The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-02-26


truly to know Him who forgiyeth
al thine iniquities. who healeth all
;hy diseases.
This new and higher sense of God
which christ Jesus gave to the
lwCrld was accepted and demonstrat-
Ell by spiritually minded men and
women for nearly three hundred
years in the same way that our Mas
ter demonstrated it.-that IS. by
healing the sick and the SHINING. and
even raising the dead, and this is j
ln.atter of historical record. His fol-
Ilcwers understood his teachings and
his revelation of the true nature of
God sufficiently to demonstrate them.
lin 6 degree. even as he did, and this
demonstration alone is true prayer.
AS Mrs. Eddy has declared in her
book Science and Health with Key
to the Scriptures" tp. 20): Jesus
l. established no rituafistie
worship. He knew that men can
be baptized, partake of the Euchar-
list. observe the Sabbath.
lr,ake long prayers, and yet be SEN
sual and sinful"
AS the ages progressed and man
Ikind's thought Of God was further
lrenoved from the convincing demon
ls:rations of Christ Jesus and the
learly Christians, that understanding
lof God which had accomplished the
lhealins of sin and sickness again
became obscured by creeds and re-
llieious ceremonies to which the hui
Imam mind is ever turning, and as
healing the sick on a scientific and
Iinfallible basis without a correct un-
delstanding of God was impossible,
this part of the seamless dress be
came more and more relegated tc
material healing systems, and prayer
became more a matter of words and
ceremony than of conscious or spir-
itual understanding Religion again
needed the cry of Isaiah to purge II
OF its rites and ceremonies and tt
rninstate true monotheism 1t agaii
needed the selflessness and humil
ity of the mighty Nazarene to de
. clare Gcd with power and to caus'
= the blind to see and the lepers Il
= be cleansed 1t again needed th'
: fearlessness of a Paul to preaci
l Christ to all men with signs fol
flowing +" The fact is. that it has al
vays been an easy matter for tn
, human mind to believe in some cree
y with its outward forms and to de
% pend on this belief for eternal sal
u yation in some inscrutable way, bu
: II has always been a much more dill
y ficult matter for humanity TO see
= and understand pure christianity !
- wholly spiritual way and to liv
- anG demonstrate this understandin
!" INCREASINGLY in daily life.
1t is evident from many of Jesus
- sayings that he knew that the trut
which he taught about God would /
hidden from the werld for time bt
Is would again appear as the Spir
Is of truth guiding men into all righ
~ eousness. This Spirit of truth,
n " hich was discovered by Mrs. Edd
,n IN the year 1866. revealed to her Il
lv truth about God and His relation
n. snip to His creation, and also Shove
in to her what the understanding
he this truth would do here and NJ
IL for humanity After receiving tn
ms revelation she searched the Scri
lures for many years, and as 81
le. searched. the exact and seienti1
by knowledge of God came more clear
by anu mere concisely to her waitil
he thought, and she knew God throus
nd spiritual sense and in spite of the eN
le- deGee of material sense, relying +
nd her conclusions wholly on reason al
Zip revelation. not at all on human VI
is dom or prevalent theolcsical view
OF Mrs. Eddy has given to Us in b
his textbook. Science and Health wi
,gy Key to the Scriptures" a compile
Ire and final statement of her reHelati
m. for all to understand and to pra
Of tice This book is read at all chr
lie. tian Science services in coniuncti
,ry with the Bible, and is also studi
daily by Christian Scientists,
his many eases with the result tn
On while studying this book they ha
er- been healed of lifelong diseases a
ing sinful habits. Through the study
na- this book Christian Scientists ha
sht also been enabled To heal Others
nre proportion TO their understanding
en- its teachings about God As a resi-
hty OF this revelation. Mrs, Eddy undeul