The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-11-10


lecture delivered in Keokuk last
Thursday evening by 5onn w. Door
| ly, c. S. b., of Leeds, England:
What is the salvation which Chris
tan Science offers? Christian Sci
ence is saving men from sin of every
kind, from disease, from hate. from
poverty, from death and indeed from
every Ill ito which flesh Is heic."
This salvation, moreover, is not some
thing to be attained at some future
time and in some inexplicable way,
but it is something that can be ex-
perienced and enjoyed here and now.
Are you in bondage to sin, to hate, 70
sorrow, to disease, to disaster Of any
kind? Christian Science says that it
is possible for you to be rid of these
things at once. Are you overwhelmed
by some so-called incurable disease
that is destroying your happiness or
the happiness of some member of
your family? Christian Science de-
clares that God never made that dis
ease and that you do not therefore
have to submit to it any longer. Are
you laboring under deep sorrow ?
! Christian Science says that there is
infinite comfort for you in the under
standing OF Loves everpresence and
that this understanding will entirely
obliterate from your thought that
sense of sorrow. In fact Christian
Science insists that every condition
that is unlike God and that claims to
bind man through sin, disease, or
death, is wholly abnormal and can
and should be destroyed through the
correct understanding or God and of
Gods law,
The Attainment of Present Salvation.
How then is this salvation to be at
tanned and is it the Starvation which
the scriptures teach? Christian Sci
ence states emphaticalIy that such
salvation can only be attained by
understanding what God is, what
true existence is, the falsity Of NOR
ital existence and its inability to
satisfy mans highest longings. This
practically in daily life. Let us see
then briefly what Christian Science
teaches about God, about true exist
| ence and about mortal existence and
then we will, l am sure, be able to
see how the teachings or the Scrip
/ lures coincide with these conclusions.
| What 1t Teaches About God.
| Christian Science teaches that God
| is Spirit as the Scriptures state, but
! it then goes on to explain that Spirit
is divine Mind, and Immediately, this
definition of God gives US more in.
telligent sense of Him. We have all
known that God is Spirit but it
needed the revelation of Christian
Science to show US that Spirit is not
some definite, indescribable and far
off abstraction, but that Spirit is in
finitely definite and intelligent and
always available to man as divine
Mind Can anyone think of anything
more intelligent, more definite and
more scientific in it's operations thar
Mind?
/, Christian Science likewise teaches
that this divine Mind is Life, Truth
and Love, and that He is also divine
Principle, that He is invariably, and
is the same yesterday, today and
forever Thus Christian Science de
clares one infinite cause or divine
Principle whom we call God or good
who is ever-present divine Mind and
is also infinite Life, Truth and Love
what l rue Existence is.
Now how many differing effects
can be obtained from one infinite
cause or divine Principle, who is for
ever the same. Christian Science de
clares unswervingly that from sucl
la cause there can be but one effect
(which is infinitely like that cause;
Therefore true existence must be
forever mental or spiritual, since il
lis the effect Of infinite Mind Of
spirit; it must be infinitely good be
cause it is the effect Of infinite goot
and it must always express Life
Truth and Love because it is the ex
pression Of Life, Truth and Love.
Salvation as Taught by Scriptures.
The Scriptures are a progressive
record of how the Truth, or the
spiritual fact about Goa and abou
existence, was revealed to men wht
refused to accept the testimony o
their physical senses as reliable, bu
Ipersistently relied on their spfrftua
understanding of God and of exist
ence, or to men who thought divinely
and not humanity. These revelation:
eliminated in the experiences O
Christ Jesus and his followers whC
were so clearly conscious of the
divine facts of being that they proved
every material or mortar condition t.
be wholly an illusion OF the physica
senses having neither reality no
power.
Progressive Revelation Of Scriptures
In the first chapter OF Genesis tn,
record begins of the truth about Coz
and about existence, as 1T was re
tyealed to some spirttuallymindeC
man. Later the Scriptures RECORD
the appearing to Abraham, who dwell
lin Ur of the Chaldees, Of the trutl
about God and about existence, ant
this vision ilnpelled Abraham t.
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