The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-02-24
may try to love but is bound

whom .ne may try TO loSo Dut Ia bound
to fear. <yt41aE
The anthropomorpMic idea OF God as
II man-like being OF human attributes
and qualities enormously magnifed. II
heritage OF mythology. handed down
to us through generations OF orthodoxy.
Is repudiated In Christian Science. For
Its definition Of God. Christian Science
consistently turns to the Scriptures.
Christian Science stands before the
world as demonstrable religion, ono
that Is to be lived, not merely be-
/ lieved. Tho standard OF proficiency
for tho Christian Scientist is not how
much no believes, but how much Of
that belief he is using In his daily life,
/ III his dealings with his fellow men
and in the sanctity of his innermost
thoughts.
Hence 1t is that there Is no such
thing as Il purely theoretical Christian
Scientist No man can become Chris
tan Scientist by merely believing in
the teachings of it's textbook without
practising them We arc Christian
Sciontists only rs we put into constant
pructice our knowledge of our religion.
be that knowledge great or small We
are Christian Scientists only AZ we are
kind and helpful In thought and deed; ;
only as wc.thinll health and talk health
| instead OF disease and disaster. We are
| Christian Scientists only as we say to
| evil mental suggestion, Peace, be
I still. Only as we are loving and
courageous and resolute and unswerv-
ing in our warfare against sin. sick
ness and death.
1t is often charged against Christian
Scientists because they rely wholly
| upon Mind that they do not "do any
thing for the sick. When the average
man considers the needs of sick por-
son. his thought at once turns to tho
medicine bottle and he believes there
Is nothing being done for the sick
man unless he is made to swallow,
something According to his peremp-
| tory opinions. the sick man should be
treated with something that he can
taste or smell or feel. something that
the senses can perceive. Otherwise
Nothing Is being done for him" He
! may tell YOU that attempting to change
inc condition OF a mans body through
mind alone Is foolishness. And yet
this same intelligent citizen will read
| iiN admit that mans body commonly
and frequently undergoes sudden and
| very marked changes due entirely to
| mental cnuses. He will admit that sal
water Will flow from his eyes IL he is
subjected TO great grief. That sudden
| lear Will produce cold perspjration
| lhat anger will cause the face to flush
or pale, the heart to thump tho voice
to change.
Now grief. anger and the Hike are
obviously mental, but because their ef-
rect on the body is of every day &C
ana drinking, the lesson they disclose
is lost upon the man who hastens to
. cenSuro Christian Science for achicy-
/ ing what he styles the impossible vet
which has been part of him since
/ me uay when as crying infant he
/ Oh ms mothers arm shed his first tears
Jesus proved for all time and for
all Christendom that the origin Of dis
case was mental and he healed st with
mental medicine. lie gave himself no
! concern about physical symptoms, but
! he destroyed what caused them He
cared little about what tho sick man
had been eating, but much about what
| he had been thinking. lie said in go
many words. 1T is not that which
goeth into man which defileth him
/ When he healed the sick he gave no
/ parting directions about diet and rest.
/ but or least one occasion said, sin
/ no H. est worse thing come uuto
! tnec.' thus Indicating the mental origin
! OF the disease. The sick were heAled
! by him through spiritual understand
| ing. not By human will. Christian Sci
cnce, similarly relying wholly upon
divine Principle. has no RELATIONSHIP p
| with Will power. mental science. hyp-
| notism, mcSmcrlsm. to-suggestion,
| thought transference. spirituaiisn or
any of the other cults OF schools which
! rely wholly or III part upon the inhu-
| ence of one human mind or human will
/ upon another. These are essentially
adverse to the teachings OF Christian
Science. wherein the human mind and
I the human will are made wholly sub
ordinate and subservient to the di-
/ vine Mind, the will of Cod Success
IN Christian Science is only attained
/ as fallibic human mentality is elimi-
mated This implies sclf-dcnial. the
! denial OF the human sense OF self and
| the affirmation of all good, and Is a
! condition TO which all must come soon
| or or later ".ts ] live. saith the Lord,
every knee shall bow. and every tongue
shall confess TO God"
In considering the Immortality of
man one Is confronted by the questions,
I What OF the hearoaftcr? How am I
to regard the change called death :
/ What and where is heavcn?". Christian
! Science makes direct answer 10 these
very natural questions. That which
is called death. though always an
enemy and fnaliy 10 be overcome. an
the Bible declares. is no more to be
feared than is sleep. In the present
state of our development both are in
cidcntal to the experience OF mankind {;
both interfere for the time with mans
! activities; and the awakcninS-:like
in both cases-will, we believe show
no substantial change in individuality
or advancement. The gates OF heaven
do not swing open at the touch OF
death, but are to be entered by right
thinking and right living, here and
! hereafter.
Christian Science puts aside the
Hydrologic idea of heaven as q place,
and shows ii to be a state or condition
of mind. 1t follows, therefore. that
its attainment depends upon the men
! tai processes of the individual. In
other words IL affrms that right think
ing leading to right living is the sure
passport 10 heaven. Turning 10 the
life OF the great cXemplar. Jesus the
| Christ, we find III him the ideal thinker
whose thoughts and actions conforrned
! invariably to the laws OF GOd-Spirit-
| touching lightly upon matter and
things material only as tolerated con-
comitants Of his dwelling on earth
| among men.
Most men have found they can get
all they want of heavens antithesis
hell, right here on earth. and there are
! many who believe they have already
( had more than their share OF it, and
/ perhaps they have Eut they should
y. know that it does not come from the
! hand Of God. Sin brings its own pun