Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1914-09-24

people believe In a limited God, who
is limited as to His form, dwelling
place, or goodness, they will continue
to suffer from Observation-Disclosures
with respect to life and the duration
thereof, health, strength, mental ca
pacity, success, love, spirituality and
every good thing? Christian Science
makes plain that humanity can hope
to be emancipated from the curse of
limitations i'm any and all of these di-
rections when men and women shall
have given up their false beliefs about
a limited God, and shall have learned
the truth concerning His nature and
character.
Christian Science, therefore pleads
for a rational and demonstrable un-
derstanding of God in place of theo-
retical and speculative beliefs about
Him.
Some day all mankind will recog-
nize the unreasonable service that
Mrs. Eddy has rendered to humanity
by her discovery Of Christian Sci
ence and the establishment of the
Christian Science movement. Through
her teaching she has elevated religi-
GUS understanding from a theoretical
to practical basis. She has taught
the world that it is the mission of re-
ligion to heal people of sickness, sor-
row, unhappiness and fear, as well as
to destroy sin, and has so clearly de-
fined the process by means of which
these results may be accomplished as
to make it possible for every one TO
prove it for himself and thereby to
heal himself and others. Christian
Science is applied Christianity just as
truly as engineering is applied mathe-
MATES. There is no mystery about it,
and when one does his work correctly,
according to its rule, healing and re-
generation must follow.
In the Bible John xx:17) we read
that Jesus said to Mary, "Go to my
brethren, and say unto them, / ascend
unto my Father, and your Father; and
to my God and your God" Also in l
John iii:2, Beloved, now are we the
sons of God, and it doth not yet appear
what we shall be: but we know that,
when he shall appear, we shall be like
him; for we shall see him as he is"
st. Paul also wrote (Romans S:16,17),
"The Spirit itself beareth witness with
our spirit, that we are the children of
God: and if children then heirs; heirs
of God, and joint heirs with Christ"
Christian Science demonstrates the
truth of these inspired statements. 1t
makes available as a present right and
possibility mans inheritance as the
son and heir Of God by showing that
the real man created by God is spirit
ual and not material; that his life,
continuity, intelligence and harmony
are in spirit and not in matter; that
all of his qualities and attributes are
derived from Spirit, and that every
function of the real man is governed
by the divine Mind. Man, therefore,
expresses the divine nature, and hence
he is the image of God, and as such
is perfect and immortal. The material
man is not the likeness Of God, for
matter cannot be the image of Spirit
He is the false concept of man, and
the sin, disease, and death involved in
this false concept will disappear as
false mortal beliefs are dissolved by
truth. The material belief must give
place to the spiritual fact in every
case.
Out of the amplitude of her own
spiritual understanding Mrs. Eddy has
translated into human language the
truth about God and man, and their
relationship; has revealed a perfect
divine Principle that governs man.
kind, and has proved that the truth
taught by Jesus is scientific, and may
be demonstrated today as of old to
deliver the SHINING, sorrowing and
suffering from their oppressors, to set
all mankind free from bondage to evil,
and to establish the kingdom of God
on earth.