The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-11-26
Principles of Christian
Science Teachings Theme
of w. d. Fitzpatrick Talk

, be entirely devoid of fruit but pro-
fuse In beautiful and promising 10
Iiage. Jesus taught that His wor KS
of healing and regeneration were
not of a miraculous nature Duf
were indigenous to the correct IN
derstanding OF God which he came
to give us. Jesus came to establish
the kingdom of heaven on eartn
for all mankind throughout all
time-for you and for me, right
here and now. THERE'S nothing in
the bible and in the teachings ana
works Of the Master TO excuse US
in the least for not healing the
sick by prayer and spiritual means
in accord with the commands OK
Jesus. In the sixteenth chapter OIL
St. Marks gospel Jesus gave this
explicit command to all mankind,
through the medium OF His disci-
pies: These signs shall follow
them that believe; in my name
shall they cast out devils; they
shall take up serpents; and if they
drink any deadly thing it shall not
hurt them: they shall lay hands on
the sick and they shall recover"
And is it not glorious thing to
know that at last we have been
awakened, through Christian
Science, to the recognition OF the
fact that that command was Tor
YOU and for ME, and that we have
been given. through Christian Sci
ence. that understanding of Jesus
teachings which makes the fulflll-
meut of this command present
and immediate possibility, and that
you and / may know enough right
here and now to assist in establish
ing the kingdom of heaven on
earth?
If you carefully follow the life
of Jesus as given in the new tes-
lament and consider his works in
connection with what he taught you
will discover that what he did was
merely to establish as a demon
strable fact what he taught, and
that what he taught and did were
said and done sin accord with, and
in explanation of, some immutable,
ever present, universal law.
Spiritual Rule Supreme.
You will see, in other words that
His words and works were looking
to the establishment with men of d
divine, omnipotent. spiritual law
which will eventually rule all man
kind to the complete extinction of
any so-called opposed law and, its
effects. The world had always been
accounting law to be that which
had to do with the material uni
verse or matter. In fact. if you will
consider for moment, you will
agree that we have never associat-
ed law with anything but with
matter.
All material or physical NANTES
! tations of whatever name or nature
all material phenomena-cla
J to be the product or outcome of
some material law Everything
| cogniZed in the experience of NOR
tails from the cradle to the grave is
claimed to exist or to transpire be-
cause of law of matter, and if We
will carefully analyze our concept
of this entire material existence
, we will find that we have attribut-
ed all material conditions, phenom-
ena and manifestations to God. We
have merely taken these apparent
material conditions to be matters
! of fact without question. and have
submitted to the misery and want
, and woe resultant theTefrom as in.
evitable visitations- of a divine
, providence of which We were sup
, posed to know little or nothing
, until, perhaps, we had passed thu
I portals of another existence
= But when, by Christian Science
| we have been called to a halt in oui
l loose and reckless methods o
/ thinking about God and men, ant
/ about Jesus and His works, W,
D have been brought face to fac
with the fact that there is hardl,
( word uttered by Jesus or an &C
, committed by Him in the course o
His ministry that does not com
: pletely deny, controvert and over
throw some sC-called material, o.
: physical law. And if we will fol
low Him in His three years worl
with me in his effort to establish
the kingdom of heaven on eartf
we will find that in those thres
years there is not single evidence
of material existence. not a single
I so-called law governing our ma.
terial living, and material phenom.
ena which forms part of our daily
experience, that Jesus did not ut.
terly annul through His intelligent
application OF what He termed the