The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-03-05

your being; the grandeur of your
outlook, you would let error kill itself.
Error comes to you for life. and you
give 1t all the life it has"
How Jesus Healed the Sick.
We are now ready to consider one
OF the most important paragraphs in
Science and Health. for 1t may be said
to contain the pearl Of great price,"
II tells us in the simplest Of words
how Jesus healed the sick.
| Jesus beheld In Science the perfect
man. who appeared to him where sim
ming mortal man appears to mortals.
In this perfect man the Saviour saw
Gods own likeness. aud this correct
view of man heated the sick. Thus
Jesus taught that the Kingdom Of God
Is intact, universal, and that man il
pure and holy" tScience and Health.
lip. A7G).
This then must have been the under
standing which Jesus impaired to his
disciples. which enabled them to iupli-
cate his wonderful healing work. This
is the understanding which today Is
/ eHApIlUk SuItSNltn SNleIiNStS " WI
front. undismayed. the appearance of
disease aud vice, and To rescue the
unfortunates in bondage thereto.
Locking Beyond Sense Testimony.
At this point some Of you may ask,
l"Does this mean that l must look be-
lyond that which / see with my eyes
and hear with my ears. il | would
find the truth OF being? 1t means
Just that! And should we not rejoice
In such a revelation II the five
material senses report the actual
truth OF being, 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 evil
dences Of injustice, lawlessness, dis
ease. disturbances OF nature, poverty
and death.-a sorry picture indeed.
and very far from that creation which
was pronounced by its Creator VERY
good" 30 We want these evils to
constitute the truth OF being? II you
find yourself In the throes Of a night
mare, what greater Joy and peace can
come than the awakening conscious
ness that after all 1t was only n
dream!
Was ever n message moro vital to
n stricken individual. nation. or race
than the understanding brought by
Christian Science, that materially
with its host Of discords and Ills Is
but another name for the Adam dream
and that 1t is possible for suffering
mortals to awaken therefrom? For
wa may waken from a dream, hut we
can never waken from fact! The
night OF materiaism has seemed long,
and the sleep has seemed deep and
troubled: but thanks be to God. We
|are slowly awakening! Al least the
dream IN losing for NJ it's terror, and
hearing the voice OF Truth chcerily
bidding us to be not afraid, and to
Judge not according to the appearance,
we are enabled more and more To look
past the shadows. past the seeming
Ito the Kingdom of Mind, where all Is
harmony and all In law.
You are not asked TO take the word
of Christian Scientists for all this.
You are urged rather to take the text
book, study It with open heart and
detachable thought. and prove for
yourself the truth Of these statements.
| Evil Unreal.
The following Illustration may help
to throw more light on the Christian
Scientists attitude toward SIN and dis
ease. Before studying Christian Sci
encc, and while n member OF an ortho-
dox church, was asked by n frined
To fuse my religion ns he expressed
IL. In the effort to reclaim q brother
seemingly enslaved by drink. / &c.
cepted the commission and proceeded
to "use my feligion." I found my sub
ject'in nybst repentant mood. and ht
agreed almost tearfuliy with my ring
Ing Condemnation OF his evil ways.
asked him X he did not realize tn,
depth to which he had fallen, how
wicked he wasy--nnd how terrible wal
that eviL~yy6wer to which he had sub
mitted. Yes. he realized 1t all. blu
Ievit had Ibeenf made so real and ~
powerfvFto Vim that even the hope o
divine delvierance, with which l II
naliy endeavored to inspire him. was o
mo avail, and he sank even deeper II
the mire Of sin.
Let us now consider another pic
ture: A slave to false appetite i
brought to one endeavoring to be |
scientific Christian, or a Christian
him no bad man. no perpetrator OF Sin
but victim Of sin. He sees behint
the fleshly appearance the man
Gods creating. who Is not sinner
who has no pleasure In sin and n,
sinful desires, but who Is eternall'
pure and free. He therefore bids tn
sufferer to awaken from this mcsmer
ism. lie shows him that the bondag
which to him has seemed real ant
, powerful, is a lie; for. Az Jesus said
there IL no truth in the devil, or evil
, and he In assured that God has givel
man dominion over all error. And II
+. thousands upon thousands OF case
where these good tidings have BEEF
I preached. have the victims Of wroni
! desire risen in the glory OF a new
! found manhood. And through the SAM
: process. In numberless instances, ha
= the sick man been awakened from hi
nightmare OF invalidism and pain.
vi Gods Word Never Fails.
i But" say you, christian Scienc
I treatment In not always effectual.' Al
n t,,x u Ia . 10, ('hriafian SCipnc