The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-02-02
Thorough and Interesting Exposition of the
Teaching of Mary Baker Eddy Given
at Missoula Theater by Lecturer
From Boston Church
---Burleigh
PresideS.

anything unlike God, and therefore the
only one that offered assurance of
healing after human hope and human
will and human reason had failed.
DO you suppose that when saw all
this I accepted Christian Science? No!
for two years read every
thing / could find against it (and it
was at n timl when there was much
in the hope of convincing
myself that it was not true, for saw
that the spirituality of Christian Sci
ence would not mix with my profess
sion, and did not want to give up the
practice of medicine. But the more
read aaginst it, the more l became
convinced Of it's truth. and here am.
1t does heal, and it does save. just as
it did in Jesus time. We need to
know something about God, however,
in order to appropriate the healing. and
throughout the entire teaching Of
Christian Science the necessity for
spiritual understanding in order that
we may know Gods law is constantly
insisted upon.
\ study Of the lives of the most
prominent characters in the Bible re-
veals the fact that their closeness to
God was the result of their deep and
constant meditation of Him, and that a
Of God has always been es-
sential to the demonstration Of His
power over material conditions We are
prone to think that Abraham and
Moses, Elijah and Elisha, John the
Baptist and Jesus, were arbitrarily
chosen Of God to fulfill particular
mission with no reference to their ac-
CURED spiritual understanding, and
that their ability to demonstrate Gods
power was a special gift bestowed upon
them for the occasion. It is true that
they were chosen Of God for the work
which they did. but in exactly the same
way that great and good men in our
own time have been chosen of God,
through the consciousness and mani
festation of those qualities which en-
be done.
On page 4SS of Science and Health
with Key to the Scriptures Mrs. Eddy
has pointed out that the verb believe
as used in the Bible has the signifi-
canoe of understanding, and she fur
Their explains that 1.-The Scriptures often
appear in our common version to ap-
prove and indorse belief, when they
mean to enforce the necessity of UNI
Throughout the entire teaching of the
gospels both Jesus and his disciples
asserted that salvation was
to come as a result of believing-as a
result Of having faith in God. Paul
says, without faith it is impossible
to please him; for he that cometh to
God must believe that he is, and that
he is a rewarder Of them that diligcnt-
ly seek him." We are constantly en-
joined in the Scriptures to believe and
to have faith. but we have accepted
these words in the sense of their most
shallow meaning, and have thought
that all that was required of us was
to tacitly believe and we should re-
ceive all that Christianity has to Of
fer.
The Greek words for believe and
faith are from the same Greek root.
q word which means conviction of
TRUTH" And to be convinced of truth
means to know. to understand truth.
Our dictionaries give this deeper mean
ing as the one to be used in a religious
sense. but our everyday use OF the
word believe in the sense Of giving
credence to, and of the word faith in
of the same sense as the
word hope, tends to obscure the larger
meaning Of the words.
Paul in the eleventh chapter of his
epistle to the Hebrews. after defining
faith as 1.-The evidence of things not
seen." gives an example Of how the
word is to be used when he says.
Through faith we understand that the
worlds were framed by the word Of
God" Now it would manifestly be i'm
possible for US to perceive that the
worlds were framed by the word of
God" through anything less than spir-
itual understanding.
In the third chapter of Acts. Peter,
in his sermon on the healing of the
lame man, describes his method by
saying. And his Christ Jesus) name
through faith in his name hath made
this man whole" Here the statement
is made that healing came about
through faith, spiritual understanding
Of the name of Jesus. the Christ. and
the word name as used in the Scrip
lures had a deeper significance than
it has in our modern times. The idea
of q name in the Hebrew language
and the Hebrew mind was not merely
that of a sound by which an object
might be designated. but that Of a sig
term which should really in
dicate its quality or nature: SO that
Peters statement meant that the mani.
Of Jesus nature. the Christ.
or Gods perfect man, which he had
revealed to them, and which they un-
derstood, had made this man whole.
The Master said in his prayer to his
father, Il have manifested thy name
unto the men which thou 1avest ms, ont