The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1918-05-06

guage,. adopts the Chinese mode OF
dress. He forgets his American an
tecedents because kept in ignorance
Of his parentage, Some time later
a friend institutes search for him
and locates him: do you know who |
you are?" asks the friend, through |
an interpreter. The young man gives |
his Chinese name. ''That is not your
real name" replies the friend. "Youl
have an English name, for you are
in truth a native born citizen of the
United States" But the other looks |
at his Chinese appearance, accepts
as truth that which he sees and that
which he haS been enormously
taught, and shakes his head uncon-l
vinced. 1t may require not little
patient, persistent effort on the part
of the friend to awaken the mistaken
one to the facts of his case, because
the appearance argues so strongly
against such facts.
And SO it is with us. Victimiged
by the ignorance of the true God
and true man, the true father and
the true son, mortals have accepted
this material Adam-views of creation.
They speak the language Of materi-
ality. They adopt the customs of race Of
Adam in expecting and experiencing
sin, sickness, trouble, imperfection,
old age and death. And when Chris
tian Science, the best friend mortal
man ever had, finds him and says
with infinite compassion: Let me
tell you the truth about yourself
| the truth about your real selfhoOd.
| You are citizen of the kingdom
of Mind. You are in truth Gods
| spiritual creation, whose office is to
express harmony, perfect action, and
unchanging law You are in fact not
I that which you seem to be, but
! the deathless, perfect image of your
| Maker, when this awakening mes
! sage is given, the mortal generally
looks at his mortality accepts as
real and true that which he secs
! with his eyes, and hears with his
| ears, and says with conviction: mo,
you are mistaken. The truth about
man is that he is material, sick,
poVerty-stricken, and what is more,
| he knows it"
Judge Righteous Judgment"
Now 1T is quite evident in both
the cases of the boy in China and
the mortal, that in order to ascertain
the truth of things, he must look
away from the physical appearance,
and discern the fact, rather than
| the seeming. And because he showed
how this could be done, Jesus be.
came the practical Savior and way
shower of humanity. Foretelling the
coming of the saving Christ, Isaiah
wrote, "He shall not judge after the
sight of his eyes, neither reprove aft
er the hearing of his ears but with
righteousness shall be judge" Then
! Jesus, epitomizing his mighty mes
sage in unmistakable language said,
Judge not according to the appear
ance, but judge righteous Judgment ;"
and Christian Science today is max
ing available this vital but long over
looked Christian teaching.
Christian Science Healing.
Let me read from the text book
few of the instructions there given
as to the treatment of disease, which
instructions are in strict accord with
the statement of Jesus just read;
when the first symptoms of di-
sease appear, dispute the testimony
of material sense with divine science.
Let your higher sense of justice de-
stroy the false process Of mortal
opinions which you name law, and
then you will not be confined to a
sick-room nor laid upon a bed of sui
fering, in payment of the last farth
ing, the last penalty demanded by
error. Suffer no claim of sin or sick
ness to grow upon the thought. Dis
miss it with an abiding conviction
that it is illigitimate, because you
know that God is no more the author
of sickness than He is of sim tSci.
ence and Health, D. S90).
Keep in mind the verify of be-
ing,-that man is the image and like
ness of God, in whom all being is
| painless and permanent. Remember
that mans perfection is real and un-
| impeachable, whereas imperfection
is blameworthy, unreal, and is not
/ brought about by divine Love" (Sci-
ence and Health, p. 414).
Rise in the conscious strength of
the spirit of truth to overthrow the
plea of mortal mind, alias matter,
arrayed against the supremacy of
Spirit. Then, when thou art deliver
ed to the judgment of Truth, Christ,
the judge will say, Thou art
whole!'" (Science and Health PIP.
390-391).
1t should be plainly discerned at
this point that there is a great diff
ference between this system of heal
ing and methods of suggestion, hypno-
tism the so-called Immanual move
ment and others. In the simile of the
American boy in China, it can be-
seen that he did not need to will
himself to be an American; did not
need to suggest that he was
an American; he merely had
to look away from the material
evidence, and realize and know that
in truth he was an American. And
SO through Christian knowing, not
carnal-minded suggestion, the sick
and weary ones of earth are learning
to lift their eyes from the Adam-mist,
from the material view of creation,
to the harmonious facts of being,
that creation which a loving Father
has pronounced very good"
Treatment Of Sin.
Let us now consider a Christian
Scientists treatment of sin. Sup
pose man victimized by drink, or