Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-05-01

self the robes of self-satisfaction and
maintains that there is no spiritual
truth outside his own beliefs, he is
not likely to progress. He should
remember that Jesus proved that
there is enough spiritual truth in ex-
istence that can be taught to and un-
derstood by human beings to enable
them to heal the sick and raise the
dead, and no one should be satisfied
until he has attained to this under
standing and demonstration.
True religion consists of spiritual
truth, and not Of erroneous beliefs
hence it follows that ones religion
is limited to the amount of spiritual
truth he knows, and that erroneous
religious beliefs are only so many
delusions that serve no other purpose
than to obstruct spiritual growth.
Moreover, it is plain that since re-
ligion in its true sense is spiritual
truth, it necessarily follows that real
religion and real science are one and
the same, for truth whenever and
wherever found is capable of proof
| by demonstration. Hence the term,
Christian Science, is perfectly correct,
| for it is a statement of the spiritual
truth composing the Christian re-
ligion, and, as such, it may be proved
by demonstration in healing sickness
and destroying sin.
The trouble with most of us has
been that we have believed errone-
ously without knowing it. In my own
case it was not until Christian Sci
ence came to me and taught me the
difference between spiritual truth
and erroneous human belief that T
learned how to dissect my own be-
liefs. No one could be more certain
of the correctness of his religious be-
liefs than was of mine at that time.
| had been believing honestly and
sincerely many things that l found
could not possibly be true. Many
scales began to fall from my eyes,
and | then commenced to learn and
experience for the first time the real
significance of the words used by
Jesus in the eighth chapter of John,
when he said, "Ye shall know the
truth and the truth shall make you
free"
What Christian Science Seeks to Ac-
cOmplish.
Christian Science aims to destroy
erroneous religious beliefs by substi-
tuting a knowledge of truth in place
thereof, and to destroy out of the
human mind all evil qualities by
planting good qualities in their stead.
1t wages relentless warfare against
all wrong mental qualities. 1t seeks
to substitute love in place Of hate,
unselfishness in place of selfishness,
honesty in place of dishonesty, and
truth in place of error. 1t lays tre-
mendous emphasis upon the necessity
for bringing into captivity every
thought to the obedience of Christ"
(II Cor. 10:5), as the Bible COM
mands. 1t shows that the cause of
all disease and sin is mental, and not
physical, and that both sickness and
sin are destroyed by the evangelical
tion of the human mentality with
truth and love. 1t teaches without
any reservation whatever that the
truth taught and practiced by Jesus,
when understood and applied, is suf-
ficient without drugs or any material
means to heal the sick and regenerate
the sinner, and Christian Scientists
everywhere are engaged daily in |
demonstrating and proving this to be |
true.
Every student of religion should
begin to give heed to what the Bible
teaches concerning the importance of
ooking to the mental rather than to
he physical for deliverance from hui
nan discord. We read in Romans
,iii 6, T. ITO be carna'ly minded is
leath; but to be spiritually minded
S life and peace. Because the carnal
mind is enmity against God; for it is
lot subject to the law of God, neither,
indeed, can be-" Again in Philippe
ms ii. 5 it is SAID, Let this mind be
n you which was also in Christ
esus;" and in Romans xii. 2, "Be
e transformed by the renewing of
our mind"
These significant statements from
he Scriptures leave no room for
oubt as to the cause of sin, disease
nd death, or their cure. The carnal
nind is nothing more nor less than
he unregenerated human mind. 1t
) the human mind in its natural
tate, when filled with hatred, self
shness, deceit, dishonesty, and other