Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-05-07

| that Jesus was the Wayshower Will it be claimed that he came to show man how to break Gods laws or to teach that man must find health and harmony by violating instead of obey ing them?
 Many people believe that God either sends sickness or at least permits some other power to send it, so that ill some way it is an agency for good to work out our spiritual growth. Now if that is true why did Jesus come to make war on it? If / God created sickness and either sends it or per mits it to be sent for any purpose and lowers to destroy it, was he not work ing against God? And if sickness is a good thing why did Jesus wish to destroy it?
 1 Christian Science shows that sick ness and sin originate in mortal mind, and result from the operation of this ! oo-Cdlleu iulHu dOu ulu HUI create them, nor do they result from the operation of spiritual. law. In des- troying them Jesus did not work con- trary to Gods laws. Christian Sci ence insists that Jesus was consistent. He did not do the will of the Father at one time, and at another seek to I ox out, ! 1o1, fo11 II, II. if Jesus performed his works in ac- cordance With, and by means of, Gods l laws, the same results must follow in every age whenever those laws are understood and applied. Moses and the prophets. and Jesus and his disci- i ples and followers, healed the sick, raised the dead, and performed many 1 wonderful works by means of this power; and ill every age the result of the operation of spiritual law in hu- man consciousness has been to des- | troy discord and to establish peace
 It is highly important, therefore, l that every one should become fami- liar with the law f Mind, the law of Spirit, and learn it's operation. We 1 have all of us knClWn a good deal about the so-called laws of matter, but we have the Bible statement that the law of Spirit shall overcome "the law of sin and death,'' Christian Science is the only thing I know of that defines the law of Spirit, and ex- plains it processes and it's operation so that people everywhere may under stand it, and apply it and prove it for themselves.
 WHAT IS CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
 Christian Science is religion. It is the Science of Christianity-the scien- ce of God and man. It reveals spiri- tual law, and explains the operation of that law in it's relation to man and the universe. It defines mortal mind and immortal Mind, and so makes plain the difference between mortal men and man made by God in His image and likeness.
 Christian Science pleads for rat ional understanding of God in place of mere belief about Him, and it is urging mankind to look for the real causation in Aiind and not in matter 1t declares that God is not the autho: of sin, sickness, or death, hence these conditions are illegitimate and can be destroyed by knowledge of the truth. It denies that there is any divine authority for man to sin, suffer, CT die, and recalls the solemn decla- ration of the Scripture that God gave man as his birthright dominion over all the earth and over all that it con- tained. Jesus said, "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.' Christian Science says to the tired and suffering man who is wandering about without any dom inion at all, that the knowledge of the truth will set him free from his bon dage to sin, suffering, sorrow, and failure, and will give him that dom- inion which God said in the beginning belonged to man.
 A correct understanding of God therefore, is necessary as the founda- tion of religion. Any system of reli- Sious teaching that is founded upon an imperfect or an erroneous con- ception of God must necessarily fail to bring to the believer the comfort and help that he seeks. When we look around to see the devotion and fidelity of people to their reli- gious beliefs, and then see how often they fail to realize the benefits for which they seek, it is fair deduction that there is something wrong about their understanding of God.