East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-01-29


our little friend, the germ, and to the
germ theory. / refer now to the bad
THE wicked germ. We are told that
there are good germs, but they do not
seem to be popular. The bad germ is
the only one we ever hear much about.
lDo you know that IL there were one
iiota OF truth in the present day teach
ing and theory about the germ there
would not be a man. woman or child
there this EVENING" II the germ
Theory were scientific and had the
sanction of God this old world would
have been depopuIated almost before
IL was populated.
Consider for a moment the prepos-
ferrous idea of loving God, loving
compassionate. omnipotent Father
Saving to His children:-"Children'
am sorry to have to disillusion you,
| but what Moses wrote in the book OF
t1enesls about man being made in the
Image and likeness of God and haV-
ling dominion over all the earth and
what the Bible teaches from cover TO
cover about the loving kindness and
lprotecting care of the Father and His
love and compassion for His childreh'
lis all a myth. You must hereafter
place no confidence in God. instead
OF being your protector and ever pres
ent help in trouble / am just the op-
posite. My purpose is to accomplish
the complete undoing of my cniIdreh'
and to assist me in my task nave
created the wicked germ. have
made him the deadly enemy Of all my
loved ones. have given him infinite
~ more power and intelligence than
have given my children and nave
pIaced him in everything you eat
drink handle or see. The germ is in
deed the chosen of the Father, ana
YOU. my children, are his prey he
has explicit instructions from me 10
accomplish your destruction ana
have endowed him with the power and
Intelligence to carry out this purpose.
tJe shares omnipotence with me white
vou children, are abiectly helpless IN
his presence. 1t is my purpose that
sooner or later each of you snali Iali
victim to his prowess.
That picture, my friends. Is not
what might be called beautful one
Ia IT? Yet it is not overdrawn IN tne
least particular. I submit that the
teachings Of the germ theorist com
pletely eliminate God or any idea OF
cod as necessary to the creation OF
salvation of man. Infinitely more 10
he avoided than the germ is the rear
and dread of it as well as the mental
nicture of disease and the fear OF II
engendered by reading these ialse
theories. and by reading so-calleo
health talks and descriptions OF dis
eases appearing 50 profusely IN the
press of the country at the present
time.
II was not many years ago that
chr;stisn Science was severely crid-
zad for its teaching that spiritual
healing is as essential a part Oh u
Christian religion as preaching, not
the fact that almost ~.
the injunction of Jesus to
preach the gospel was coupled win win
Inc command to heal the sick. The
claim of Christian Science fhat u,e
works of Jesus were examples to all
throughout all time Oh "iiot
NAV be accomplished through an uhr
of God and HIS Ia" Wa
mot with most emphatic opposlloh-
To claim the ability to heal the SIZE
az did Jesus was called heresy- Anu
now today. what do We flho
most every religious denomlIlat'oli
calling itself Christian teaches' III
it's belief in heailng as
necessary part of Christianity Sohle
religious denominations are even nov
to establish wlthlh tnei
,Eurch a system of healing as a pa'
of their denomlnationsl teach.hss'
And in all their advancement alohs
his line of light you may De sure
hat Christian Science wishes hs SIS
er religions Godspeed.
But as pioneers in this age IN tne
healing work as taught andd emoh-
,trated by Christ Jesus, Christian Sei-
,nce, speaking from a half century ot
,xperience, warns all who wonIo un ]
lertake to emulate the Master IN ms
york of healing the sick, TO pohoeI
veil his words To those who woulu J
lonart from the path marked out oy
resus and reiterated in the teachings
,f Christian Science. 1t urges eau
ion To attempt to build on duai
cundation of matter and spirit 10
,oy, allegiance in the slightest de-
rec 10 material methods, to recoS-
i've aught but the one Mind. TO oe-
,opd on any but God and His law,
,,eans ship-wreck and disaster. There q
!, b,,. one way and that is the way (
argbt in Christian Science. the way (
Nv which every disease known to c
mankind has been healed. the way
W which the healing work is being
today in nearly every
,ity. town and hamlet IN the civilized
world as it was twenty centuries ago
:, tba hills of Galilee. II is the way
w which Christian science has healed
nd is healing organic as well as
functional diseases: such diseases as !
intemperances cancer !
unoor curvature of the spine, ORGAN !
:, heart disease. locomotor ataSia. !
of children. diabetes. /
,all-stones, brights disease, blindness I
ieafness apoplexy, appendicitis ana I
III the ills to which flesh has been I
considered heir.
T1,c Discoveaer and Founder OF I
Christian Science I
The mental process Of complete I
involves unwindine !
from the snarls of mortal I
ignorance: it involves individual puri-