The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1920-09-25

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raised The dead, and until the fourth
century the early Christian recog
nized and practiced healing as a
part Of the work Of the church. AT
the beginning Of the fourth century
spiritual healing ceased. Scholastic
theology has tried in vain to make
us believe that this loss of spirit
ual healing was due to an act OF
God that spiritual healing was a
special dispensation of Providence,
extended to Christ Jesus and the
early Christians to prove that they
We're under the divine protection
and that when this proof had been
accomplished, spiritual healing was
withdrawn. But that theory has no
facts within the Scriptures or with
out to support it, and it is contrary
to the nature of God. God is no re-
specter of persons" (Acts 10-3D.
His grace and goodness are for all
men to partake. The spiritual law
which Jesus demonstrated in healing
the sick on the shores of the Sea o.
Galilee is an universal immutable
law, and is just as operative to-day
as it was nineteen hundred years
ago.
No, the loss of spiritual healing
cannot be charged to God The real
reason is that the early Christians
failed to follow closely the straight
and narrow way Of eternal truth
They began to modify the teachings
Of Jesus, conforming them to the
pagan thought about them. Wha
was the result? The human mind
became darkened and mystified and
could no longer resort to the heal
ing mower of God; hence spiritua
healing disappeared and did not re
appear for more than fifteen cen
tuies, when the Science of Chris
tianity was again given to the world
by New England woman, Mary
Baker Eddy
THE DlSCOVERER AND FOUNDER
OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
In 1866 Mrs. Eddy was instantly
healed of the results of a serious ac
cident through the spiritual under
standing of a passage in Matthew
gospel. The light that burst upol
her consciousness in that hour
need was the result of many years
prayer, meditation, and study Of thu
Scriptures. The world of the nine
teenth century, in which Mrs. Eddy
made the discovery of the power and
availability of Spirit, was stepped il
materialism, and there was a ten
dapo,r 10 hasa -roo oonino i,,,on M q tto,
and physical science. Mrs. Eddy took
issue with the thinkers of the nine
teenth century who for the mos
part reasoned from matter basis.
She saw clearly that they reasoned
She discovered that "All is
infinite in Mind and its infinite
for God is All-inall.'
(Science and Health, p. 1851. II
other words, she discovered that the
universe has a spiritual cause and
not a physical There is but one
cause, God, one effect, man and the
universe. But she did not stop there
Her further researches led her to
between the divine Mind,
its qualities and ideas. and the
of matter and evil which
she termed mortal mind, or,-to use
st. Pauls demonstrations ,-carnai
mind She saw that the two were
opposites, and that the divine Mind
be true. Mrs. Eddy also saw that
the exactness, logic, order, coordina
tion,' continuity, and law of God was
The only real Science, which she
named Divine Science or Christial
For centuries men had been |
ed to believe that religion and |
Science had nothing in common
that the acceptance of the dicta OF |
natural science as tantamount 70 |
disbelief in God. Mrs. Eddy saw that |
religion and Science were one and |
he same, both emanations from the |
divine Mind. True Science is wholly |
spiritual, and destroys the human
science in so far as the |
latter is based on matter and NOR |
anty. When Mrs. Eddy grasped the |
mighty fact that God is the only |
Mind and cause, she saw that she
had mission to perform for the
race, and that mission was to pierce |
with spirltral vision the dark clouds |
If matter mortality, fear, and sin,
'ast over the whole human race; to |
,isperse these clouds with the re-
looted light of spiritual understand |
ng. and to reinstate in human con
;ciousness the healing leaven of the |
science of the one omnipotent Mind. |
And so she began her work by |
esting her discovery. She tested it
by healing the sick k-many of them !
nstantaneously-by breaking. the |
bondage of sin, and by the spiritual |
light and freedom her followers ex-
who. with unbiased |
hought, honestly sought to know |
he truth that maketh free. In 1875 |
nine years after her healing,-she |
rave to the world the textbook of |
christian Science, Science and |
Health with Key to the Scriptures, |
/ book, the mere reading of which |
las healed thousands of the various |
lis that flesh seems to be heir to; a
,ook which has done more to revolu-
ionize the thoughts of men regard
nging the truths of the Bible than
my other book that has ever been |
written. Sometimes critics will as
ert that the textbook of Christian
Science is illogical contradictory. |
mt these critics utterly fail to |