The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-06-18

they are not His making, and hence
! have never been made. AS you deny
: their reality and assert what you
, know to be Gods perfection, these
, conditions will disappear; and
though you will still have a material
body to deal with, it will be a better
body, made better and stronger
through the application of Gods law
of health.
1t is the putting OFF of the old
man and the putting on of the new,
through the application of the teach
ings of Christian Science, that con-
stitutes the healing. The thoughts
Of sickness and sin are ruled out of
human consciousness by the under
standing and declaration of the per-
lection of that which God has made.
There are those who feel that 1t Is
almost sacrflege to dispose of ma
terial man as just the counterfeit
of the spiritual, perfect man. This
material man Is so wonderfully
made, they say, how can it be pos
sible that God did not make him?
They feel that 1t is dishonoring God
to disown the material man as His
product.
Material man does seem to be
wonderfully made, but you will re-
member that in many "better
baby shows that have been prevail
ent about the country, though the
best and most perfect babies are en-
tered, 1t is sometimes impossible to
find one that is one hundred per cent
perfect. II material man is the crea-
ton of COD, it Is not honoring God
very much to have to admit that
more than ninety-five per cent of His
creation could be vastly improved
upon in the very beginning.
Others maintain that God made
man perfect, and gave him his own
free will to do good or evil, but
man chose to do evil, and the evil
brought sickness and other troubles
upon him; or that man unknowingly
transgressed Gods laws, but that
God is in no way responsible, be-
cause had man chosen to do right
all would have been we'll.
Suppose an architect put up a
building and it fell down; would that
be the fault of the building? Would
you blame the building? 1t would
only fall because it was so construct
ed that it could fall Obviously, if
God made man so he could fall and
he fell it would be Gods fault, not |
mans.
1t should be stated also, that those
who hold to the belief that God |
made man free to do either good or
evil are holding a belief that is di-
rectly contrary to Jesus teaching.
He said: II came down from heaven, !
not to do mine own will, but the
will of him that sent me-" II can
of mine own self do nothing" who
soever shall do the will of God, the
same is my brother, and my sister,
and mother" The Master every
where taught that to do Gods will
constituted freedom; for he told
those who believed on him that If
they continued in his word its truth
would make them free; and that
committed sin was in
bondage to sin It has ever been
bondage to be sick and sinful, and to
stop being sick and sinful is to enter
into "the glorious liberty of the
of God"
When the Master first appeared
in synagogue, he announced his mis-
sion by apppropriating to himself (
that passage from the sixty-first
chapter of Isaiah which reads, "The 8
Spirit of the Lord God is upon me;
because the Lord hath anointed me
10 preach good tidings unto the
meek; he hath sent me to build up
he brokenhearted, to proclaim lib
srty to the captives, and the opening
Of the prison to them that are
pound" He who continually main
aimed that he could only do Gods
will and not his own, came proclaim
ng liberty. Man was never given
MS free will to do right or wrong,
Tor it has always been liberty to do
good and bondage to do evil
There are those who mistakenly
maintain that Christian Science de-
1ies the divinity of the Christ. The .
divinity of the Christ is an unassail- .
.ble fact which is accepted and {
taught from cover to cover of the
Christian Science textbook, Science
and Health with Key to the Scrip
,ures' by Mrs. Eddy; but IL we are
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IN the subject of the Christ, we shall ]
have to admit that the Christ had
been manifested in some degree at .
various times both before and since
he full and perfect manifestation of
he Christ which Jesus presented. .
Isaiah had some consciousness of
he Christ when he said, "The Spirit
Of the Lord God Is upon me-" for
Il he had not, Jesus could not have
his exact words in stat
ng his mission as the Christ. Abra-
nam saw the Christ in some measure
when he became conscious of the
King of righteousness" of whom
The Bible says that he had neither
beginning of days, nor end Of life;
but made like unto the Son of God"
And we are told that Moses and the
of Israel were conscious Of
The Christ, for the Bible says, they
did all eat the same spiritual meat;
and did all drink the same spiritual
rink; for they drank of the spirit
1al Rock that followed them; and
hat Rock was Christ" On page 333
If Science and Health Mrs. Eddy
says, abraham, Jacob, Moses and
he prophets caught glorious ,
ylimpses of the Messiah, Of Christ, ,