The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1921-04-16


term Principle as used for God has
more than any other aroused the op-
position OF the critics OF Christian
Science. They contend that to speak
OF God Is Principle takes away his
personality. robs Him of His father
hood. tenderness and other so2called
human attributes Christian Scientists
believe that IL IS time for the world
to get away from the idea OF an an
| thropomorphic or man made cod a
sort Of superman The text book says
Human philosophy has made God
nianlike. Christian Science makes man
/ Cfodlike. Science ana Health. D..
26s).
PRINCIPLE
( Principle is eternal without pegiu-
I ming or end, is perfect, immoVable.
invtolabIe unerring, ever active. Prin-
/ ciple can not be moved b. the breath
! ri praise or nattery. or by entreaty
! or by threat. In the thought OF Goa
as Principle Christian Scientists have
/ abandoned the i1ea that God Inter
/ fores in Tho affairs Of men AT the be-
/ hest OF this one or that one. or that
/ lie interferes with Ills own laws
! IA "
I to be happening n tho affairs ~ men.
I Christian Science shows that Gods
/ creation is already perfect complete.
! consequently tho true mission OF
Scientific Christianity is to reveal this
! fact to us and then to SHOW as how
/ TO overcome in our own lives and ex-
4 periences every thing and even
I thought that j. unlike God and las
creation
/ CHRISTIAN SCIENCE TREA lalEN'r
As practical Illustration. iet us
! suppose a man TO be sick ana THAI
he desires the help OF God and turns
/ to Christian Science TO be made well.
/ Since Gods work IS already done,
/ there is no specific or individual act
/ ion required Of God that this mans
condition should be made right The
Bible says that God looked upon HIS
/ work. and that IL was very good. The
/ treatment or prayer or tho Christian
! Science practitioner, IS clear posi-
tive, knowing and understanding that
! God has made all and made all good
/ God created man in His own image
and likeness. and as q Necessary re
| suit of the law Of creation. man in
/ Gods image and likeness must DO
Cfodike. He must reflect the God4fSe
qualities, joy, peace, harmony, dom
inion, freedom. power God being
good, has not created and trom the
I very nature of goodness could not
! have created any fevere pains or
aches OF any kind, and since God IS
the only power. no other power has
created them, and man can not nave
them, because they do not really exist.
To persons accustomed 10 the use
Of material remedies in case Of illness
such a system Of course, only briefly
and inadequately outlined by me might
not at first be considered scientinc
or beneficial. YET the actual exper-
ience OF any one who VIII test it &C
cording to the principle and rule or
Christian Science viii prove that II
is both Scientific and beneficial
But. says a friend. why try to say
not and can not be sick when
l know ! have this pain7" No one
can be found who viii have more
loving consideration for those surfer
ing from disease ana pain than
Christian Scientist. Christian Science
is not an admonition TO bear suffer-
ing patiently nor to endure il stoi-
cally. but is on the contrary a scieu-
NAAAN - S~DAA ~ " ttitn disease ana SUI
fering are to be overcome. 1t shows
any person who viii earnestly study
and practice II that the evidence OF
the human senses y all there is 70 any
suffering. and if this evidence be chang
ed or overcome, the disease and SUIT
fering disappear.
Have you ever Observed how the
physical senses are SO easily and com
monty deceived? There Is not a day,
nor perhaps an hour but what we are
he victims OF some false testimony
OF the senses. The school boy crosses
the frst two fingers Of his hand clos
g his eye and has his crossed fingers
rubbed over a marble and the sense
Of touch will Indicate 10 him two or
three marbles instead Of one. stand
IN the car track and follow the rail-
with the eye and the sense OF sight
VIII tell you that presently the rails
come together but if isn't true. Or,
sit in the railroad train that Is stand
ing and look out Of the window At
moving train on an adjacent track
and every sense tells you that YOU
and your train are moving and prac-
ticaliy your only escape from this de-
fusion is to look away from the NOV
Ing train and see things as they really
are In exactly the same way when
the human senses speak 70 rs OF sick
ness. sorrow and separation, We
should took away from the things
Of sense to Cod and see Him lie
really is. see and know the real man
as nc is in Gods image and likeness.
and We shall come to know that the
real man cannot be sick nor discor-
dant In this connection one may see