The Cordova daily times. [volume] (Cordova, Alaska) 1914-1947, 1918-08-17
Christian Science
the Liderat0r OF Mankind
BY JOHN RANDALL DUNN. c. S.

honestly. can not say thal nave
Have you been saved from sickness?'
no." she replied sadly, Il have been
4 terrible sufferer for years. DID
your salvation include deliverance
from heartacbe. from fear, from
worry. from poverty" NO. she
said; Il suppose my salvation was re-
served entirely for the future life.
Jesus Definite Instructions
Is it not strange, this seemingly
universal misunderstanding among
processing Christians regarding the
teachings of Jesus upon this vital
point? Many Christian denominations
unite in teaching the attainment OF
heaven and of spirituality through
death. as we'll as the possibility of an
eternal punishment for those who
have strayed Now the fact Of the
matter is that such notions have alb
solutely no connection with Jesus
teachings Before his coming the
Jews believed that the faithful were
gathered to Abraham's bosom. Jesus
would have brought no new message
had he taught the gaining of heaven
through dying. The Chinese have al
ways believed in an after life. and
even the Indians have chung to a nope
in a happy hunting ground. Let us
examine the instructions given y
Jesus to his students. as recorded in
the tenth chapter OF Matthew: Go
to the lost sheep of the house
OF Israel And as ye go, preach, say
ing. The kingdom OF heaven is at.
hand. Heal the sick, cleanse the lep-
ers. raise the dead. cast out dev Is:
freely have We received. freely give.
Provide neither gold. nor silver. nor
brass in your purses. for
the workman Is worthy of his meat"
The kingdom OF heaven Is a.
hand, In the Christian Science text
book we read that heaven is harmony.
Therefore the message OF the Savior,
which indeed is good tidings OF great
JOY to the bound and afflicted of earth,
IL that harmony. deliverance. saliva
ton are at hand, and are to he real
lied in the proportion that We lift
our thought from the material and lay
hold on the spiritual facts of being.
And let us now see how intensely
practical and available becomes the
salvation taught by Jesus, in the light
OF the teachings OF Christian Science.
Believing Material Testimony
In this connection let us consider
simple illustration. although all ma
terial comparisons are necessarily in
adequate. Suppose at an early age
the son OF an American is taken to
China. Living for years under the
hot sun in the rice fields, the little
fellow becomes tanned like a native.
He speaks the Chinese language,
adopts the Chinese mode OF dress. He
forgets his American antecedents be-
cause kept in ignorance as to his pa
rentage. Some time later friend in
stitutes a search for him and locates
him. do you know who you ars?"
asks a friend, through an interpreter.
The young man gives his Chinese
name. That is not you real name "
replies the friend. You have an Eng
lish name. for you are in truth a
native born citizen of the United
States" But the other looks at his
Chinese appearance. accepts as truth
that which he sees and that which he
has been enormously taught. and
shakes his head unconvinced. 1t may
require not little patient, persistent
effort on the part OF the friend to
awaken the mistaken one to the facts
OF his case. because the appearance
argues so strongly against such facts.
Aud so it is with US. Victimized by
ignorance of the true God and the
true man. the true Father, and the
true son, mortals have accepted this
material, Adam.view OF creation. They
speak the language of materiality.
They adopt the customs of the race
of Adam in expecting and experiencing
sin, sickness. trouble, imperfection,
Iold age and death And when Chris
tian Science. the best friend mortal
man ever had. finds him and says
with infinite compassion, Let me tell
YOU the truth about yourself-the truth
about your real selfhood You are a
citizen of the kingdom of Mind. You
are in truth Gods spiritual creason,
whose office is to express harmony,
perfect action and unchanging law
You are in fact not that which you
seem to be. but the deathless, perfect
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