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


1 ems each day to the time he goes tC
sleep at night? He prays! II there
!, is any one thing that the Christian
. Scientist finds will bring him peace
: health, prosperity and happiness, Il
. 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 desirable
-Iqualities or conditions he manifests
1.-THE more you may be sure he prays.
4 have gone some length in an en-
} ldeavor to explain TO YOU the cause OF
.fhumanity's slavery, its sickness. its
} want and woe, and have endeavored
J in a. way. to make plain to you hu-
manity's remedy for these ills as
i taught in Christian Science. Now, II
may be asked, by what means is this
lremedy to be intelligentiy and effec-
lively applied? How is one to start
out to prove that man in Gods image
and likeness is not subject to the laws
of matter, the laws of sin, sickness
and death, when seemingly all one
knows of existence embraces a knoWl-
edge Of these evils? Ny friends, you
start out by praying, you continue
praying and you never sease praying.
True prayer is one OF understanding.
1t comprises a knowledge Of the facts
lof existence, even though family dis
cerned at first, and it finds expression
! in the mental attitlde which claims
for oneself that God-bestowed free
dom vouchsafed to all of Gods chill
dren-man's birthright 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 know that
thou nearest me always" whereupon
Lazarus, who had been four days in
the tomb walked forth.
True prayer engendered from an
earnest, honest longing to be God-like
rejects as any part of Gods kingdom
that which has to do with the ills Of
the flesh and proclaims the omnipo-
tence and omnipresence Of the law OF
good-the law of God. Prayer con-
sists of knowing the truth about God
and man. When this truth is mental
ly understood and consistently clung
to, regardless of the evidence of the
senses, then will begin to break
through the clouds of darkness the
CLEANS of light which presage a fuller
radiance as the sense dreams are van
quished, and then will begin 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 it is in
heaven
Fruits
Since the coming of Christian Sci
ence to the world religion and materi-
al methods of healing have undergone
syfa
Most of us here can well remember
how Christian Science was ridiculed,
laughed and scoffed at. prosecuted and
prosecuted for its revolutionary teach
ing that matter cannot create or cure
disease and that all true therapeutics
lies in an understanding of God. or
divine Mind. the only Cause or Crea-
tor. The indignities which were heap |
ed upon Christian Science for declar- |
ing that material remedies cannot !
cure disease are too numerous and too |
to repeat. What is the at |
titude of the world today in this re- /
gard, solely as a result of the teach
ing of Christian Science? Why, al
most the complete abandonment OF |
the theory that matter can heal, and |
this by members of a profession which
but a few short years ago proclaimed
powers for their nostrums.
Many physicians today tell us they
seldom or never administer drugs for
curative purposes. They have found
out that there is no intelligence,
power. Principle or law in drug.
they are learning the truth of what
Mrs. Eddy discovered fifty years ago;
namely, that it is not the drug that
heals.
In the January, 1917, issue of Pub
lie Health" a monthly publication OF
the Michigan State Board OF Health,
publicity is given to a statement by
DIR. George Goler as follows: Real
medicine is advancing. so that we have
almost arrived at that stage where
our patients do not pay us for medi-
zine but for advice, and we--some OF
is at any rate-have almost come to
he point where we are willing to ne
ylect the medicine altogether. and our
patients have learned that we are able
% do them more good without medi-
,ine than with it."
Christian Science has distinctly
proven that there is but one "preven-
i've medicine" and that is the under
,tanding of mans God-given freedom
rom disease as taught in Christian
Science. The New York Telegraph,
,ditorially prints the following: THE
decrease in the death rate in the
United States began when the Chris
ion Scientists started their uplifting
work. Christian Scientists have
made this a nation of optimists. Men
md women have got into the habit
If being well,' as Oliver Wendell
Holmes said. Christian Scientists
have worked without ceasing to show
heir fellowmen that sin, sickness and
ieath are abnormal condition of NOR
.al mind and they have succeeded.
No group or religionists in America
has ever had such an effect on the
people. an effect for good, spiritually
and bodiIy-as have the Christian
Scientists, The good health
of the country shows the result oi
that work. Figures prove it"
And permit me'to read briefly from
4 sermon delivered by DR. William s
SadIer, physician of Chicago, Ilii-
nois, at large Chautauqua gathering
At Bay View, Michigan, in the sum-
ner of 1916. The Doctors words are