The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-11-22

healing and renegerating works OF
the Master in the same manner and
through the same means that he did,
in strict obedience to his commands.
his teachings and his precepts, it new
or would nave been the object of the
Misrepresentation, persecution and III
tolerance to which il has been SO often
subjected. II was inevitable that
Jesus should have suffered the agon-
les Of Calvary and it is inevitable that
any religion following in his foot
steps and oheying his command to go
into all the world, preach the gospel
heal the sick and raise the dead shall
bear his cross OF ridicule and con-
demnation, shall drink his cup of bit
terness and humiliation, until it prove
to an unwilling and skeptical world
its words by its works.
Spiritual Healing Restored
Christian Science has come to hui
mainly to restore to it the lest art
of healing which the great Master
Christian, Jesus the Christ. declared
should exemplify the understanding
Of those truths Of existence which
he gave to the world some twenty
centuries ago. One can hardly read
the New Testament without a firm
conviction that much Of the vitality
given it by the life and works of
Jesus has been lost or eliminated
throughout the intervening centuries.
Jesus taught that it was his under
standing of God and Gods govern
ment of His universe which enabled
him to do the works of healing and re-
generation he SO freely accomplished
throughout His brief ministry and
of which he said in no unmistakable
terms "He that believeth on me, the
works thai | do shall he do also"
Jesus mission ON earth was to
establish with men that understand
ing of God which would enable them
to do the very works that he did. He
said Eye shall know them by their
fruits and in explanation OF this
saying you will recall that near the
close of his earthly ministry, to en-
phasiZc 10 his disciples the Ruthless
ness Of merely external appearances
of piety, he cursed the barren fig
tree-the fig tree which, to all out
, ward appearances, was a worthy eX-
ample OF its species, but which, on
intimate acquaintance. proved to be
entirely devoid of fruit but profusc
in beautiful and promising foliage.
Jesus taught that his works Of heal
ing and regeneration were not of n
miraculous nature but were indigo
nous to the correct understanding of
God which he came to give us. Jesus
came to establish the kingdom of
heaven on earth for all mankind
Throughout all time-for you and
for me, right here and now. In that
mighty prayer, given us i'm his Ser
mon on the Mount, We find these
words: Thy kingdom come. Thy
will be donc on earth, as it is in
heaven" That which enabled the
disciples of Jesus time to heal the
sick, cast out demons and even raise
the dead was intended for you and
for me just as much as for the dis
ciples, otherwise the marvellous works
and teachings of Jesus are OF no
avail as our Savior. There is nothing
in the Bible and in the teachings n
works of the Master to excuse us in
the least for not healing the sick by
prayer and spiritual means in accord
with the commands of Jesus. In the
, sixteenth chapter Of st. Marks Cos
pei Jesus gave this explicit command
to all mankind, through the medium
of his dis~ciples-'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 deadly thing it shall not
hurt them: they shall lay hands on
the sick and they shall recover" And
is it not a glorious thing to know
? that ut last we have been awakened,
through Christian Science, to the rec
ognition Of the fact that that COM
mand was for you and for me, and
that we have been given, through
| Christian Science. that understanding
of Jesus teachings which makes the
fulfillment of his command n pres
ent and immediate possibility, and that
you and | may know enough right
here and now to assist in establish
ing the kingdom Of heaven on earth?
Spiritual VS.. Material law
IL YOU wall tdiftuil1 OilpN bht hAN
of Jesus as given in the New Tesla
ment and consider his works in con-
nection with what he taught you
will discover that what he did was
merely to establish rs a demonstrable
fact what he taught, and that what
he taught and did were said and
lone in accord with, and in explana-
ton Of, some immutable ever pres
cnt. universal law. You will see In
other words. that his words and works
were looking to the establishment
with men of n divine, omnipotent,
spiritual law which will eventually
rule all mankind to the complete ex-
tinction of any so-called opposed law
and its effects. The world had al
ways been accounting law to be that
! which had to do with the material
universe and had looked, and still
does look, upon law to be that
which has to do with materiality or
matter. In fact. II you will consider
for a moment. you will agree that
we have never associated law with
anything but with matter. All ma
terial or physical manifestations of
whatever name or nature--aIl mater
ial phenomena claim to be the pro-
duct or outcome of some material
law. Everything tognized in the ex-
periencc of mortals from the cradle TO
the grave Is claimed to exist or to
%transpirc because of n law of mat
ter, and If We will carefully anaylze
our concept of this entire material
existence We will find hat we have
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