The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-03-13

MAO written a DOCK showing you an
me how to find IL. This guide-book II
called Science and Health with Key
to the Scriptures, and IL the text
book which Christian Scientists use
in connection with their manual OF
THE MANNER OF TRUTHS
! APPEARING
/ A Christian Scientist loves to tel
the story Of the discovery OF Christian
| Science. for the manner of Truth
/ appearing to Mary Baker Eddy Is in a
/ measure the way Of it's appearing 70
/ every hungering and receptive heart
4 There is nothing of the spectacular
| or the emotional In this coming OF
| Truth. II is the natural, orderly un-
| folding in the receptive human con-
! seriousness of the facts OF being, and
| it comes to us, as angels have ever
! come to troubled humanity, when in
! the quiet sanctuary of earnest long
| ings" CSclence and Health, p. 1b) we
! silence self and listen to the still
small voice" of spiritual sense.
MRS. EDDY'S HEALING
From her childhood Mrs. Eddy pos
| sessed a deeply religious nature. She
was also a keen, analytical thinker
and long before the light of Christian
Science dawned upon her thought she
was an earnest seeker after truth.
! She sought II in medicine and in eV-
| cry theory advanced by the human
mind at that time, but from no human
source could she find help when, in
| the year 1865, she seemed near tho
| door of death. Then it was she called
for her Bible. Many another SUFFERER
| has done this, especially when the last
enemy appears not far distant from
the bed Of pain. But Mary Baker Eddy
did not open her Bible to fnd therein
comforting passages relating to the
after-life. She sought in its sacred
pages the promise OF healing, the
promise of deliverance through reli-
ance on divine power, and she turned
to this verse in the ninth chapter Of
And, behold, they brought to him
man sick OF the palsy, lying, on
bed: and Jesus seeing their faith said
unto the sick of the palsy: Son, be OF
good cheer; thy sins be forgiven
thee"
Speaking of this experience in one
of her writings, Mrs. Eddy says that
as she read. the healing Truth dawned
upon her sense, and she was enabled
to rise from her supposed death-bed
with n realization OF health and
strength. (See Miscellaneous Writ
ingsr p. 24)
THE HEALING OF THE SICK OF
THE PALSY
How many times has the Christian
world read this simple story of the
Healing of the sick OF the palsy and
yet missed the vital import of it's
message! Let us consider the verses
following that to which Mrs. Eddy
And, behold, certain of the scribes
said within themselves, This man
blasphemeth. And Jesus knowing
their thoughts said, Wherefore think
we evil in your hearts? For whether
is easier, TO say, Thy sins be for
given thee; or to say, Arise, and
walk? But that ye may know that
the Son of man hath power on earth
to forgive sins, (then saith he to the
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bed, and go unto thine house. And he
arose, and departed to his house"
In the light ofMrss Eddy's teachings
we can discern plainly that the heal
ing of sin and the healing of sickness
were one and the same to the Master.
Do you not believe that 1t is possible
for sinner TO be instantaneouslyI
awakened from the nightmare OF sin,
IL through the crust Of his scared
can break a CLEAN OF the
Then you must concede that the sick
man can be as speedily restored, and
by the same method,-that is, IL you
accept Jesus statement in the pass
age from Matthew, For whether Is
easier, to say, Thy sins be forgiven
thee; or to say, Arise, and walk?'
o THE DIsCOVERBR A WOMAN
Occasionally one hears this ques-I
ton asked, why should a woman
have been the dtscoverer Of an eter-l
nal TRUTH" The most effective an
swer to this query may be obtained
Baker Eddy" by sibyl Wilbur. This
work is an authentic record Of Mrs.
Eddys career, and Il may be found in
most public Libraries and in every
Christian Science free reading-rOom.
When you read in the Life OF Mrs.
Eddy of her infinite patience during
the trying and discouraging formative
periods in the establishment of the
cause OF Christian Science, when you
read of her prosecutions, how She was
ridiculed and reviled and urged to
drop the nonsense, as II was called,
you will see that the leader OF this
movement had to be woman, had
to possess the instinct of the mother
who clings to her child when all 9th
ers forsake It; had to be endued with
the fortitude and faith and persever-
ance which are the inherent posses
sions of a spiritually-mtnded woman
shall not attempt to speak for
any man other than myself, but
shall tell you very frankly why l did
not discover Christian Science. 1t was
because / did not know enough; was
not possessed of suh1cient SPIRITUAL
minde dness, because / did not search |
the Scriptures, yearn and pray for
light as did this devout woman. In
fact, until beginning the study OF
Christian Science, 1T was not my habit |
to indulge in any deep thinking along |
religious lines. / accepted the inner
tied doctrinal teachings of my church |
very much as l accepted my given |
name and features, with no question
ing and little analysis. You have |
heard probably of the old fisherman
who was asked how he passed the |
the frozen waters precluded the possi-I
bility OF plying his trade. We'll" said
he, sometimes we set home and 4
think, and sometimes we just set" Is
10 not painfully true that this de-
scribes the mental status of many Of
Christian Science bids us awake from
this iethargy and accept the divine
Invitation chrontcled in Isaiah, "Come
now, and Jet US reason together8 said
the Lord"
HOW TO READ SCIENCE AND
HEALTH
On the first page of the Preface of
Science and Health we are told that
the time for, thinkers has come.
And as only those can understand this
mighty revelation who think rightly
Or are willing to be taught so to do, IL Il
not infrequently follows that one
Science and Health; in fact have
read IL many times, but can get
from It," Yes, one might go
10 the sagebrush deserts OF our west
srn country and SOW seed and then
SOW more seed, and never have a
lower. II one Is wise he will not SOW
Inttl In some measure he has pre-
pared the soil. There Is irrigating to
Be done and the obstructive sage
brush must be rooted out Is IL not
you who may have read and
IAN find nothing that your mental
areas are numbered with the stubborn
Frowths Of bias and criticism and
abstraction, or parehed with the
alkali OF a purely material
Ruskin gives the following useful
n the full meaning OF a book. He
layB that we should study books:
First, with a desire to be taught by
hem, and to enter into their thoughts.
TO enter into theirs, observe; not to
ind your own expressed by them. If /