The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1919-10-08
Delivered By Ezra w. Palmer,
C. S. B., of Board Of Lecture
ship of The Mother Church,
at Guild Hall Monday Night.

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But while men ard ONE have &C.
copied theoretically these eternal at
tributes of God, they have not as a
matter Of fact :ctually understood
them, nor have they ordered their
lives according to them. Christians
have accepted in theory the PROPOSE
ton that God is good and all power
full, but they have lived on the basis
that there are Other powers to be fear
ed, avoided, or propitiated. Now Col
is good, the source Of all power. That
fact eliminates at once and forever
any other power oc goodness. There
fore, if we fear disease are avaricious,
hate our neighbor. CT find pleasure IN
any sin, we are denying the omnipo-
tence of God-no matter what our
pretentions to to contrary may be.
otis in deeds We serve the Master
Words are idle, empty prayer;;
All our Christian life q pretense,
If the deeds are wanting there"
says the well known hymn.
Now, Christian Science corrects this
discrepancy between reality and prac-
tice. No matter what the testimony
of the material senses may be as &c
the seeming reality of evil, Christian
Science holds firmly, logically, and
consistently, to the eternal fact of the
omnipotent goodness of God, which
overrules all power of sickness and sin
The writer of the Apocalypse had a
demonstrable knowledge of this when
he declared: "The Lord God omnip-
otent reigneth."
Christian Science, in teaching re-
lance on the omnipotent goodness of
God, has reinstated primitive Chris
tianity. The great Bible characters
proved that a right understanding OF
God destroys fear, heals disease, and
frees the sinner. There is nothing my
sterious about Christian Science o
its practice. Christian Science is
simple, natural, and scientific. Chris
ton Scientists do not fear disease, be-
cause they know Gcd never sent it and
that a right understanding of Him
completely destroys it; and they see
clearly that it is useless to talk abous
disease, because it has no basis except
human feaz,s and false mental pictures
They do not study medical works be-
cause they do not reason from the
basis of physical man. They see no
value in acquiring knowledge of that
which is not true. They agree with
the statement Of Josh Billings, who is
reported to have SAID, whats the use
OF KNOWN so much if what you know
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HEALING OF SICKNESS NOT THE
ULTIMATE
The healing of the sick by spiritual
means is not an end in itself. Chris
tan Science probes to the bottom all
human ills and destroys their cause
sin. Christian Science is law of ar
Inhalation to everything that retards
or obstructs mans advance Spiritward
even all human beliefs of pleasure and
pain, and brings to light the fact that
Spirit and the spiritual universe, in
GLIDING man, are the only realities of
being. Man lives because God lives,
for mans life is derived from God.
Man does not exist merely to keen
himself in repair or to satisfy his hui
man desires. A mans real business in
life is to know and un*ler stand God,
The function of an automobile is to
carry it's occupants, not to undergo
repairs, although us owner may al
times be. led to believe that the ex.
pense bill is the objective. Repairs
must be made Of course, if the mach
inc does not run. So a man, when
sick or sinful, nus be healed before
he is prepared to realize his sonshir
with God. But the healings of sir
and disease are only the preliminary
steps by which a man comes to SET
that his real duty, mis- ideal, is to un.
derstand God and to live according tt
His eternal laws. Gear Cod" aail
the writer Of Ecclesiastes, "and kee.
his commandments; for this is tn,
whole duty of man" And so a man.
regeneration has merely commence,
when he is healed of physical ills b,
Christian Science. He begins to Sc.
. vision Of a perfect model of man
hood based On mans eternal sonshi!
with God. He finds that a transform
alton Of his character must take plac,
if he is ver to attain this ideal, AM
that his former habits and ideals n,
longer satisfy him. He begins to me:
sure himself by tie model of a per
feet God and perfect man, and to grow
to that perfection Of thought whicl
the Psalmist saw when he said: "
shall be satisfied, when I awake, wit
thy likeness" and this process of re
generation requires the undivided at
tention OF every man.
THE VISION SUPERNAL
Now this vision Of the eternal Faith
erhood Of God and all men and womel
~ sons and daughters Of God, Statistic
% nothing else can the infinite ast'ra
tionsio6 man and transforms him int
the -lfksness Of his Maker. This NJ,