Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-29

then, do people seem to have so little
sooo, ana SO much that is not good?
Let us look at that for a moment. If
one drops an object the law of gravi-
tation VIII pull 1t down to the first
obstruction, but IL the obstruction be
removed, 1t will pull it down further
and further as the distractions are
removed until at last. If every OBJ
i structlon We're removed, the law of
gravitation would then have its per-
rect work, and would pull the object
10 the center of the earth That is
l. precisely what happens through the
operation of spiritual law. That law
- - operating in human consciousness,
just as Tar as the Instructions will
permit, which distractions are mental
quaIltles-superstitio false beliefs,
human Will and the like. As they are
removed, the spiritual law will op-
crate further and further in human
CONSCIOUSNESS, bringing good deeper
and deeper into human experience
until at last when every such OBJ
struction shall have been removed,
When the human consciousness shall
nave been completely evangelical by
truth, and every mortal thought shall
nave been brought into obedience to
| Christ. as the Scripture commands,
then the spiritual law will have its
perfect work in human consciousness.
In that day men and women will walk
Tree from every evil condition, in the
conscious possession of that dominion
which God said in the beginning be-
longs to man.
AS each. one shall work out this
question for himself, striving to ar
rive at that conclusion which shall
best satisfy him as to which is the
true theory of prayer, one other thing
can be mentioned to aid the inquirer
in reaching that conclusion, and that
I f1 a f1.y-S,, ,.F-E~ ~
method of prayer hundreds of thou
sands of sick people have been
healed. Is not this great array Of
PROOF by demonstration at least suf-
ficient TO put every thinking person
upon inquiry, lest the Christian
Science theory of prayer may not, in
fact, be the true theory.
! Every person who prays desires to
| know how to make true prayer All
! people desire good and not evil, and,
in the main, all people are equally
honest in their religious affiliations,
for no one would knowingly deceive
himself about so important a matter.
The only reason, therefore, why people
are grouped together in different re-
! ligious organizations is because they
honestly believe that through the or
ganization to which they belong they
will be most likely to gain the good
which they so earnestly desire. Since,
then, through Christian Science
prayer. so many people have found
health, contentment and peace, it is
plain that sooner or later, every
thinking person will desire to know
how to pray as Christian Science
teaches.
The Real Creation
Another subject about which there
is great confusion of belief, is the
subject of creation. There is perhaps
no subject connected with religion, or
mentioned in the Bible, about which
there is greater misunderstanding than
there is about creation. 1t is surpris
ing how many people there are who
do not even know that there are two
accounts of the creation in the Bible.
The first account is TO be found in the
first chapter of Genesis, and extends
down to and includes the third verse
of the second chapter. Beginning
with the fourth verse of the second
chapter. there follows another ac-
count that is wholly different from the
first.
In the first account, we are told that
God created the universe, and that
everything made by Him was good.
and, lastly, that He created man, in
His image, and after His own like
ness, and that he was good; while in
the second account, we have the al
legory about God coming down to
earth, and mixing up dust and calling
it man. Then follows the story of
Adam and Eve, and the Garden of
Eden, and we are told that a deep
sleep fell upon Adam, and that then
sin appeared, and that brother mur-
dered brother. and from that day to
this that the man made of dust has
been a sinner and has been at enmity
with God.
Ev~a.f
account of the creation as the spiritual
and real creation and upon this foun-
dation and basis it builds. Religious
teachers throughout the centuries
have enormously regarded the Adam
man as being the real man made in
the image and likeness of God, and
vet the Bible nowhere says so. The
Bible nowhere says that. the Adam
man was made in Gods image or like
ness. That statement was made con-
corning the real man described in an
account of the real creation. And re-
ligious teachers have Vainly striven to
make the wisdom and the love of God
fit the creation Of a sinner.
Such a doctrine as that is impos-
sibIe. 1t dishonors God, and degrades
man. It makes God responsible for
all of the sin and all of the misery
from the beginning of time, and the
best proof that it is not true is That 1t
has never delivered those VINO peHeV-
ed it from evil.
How perfectly the name mortal
man" fits him. Have you ever thought
of it? Mortal-mort-death, for that is
what the word means. death-man,
having a death-body and death
mind! Does any one believe that God
ever created Il death man or gave him
n death mind or a death-body? And
Is IL not plain that so long as people
conceive OF themselves rs being NOR
tails. or the mortal. or death-m man, so
long will they continue to remain in
ma rtnership with death. Christian
Science makes plain that men and
women can be emancipated from that
enemy when they shall have learned
the truth of their own being, and of
their own true relationship TO God.
Christian Science teaches that man
&c inst what the Bible says he is; that
he is spiritual; that God made him
in His own image and after His own
iiI,eness. that He made him perfect,
and that what God made perfect has
never possessed the capacity to oe-
come imperfect.
Christian Science is tine only system
of teaching, either religious or secular,
tbat even makes an attempt to ex-
nIain The difference between man and
The Adam-nan, and Christian Science
does explain il and make IL perfectly
main by pointing out that the Adam
mantle dust -man-the mortal or
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