Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-09-28

thought, every statement every deed
is cast into the scale of truth or of
error and so they strive daily and
hourly that their thoughts, their
words, their lives, their deeds, m IA y
weigh in the balance with peace and
harmony.
THE TESTIMONY OF CHRIST
JESUS
Christ Jesus was the great exponent
of the omnipotence of God. His con-
seriousness so perfectly reflected Cpd
that no suggestion Of sin or mortality
could enter it. In the presence of Ills
unparalleled knowledge of Spirit, fear,
disease and death flew as darkness be-
fore the light. Knowing that God is
Love, he loved with divine compassion
his fellow men, and because of that
love he healed them. We are told In
the Gospels that he healed all manner
of disease. In Matthew we read this
simple statement. "And they brought
unto him all sick people that were
taken with divers disease and tor
ments, and those which We're pos
sessed with devils, and those which
were lunatick, and those that had the
H..
4:25.) AS a result of these healings
the people glorified God and rejoiceh
that the power of God could be 50
abundantly manifested among men.
Christ Jesus accepted only the ties
timony OF Spirit. He refused to be
governed by the testimony of the phys
ical senses. He knew that matter and
Spirit were antipodes and antagonist
tic. TT is the spirit that ouickeneth !;
the flesh profiteth nothing" he said;
and by the term flesh" he meant mat l
ter, mortality, corporeality, the car
nal mind. whatsoever worketh abom-
ination, or mal<eth u lie" Grew. 2l:27.).
Now, Jesus never taught that God
created matter or that God was in any
way responsible for sin, sickness or
death. On the contrary he exposed
the unreal nature of these errors,
showing that they were mortal inven-
tions, not of God, and he destroyed
them through the might of the Christ
Mind. Jesus knew that only the spir-
itual the good and immortal is Gre
ated of God. They are therefore not
good. not real, not eternal. They are
merely the fleeting concepts of tibet
human mind, having no actual basis
ard are therefore unreal. Jesus proved
these things and Christian Science is
again demonstrating that spiritual
things are real things, while matter
and mortality are unreal.
SALVATION FOR ALL MEN
There has been much misapprehen-
sion in times past OF the true nature
of Christ Jesus and his relation to God
astic theology has so persistently re-
iterated, but the Son Of God las he
himself declared. AS a man born of
woman he was the son Of man. AS
the spiritual ideal Of God he was the
Christ because he manifested the
qualities of his divine Father-hence
his saying: II and my Father are
one" He taught his immediate fol-
lowers the power of God to heal the
sick and free the sinner. He healed
the sick and SHINING because he dem
onstrated the Christ. the divine power
OF God forever ready to heal and save
Jesus knew that this healing power of
the Christ the Messiah, like the light
of the sun, was for all men, and could
not be confined to himself or to
chosen few, to one age or to one peo-
pie. 1t was the universal gift of God
to all His children. Hence, his COM
mission to all his followers in every
age and cline, go We into all the
wcrld and preach the gospel to every
creature" thus making his message
of universal application. He further
said. And these signs shall follow
them that believe: In my name shall
they cast out devils, they shall speak
with new tongues; They shall take up
serpents; and if they drink any dead
ly thing it shall not hurt them: they
shall lay hands on the sick, and they
shall recover"
Commenting on the universally OF
divine grace Jesus said: Before
Abraham was l am" Now Jesus did
not mean by that statement that he,
the man Jesus had literally lived on
the earth prior to Abraham. but he
did mean that the Christ is the divine,
ever present manifestation of God.
forever ready to heal and save, and so
it has been proved throughout the
whole history Of Christianity.