The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1911-03-25

self said, He that belieyeth on Me.
the works that do shah he do also.
Then from the standard that Christ
has fixed in that statement, If we are
not in some measure working to the
accomplishment of the doing Of every.
one of those things that He did. we be-
long TO the class that He spoke of who
at the latter day should say, Lord
Lord and His response to them would
be, | know you not Why? Because
they had not done the works which
entitled them to call Him their Lord
and Master.
1t is said Christian Science is The.
ology, Science, Philosophy, therapeut.
les. The question may be asked what
relation each of these phases bear one
to the other and which comes first re-
latively. Christian Science is redemp.
tive, its work is redemptive, and its
work to be redemptiye must be ele.
mental, God during al eternity has.
builded all things that really are. The
philosophy which is human takes man
up to the door of hope puts a question
mark upon it and leaves man hope.
less. The philosophy of Christian
Science takes man beyond the human
concept into the Shekinah where Jesus
has passed before us, away from the
finite and up to infinite knowledge of
God. The theology of Christian Sci.
ence turns us absolutely to God as the
only, the amniscient the omnipotent,
the omnipresent all in ALL The Science
Of Christian Science makes us turn to
God as the only law maker and law
giver. The therapeutics of Christian
Science heal the sick by making us re-
alize that God is Good and that nothing
can come from Good except good for
cause and effect must agree. No one
phase of Christian Science is greater
than any other and singly and eollec-
lively Christian Science stands with
man inside the door of hope, the ire
sistable irrefutable and irreversable
Word of God. Recognition Of God is
the healing of the sick, knowledge that
Good is Soul, is eternal salvation. I'm
til one has been a Christian Scientist,
until one has felt fall from him the
shackles of doubt and fear and un-
belief, until one has found and felt
the cleansing from hate, malice, jeal-
ousy, rage, self love, self Will, self
justification and self complacency, one
has never known what 1t means to Be
free. To be free and to know what
God is, eliminates the possibility of
anything else really being. Christian
Science teaches that all is infinite
Mind and its infinite manifestation.
We are told to pray for that Mind
which was also in Christ Jesus. CHS
tian Science teaches that Mind is God
Teaching that God is infinite Mind. is
simply saying God is omiscient. To
say God is omniscient, is to say He
has all knowledge. Knowledge i'm
plies intelligence. and intelligence is
the activity of Mind.
To say that God is the source of
all knowledge is to say the same of
intelligence, and to say God is the
source of all intelligence is to say that
He is all the Mind there is and no
other conclusion can be reached log
ically. The Christian Science teach
ing that God is the one and only Mind
is not, therefore. new. being simply
the complement of the Bible teaching
that He is omniscient.
Do not mistake my meaning to be
that what we term mortal or personal
or personal mind is God for the belief
In personal mind is the cause of all
wretchedness, murder, hate jealousy,
malice, war, dishonesty and untrnth-
fulness the world has ever known in
its history. This belief in minds many
is the belief in Gods many and leads
to belief of utter lack of individual
responsibility in all things, the in
ability to discern what is good and
what is evil and finally to the belief
that evil is more potent than good
and is mans master
Our Bible teaches us that the carnal
mind is death and the spiritual mind
| is eternal Life. Let us accept this
statement as true and cease our en-
deavor to justify ourselves and seek
rather to justify God in all His change
less glory and majesty.
We may not Intellectually discern
the Spirit of Christ's teachings but
must intelligently accept them and SO
grow in grace that the Light shall
dawn on our consciousness and bring
us to the eralization that there is no
Way, no win, no Law save Gods the
result of this faithfulness being the
attainment of the Kingdom of God