The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-03-31

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OF God which engendered hate, and
right comprehension of him, which
has made me desire. nothing on earth
so much as to be found good enough
to speak the word unto those who are.
seeking light, in order that they too
may partake of Christ's cup. and be
one with our elder Brother in the
knowledge and light of God.
Do we put the Christian Science
text book, Science and Health With
Key to the Scriptures" which Mrs.
Eddy has written. on a plane with the
Bible? No, we do not. and we never
have. There is just one Bible, and
that Bible is the Holy Bible that is
used loved and revered by Christians
all over the globe. That is our Bible
only we are pretty old fashioned about
such things! We are so old fashioned
about our Bible, that our churches
use no other than the King James
Version, because in that old text we
have found sufficient food to sustain
US and lead us on the journey of dark
ness into light. The Christian Science
text book is exastly what it is called,
a text book Now a text book to be a
text book must be text book about
something, and the Christian Science
text book is a text book about the
only thing that is worth knowing, and
that is knowledge of God the Truth,
which our Bible teaches us, makes
man free. have met people who have
said, Il have read that book through
from cover to cover and cannot make
head or tail out of it. 1t looks to me
as though you could begin at the be-
ginning and go through, begin at the
end and go to the beginning, or begin
in the middle and read both ways, and
it would be just the same" So it
would. Truth is Truth 1t does not
make any difference whether you be-
gin at the left and go to the right, or
begin at the right and go to the left,
or in the middle, the text book on
Truth brings you exactly the same
knowledge, no matter in what way you
use it, if you use it intelligently. Sup
: pose one should come to you and say,
: You know never have studied math-
: ematics at all. | never had a chance
, when | was boy, and never had time
: since l have grown up. So l went to
the library one day, and got an arith-
metic, an algebra, geometry, trig-
: onemetry and calculus, and l have
ben at those things for the last six
months. | have read those books
through, and I tell you | cannot make
head or tail of them. There is moth
) ing in them" Suppose a man should
come to you who had never studied
anything but English, and should say
to you, 81 was awfully swindled the
= other day; I went to store, saw a
, book I liked; it was small, compact,
| and | was pleased with the appear
, ance of it, and they told me it was
: Homer's Iliad. When I took it home
and opened it, there was not an intelli-
gible word in it! | was simply out
so much for nothing" What would
: you thing of him? Would you think
he was intelligent? Would you think
he was intellectual? When we come
J to the use of the text book on spiritual
things and endeavor to materially
study those spiritual things, we find
ourselves face to face with an impos-
sibility. 1t cannot be done The wise
men, the Scribes and Pharisees of
= Jesus time, the men who examined
into the theology that he taught went
so far astray from the truth he ex-
pressed, the Master was called on to
say, 81 thank Thee Oh Father, Lord
of heaven and earth, that thou hast
hid these things from the wise and
prudent, and hast revealed them unto
babes"
When I was a school boy my reader
had in it the story of beautiful shield
which hung over a road. One day two
Knights approaching the shield from
j, opposite directions stopped, as was the
custom, to saluate each other before
passing under it. After exchanging
salutations one of the knights remark
ed what a beautiful silver shield" +"
The other knight responded, Surely
it is beautiful but it is not silver but
golden" The other knight said in
reply, Nay, It's silver" This started
a controversy which finally led the
knights to endeavor to kill each other
Setting their lances they ran full tilt
at each other but did no damage! As
they turned again to charge, they
found themselves on the opposite side
of the shield from which they had
started and, glancing up, saw that each