own
| for all time.
! We have an elder brother who came
to this earth saying and doing all
, %1,l, e. he vic
direction that We might have saliva
ton. It is intelligence on our part that
we have faith In him as the source
where not only statements but demon
STATIONS OF the power Of the Word of
| God come from and so accept and prove
our acceptance Of our Masters teach
| ing by doing the works he commanded
us to do.
No Greed and No Dogma.
| Christian Science is not endeavoring
to establish a new standard Of Chris
tianity 1t is rather, if anything. de-
,ploring the new standard of Christi
anity and turning thought to the old
standard, the standard established by
Christ himself.
| The Rev. Lyman Abbott at one time
said: Greed. dogma and varying con-
sregation were things unknown in
lSHTlSl 3 llIIlc, nav iliS OSeii eiNt OAA ~
religion in modern days"
Christian Science is without creed
and without dogma. 1t is the antithe-
| sis Of personal opinion and is an inn
ploring appeal unto the sons of men to
give up personal opinion and ideas as
to the way Christ's religion should be
established and go back to the way in
(which 1t was demonstrated by Jesus Of
Nazareth.
Christ Jesus established the standard
Of Christianity He never took it down
| and no one else may, and he estah-
llished the standard to which all of us
must attain before we have a spiritual
right to the designation of Christian or
Christ followers, when he said: He
that believeth on me. the works that
I do shall he do also; and greater
works than these shall he do: because
I go unto my Father" and when he
made that statement with the word OF
God he was healing the sick from all
manner of disease. cleansing the leper
casting out evil, raising the dead, feed
ing the multitude with the fragments,
disappearing from the multitude in one
piece and appearing before It in an
other, walking on the water, stilling
the raging tempest with the word Of
command, finding Caesars tribute in
| the flsh's mouth and presenting him.
self amongst his disciples thru an I'M
broken wall.
These are the works that Jesus the
Christ did, and it Is not simply that !
say so. neither is 1t because modern
scientific Christianity in Christian Sci
ence primarily teaches this, but it Is
that Christ himself said if we believe
on him we shall do the works that he
does.
Then, according to the standard es-
ltablished by the Master If we are not
making progress toward the ability to
do every one Of the works he did we do
not believe on the Lord Jesus Christ,
no matter if our lips say we do we be-
iieve a thousand times day. but rath-
er do we belong to that class our Bible
tells us that in the latter days shall
cry: Lord, Lord" and the response
unto them shall be: Il know you not
| Why? Because the works have not
been done which prove Him to be the
Lord and Master.
The Measure Of knowledge.
One of an inuuiring frame of mind
might say. 81 do not see any Christian
Scientists walking on the waters to-
day" The reply would be. humanity
be. "No." But what does that prove?
Does it prove that the Master made a
mistake Willingly or unwittingly when
he said that if we believed on him we
should do the works he did! Or does
it prove rather a failure on the part of
his followers to be absolutely obedient
unto him!
If we should go into school and in
vestigate the matter we would find that
at least SO per cent OF the students Of
mathematics return incorrect answers
to at least so per cent Of the problems
they are endeavorng to solve. Would
we conclude from this showing there
was something the matter with mathe-
mates and that they should be eimi-
mated from the school course. or would
we instantly realize the necessity for
better study on the part of the students
| in order that right answers might be
| obtained? The Christian Scientists
have never claimed that with their
present grasp Of the scientific opera
| toin of the law Of God they have over
come the universal belief in sin. dis
ease and death: nor have they ever
claimed that they heal every case COM
I. ing to them for treatment
! If one wishes to cross the road what
| is the first necessary thing to be done?
Tho first thing tn ha dana iv to ,,acira