Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-12-11

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Science does these things. There il
no mystery about Christian Scienc'
healing, nor is il difficult to under
stand. 1t can be stated without any
reservation whatever that every per
son who is willing to do so may learn
how to heal sickness and to destroy
the desire to sin for himself and
others through Christian Science.
Many Different Religious
Beliefs.
II is said that there are more than
two hundred different kinds of the
Christian religion alone, not to men,
ton the hundreds of other forms of
religions that are not Christian. II is
. fact that people do entertain widely
differing religious beliefs. In many
instances the differences are irrecon-
cilable, ana yet every one believes
with all the sincerity OF which he is
capable that his own particular beliefs
are true. II must be conceded that,
in the main, all people are equally
honest and equally sincere in their
religious beliefs. The only reason
why they are grouped together in
different forms of religion is because
they honestly believe that through
their own particular form of religion
they will find the good which they so
earnestly desire.
AS one considers the subject of re-
ligion from this broad viewpoint it
becomes entirely plain that most Of
the people IN the world are believing
as their religion many things that are
not true.
Every one will recognize not only
the desirability, but the necessity, of
exchanging false and erroneous be-
hefs about religious matters for posi-
live truth.
True religion consists of spiritual
truth, and not of erroneous beliefs;
hence il follows that ones religion is
limited to the amount of spiritual
ruth he knows, and that erroneous
religious beliefs are only so many de-
!lsaof-s-,that serve no other purpose
than - obstruct spiritual growth.
Christian Science aims to destroy
erroneous religious beliefs by substi-
tuting knowledge of truth in place
thereof, and to destroy out of the hui
man mind all evil qualities by plant
ing good qualities in their stead. 1t
wages relentless warfare against all
wrong mental qualities. 1t seeks to
substitute love in place Of hate, I'M
selfshness in place of selfshness,
honesty in place OF dishonesty, and
truth in place Of error. II lays ire
nendcuS emphasis upon the necessity
for bringing into captivity every |
thought to the obedience of Christ,
I'll. Cor. x, 81 as the Bible commands.
II shows that the cause of all disease
and sin is mental, and not physical,
and that both sickness and sin are de-
stroyed by the evangelization of the
human mentality with truth and love.
1t teaches without any reservation
whatever that the truth taught and
Dracticed by Jesus, when understood
and applied, is sufficient without any
drugs or any material means to heal
the sick and regenerate the sinner,
and Christian Scientists everywhere
are engaged daily in demonstrating
and proving this to be true.
Every student Of religion should
begin to give heed to what the Bible
teaches concerning the importance Of
ISoling to the mental rather than to
lhe physical for deliverance from hu-
man discord. We read in Romans
viii, g. 7, ITO be carnally minded is
death, bot to be spiritually minded is
life and peace. Because the carnal
mind is enmity AGAINST God; for i is
not subject to the law Of God, neither
indeed, can be-" Again in Philippians
ii, s, it is said, 'Let this mind be in
you, which was also in Christ Jesus"
and in Romans xii, 2, BE ye trans
formed by the renewing Of your
mind"
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