The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-10-09

spark Of divine nature than most
men, but Mrs Eddy has about a:
much. am often led To cry out
"Oh, GOD, how long will you permit
such sacrilege and plasphemy?"
Occupies a Low Place.
If pain is only an illusion Of mortal
mind and Christian Science tends to
dispel that illusion, it follows that
the further one is advanced In Chris
tian Science the less sensitive he
Nill be to pain. Now, every school
boy knows that the higher the
physical organism the more sensitive
it is to pain. The rude forms Of
sea life qWver scarcely at all under
the knife The CrustaCea suffers
more than the i-brute whose
mind is as sluggish "A a mud POND.
Indeed, as things 30 up in the scale
of being they 80 toward the rcssi-
bility of pain It follows then that
the Christian Scientist who IS in
sensible to pain occupies very low
place in the scale of being.
Pain Cool Teacher.
We may we'll ask: Would this
world b" as much Or as good as It
Is ii there We're no pain or trouble
believe that pain is one of the
best teachers in the school Of life.
We may at times vince under her
instructions, but her instructions are
valuable The little child tottering
over the floor is attracted by the
bright, glowing Goals IN the CRATE,
ii puts its fingers on one of the
bars and the bistaring pain that
nature inflicts teaches the child to
dread the fire The sharp pains that
follow ver-in1ulgence in eating
teach the folly OF gluttony. These
thorns called pains and troubles
pierce our feet and drive us back
into the smooth, safe pathway Of
obedience to natures laws. "Ah,
yes" said a great musician. in speak
ing of beautiful prima donna
VINO had just appeared before
the public. "Ah yes, she has n
beautiful voice, but there IS just
one thing she lacks and that is
trouble. If | We're single | would
court and marry her, and abuse and
maltreat and desert her, and break
her heart, and when she would sob
out her bitter sufferings. then she.
would become the greatest singer in
all Europe We know that Beeth-
ovens immortal music was produced
when sorrow was crushing him"
Sickness and Death Iiluslon.
Again in this wonderful book on
page 1S2, we are told that sin, sick
ness and death are Illusions. If this
be true. then crime which is only
another name for sin, is an illusion,
a belief of mortal mind. It follows,
therefore, that all the criminals in
the penitentiary are there. not he
cause they have committed crimes,
but simply pecause they themselves
or somebody else believe they have.
Can we bring ourselves to believe
that sin is only an Illusion" Surely
it was something more than an illu-
sion, a dream of mortal mind, that
David had when thinking about his
double crime of adultery and mur-
der, he cried. "Against Thee, Thee
only, have / sinned and done this
evil in Thy sight" Surely it was
more than an Illusion that
caused the conscience stricken Judas
to fling down the price of his in
fanny in the temple and cry; 81
have sinned IN that 7 have betrayed
innocent blood" This teaching Of
Mrs. Eddy is very soothing TO the
of the sinner, fer let him
believe that sin is only a dream Of
mortal mind, only an Illusion that
floats before the thought, and more
than ever will he be inclined to in.
dulge in IT, Why should you AMI I |
bother about sin when il IS only n |
bad dream, a will o. the -wisp fitting |
through the marshes of mortal mind 20
But to those who study their inner 1
most needs and the Word OF God, the /
.hcught comes irresistibly that God /
gave His only begotten Son to die |
or something deeper and more dead !
Y than mere Pigment OF the mind. /
nasmuch as the agony of Calvary .
vas such a tremendous fact, mans
,iE for which it made atonement /
must also be a tremendous fact. It
S master stroke of genius when
philosophy can be devised that
an reduce sin to practical nothiag-
less. For then the query arises:
If sin is nothing but a Pigment,
wherein lies the utility of the cross /
# Christ?"
In this same paragraph on page
So, Mrs. Eddy declares that sick .
.ess is but a belief a dream Of NOR
al mind. If this be true, it fol-
ows that Christ was either a trick.
ter or an iguoramus, pretending 70
cal diseases which had 10 exist
nee. to soothe sorrows which were
and to forgive sins which
-ere impossible.
Senses Unworthy Of Belief.
In my perucal of this book, have
1und many strange things, and 10
few of these I wish to call your
uention. On page 2S4 Mrs. Eddy /
caches that the evidence OF the
five senses are unworthy Of ba,-9-