The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1918-04-10

i is the rutting off Of the old man
and the putting on OF the new, through
] .he application ol the teachings OF
/ Christian Science, that constitutes the
healing The thoughts of sickness a.. !
SIN are ruled out of human conscious p
ness by the und Outstanding and decldr-
at on Of the perfection OF that wihcl
! God has made.
DECEPTION OF COUNTERFEIT
There are those who feel that il is
almost sacrilege 10 dispose OF
material man as lust the counterfe I
OF The spiritual. perfect man. This
material man is 50 wonderfully made.
! they say, how can il be possible that
God did not make him? They feel that
ii is dshonoring God to disown the
material man as Hi product.
Material man does seem to bn won
dertully made, but YOU will remember
that in the many better baby shows
that have been prevalent about the
country, though the best and most
perfect babies are entered, il is some
times imrossiblc to find ono that is
one hundred per cent perfect II ma
terial man is the creation OF God. il is
not honoring God very much to have
TO admit that more than ninety five
per cent OF His creation could be
vastly improved upon in the very be
ginning
Others maintain that God made man
serfect, and gave him his own free
will to do good or evil but man chose
to do evil, and the evil brought sick
moss and other troubles upon him: or
that man unkonwingly transgressed
Gods laws, but thta God is in no way
responsible, because had man chosen
to do right all would have been we'll
Suppose an architect put up a build
ing and it fell down; would that be the
fault Of tn" building? Would you
blame the building? 1t would only
fall because it was so con gtructed tha
It could fall Obviously, if God made
man so he could fall and he fell. it
wolld be Gods fault, not mans.
RIGHTEOUSNESS is LIBERTY
IL should be stated also, that those
who hold to the belief that God made
man free to do either good or evil |
are holding belief that is directly |
contrary to Jesus teaching He said
Il came down from heaven, not to do |
m.ne own will but the viii Of him that |
sent me. Il can OF mine own self do /
"Whosoeyer shall do the |
will of God, the same is my brother,
and my sister, and mother" The |
Master everywhere taught that to do |
nj g.
he told those who believed on him |
that if they continued in his word
It's truth would make them freo; and
hat whatsoever committed sin was In
bondage to sin II has ever been
bondage to be sick and sinful, and to
stop being Sick and sinful is to enter
into the glorious liberty of the
children of God"
When the Ma ter first appeared in
he synagogue, he announced his mis-
sion by appropriatlng to himself that
passage from the sixty-flr chapter
Of Isaiah. which reads, The Spirit of
he Lord God is upon me; because the
Lord hath anOinted me to preach good
idlngs unto the meek he hath sent
I
proclaim liberty to the captiyes, and
he opening OF the prison TO them that
ire bound" He who continually MAIN
aimed that he could only do Gods
viii and not his own came proclaim
ng liberty Man wa3 never given his
rec will to do right or wrong for
I has always been liberty to do good
md bondage to do evil.
THE CHRIST
There are those who mistakenly |
that Christian Science denies {
he divinity of the Christ The divinity
,f the Christ is an unassa liable fact !
which is accepted and taught from
over to cover OF the Christian Science
eXtbOod. Science and Health with II
Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy;
nut II We are to acCect the teaching OF |
he Bible on the subject of the Christ,
70 shall have to admit that the Christ
ad been manifested in some degree
Z various times both before and since
he full and perfect manifestation of
he Christ which Jesus presented
Isaiah had some consciousness OF
he Christ when he said, The Spirit
( the Lord God is upon me-" for if
10 had not Jesus could not have
ppronrated his exact words in stat
lg his mission as the Christ Abraham
lw the Christ in some measure when
e became conscious OF the King OF b
righteousness" of whom the Bible d
avs that he had neither beginning y
/ days. nor end of life but made b
ke unto the Son of Cod And we b
re told that Moses and the children :,
f Israel were conscious of the Christ n
lr the Bible says, they did ali eat u
le same spiritual meat and did s
IL drink the same spiritual drink
" they drank of that spiritual Rock
lat followed them; and that Rock
as Christ" On page 1873 of Science
nd Health Mrs Eddy says, Abraham, "
icob Moses, and the prophets caught d
Iorious glimpsas of the Messiah, or
hrist, which baptized these seers in
lie divine nature, the essence Of Love
a fact which may be verified by .
lreful study of the Scriptures.
It is certain that Jesus followers
lew they were manifesting the Christ
some degree or Paul would not have
lid to the Corinthians, we have the
ind of Christi nor would he have
njoined the Philippians to let that
lind be in them which was also In
hrist Jesus" In addition to this Pau
ays, THE Spirit itself beareth wit
ess withour spirit, that we are the
nildren Of God; and if children, then