The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1920-09-25
A. LECTURE.
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nanu, ana 'Dy overcoming the last
enemy, even death itself. They made
no empty pretenses of faith in God
and then followed after the latest
advertised drug. No, they would
have repudiated that procedure as
contrary to the first commandment.
Thou shalt have no other gods be
fore me-
THE BIBLE MESSAGE SIMPLE
Now, the message of the Bible is
simple, logical. scientific Little chill.
dren love the Bible They love it be.
cause it's message is pure. inspiring,
regeneratng. But the pity OF it is
that our family Bibles have for
years been lying on the shelf covered
with dust-safety repositories for
lost spectacles and forgotten photo.
graphs. Why? Because we have al
lowed doctrines, precedents, and ira
ditions to pervert our vision so that
we refuse to accept the plain teach
ings of Christ Jesus, the disciples
and the prophets. We have been
taught to search the Scriptures for
texts in support of some futile doc
trine rather than to ponder the
meaning Of the Bible text and there.
by grow in that understanding OF
God and man which heals the sick
and casts out sin. Christ Jesus com
manded his followers to Heal the
sick" and yet when that imperative
command is brought to the attention
of many religonists who deem them
selves loyal Christians, they may
sometimes resort to various sophis-
tries in the vain effort to prove that
they should not obey it. Christian
Science is based on the Bible. Like
the Bible, it is simple, natural, logi
cal and scientific. There is nothing
mysterious about Christian Science
or its practice. 1t follows the plain
teachings of Christ Jesus, and as a
result Christian Scientists live diff
ferently, and think differently than
they did before the became inter
ested in Christian Science. The be-
ginner in Christian Science notices
at once that Christian Scientists do
not use drugs They have no oecas-
ion to do so, for the simple reason
that they have found in Christian
Science a vastly better system oil
healing sickness and disease than is
afforded by the druggist system,
Furthermore, they have found that
reliance on drugs obscures spiritual
understanding and alienates men
from God Ii a person believes he
has been healed by drug, he, to
that extent, believes in the existence
of another power than the Great
AM; he believes there is some other
healing agency than God, and is
consequently led to doubt that God
is the healer of all our diseases, as
the Psalmist declared. He becomes
sceptical of the divine power to heal
and save 1t will be noticed likewise
that Christian Scientists do not ac-
cept as authority physiology and
medical works. Christian Scientists
do not accept physiology and medi-
cal works because these reason, for
the most part from the basis that
man is a mere physical organism,
whereas Christian Science reasons
from the basis that man is spiritual
the image and likeness Of God. The
basis of reasoning of physiology and
medical works being exact opposite
of Christian Science, the conclusions
arrived at cannot, of course, agree
Then again, TIE beginner in Chris
tian Science notices that Christian
Scientists do not talk about disease.
They do not gossip about disease
do not tell about the diseases they
had in the past, the diseases they
have now, nor those they expect TO
have in the future. They do not fear
disease, because they know that God
never sent it, and that right un-
derstanding of Him completely de
stroys it. They see clearly that al
there is of disease is human fears
and false and mental pictures. 1t Is
evident to them that if the menta
picture of disease is not entertained
disease will not at any time be
manifested on the body. They are
well aware that the issue of disease
is determined by thought, and they
have no desire to entertain such an
unwelcome guest as mental pic
ture OF disease although Christian
Scientists have an established repu
tation as a people given to hospital
ity" as ST. Paul advised. The fact OF
the matter is. Christian Scientists
have discovered that there is vast
amount of unnecessary knowledge
floating around in the atmosphere OF
human thought, knowledge based en-
tirely on the evidences of the physi-
cal senses, which. if accepted, can
not fail to be productive OF pain,
suffering. fear, and alienation from
God. Unnecessary knowledge says
Mrs. Eddy in Science and Health
with Key to the Scriptures, on page
274. gained from the five senses is
only temporal-the conception OF
mortal mind the offspring OF sense,
not of Soul, Spirit and symbolizes
III that is evil and perishable."
Christian Scientists have a race to
run and they do not purpose to run
in vain because encumbered with a
lot of useless impedimenta.
MANS ONENESS WITH GOD THE
ULTIMATE OF CHRISTIAN
SCIENCE.
Then again, the beginner in Chris
iian Science may receive the I'M
preston that Christian Science
meals merely physical ills and is
only a substitute for the drugging
system or other material methods.
Christian Science heals the sick;
there is no doubt about that He