Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1915-11-17

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OF the divine rishts to lie. liberty,
health. happiness. and holiness, OF
completeness.
This fact about the real man once
being admitted. Il is obvious that
what sick and shining humanity needs
Is to awaken to the true status Of
man. to learn TO identity man not
with matter. but with the expression
OF Mind. IAfe. and Love. In tho last
analysis the salvation Of man con-
sists In realizing the perfection OF God
and Of the real man. and not In at
tempting to make man over again,
The teaching OF Christian Science be-
gins and ends with perfect God and
perfect man.
Now to bring this teaching TO It's
practical test. let the one who turns
to Christian Science under the stress
OF a particular problem ask himself.
What do I think OF ity Man Is "a
thinking being. and what he thinks
determines not only his mental and
moral condition. but also his physical
condition as we'll. Is he turning to
Christian Science for physical heal
ing. for spiritual consolation. for re-
lease from any one Of the slaveries
to which humanity can become sub
|uectf Then let him look to his
thinking. Let him know the truth
and the truth will make him free.
The truth will tell him what Is true.
real, and essential about his condi-
tion. and what is untrue. unreal. and
superfuous. Christian Science, as
the special voice OF Truth to this
age, reveals TO humanity the law Of
God. which insures harmony when II
Is obeyed. Man being thinking be-
ing. there must be mental acQuies-
cence on his part before he can be
AFFLICTED with evil. II is part OF the
practical work Of Christian Science
to teach mankind how to guard
against the admission OF evil. or II
II has once been admitted. how to
reject It with Truth. and then be free
from II.
Law Of Inheritance
The mistaken concept OF God as
the creator OF evil naturally leads to
the supposition that He is also the
author OF evil-producing laws. Among
such laws none Is more dreaded than
the altogether unnatural one styling
itself the law OF heredity. II is a
welcome sign OF the times that at
present public opinion lays less stress
upon this supposed law than II did
q few years ago. Ancestry Is not so
much used as scapegoat as 1t was.
yet still the silent. the seemingly
mysterious, and from the point Of
| view of scientific Christianity wholly
unfounded law OF heridity still haras-
ses humanity into mental. moral.
and physical ailments OF one kind or
another and paves the way for So
called incurable conditions.
We read in the eighteenth chapter
OF Ezekiel that God rebuked the use
OF the common saying, THE fathers
have eaten sour grapes. and the child
ren's teeth are set on edge" The
teaching OF Christian Science on this
subject is set forth in its textbook In
the words: I'm Science man Is the
offspring OF Spirit. The beautiful.
good, and pure constitute his ances-
try" Up. 63). The belief In hereditary
law would establish the doctrine that
all things take place by inevitable
necessity. that man has no control
over his own fate, even through re-
sort to a higher power. since such
law would be fixed by that high
er power. and 1t would not be rea-
sonable to expect God to reverse His
own decisions. But the application
OF the test OF reality provided by
Christian Science clearly shows that
no law OF evil can be divine.
Mans only inheritance is the In
heritance of good. II the so-called
law Of inheritance, productive OF sin
and sickness, was real. 1t would have
to resemble God and His idea;" II
would have to partake OF the divine
nature. But sin and sickness are un-
like God and His idea;" therefore
no law productive OF sin and sick
ness could by any stretch OF reason
ing proceed from God and thus be-
come necessary, inevitable, or ines
capable. The so-called law OF evil
inheritance can be broken with i'm
punity, because 1t is not law at
all, but only pretense OF law. AS
belief 1T is altogether unlawful,
illegitimate, abnormal, untrue, non
essential, and unreal.