Arizona republican., 1918-04-02

would be able to heal. Accordingly, :, l studied everything I could find. l from mental therapeutics to Chris ton Science, and as I studied I saw that all were alike except one, anu that one was Christian Science.
 Christian Science the Remedy
 Christian Science was the only one that had so large q grasp of the all- ness of God as to refuse to Gishonor Him by admitting that anything that He had made was imperfect or could become imperfect; was sick when He created it, or had within it any God given quality that could allow it to become sick. It was the only one in which there was no compromise with matter, and which dared to deny the material world, the flesh, and the devil, because they were contrary to His creative perfection; the only one that dared to deny the actual exist ence of anything unlike God, and therefore the only one that offered assurance of healing after human hope and human will. and human req son had failed.
 Do you suppose that when I saw all this I accepted Christian Science? Noi Instead, for two years I read ~ Ci lHIilS SOuiu dSdlIlSl II (and it was at a time when there was much criticism), in the hope of convincing myself that it was not true, for I saw that the spirituality oI Christian Science would not mix with my profession, and I did not want to give up the practice of medicine. But the more read against it, the more I became convinced of its truth, and here I am. It does heal, and 1t does save. just as it did in Jesus time. We need to know some thing about God, however, in order to appropriate the healing. and throughout the entire teaching of | Christian Science the necessity for | spiritual understanding in order that We may know Gods Jaw is constantly insisted upon.
 Spiritual Understanding Necessary
 A study Of the lives of the most prominent characters in the Bible l reveals the fact that their closeness | to God was the result of their deep and constant meditation of Him, and that a. knowledge of God has always been Essential to the demonstration of His power over material condi- 1 tions. We are prone to think that | Abraham and Moses, Elijah and ] Elisha, John the Baptist and Jesus, 1 were arbitrarily chosen of God to full fill a particular mission with no ref | erence to their acquired spiritual understanding, and that their ability i to demonstrate Gods power was a | special gift bestowed upon them for the occasion. It is true that they were chosen of God for the wnrk which they did, but in exactly the same way that great and good men in our own time have been chosen of God, through the consciousness and manifestation of those qualities which enabled them to do that which 1 needed to be done.
 On page 4sS of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures Mrs. Eddy has pointed out that the verb believe as used in the Bible has the significance of understanding, and she further explains that the Scrip lures often appear in our common version to approve and endorse belief
 when they mean to enforce the neces- sity of understanding"
 Throughout the entire teaching of the gospels both Jesus and his disc,-
 ples constantly asserted that salva-
 tion was to come as a result of be-
 
 in God. Paul says, Without faith il
 is impossible to please Him: for he
 that cometh to God must believe that
 he is, and that he is a rewarder oi
 them that diligently seek him." We
 are constantly enjoined in the Scrip
 lures to believe and to have faith
 but we have accepted these words ir
 the sense of their most shallow
 meaning, and have thought that al
 that was required of us was to tacitly believe and we should receive all tha'
 Christianity has to offeE.
 The Greek words for believe an( faith are from the same Greek root a word which means conviction O truth" And to be convinced of truti means to know, to understand truth Our dictionaries give this deepel meaning as the one to be used in religious sense, but our everyday us of the word believe in the sense O giving credence to, and of the wor, l faith in something of the same sens
 as the word hope, tends to obscur the larger meaning of the words. r Blind Belief Insufficient
 . In the eleventh chapter of tn . epistle to the Hebrews, the writer , after defining faith as the evidenc
 of things not seen," gives an exampl
 of how the word is to be used whel 1 he says, Through faith we under stand that the worlds were frame s by the word of God" Now it woul g manifestly be impossible for us | I perceive that the worlds were frame V by the word of God through any e thing less than spiritual understand t ing.
 . In the third chapter of Acts, Petel 1, in his sermon on the healing of tn h lame man, describes his method b | saying, And His (Christ Jesus c name through faith in his name hat . made this man strong" Here tn y statement is made that healing cam - about through faith, spiritual under
 standing of the name of Jesus, tn a Christ, and the word name as used = the Scriptures had a deeper signifi I canoe than it has in our moder h times. The idea of a name in tn c Hebrew language and the Hebre' r mind was not merely that of soun y by which an object might be desig = mated, but that of significant terl l. which should really indicate it's qua d ity or nature; so that Peters state t ment meant that the manifestation ( - Jesus nature, the Christ, or God 1T perfect man, which he had reveale e to them and which they understoo .e had made this man whole. IT - Master said in his prayer to h 7 Father. q have manifested thy nan
 unto the men which thou gavest II
 out of the world" and what did u
 Master do but to manifest God