Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-05-22

OF sin, sickness, sorrow and death, will
be wiped out.
Christian Science does not deny that
from the standpoint of material sense
sin, disease and death seem very real
but it reveals the Christ way of super.
ceding this false material sense testi.
mony with the evidence of spiritual
sense. To the human sense of sight as
one looks down railway track he oh.
serves a point at which the rails seem
to meet. This, however, is but an an.
pearance to finite sense and is due TO
the fact that the human sense of sioht
Is limited Furthermore, it is NOT a
real condition external to consciousness.
but is a purely mental experience. In
TINS, as in numerous other instances. we
nave learned to "iudge not according
TO the appearance, but rather to de-
pend upon Cur understanding of the
truth about the matter In the ease
or Jalrus daughter, when, to material
sense, every evidence of death was an.
parent the Savior denied this evidence
saying, The maid is not dead, but
sleepeth. 1t was the Master 5 under.
standing Of Life as God and man as
God s image and likeness that made
possible and logical this denial of
aeath, Paul says, "denying mgodli.
ness and worldly lusts, we should live
sooerly, rlghteously, and goldy, in this
present world. " 1t is the Masters 5
logic and the logic Of Paul that Mrs.
EDDY has followed in reaching the con.
clusions she has given to the world in
Science and Health.
Christian Science does not teach ns
TO Ignore evil, disease and death but
teaches us that they are conditions
CT the carnal or mortal mind. tbe moth.
ihgness OF which ID made apparent in
the degree that we let that mind be in
us which was also in Christ Jesus. Even
as pupils in mathematics are not tauph
TO ignore mistakes but to correct them.
so IN Christian Science we are not
taught to ignore discordant conditions.
out to correct them. This correction is
made possible through knowledge of
uod and man as His image and like.
ness. ''''
Our Master taught and practisod
spiritual healing. Coupled with His
commands to preach the gospel was the
to heal the sick and His dis.
clPIes were obedient. He plainly
laught that his works were TO be re.
Peated by His followers. He said
', lie that believeth on Me- the works
mat do shall he do also; and preotor
works than htese shall he do: becorse
! go unto my Father" Paul healed tbo
srh and raised the dead. He beoled
himself of the sting of viper. Tnr
lnree hundred years thereafter the heal.
.n9g works Of Christ Jesus were con.
Iinned' The vision of the HEALING
hrlst then gradually became dimmed
,urough adherence to creed and doomo
ina the healing sense departed VIII, |
me N'dlscovery of the Christ Science
)y Mary Baker Eddy in 1866, began n
Restitution work, - which Is n rein'
statement of "primitive Cbristioritv
lnhI its lost element Of healing
Ihurch Manual, page ~, Since Mrs.
,,,Ii, auqn discovery of Christian Science,
VI HuVeieSS lnNalids have
'eeh heaIed, the sorrowing comforted
'hd sinners regenerated through tbc
application Of this new.old Truth, and
tlll the restoration work pors on.
Christian Science does NOT teacb tbo.
whoever dies merely commits mortal
rt0G but teaches in accordance
,lth the scriptures that "'the wages of I
III IS death and that with the over.
ohing OF sin, death itself will disnn.
ear Our brother asks Glow do onr
hrlStlan Science friends expect to get
yerlasstmg life'' They believe, AS tbe 4
ireot Master taught, that "Tbis Is Gfe \
ternaI that they might know thee
ne only true God, and Jesus Christ
nom Thou has sent. They under.
'anI' therefore, that it is not throngb X
cam but through u knowledge Of CAD
nd His Christ that eternal Iife is TO he
aimed. NV )" W We
one who really understands Christian
ylSnee 4. never attacks it, for rightly
nl!erstoGd it is both reasonable anI
'riphral, ''O'o anu
49,. F. ELMO ROBINSON N
l,t,lStlan Science Committee on pnb.
Icatlon for Oregon.