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

knowledge of good and evil, thou
shalt not eat OF II, for In the day that
thou eatest thUeot thou shalt surely
die
when we look at che material world
about us Me find that the evidence
/ furnished by tho oorpoIoal senses
would tend TO strengthen the belief
that man was created materially as
/ described In the second chapter of
Genesis, instead OF spiritually as de-
scribed In the first chapter We are
confronted on every side With the ma
terial concept of creation and its dire
results. We note the present assumed
limitations of human life, the seeming
aggrossiveness OF evil, the evidences Oi
discord, factions, wars, pestllence, the
multiplicity on diseases. This false
knowledge of good and evil, this belief
that man and the universe are both
material and spiritual, this assumption
that evil Is real-th Bible was writ
ten TO dlsproye The great prophets
lahofed 10 prove that mans happiness
consists ia knowing good and good
only Christ Jesus came into the
world to prove by his mighty works
the porleetness of creation, and to
show men that they had been cruelty
duped and deceived by a distorted
view OF God and His universe 10 ths
end Mrs Eddy labored and loved,
again proving that men and women
are. the children OF God, and that ell
the paraphornalia of a material world
and man created from dust is an UNI
substantial dream. as Elusive as the
mirage that tempts the weary traveller,
False Testimony Of corporeal Senses.
Upon what evidence is based the
proposition OF material creation, the
theory that man is material as well as
spiritual, subject TO SIM disease, and
annihiation? The only evidence is
the testimony of the corporeal senses
testimony which we find TO be erro-
neous and misleading. no the sense
OF vision objects at a distance appear
smaller than they really are; the VEN
triloquist mislcads the sense of hear
ing; the sense Of feeling is easily de.
ceived The sun apparently rises In
the east and rev0lvea about the earth
The earth seems to be the center Of
the stellar universe, and this error
known as the Ptolemaic theory of the
universe darkened the minds Of men
for centuries. Men were prosecuted
and imprisoned because they denied it,
Now, no matter how much corporeal
sense-evidence piles up TO prove an
erroneous proposition, one demonstra-
tion OF the true proposition destroys
the whole mass OF false evil
dence. a few Illustrations VIII
prove the truth OF this statement.
Suppose thousands OF instances we're
cited which corrob0fated the proposi-
zion that all crows were black This
would be true if no white crow exist
ed But the discovery of one white
crow would Immediately disproye the
proposition that all crows were black,
no matter how many thousands Of
black crows could be discovered For
centuries men believed the earth to be
flat. One voyage of Columbus explod-
ed that fallacy and all the geogra.
phies and all the literature written on
that basis were Of necessity consigned
TO the junk heap. Great inventions
have in like manner overthroWn pre-
vious sense conclusions and won for
the race higher and clearer concepts.
That a wire could transmit a message
was believed to be impossible Yet
Morse disprOved that notion when he
sent the first telegraph message,
"What hath God wrought between Bal-
timcre and Washington That a mes.
sage could be sent without a wire Was
another advance which startled the
world a few years ago. This fact dis
proved all previous false sense conclu-
sions that such feat was impossible
Sin Disease and Death Not Necessary.
Throughout the ages men, with but
few exceptions, have believed in the
supposed necessity for sin disease,
and death They have reasoned that,
since b their experience and observa-
ton these evils have operated without
hindrance they arc therefore. iloyl-
table and incoptrovertib,e. no greater
tallacy, no more cruel deception, was
ever perpetrated upon the human race.
Study the words and acts oil che great
Master Christ Jesus Did he accept
the verdict that men are mortal, the
victims OF disease and SIM Did he
submit to the HAT That death III ineyi-
table? by no means. fio thrust aside
these human illusions and proved for
all time the divine status of mon as
the perfect sons Of God. forever free
from mortal ills One demonstration
of the power OF Mind To heal disease
Is sufficient to prove its possibility for
all men, one demonstration over the
illusion Of death is sufficient to prove
the fallacy OF ,ne last enemy and to
show the nothingness of the greatest
fear that besets men. Jesus destroyed
disease, raised the dead. burst for him.
sell the bonds OF the tomb. aud thus
blazed the way of spiritual freedom
Tor all men. what world of woe and
despair he lifted from the hear,s Of
men by his glorious career, and what
-pnt0Ula gr11TriT 7ifIJf Inspiration Ire gaga
las when he said
~ ann the resurrection. and the
life ne that believeth IN ne though
he were dead yet shall he live: And
whosoever hveth and behoyeth in me
.shall never die Believcsl thou this ?'
with tie record og centuries o. SUI
eering behind ns isn't Il time that we
ceased TO listen to ihe siren voices OF
the material senses, which argue CON
tinually for the reality OF evil and
give earnest heed to Christian Science
which teacheasus the way Christ Jesus
destroyed Sin disease and death?