Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1920-03-22
SPIRITUAL REGENERATION

SPIRITUAL REGENERATION
Christian Science was first brought
20 my attention in the fall of 1884 and
under the following circumstances.
About half of my life up to that time
had been spent in bed. The physicians
all said had been born with an incur
able organic disease, and that 1t was
improbable that I should live to reach
manhood. Their statements seemed
about to be proved true when. through
case of healing, Christian Science was
brought into our home This led to my
having Christian Science treatment, so
successfully that three months later our
family physician said miracle had
been performed and that / was abSo-
lutely free from any physical disease
Because of my condition, and as a
preparation for what was deemed in
evitable, God had been explained 10 me
far more than is usual with small
child, and the statement frequently
made that He sent sickness and suffer-
ing a, Christening and purifying
preparation for the joys of the king
dom of heaven. Naturally, however,
the only thing thought of was the suf-
fering: and when | was told that God
caused it "a terrible sense of fear and
of helplessness arose, when love and
trust should have been present. We
can never love nor trust anything of
which we are afraid: therefore the
thoughts about God were locked inside
my consciousness. because of my fear
of giving them utterance. The name,
and not the nature. of God. then as
now, was all that most people knew;
so my surprise was great and unquaE-
fled when / learned that the healing
work in Christian Science is all az
complished through a right knowledge
OF God: that there is nothing peculiar
or secret about the work done. nor is
the ability to do it confined to a select
few: it is to be acquired through
growth in grace. In fact. Christian
Science gives humanity a clear appre-
hension of the birthright oe man, of
how to gain it, and how to use it
God
Christian Science unfolds to it's
students that knowledge OF God which
keeps one well mentally. morally, and
physically. and shows that ignorance of
Him is the procurer of sin. sickness
and death 1t teaches that regenerated
thinking means regenerated living in
all ways. 1t reveals through an end
less, infinite vista of Christian ideal
ism, God enthroned and omnipotent,
omnipresent, and omniscient, and the
fact that one may rntelligently call
upon Him in any time of need, and al
ways find Him right at hand, ready TO
heal and save. This teaching brings
God to us as a real presence, instead
fishes the fact normally and naturally
that He has dominion over all things,
including the ills of the flesh, and will
destroy all evils, whether they present
themselves as mental. moral, or physi-
cal. when He is intelligentiy asked to
do so.
1t has been said that the Christian
Scientists are too familiar with God.
They are familiar with God because,
5nowinS Him to be what He is, know
.ng Him to be both the Father and
Mother of all His children, they go to
Him with all their troubles, sure that
His love and wisdom will dispel them.
1t is just. however. in this connection
10 say that no people on earth so VEN
crate worship, and adore Him as do
Christian Scientists: and this is true
because He never fails them IN tnefr
extremity.
We are told in the Bible that we
must be regenerated. Regeneration is
first mental. and is followed by the
outward results as "a natural conse-
quence. 1t is very practical to say you
cannot think right and do wrong, nor
can you think wrong and do right If
we will gain the right knowledge of
God, and mans relationship to Him,
and cling to it. we shall always be we'll.
We must be obedient in all things to
the law of God, or good. as He is called
in the Iceiandic translation of the
Bible, because it is our duty to see that
Christ is lifted above human sense into
spiritual realization, that all mankind
may be drawn unto Him, and find the
freedom promised them.
The marvellous life and works of
Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and
Founder of the Christian Science
its forever revered Leader,
and the author of it's textbook. Science
and Health with Key to the Scrip
lures" have destroyed the darkness
and mystery heretofore surrounding
God and Christ Jesus. and will liter
ally, TO quote from one of her Poems,
kind make radiant room" Sin the life
and the love of our Lord" In Science
and Health and all her other writings
Mrs Eddy has given US the spirit of the
word of God as He revealed it to her.
After the Revelation came, she tried
and tested it in all = ways and |
healed the sick in innumerable in I
stances with the knowledge OF God
which it gave to her, until, when she |
did give it to the world as it was given !
to her, she did not ask mankind TO ac-
eept a faith without works, but gave |
them a glorified faith. merging into I
because of the works it /
We sometimes hear Christian Science
referred to as ''Eddyism''. but it would /
be more proper TO refer to 1t as pure /
religion and undefiled.- Mrs Eddy !
never claimed Christian Science to be /
. creation of her own: it was revelation
rom God. The works accomplished
through its ministry during the past
fifty years Justify her claim She
urfher felt that God gave it to her TO
rive 10 mankind. that ignorance about
linn shou;d be eliminated thus de-