Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-09-22
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
Lecture By William W. Porter, C. s.
B. of New York at The Court House,
in Wauseon September Third, 1916.
Continued from last week

4TOIu last week
false consciousness concerning God
and the universe?
Was it not this very false sense or
false consciousness that Christ Jesus
himself denounced and unmasked
when he declared to those who are re-
yelling his. teachings "Why do ye not
understand my speech, even because
ye cannot hear my words. Ye are of
your father, the devil. He was a muir
derer from the beginning; and abode
not in the truth, because there is no
truth in him?
Paul designated this murderer
from the beginning" as ''the carnai
mind," which he Immediately defines
as "enmity towards God.'
Mrs. Eddy .characterizes this same
condition of thought, as mortal mind
and proceeds at once in Christian
Science, to show how it may be over
come and escaped from-not by ignor-
ing its claims or fearing them but
through the recognition and demon
stration of man and the universe
created and forever maintained in
perfect continuity by One Creative
Mind of God.
Objections to Right Idea
Occasionally some people are found
although the number is rapidly dimin-
ishing, who profess to believe that
part of the teachings of Christ Jesus
were intended only for his immediate
followers; that. the perfection which
He inculcated was to be attained at a
future time, in some future state, that
the man of today might not aspire to
such things. Probably the person con-
tending in this way would be perfect
ly satisfied to believe that Christ Jesus
did not mean it for him when he de-
clared: 'The kingdom of heaven is at
hand" Matt. K ~
Indeed such one might be very
well ikened to the little boy who
went with others of his playmates
upon an outing into the country.
All during the day he was observed
apprehensively upon the outer end of
the games, never entering joyously in
to the sports of his fellows. And up
on being asked why he had not gather
ed the wildfiowers and enjoyed him
self with his playmates, he replied
that his mother told him that MORN
/
and look out for snakesi And SO
the little fellow had been looking for
snakes all day.
It would be very possible to do so,
but | am sure you will agree that it
would be tremendously poor policy for
one to go through life looking for
snakes. One would miss thereby the
kingdom of heaven!
True Idea Necessary-A Authorized
All of the teachings of Christ Jesus
point clearly not only to the proprie-
ty, but to the imperative necessity for
gaining a true understanding of God,
and of truly understanding mans un-
ity with. God.
The words of the Master in this con-
nection are clear and conclusive, and
may not misinterpreted in the least
eff ye continue in my words, We
shall know the truth, and the truth
, shall make you free
"This, is life eternal, that they may
know thee"
], And then as though to forever sill
ence the human cavil that it might
be blashemy for man to be Godlike
for man to be as God created maE.
@Be ye perfect, EVEN as your Fa.
ther which is in heaven is perfect.
81 pray not for these alone THAI
5 they all may be one. Even as thor
e and I art one"
: 'fTake my yoke upon you"
/. No one has ever attained greater
a facility of expression through par
r able and metaphor than Jesus, ant
r the selection in this instance is parti
!. cularly appropriate as indicating Hi
t perfect unity or oneness with the Fa
S ther The yoke is made use of to di
vide burden or load between two, 81
: that two may work together as one
The illustration in this instance in
dicating mans unity or oneness witt
, God, whereby mankind, is healed, ant
blessed and its burdens ightened.
Having no other mind, intelligenc
or thought than the One Greatly
Mind or God which he called the Fa
theree he was always thinking God
thoughts. And this was His yoke!
EXISTENCE:
Genesis of Material
:, In the first chapter of Genesis it
, recorded: that God created man il
, His own image and likeness, and pro
!. nonuced good all that He made.
. Later, in the second chapter of thi
= book of Genesis it is recorded tina
= the Lord God made man from the dus
II !, of the ground-and man now becam
a material organism with a soul in
Il side it.
Il No explanation is given, no reasol
= advanced in the Scripture for the ap
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