East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-12-16
A Lecture on Christian Science

of your father ye will do. He was a
murderer from the beginning. and
abode not in the truth, because there
is not truth in him. When he speak
eth a lie, he speaketh OF his own: for
he is a liar and the father of It,"
Rotterdam in his version of the
New Testament renders the last clause
OF this text, "for lie he is, and the
father of it,
Christian Science is the same
straight and narrow way today as
when the Master taught it, nineteen
hundred years ago, on the shores of
, Galilee It is as radical as the science
of numbers, and one can no more de-
viate from it's principles and rules,
and still call that deviation Christian
Science, than he could deviate from
) the principles and rules of mathe-
MATES, and still can the process ma
5 thematical
3 1t stands prominently alone; there
I is no other religion, theory, creed. or
doctrine that is anything like 1t, and
there never will be; for It is absolute
, land final.
1t Is based upon the principle OF
; unchanging Truth undying Life, and
Y unselfish Love, which triune Principle
is God, that is, the same yesterday,
n and today, and for ever"
@ Christian Science teaches, "All is
o Mind, there is no matter"
i The Scriptures declare, Heaven and
: earth shall pass away, but my words
q shall not pass away" What does this
v teach, but that all matter ani mater-
r ality shall pass away, but the divine
o Mind and His idea shall remain for
ever.
IS Furthermore, what else does it
teach, but that all that God has not
r. made shall be swept away as nothing
o ness; for nothing that lie has made
n can ever be destroyed; for all He made
J. was good.
/. Christion Science does not teach
i that matter is a reality that will some
o day be destroyed, for if matter Were
Ie one of the factors of being it could
l. never be cast out, but would remain
fixed forever.
@ 1t is not that the material universe
:, was created to continue for a time
~ until it had served its purpose. then
to be burned up and destroyed; but
II that it has no existence save in the
80 mistaken belief of mortals, and is eli
>, minated by the knowledge of Truth
In Christian Science.
Some day men everywhere will
know that matter does not exist. and
Is Is they they will know it never did exist,
II and that day is now
!, The students of this Truth are find
- ing more and more. that matter. so
called, has no power to heal disease.
! that matter is inert; that drugs have
!. no intelligence to direct themselves:
W. tnat material medicine so called, can
not diagnose case and therefore can
'' not heal 1t. They are finding that
ie nothing but Truth, divine Mind, can
g. overcome evil or error of any kind.
IL Jesus of Nazareth did not use mate
VI rial means in healing disease; It was
the power of the spirit, with which he
ST destroyed sickness as well az sin. AL
10 though it is stated, and some are using
Is il as an argument against Christian
scientists. that he put clay on the.
le blind mans eyes, when he healed
him
:, one of the beautiful and wonder
ful lessons this demonstration teaches
Is that all men (mortaD are horn
ohhd and cannot see until the CLAW Of
material sense is washed away by the
= cleansing waters of the Spirit or
Christ, and then they will see, and SEQ
! clearly.
- Christian Scientists are finding
% more and more that food does not
- really sustain life. that while they are
- eating socalled material food. IL has
no real DEMONSTRATING properties or
qualities.
n Christian Scientists will never s,or
Ia eating and drinking until they bava
"a demonstrated over it: and tbo, m,i,,
- not be until they have damorstr,,a,
,r over the flesh, and all mortality Rut
NV 'ohg that VIII take, or when that
VIII be accomplished, mo man know
eth"
ID IL would be the height OF follv for
is any one to stop eating, until nv actual
,r knowledge and practical demonstra-
p ion they had proven that they could
4 i've without eating
J. Christian Science, like the Scrin-
, lures, teaches, Wisdom is the prin-
4 cipal thlng. And 1t certainly would
n not be wise to cast ourselves down
from the pinnacle Of the temple. or
&c do any other uncalled for. or unne-
- cessary, thing.
70 christian Science sounds the toxin.
a Ihere Is no DEATH" And st PAM
writes in his first letter to the CorIn-
thians, THE last enemy that shall be-
destroyed is DEATH"
c The Revelator saw death and hell
/. cast into the lake Of fire" and in hi.
v most wondrous vision, he saw the
r. tabernacle of God" among men.
And God should wipe away all tears
, from their eyes, and there should he
no more death. And whatever is to
BE- with God, is done.
. Since, therefore, there is to he a
time when death shall not be-in
il. iact' there is no death today What
: VIII ever be true with God is a pres-
:, ent accomplished fact but this must
=. De understood and demonstrated be-
: fore 1t becomes fact to man. What
VIII ever be found not true is not true
today. When we found there were no
fairies, we found there never had been
any
When we found the sun did not
:, rise, we found 1t never had risen.
When we found the earth turned up