The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-19
MANY DIFFERENT RELIGIO JS
 BELIEFS

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 MANY DIFFERENT RELIGIOUS
 BELIEFS
 It Is said that there areemore than 200 different kinds of the Christian re- ligion alone, not to mention the hun dreds of other forms of religions that are not Christian It is a fact that peo- pie do entertain widely differing re ligious beliefs In many instances the differences are irreconcilable, and yet every one believes with all of the sim cerity of which he is capable that his own particular beliefs are true. It must be conceded that in the main, all people are equally honest and equally sincere in their religious beliefs. The only reason why they are grouped to- gether in different forms of religions is because they honestly believe that through their own particular form of religion they will find the good which they so earnestly desire
 As one considers the subject of re- ligion from this broad viewpoint it be- comes entirely plain that most of the people in the world are believing as their religion many things that are not true
 There is only one truth about any subject although there may be many erroneous beliefs about it This is as true of religious subjects as of others If one believes erroneonsly as to what
 ha fa Ia nor will he be an efficient engineer if his beliefs concerning the rules of mathematics are faulty In each case erroneous beliefs must be displaced by positive knowledge before correct re- suits can be attained.
 Every one will recognize not only the desirability, but the necessity, of ex- changing false and erroneous beliefs about religious matters for positive truth In no other way can he grow spiritually. Spiritual truth is the truth aDour spiriTuz1 tnriI g -- ust -tfofss- one believes erroneonsly about spiritual things he is on false track and his CT roneous beliefs will deprive him of the
 
 nim through a correct understanding of the truth. He should remember that Jesus proved that there is enough spir- itual truth in existence that can be taught to and understood by human beings to enable them to heal the sick and raise the dead, and no one should be satisfied until he has attained ta this understanding and demonstration
 True religion consist of spiritual truth. and not of erroneous beliefs hence it follows that ones religion is limited to the amount of spiritual truth he knows, and that erroneous religious beliefs are only so many delusions that serve no other purpose than to obstruct spiritual growth.
 The trouble with most of us has beer that we have believed erroneonslA without knowing it. In my own cas' it was not until Christian Science came to me and taught me the difference be tween spiritual truth and erroneous hu man belief that l learned how to dissec my own beliefs. No one could be mor'
 
 gious beliefs than was of mine a tha time I had been believing honestl. and sincerely many things that I foun' could not possibly be true. Many scale began to fall from my eyes, and thel commenced to learn and experience fo the first time the real significance O the words used by Jesus in the eight chapter of John when he said, ''Y shall know the truth, and the trut shall make you free"
 Christian Science aims to destroy CT roneous religious beliefs by substitut ing a Knowledge of truth in plac thereof. and to destroy out of the hu man mind all evil qualities by plantin good qualities in their stead. It wage relentless warfare against all wron mental qualities. It seeks to substitut love in place of hate. unselfishness place of selfishness. honesty in plac of dishonesty. and truth in place of CT TOT. It lays tremendous emphasis upo the necessity for bringing into caI ttvity every thought to the obedienC Df tnflSl tiI AOl. |lbtol aS the DID commands, It shows that the cause all disease and sin is mental and nc physical. and that both sickness ar sin are destroyed by the evangelizatio 2 of the human mentality with truth ar love. It teaches without any reserv; tion whatever that the truth taugl and practiced by Jesus, when unde stood and applied Is sufficient withol drugs or any material means to he the sick and regenerate the sinner, ar , Christian Scientists everywhere are el gagged daily in demonstrating and pro ing this to be true
 Every student of religion should b gin to give heed to what the Bib teaches concerning the importance looking to the mental rather than the physical for deliverance from h man discord. We read in Romans 6,
 "To be carnally minded is death; but
 be spiritually minded is life and peac
 Because the carnal mind is enmi
 against God: for it is not subject to u law of God. neither indeed can be
 Again in Philippians 2:5 it is said. T.
 this mind be in you. which was also
 Christ Jesus and in Romans 12:a. q