East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-12-15
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE DISCUSSED
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: base hy resting upon Spirit instea
OF matter" Since the physical sens,
cannot testify either to accuracy {
10 enduring permanence, IL follow
that the reasoning OF the human min
which is based upon tho uncertai
Q testimony OF these physical senses eau
= not furnish a satisfactory hasis upo
a which 10 build either religious. politi
o cal, or healing systems. ON the othe
S hand. IL religion. healing and gov
5 ernment are laid in Mind.--in Rrin
, eiplc, Truth or God--they will thel
reflect the unlimited and inexsaust
! ihle resources OF mfinit Mind, provide,
always that this Mind Is scientificall,
understood and demonstrated.
Unrcaiity OF Evil
Christian Science has been crltizeG
for its declaration that evil and matter
are not real Religion and material
medicine, however, have throughout
their respective histories been en-
gagged in trying to overcome the af-
! flictions of the one and to escape the
Z limitations of the other. and thus
prove their pnreality. II, evil and
sickness be real. the effort to escape
their r0vages. either through religion
&
Christian science declares definitely
that evil and disease are not real, that
they do not and cannot belong 10
Gods creation. that they are without
basis in Principle or Truth, hence
there is neither truth nor reality in
them. Christian Science then immed-
lately proceeds TO prove their unreality
by destroying them in individual con-
seiousness, or through individual heal
ing.
Existing systems of religion and
medicine represent and encourage the
belief that evil, disease. discord, and
death are real; that they belong TO the
natural order of things. These same
systems. then try to overcome and de-
story the evils thus held to be ligiti-
mate and natural. If these evils are
natural, and real. why try
70 destroy them? On the other hand,
{ these discordant manifestations are
not real, normal, and legitimate, let |
he facts presented by Christian Sci |
,nce in regard to the unreality of mat |
er-evil. sickness, discord, death, and |
iestruction-be approached and mea- |
ured honestly and justly; and above 1
III. with the desire to be consistent |
Iot only in conclusions reached, but |
n premises as well.
The fact that Christian Science
eals the sick and reconstructs human
bought is evidence in itself that this
cience has appeared in response to
he worlds needs. and in response
kewise to the underlying desires of
mankind for the attainment of har-
lony and good
Underlying Desire for Good
In the early years OF our western
md. when there still remained what
as known as the prairie country
-avelers were at time treated to an '
nusual and interesting sight. FIRE.
lently one might see acres and acres | {
I fertile land from which sprang n ]
zuriant growth of golden sunflowers.
he traveller accustomed to finding {
sermons in stones" might have no. t
ced that these sunflowers stood al t
avs with their faces toward the sun.
the morning their faces We're, up b
Used to the rising sun; then, turning l
owly during the day, evening found t
EN- with their faces toward the west I
i'll facing the sun. 1t might have 8
zen that heavy black storm clouds a
ing over the face of the sun, yet the S
1wers always stood with their faces
7
In after years. when the beneficent g
aehings of Christian Science began n
unfold the eternal realities of being a
ese flowers were to me an illustra- g
IN of how mankind have always il
,od with their faces turned toward ii
ID. whether they have known it or lie
thus evincing an underlying. W
ndamental desire for harmony and OF
odness. Because of lack of edu- IL
lion or instruction in pure Chris es
nifty. the human or mortal mind has W
,epted it's own misconceptions of 10
d. its own neutrality-suspicious. OF di
IN, and its own misstatements of M
irit or Substance as real. Out of ge
. abysmal depth of this unreality al
S risen a mist or a thick black cloud st
false knowledge. -
Thus mankind has found themsel-
the innocent victims of miscon- "
we'd existence, expressing itself in -
(, sickness, sorrow, and death. 1t =
the mission and province of Chris =
n Science to clear away and to des- =
" these misconceptions concerning, -
d, these misinterpretations relating g
man, and these misstatements =
out Substance, together with the =
sickness, sorrow, death, and de- =
uction which follow in the wake of =
$ nisconceived existence. 1t is the =
-ther happy mission and province of =
ristian Science to restore to man =
i'd the true reflection or image and =
eness of God, and the true under =
nding of the nature and character =
Causation. =
The Heard
Il is not surprising nor strange, then =
II there should be found in the Pre- -
% of Science and Health with Key =
the Scriptures" (p. viii. which is =
; textbook of Christian Science, =
itten by Mary Baker Eddy, the voice =
a herald crying: The time for =
mixers has come Truth, independ- =
of doctrines and me-honored =
stems, knocks at the portal Of hu- =
nifty. Contentment with the past -
] the cold conventionality of mater =
ism are crumbling away. Ignor- nl
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