The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1917-04-30

ing; participation In secular politics
and the admission of many nomina
Christians into tho church unpreparel
10 live and prove the life OF Christ
Thus IL came about that the human
mind could Qfo longer reflect the divin,
healing power which disappeared ant
did not roappear-eXcept Ia few IN
stances-for fifteen centuries. when
the Science OF Ckrist's Christianity
was again given to he world by Mary
Baker Eddy.
Christian Healing Not Special Dis
pensaton.
When Christians no longer obeyed
the Founder of Christianity TO do the
works that he did. theologians invent
ed "a convenient theory to excuse this
failure Because healing had ceased
the demonstrations Of Jesus and his
disciples were explained as a miracu.
lous Intervention of Providence, set.
ting aside OF law, merely for the pur-
pose of convincing the unbelieving
world that the divine favor attended
the Master and his immediate follow.
ers; and when that had been shown
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the affairs OF men was withdrawn.
This theory utterly failed to compre-
hend that Gods law is unchangng. It
did not take into account that the So
called material laws, which the spirit
ual law annulled, were not Gods laws
but the man-made laws of human be-
lief-cruel and relentless which pro-
duced all the sorrow, disease and
death men have suffered. through
out the centuries. This theory failed
to comprehend that God is no respoc-
ter OF persons, that His divine saw
ing grace is for all His children-no
matter what their condition or envi
rorment 1t failed to account for the
spiritual power of the prophets and
patriarchs as recorded in the Old Tes-
lament, and Of men throughout the
ages whenever they have been spirit
ually minded enough TO know and ap
ply divine law Now that Christian
Science again follows the Master in
doing his mighty works, this theory OF
the miraculous Intervention of ProYi-
dence has failed TO account for its sue
cess in healing every disease known
to materia medica and IN overcoming
every wrong condition, no matter how
desperate to human sense that condi.
ton may be.
The Discoversr and Founder Of Chris
tan Science.
Christian Science was discovered by
Mary Baker Eddy in the year 1866
Recovery from an injury-the result
Of an accident-through the spiritual
understanding of a passage in Mat.
thew's gospel was the falling apple
which gave her the clue to the unfold
ment Of divine, scientific Christianity
The time was propitious for new
spiritual advance of the race. A great
war had just terminated which de-
stroyed in this nation the bondage Of
human servitude. Great reformations
in religion had taken place; the grip
of hard and dogmatic creeds was loos-
ening and the heart OF humanity was
being stirred by a clearer sense Of the
Fatherhood of God and the brother
hood Of man. A more liberal spirit
was permeating politics. literature,
and religion. Ideas of social service
were taking form and education of
the masses had become firmly estab-
lished in the more advanced civilized
nations.
But mems thoughts, while uplifted
still followed in the line OF matter
and mortality. The veil Of matter,
the pail of the carnal mind darkened
the vision Of humanity Men were
more prone to compare material
things with material things than
to compare spiritual things with
spiritual things. The mission Of Mary
Baker Eddy was to pierce with spirit
ual vision the darkness Of mortal be-
lief, and give again to the world the
spiritual Christianity OF Christ Jesus.
Her work was to reinstate in human
consciousness the science OF all sci
cnces,-the Science of Mind, exact and
logical, based on the supremacy OF
Spirit, which, when grasped by the in
diyidual, would free him from the pen
altios Of mortal belief and lead him
into conscious unity with his God
Mrs Eddy was well fitted for her
great work. OF Puritan ancestry she
was reared in the atmosphere of a
Christian home From childhood she
had been deeply religious She was a
profound student of the Bible and
meditated upon its truths. She had a
knowledge of Greek and Hebrew. She
had sounded the depths of scholastic
theology and found it made
quate to give the bread of life. She
had tested the various systems OF
medicine and healing and found them
wanting, She investigated spiritualism
and hypnotism and cast them aside,
because they failed TO enlighten the
thought She had been tried in the
crucible OF affliction knew the power
ty of mortal existence-its pains, its
false pleasures, its illusions-and she
Knew the hunger Of the human heart
to know its God
After her healing she withdrew from
society for three years, studied the
Scriptures, and searched for the scien-
tific basis Of Christianity In 1875 she
gave to the world the textbook OF
Christian Science, Science and Health
with Key to the Scriptures" a book
which has done more to revolutionize
the thoughts OF men regarding the
truths Of the Bible than any other book
that has ever been written. Referring
TO the Biblical basis of her work. Mrs
Eddy said in Science and Health. p.
1876. which ! will read
Il have sci forth Christian Science
and its application to the treatment