Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-12-30

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they do as Jesus did, that is, pray
throught the Christ, rather than tt
Christ. Every good thought of Christ
ian Scientists in their continual pray
ers must reflect the Christ, Trutr, fol
! the Christ is the active idea of the
Spirit, which destroys error and in
harmony and brings an answer to thci,
prayers.
The reverence which Christian Scien
ee bestows upon the ideal Christ, and
upon Jesus, The highest human example
of the perfect man, is impressive aid
practical. Christian Science teaches
that the hIist is made manifest thru
cur improved human thoughts, tara
those qualities of affection, humility,
lfaithfullness, patience, compassion, tenn
perance, morality, which are stepping
stones out of matter into Spirit. HUI
man thoughts must be improved, they
must become wise and constructive, and
these successive rounds Of the ladder
must be mounted step by step before
! SNAhIAStN ANNAAtN itdSlANhs ~ 40
added that the textbook of CHRISTIAN
Science. "Scleaee and Health with hey
to the Scriptures" by Mary Eddy Bak-
er, mentions Jesus name 434 separate
times and Christ 205 additional times.
! Indeed Mrs. Eddy s veneration of Jesus
has been most evident to all who have
known her, and long ago she established
a rule incorporated in the bylaws of
the Mother Church that "careless conf
lparison or irreverent reference to Christ
Jesus is abnormal in a Christian Seic1.t-
ist, and is prohibited. - manuel, Art.
VIII, See. 81 The gentle, patient, CON.
passionate, selfless Saviour will through
Christian Science become to posterity
mightier and more practical example,
because Christian Science is helping to
explain what Jesus meant wheat ne
said, "That which is born of the flesh
is flesh; and that which is born of the
Spirit is spirit" Science and Health.
page 20, says, "The divinity Of tie
Christ was made manifest in the hi
manity of Jesus
The Bible.
1t is not to be wondered at that a
fleshly sense has during the eiial
ages crept into the Bible and partially
obscured the original divinely inspired
meaning of the Scriptures. The same
scientific separation between the spirit
ual Christ and the personality of Jesus,
which must be made when reading a. ]
bout Christ Jesus, naturally must be de-
finitely made between Spirit and mat. !
ter when reading the Bible. The heal !,
ing and saving currents of true spiritu.
ality will be discerned on every page,
and the dear old Bible, which to so
MANY has been an ancient writing |
thought by them to be now inconsistent !
and impracticable, will be found to be
the same inspired Word of God, and it
will be on every mans table, his chief
guide to eternal life.
Science and Health and Mrs. Eddy. |
The key which unlocks the inspired
of this guide is rapidly at.
tanning its rightful place in the thots
of men, Mrs. Eddy named this key
F." Science and Health with Key to the
+" This inspired book re-
quires when reading it the same definite
separation between Spirit and Matter
to be made as does the Bible; then it
will be understood and this understand
ing will heal the reader, as it has done
in inumerable cases. Some familiar
words and terms used in Science and
Health may at first seem incongrous,
and this is as Mrs. Eddy has explained,
because she found in material language
a great scarcity of words to express
the right spiritual idea, but had to use
such words as were available.
A wrong sense has often been taken
Of the true meaning of Christ Jesus and
Of the Bible. This is also the case with
Science and Health with Key to the
Scriptures for such is the perversity ,
and tenacity of the material mind, and
# this material and personal Judgement
mas influenced thought toward Sciencel
and Health, it is not surprising that it
mas done likewise toward Mrs Eddy her ,
'elf. Prejudice, ignorance, and dis
rust however, give way before the I
facts. Those so erroneously influenced,
who afterwards come to know Mrs. Ed
ly, invariably experience total change :
If feeling. How true are her written
words, "It is self evident that the dis s
'overer of an eternal truth cannot be
temporal fraud miscellany, p. 143. :
Salvation.
And now, my mriends, for complete !
EXPOSITION of Christian Science, we al t
Ways recommend the inquirer to read
he Christian Science textbook Science {
md Health with Key to the Scriptures. {
This book can be obtained at any
Science reading room. Science c
md Health should be read at first v
lowly, and, if read with humble, \
and thirsting desire to know t
ne Truth the accurate statements Lere-
II. will quickly appeal he re.svn AID v
old the interest, until the reader n
.radually discovers for hiIns.... the di-
inc Principle and rules of right think G
ng which heal and save. Heaven is @
ot c region or locality to be entered G
physically, but it is stae of purified /
Consciousness, a safe Of spiritual under
tanding, salvation from sin, sickness
nd. death. Death, devil, hell, sin, dis
ase, and disaster are the experincs OF
the old man, which st. Paul insists