The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1910-05-12

him. If he is 1.-THE way" and the only
way, then you and | can reach that
kingdom of God which is within by
doing what he did, and as he did, to
the accomplishment of our individual
salvation in the manner that Jesus in
dicated
Universal Belief Cannot Alter Facts.
What about this belief. of sin, dis
ease, and death being real? A univer-
sal belief is not any more foundation
for fact than is the belief of a single
person. To illustrate, let me call your
attention to the time of Columbus.
You remember that he was treated
with scOrn and contempt and cast into
prison because he stood up before the
wise men of his time and said that
every one of their scientific deduc-
tons, all of their scientific theses. all
their scientific experiments to prove
that this earth is fiat were worthless,
because the earth is sphere Who
was right? Columbus was right, of
course, and the wise men were all
wrong. What effect did the universal
false belief have on the shape of the
earth? Mono whatever! The earth
continued to be sphere Just the
same. What effect did the false be-
lief have on the people who believed it
to be true? So long as the people be-
lieved the false belief to be true. they
were held within the narrow confines
OF that belief, ard stayed on that little
speck of the earth's surface because
they feared that if they sailed beyond
certain point they would fall on the
edge of the earth on to that something
or nothing on which Atlas did or did
not stand when hc did or did not hold
up the earth.
For ages those who have deemed
themselves wise in religious matters
have held the world in the grip of the
belief that God is either directly or
indirectly responsible for sin, disease,
and death; and until we break that
false belief, until we turn away from
1t as the prophet Ezekiel implored the
Israelites to do when he said, Turn
We, turn We from your evil ways; for
why will We die" we shall continue to
sin, we shall continue to be sick, and
continue to die. God, as the supposed
creator of good and evil, of life and
death, sin and disease, is not the God
OF the Christian Scientists, nor is He
~AAN 0ON VA IAC AAoRAlCO
which teach that He Is the same yes
terday, today, and forever, without
variableness or shadow OF turning,
The letters c. s. stand not only for
Christian Science, but for common
sense az we'll, and 1t Is common sense,
because 1t is my sense and your sense;
1t Is sense that belongs to all OF us;
and Christian Scientists have nothing
that is not yours; they are simply
putting to use what non-Christian
Scientists are letting lie dormant in
their thought
Life and Death Opposites.
II God is changeless, how could He
give life and at the same time give
death? When life was existent what
would become of death, and when
death was existent what would be-
come OF life? II God created them,
they must both be as eternal as their
creator. How can they both exist
eternally when one manifests the alb
sence OF the other as certainly as light
annihilates darkness?
The Bible tells us that death is the
wage of sin. Do we believe It? The
Bible does not say that In one case
death is the wage of sin and that in
another case 1t il the wage of good
ness. 1t makes the unqualified state
ment that 1.-The wages of sin Is death
II God created death, He must have
created sin. We cannot escape this
conclusion by saying that He only
permits sin; for to permit 1t He must
know 1t, and how can He know 1t
when the Scriptures tell us that God
is OF purer eyes than to behold evil
and cannot look upon iniQuity. II
God Is OF purer eyes than to behold
evil and cannot look upon iniquity, II
He created death and death is the
wage OF sin, then 1t logically follows
that God created sin; and as every
thing He created is good, it further
follows logically that sin is not evil
but Is good, an argument that cannot
for an instant be sustained; and our
hearts are filled with Joy when. we
know, as Christian Science teaches US,
that God has no consciousness of sin.
Life is creative and death destruc-
tive, SO that God, the primal and only
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 suppositional
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 con-
seriousness is to be put of with the
old man and his deeds, and as it is
put OFF and is superseded by immortal
consciousness, man will be found in |
the divine image, knowing no sin and
death, but forever manifesting eternal |
Life, being perfect even as his Father
which is in heaven is perfect"
There is universal belief about |
death that 1t is either the gateway to |
heaven or the entrance to hell. This |
belief would logically lead us to des-
troy the innocent infant in order to |
insure its gaining the kingdom, 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 belief that death is
ever friend!
Death to Be Overcome.
Death is an enemy Chrict Jocuc