The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1911-03-25
THE COMFORTER OF PROMISE
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you shall not dash your foot against
stone. shall not stumble and shall
not fall? Don't you know that the
Bible teaches us that God said, Come
unto me, and | will give rest?"
Don't you know that as you turn to
him you will find him not a mighty
potentate afar off, but a tender, low
ing, passionate Father, right at your
side, a very present help at your side,
very present help in trouble? And
don't you know that in proportion as
you accept the knowledge that God is
Love, the very radiance and glory of
His divine effulgence will descent up
on you, and make you free? And it
has made me free. 1t touched me and
cleansed me from the sin of believing
that God, the one whose eyes behold
everything and yet is "of puer eyes
than to behold evil, and canst not look
on iniquity," as Habakkuk tells us, had
aught to do with my suffering, or with
any suffering The chief mission of
Christian Science is to show to every
man, woman and child just as it did
to me, that the belief that suffering is
from the omnipotent and all powerful
God is untrue. giving sureease from
the suffering which legitimately goes
with any such belief
Right at this point the question
naturally arises who does the Chris
tian Scientist mean when he says that
sin, disease and death are unreal? Do
Christian Scientists mean to say ,that
there is no such thing? Do the Chris
tian Scientists. in saying there is no
such thing as sin, give to the world
the power to say and do anything evil,
and then claim sin in nothing. The
law of justice demands compensation
of mankind before it may rise higher
in right apprehension of Truth, and en-
forces penalties to force progress along
right lines.
The law of God never pardons sin
in the manner we have always be-
lieved but, in its changelessg and mex
orable nature, demands that sin be
forsaken before the penalty can be
escaped thus eliminating the appar-
ent cause and effect at one and the
same time
Christian Science on this question
as to what constitutes sin goes deep
er than any teaching that the world
accept stoday. Christian Science
teaches us that a man may seem to
keep every one of the moral laws. of
the land! He may seemingly be one
of the sweetest characters that the
world knows, and yet be a sinner
The Bible teaches that we shall be
held accountable for every idle word
and surely every word that we utter
which does not glorify God, in some
way, is an idle word. And what are
words? Simply the outward manifes-
tation of the thoughts which precede
them. Therefore that statement means
we shall be held accountable for every
thought we think that does not glorify
God and His Christ. Our Master taught
that the thought must be made right;
for ho enid Ill
GUS eyes, he is an adulterer. There
fore, if it is true that the thought of
adultery constitutes adultery, it is true
that every sinful, unrighteous, unclean,
unholy thought, constitutes unright-
leousness, uncleanness, unholiness. And
the redemptive mission of Christian
Science and its chief purpose on earth,
is to teach mankind to guard his
thought, and keep that pure, for in
proportion as he does this, is he obed-
lent to the law of God,
What do we mean when we say that
sin, disease and death are unreal?
Christian Science gies men just one
standard whereby all things are meas
ured by the standard of the perfection
of God, and if in any particular it fails
to measure up to that standard, it is
of necessity cast to one side as ungod-
lily; and if it is ungodly, it is not eter-
nal; and if it is not eternal, it is not
real. Therefore when a Christian
Scientist says sin, disease and death
are not real, he is saying in other
words that they are ungodIy, unhoIy
and unrighteous, that they constitute
the things from which we are to be
saved. To enlarge on this thought a
little, take the statement that we live,
move and have our being in God. Then
add to that the statement, there is no
place where God is not In other
words, that God is omnipresent, as the
Bible teaches us. Then we can begin
to see that if as the Bible teaches us,
God is the Alpha and the Omega, the
beginning and the end, the first and
the last, and with it all, is as it teaches