The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1919-02-27

TINS power is. In speaking to his dis
clples he said, "Call no man your faith
er upon the earth; for one is your
Father, which is in heaven" In other
words, there is only one creator or
cause, and the universe including man
is its product, the product Of Eloi, the
one and only power
Again, speaking to the woman at
the well, Jesus said "God is Spirit"
which would certainly mean that his
power, the only power he ever used
the true cause of all, and consequently
the cause of only that which is true,
was Spirit or Mind, not matter of any
kind of physique. And looking at the
teachings Of Jesus, looking at his
works-words and works due to, I'M
PEELED by. emanating from this Eloi or
power, Spirit, Mind, or intelligence
are we not bound to conclude that this
power, Spirit, Mind, was infinite Love,
and that this divine Love was the very
life Of Jesus which nothing could de-
stroy and which was able to raise him
up at the last day? This one power
tEen, this one Spirit, Soul, or Mind
this one existence or Life, this one
reality or Truth, this one infinite Love,
this divine Principle, was all that con-
stituted the Saviour who is the same
yesterday, today. and forever, "with
whom is no variableness, neither shad-
ow of turning" who is with us al
way. This is just what Christion Sci
ence defines God to be, as will be seen
from the following passage: "God is
incorporeal. divine, supreme, infinite
Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, Life,
Truth. Love" (Science and Health, p.
465).
Not only did Jesus illustrate, not
only does Christian Science teach what
God is, but in doing this Jesus illus
trated and Christian Science teaches
what man is.
Does not the father want the son to
be like himself, and does not son
want to be like his father So true
| is this, that right in the beginning we
read that "God created man in his own
image, male and female created
he them" In other words. He created
them just like Himself. Now, how do
we know what man is like? Do we
not know it by what he expresses
Was it not the manifestation. the ex-
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Spirit, the Life, the Truth, and the
Love, which are altogether good, God
that made Jesus the best prepared, the
safest, the most efficient, the most
able or powerful, the most godlike
man that ever lived? Did it not make
him SO godlike that all Christendom
has called him God, worshiped him as
God? It has done this, too, notwith-
! standing the fact that Jesus rebuket!
the man for calling him, not God, but
merely good, saying, There is more
good but one, that is God" He did
this because he recognized, as no ore
! else ever has, that even all that he
manifested of God did not begin to ex-
press, but only indicated the infinite,
good that is God. This is shown by
the fact that he expected not only the
emulation of his example by his fol-
lowers, but more-"He that believevh
on me, the works that do shall, he do
also; and greater works than these
shall he do; because l go unto my
Father" because Illustrate the way,
and show, as he again said, that ''The
Son can do nothing Of himself, but
what he seeth the Father do; for what
things soever he doeth, these also
doeth the Son likewise"
This Teaching Scientific
That this knowledge Of God and Of
man, the knowledge that was taught,
Illustrated, and demonstrated by Jesus
the Christ, is Christian, all will con
cede. But, it may be asked, is it sci
cntifc?
This question can be answered,
must be answered in one way alone
that of demonstration or proof. 1t
was SO answered when Jesus did his
marvellous works; it was so answered
when his disciples or students repeat
ed these works; it was so answered
when for over two centuries after
them their followers, the early Chris
tians, did these works. It is in this
way that for the past fifty years it has
been answered and is now being ans
wered. 1t was so answered when Mrs
Eddy, through the spiritual illumina-
ltion to her of a Bible text-through
the coming TO her of the right idea, the
true meaning Of this text-was
healed; it was so answered when she,
through this true sense Of the nature,
the presence, and the power Of God,
healed others, and taught them to do
likewise It was so answered when,
her students through the presentation
Of her teachings given to them in the
Christian Science textbook, Science
and Health with Key to the Scrip
lures" reformed, healed, made the
abundance Of good manifest for 9TH
ers, and in turn taught them to do
| likewise II was so answered when
this reformed, healed, regenerated,
saved multitude established churches
and societies Of Christ, Scientist, in
every part Of the habitable globe until
it is safe to say that there is no ore
here who does not know Of some one
whose LIFE health mode ~ thought