Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1919-01-28

erance spurs on our efforts to more
certain achievements.
Prayer
|, Have you ever heard II said tha
! Christian Scientists are prayerles'
reople--that they do not believe II
! prayer? You probably have; | have
!, Do you know what real Christian
Scientist does from the time he awak
ems each day to the time he goes tc
sleep at night? He prays! II there
is any one thing that the Christian
J Scientist finds will bring him peace
health, prosperity and happiness, II
Is prayer, and he finds that the more
he prays the more Of peace and health
and prosperity and happiness are his
Therefore, the more OF these desir.
able qualities or conditions he mani;
tests the more you may be sure he
prays.
have gone to some length in an
endeavor to explain to you the cause
Of humanity's slavery, Its sickness
Its want and woe, and have endeav-
ored. In a way, to make plain to you
humanity's remedy for these ills as
taught in Christian Science. Now, II
may be asked, by what means Is this
remedy to be intelligently and effec-
lively applied? How Is one to start
out to prove that man in Gods i'm
age and likeness is not subject to the
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ness and death, when seemingly all
one knows of existence embraces O
knowledge of these evils? My friends,
you start out by praying, you con-
tinue praying and you never cease
praying.
True prayer is one of understand
ing. II comprises knowledge OF the
facts OF existence, even tho family
discerned at first, and II finds ex-
preston In that mental attitude
which claim for oneself that Cod
bestowed freedom vouchsafed to all
OF Gods children-man's blrthrlght
OF dominion over all the earth-over
all evil and materiality. At the tomb
OF Lazarus Jesus exemplified true
prayer in the statement Father, |
thank thee that thou hast heard me.
And knew that thou nearest me al
ways" whereupon Lazarus, who had
been four days in the tomb, walked
forth.
True prayer engendered from an
earnest, honest longing to be Cod
like rejects as any part of Gods
Kingdom that which has to do with
the Ills of the flesh and proclaims the
omnipotence and omnipresence of the
law OF good-the law of God. Prayer
consists OF knowing the truth about
God and man. When this truth is
mentally understood and consistently
clung to. regardless of the evidence
OF the senses, then will begin to
break thru the clouds of darkness the
CLEANS Of light which presage full
er radiance as the sense dreams are
vanquished, and then will begin a
more comprehensive apprehension of
the meaning of that passage in the
prayer of all prayers, "Thy kingdom
come, thy will be done in earth as IL
is in heaven"
Fruits
Since the coming of Christian Sci
ence to the world religion and ma
terial methods of healing have under
gone some radical and startling
changes. Most of us here can well
how Christian Science was
ridlculed, laughed and scoffed at,
prosecuted and prosecuted for its
evolutionary teaching that matter
,annot create or cure disease and that
all true therapeutics lies in an under
of God, or divine Mind, the
only Cause or Creator. The indigni-
lies which were heaped upon Chris
ian Science for declaring that ma
erlal remedies cannot cure disease
ire too numerous and too distressing
o repeat. What Is the attitude of
he world today in this regard, solely
IS a result OF the teaching of Chris
ian Science? Why, almost the COM
,lete abandonment of the theory that
natter can heal, and this by men,
'ers of profession who but a few
hort years ago proclaimed omnipo-
ent powers for their nostrums. Many J
physicians today tell us they seldom
r. never administer drugs for cura-
i've purposes. They have found out
hat there is no intelligence, power,
Principle or law in drug. They are
the truth of what Mrs. Ed =
y discovered fifty years ago: name
Y, that II is not the drug that heals. e
In the January, 1917, issue of !,
Public Health, monthly publica- 9
ION Of the Michigan State Board OF =
Iealth, publicity is given to state .
lent by DR.. George Goler as follows. =
ReaI-medicine is advancing, so that =
@ have almost arrived at that stage :.
here our patients do not pay us for :
ledicine but for advice, and we ;,
)me of us at any rate-have almost -
)me to the point where we are will y
lg to neglect the medicine altogeth-
:, and our patients have learned that IL
e are able to do them more good $
ithout medicine than with It," 3
Christian Science has distinctly y
roven that there is but one ''preven- :, u
We medicine" and that is the under u u
anding of mans God-given freedom u !,
ON disease as taught in Christian "
,ience. The New York Telegraph, ~
litorially prints the following: "The =, -
screase in the death rate in the u
nited States began when the Chris o. o.
an Scientists started their uplift- ~
g work. Christian Scientists have q q
ade this nation Of optimists. Men -
Id women have got into the habit ~ u
being WE'LL as Oliver Wendell ~ ~