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

the world. from material sense. and e
lay hold upon the things OF splrlt
His teachings show Enthusiastically ina
the second. contains the truth Of be-
Ing and brings to light the spiritua,
real man OF Gods creating. As Pau
clearly states, LAS in Adam all ole
even 50 in Christ shall all be maae
aYE MUST BE BORN AGAIN"
One OF the first Of Jesus teachings
\ was this: Except a man be born
again, he cannot see the kingdom 81
Cod Can there be an atom OF doubt
&c 20 the meaning OF this passage
things, constitutes Gods creation, why
should the Master have declared thar
( in order to see this creation or king
dom, q man must be born aBain|in
/ other words, must gain raolcaIiy
! different point of view2
! Paul makes IL plain that this ma
] terial, deshly sense Of THINGS is not OF
Sods creating Tg when when ne writes tEs sbi n
dren OF the flesh, these are not the
! children OF God" And Jesus drives
home this fact with even greater
SIs9snsIs when 9 he says yo1r fafber
the devil, and the lusts Of your father
| ye will do"
EVIL NOT POWER
Now we have learned that the
| AdRm-view, or material concept, is q
| product of the mist, or mystihcation
from material premises, and we have
further endeavored to show the mist
| to be synonymous with Ignorance.
Thus we arrive at another discovery
fettered OF earth. The devil--that ter
rifyinR element of the whole world 3
religious belief, that monstrous nE-
ment OF the false teaching or the ages
Ia-a Hsarw a
sons of men have vainly striven. and
who apparently has been able to out
wit even the Most High-this devil is
Ignorance, nothing more! is ignor-
ance q great forbidding monstrostty,
with horns. hoofs, and a spear2 Is 1t
q mighty presence, an entity which
has being and action and power? or
is 1t only an absence-the absence or
knowing2 What peace may be ours
when we Danish the belief that there
Is power in evil! With what courage
can we face our problems when we
realize that no subtle, destructive
force is pitted against US, and that
the only power evil can seem to have
is that Which we ourselves bestoW
upon it.
This truth is stated with great
clearness in q letter which Mrs. Eddy
once wrote to a friend, which was
quoted in The Christian Science jour
nal OF August, 1912, in an article en-
titled ''No Evil Power.
y
Of your hope; the INFINITE capacity Of
your being che grandeur of your
outlook, you would let error kill 1T
self. Error comes to you for life, and
you give it all the life IL has"
HOW JESUS HEALED THE SICK
We are now ready to consider one
OF the most important paragraphs IN
Science and Health, for II may be said
TO contain the pearl Of great price.
It tells us in the simplest of words
how Jesus healed the sick.
Jesus beheld in Science the perfect
man, who appeared to him where sin
ming mortal man appears to mortals.
In this perfect man the Saviour saw
Gods own likeness, and this correct
view of man healed the sick. Thus
Jesus taught that the kingdom or God
is intact, universal, and that man iE
pure and holy" .(Science and Health,
p. 476).
This then must have been the un-I
Outstanding which Jesus impaired TO
his disciples, which enabled them 20
duplicate his wonderful healing work
This is the understanding which to
day is enabling Christian Scientists
to confront, undismayed, the appear
ance of disease and vice, and to rescue
the unfortunates in bondage thereto
LOOKING BEYOND SENSE
TESTIMONY
At this point some Of you may ask,
Does this mean that must look be-
yond that which / see with my. eyes
and hear with my ears, LIZ / would md
the truth of betngT' IL means Just
thatl And should we net rejoice in
such a revelation? If the i've material
senses report the actual truth OF be-
ing, there is no good or just God, no
law nor Principle in the universe:
Look about you. What do YOU see
on all sides are evidences of tntus-i
ances of nature. poverty and death-a
sorry picture indeed, and very far
from that creation which was pro
nounced by It's Creator very good"
30 we want these evils to constitute |
the truth of being7 III you ind your
self in the throes Of nightmare,
what greater JOY and peace can come |
than the awakening consciousness
that after all IL was only a dream!
Was ever a message more vital TO /
a stricken individual, nation, or race
than the understanding brought by |
Christian Science, that materlaltty
with its host of discords and ills is
but another name for the Adam
dream and that IL Is possible for sur
fering mortais to awaken theretromE
For we may waksn from Sl = aT Ss..i P PuS
night OF materialism has seemed long, |
and the sleep has seemed deep and /
troubled; but thanks be to God, we |
are slowly awakeninEl At least the |
dream is losing for us it's terror, and
hearing the voice Of Truth cheerily |
bidding US to be not afraid, and 10 |
Judge not according to the appear
apes. We are e ma Sa h9Ts a nSst fbs
seeming, to the kingdom OF Mind, !
where all is harmony and all IS law.
You are not asked to take the word /
Of Christian scientists TOR Al THIS ms
textbook, study IL with open heart and
teachable thought; and prove Tor i
yourself the truth of these state
EVIL. vTwRwAV,
The following illustration may help
y shtHT m Sttitude toward sln and
disease. Before studying Christian /
Science, and while a member OF an Il
orthodox church, / was asked by 3 Il
friend to use my religion" as he ex-
pressed IL, in the EFFORT to reclaim a
brother seemingly enslaved by drink.
1 accepted the commission and pro-
ceeded to ''use my religion. ] found 1
my subject In a most repentRnt mood, i
and ne agreed almost tearfully with /
my ringing condemnation of his evil Il
ways. asked him IL he did not real
lze the depth to which he had fallen,
was that evil power to which he had
submitted. Yes, he realized IL all, but Il
evil had been made 80 real and 80
to him that even the hope OF
finally underworld to inspire him, was
Of no avail. and he sank even deeper
in the mirs of sin.
Let us now consider another pic
ture: A slave to false appatite Is
brought to one endeavorinB 70 be q
scientific Christian, or a Christian
Scientist. The Scientist sees before
him no bad man, no perpetrator OF
SIN, but a victim of sin. He sees be-
hind the fieBhly appearance the man
OF Gods creating, who Is not a sinner, Il
who has no pleasure In sin and no
sinful desires, but who la eternalty /
pure and free. He therefore bids the
sufferer to awaken from this megmer-
Ism. He shows him that the bondage
which to him has seemed real anu
is a lie; for, as Jesus said,
there Is no truth in the devil, or evil;
and he is assured that God has given
man dominion over all error. And in
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