Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-02
SpiritualQuest Yields Realities

he knows two things: that the rule ap-
piled to his case does what it claims TO
do, and that what the merely material
diagnosis said about it was not true.
In other words, the result of merely
material observation and experience on
the doctors part was not upheld. The
disease which the doctors said could
not be cured, or could not be cured
without material means, has been
cured and by spiritual means.
GLASSES OF FOLLOWERS
Jesus said, BLESSED are they that
have not seen yet have believed" Per-
haps he meant here that those who
can discern the rCalness of spiritual
thought and experience without rely
ing on the outward sign are indeed
blessed. The followers of Christian
Science may be generally divided into
two classes: those who came to 1t be-
cause they must accept the evidence
furnished to the most skeptical in the
marvellous cure of disease and those
who have long realized that God is,
that He is good, and that the cond1-
tions of human life contradict His
goodness. They are blessed always
who have experience of the divine
Presence with them. Such people, un-
less self-righteousness intervene and
tell them that they know all that any
can know of God, accept joyfully the
fuller explication of Him and of His
omnipotence given in Christian Sci
ence They are ready to abide by the
rules of Science not only in hope, but
because they deeply perceive the truth
fulness of a system which bases every
thing in God as Spirit, denying any
rightful place or power to what con-
tradicts His nature and His good will.
MAN AND TEMPTATIONS
Men sometimes try to argue that it
is the will of God that man shall learn
by his mistakes. But this is only beg
ging the question. If God could have
created a good man and chose rather
to create a man capable of evil then
God chose all the torture and anguish
which mortals know. If He intended
all the sufferings of men for any pur-
pose whatever, then He is responsible
for them. To argue that man cannot
be truly good without resisting temp
tation to be otherwise is to say the
same of God. 1t is the innate conVic-
ton of man that he is made in the
image of God, made to reflect the d1-
vine nature and he knows even amid
all the darkness of the present sense
of existence that 1t is his destiny one
day to show forth this divine likeness.
Is God then tempted with evil? Does
He learn His beauty of holiness
through withstanding the allurements
of sin? If so then we may affirm this
of man, Gods image. But if not, then
neither may we affirm this process of
temptation of man.
Christian Science solves all the vexed
questions, and those who follow it
faithfully learn year by year more of
the vision of ever present perfection
recorded by Mrs. Eddy. They learn
that the beauty of holiness is not Gre
ated or brought about through any
impinging of evil On the consciousness
of mankind. They learn rather that
this holiness, Wilderness. does already
exist, and faith in this, however dimly
seen, destroys the shadowy claims
called evil temptations and proves
their illusory nature, their actual moth
ingness. He who has reached this
point is beginning spiritually to know
that the will of God is done on earth
as it is in heaven.-Christian Science
] Monitor.