Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-02-22

Church of Christ, Scientist, must b
ready to answer, not theoretically bu
practically, the all-impOrtant question
"What is Christian Science able to d
for suffering humanity9"
The answer which it makes to thi
question is, "Christian Science heal
sickness and sin. 1t breaks the band
of appetite and passion. 1t lifts tn,
burden of fear and eare.1
Through the ministry of Christian
Science, many thousands have beer
raised from beds of unspeakable pain
Others have been rescued from livei
of immortality and vice. Others, still
have been freed from the bondage OF
poverty and incompetency. Now, il
is possible that some of these persons
would have recovered from their sick
ness under other forms of treatment
or without any treatment. It is prob
able that some would have been re-
formed by different means and that
others would have become prosperous
in another way. But 1t is fact that
many of them were utterly hopeless
and apparently helpless in their misery
until Christian Science showed them
way out of it.
How were these people healed of
diseases which, in many instances,
had baffled the physicians They were
healed by the Christ, Truth, which
takes away the sin and heals the
sickness of the world. They were
healed by reason of the knowledge
that sickness is not natural to Gods
man, that it is no part of mans true
nature. They have found that the
fear of sickness and of other forms of
evil is unnecessary because every
phase of evil is temporal and destruct-
ible. And, best of all, they have
gained through Christian Science a
more perfect understanding of God.
They have learned that God is as the
Scriptures declare, Life, Truth, Spirit,
Love. God was revealed to Moses as
I Am, and surely Am can be moth
ing less than the one self-existent and
eternal Being or Life. In the thirty
second chapter of Deuteronomy God
is referred to as "a God of truth, and
without iniquity, just and right is he."
Jesus said "God Spirit" or, as the
revised version of the New Testa
ment puts it, "God Us Spirit: and they
that worship him must worship him in
spirit and in truth" John, the be-
loved disciple of Jesus, said: FHe that
Ioveth not knoweth not God; for God
Is love-
Christian Science also defines God
as infinite, changeless, perfect, good.
God, good, being infinite, is imitless
in capacity, presence, power, and
Christian Science further declares
God to be infinite Mind, OF divine
Principle. But when using Principle
rs a name for God, Christian Scientists
10 not think Of something abstract.
Mrs. Eddy, in Science and Health,
seldom refers to God as Principle un-
ess she combines it with the word
Love. She says, for example, "infinite
Principle, :" or divine Love-" and that
Principle which is synonymous with
livine Love must be loving, tender, I
md merciful as well as exact, inYari |
ble, and impartial. So Principle as
understood in Christian Science is
cen to be the one ever present, ever
operative, conscious, living, loving
Principle of being-the only source,
'rigin, cause, or creator of all that
eally exists. The only basis or
oundation of all reality.
CAUSE AND EFFECT
Since Eothing is more certain than
hat effect must be like cause, Chris
ian Science shows that God, the only
'ause, Being Spirit, or Mind, His
inverse must be spiritual or mental.
tod's universe must, then, be uni
erse of thought 1t must consist of
houghts or ideas that are Godlike-
piritual, good, harmonious, eternal,
ivine. This infinite universe of God
r divine Mind, existing here and now,
nd embracing all creation, necessarily
lcludes man as the image or likeness
f God, Spirit, Mind. Thus we see
hat the present reality of man is in
is mental or spiritual identity. This