Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-23

the laws of nature set aside in order
that He might do those wonderful
works. Christian Science inculcates
other and better views. 1t shows that
the works of Jesus were miraculous
alone to those who did not or had not
understood them. To him they were
natural and lawful. He did not set
aside the law of God but fulfilled 1t,
just as He said He came to do.
Anything unusual is apt to appear
miraculous and especially so to ignor-
ance. If a savage were to appear
among us he would find that we were
doing many things which would seem
to him inexplicable and therefore mir
aculous, but they are to us scientific
and perfectly natural. So it is with
the works of Jesus, the power wnlch
He exercised has been misunderstood
and ascribed to His personality, but,
to put it in homely way. 1t was not
what He looked like. it was not mere
ac.,oa rance that enahled him tn do his
works, but what he understood. what
he thought. What he thought we may
think and he declares that we must
for he said, "I am the way" There
is no other way of doing anything.
Do Christian Scientists love Jesus
less because they of all people recog-
nize most clearly the character OF his
works and means by which they were
emotional over my memory or shout
nv names with hallelujahs,' but ne
pave one rule by which men should
prove their love for him, saying, II
We love me, keep my commandments.
Christian Scientists are striving to
keep them all, including the one TO
heal the sick. They believe that an
Christians will ultimately awake to
discern this manifest duty, and ana TO
avail themselves of their natural priVi-
lege to heal the sick by spiritual power
as taught by Christian Science.
In showing that the scientific way
to overcome disease is to resist the evil
| dence of the senses wherever such evil
dence testifies to the presence of dis
| ease. Christian Science is indicating the
| Christ way. Jesus himself said at the
tomb of Lazarus in the face of all the
| evidences of the senses. "I know that
| Thou nearest me always and TINS
recognition that God is the Creator OF
man and that therefore mans life Is
| immortal and uninterrupted in spite
| of the evidence Of material sense to the
| contrary, raised Lazarus from the
dead.
Practically all religious experience
shows that sin is the most difficult evil
element to eradicate. So tenacious Is
1t that all Christians admit that it can
be eliminated only bv Christ. Admit
ting this, then. I say it is preposterous
to assume that the lesser element, dis
ease. cannot be eliminated through
Christ except bv aid of drugs, surgical
operations or other material means.
Christian Science maintains a con-
sistent attitude; it is invariable both
as to principle and rule. and 1t shows
that the ideas which reveal God origf-
nate in Him and can be employed
through the scientific method of Chris
tian Science, the Christ power, which
| operates to change the inharmonious
evidence of the senses.
But it may be asked when Christian
Science heals a case of disease, does
not the evidence of the senses say that
the person is well, and If one cannot
accept such evidence when it testifies
of disease, how can he do so when 1t
testifes of health?
Christian Science replies that har-
mony is the natural status of man and
is Gods law to man. When disease is
overcome through the application of
that law, it is Science which has
achieved the result and the result is
scientific.
The material senses, finding their
master in the Christ truth. yield to that
law and testify to health. Were it
otherwise they would be greater than
God, but the healing is not merely
sense testimony; it is the evidence of
Sclentlflc IfuCn.
DISEASE
The race has been striving for CEN
turies to mitigate or eliminate the raw
ages of disease. Indeed, it is admitted
that disease is wholly abnormal and
undesirable. Every sane person is
willing to part with it. Christian Sci
ence cIassif1es it correctly. 1t shows
that disease cannot be any part of
God and that the Creator could not
H., f,,I st,lA
NOUS Disease is therefore seen to be
no part of Science or Truth, and the
conclusion is inevitable that it is
wholly in the nature of error
This analysis, however, while abso-
lutely logical, is not Immediately salts
factory. 1t requires proof. The one
who hears it will admit that although
he may object to the teaching that dis
ease is error, yet he would be glad if
it were Indeed, all the world would be
glad to recognize the erroneous nature
of human suffering. 1t is then worth
while to find out that we are all agreed
in the wish that disease might be only
a mistake.
The question naturally arises, then.
How does Christian Science classify
disease more specifically?-and the an
swer is that as disease does not exist
in Truth or God, it only exists in be-
lief, and that, in the last analysis, man
kind is not contending with disease
per Sc, but with the belief of disease
which, on account of centuries of
wrong education along the lines of su-
perstition and fears' appears more real
than truth itself.
But. it may be added, if it is ad-
mitted that the race is suffering, what
difference does it make to classify dis
ease as belief since the experience is
the same whether it be called disease
or belief? Christian Science answers
that 1t makes a vast difference. Recog-
nizing disease as belief there is less
fear of it and there Immediately ap-
pears the possibility of overcoming it
if the teaching in this respect is under
stood.
With the old idea that disease is
natural and perhaps God ordained that
it has inherent power and exists and
continues according to law. we are
hopeless; but with the understanding
that such is not the case and that dis
ease, not originating in God, has nc
real origin nor inherent power, one sees
the possibility of destroying disease,
even when it is called incurable.
EVIL CONSIDERED
If we admit a Creation and thereby
admit the existence of a Creator who
must be eternal we are forced to admit
the conclusion that God is not the
author of sin, disease, or their cul-
mination, death.
This fact is irrefutable and it is basic
in Christian Science. Now, then comes
at once the question as to how sin and
disease, including want and woe, could
even appear. When one explains to the |
inquirer that they could not originate |
in the Infinite, and that therefore they |
hnt fUf nd