Arizona republican., 1910-04-05

! When one is brought face to face with this statement, il does not take an instant to realize that a serious
 mistake has been made in placing the responsibility for death upon
 God. for We all know that to fol- low the teachings of the Wayshower
 brings us to God, and in no way whatever shuts us out from partici- pating in any of those good and per feet gifts which our Bible tells us come down from above
 Eternal Life.
 Cnconsciously we have all fallen into the error of thinking that eter- nal life Will begin for each of us when our experience here has ended. but thoughtful consideration makes us know that eternal life never be- gan and will never end, that it is the same yesterday, today, and for ever The fact that Life is and is eternal is positive proof that death is not, and leads us to search the Scriptures that we may find how to turn from death unto life.
 It will be argued that this state ment of Jesus referred simply to the spiritual life; and this is true. for there is only one Life and that Life is Spirit, God: The work which Christian Science is doing for man kind today Is enabling us to elimi- nate from consciousness the belief that there is any life other than the spiritual. and is bringing dominion and power to the one who was held in bOndage,-subject to all things, master of none. When Jesus said. If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death" the saying he re- ferred to was this: He that believ- eth on me, the works that l do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because 1 go unto my Father" The works he was doing when he made this statement were these: he was healing the sick, cleansing the lepers. casting out evils. and raising the dead, 'hy the Spirit Of GOd,"-to His glory, and to the liberation of all those who turned to him.
 The Healing Work.
 Unless these same works are be- ing accomplished today, we are Christians in name only To be a ' Christ: to be a follower of Christ one must be a doer of the Word. and must bring out all the fruits which Jesus said should be brought out by those who followed him 'in spirit and in truth"
 IL is taught that the healing of the sick without medical agency, as Jesus healed, is miraculous, and that the time for miracles has gone by. We are told that today Gods word is destroying sin and saving the sin ner just as it did in the early days Of the Christian era, and that the only reason Jesus healed the sick as he did when on earth was to con vince the Jews. who were a stiff necked people. that he was the Mes siah of promise and the fulfilment Of prophecy. Do We not know that never in the history of the world were there so many who need to be convinced that Christ is the Mes siah, as at the present time? Shall 1t be urged that all of the stiff necked people were Jews who died two thousand years ago? Shall il be urged that we no longer need | proof that Christ is the Messiah? Or | shall We recognize the error of our ! former ways, and in humility study I the life and teaching of Christ Jesus | on earth. so that We may be able to | fulfil his promise and show to the ! ioubter and unbeliever of today that he was the Son of the living | absolute 'fulfilment of all | prophecy and every promise which | the Bible holds out to mankind?
 There is no way whereby we can | demonstrate that God is true, other | than by doing His will and mani testing His supremacy in an things. | The Bible teaches us that God is | "a very present help in trouble" Mankind say that He is in cases of l sin, but that if one be sick, he must | turn to medicine if he expects to | regain his health. There is nothing | in the Bible that gives authority for