Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-03-14
Are you ram1Ilar enough

understood only through its own ideas,
Jesus entered upon his ministry, teach
Ing in their synagogueS, and preaching
the gospel of the kingdom, and healing
all manner of sickness and all manner OF
disease among the people"
| Scarcely any one listened at first to
the teaching and preaching of Jesus,
but multitudes thronged him for the
healing. The lessons he gained from
those experiences are summarized with
matchless simplicity in the first and sec
ond Beatitudes of the Sermon on the
Mount.
theirs Is the kingdom OF heaven" Here
Jesus pronounces a blessing on those
who have begun to turn from matter
and yearn for heaven. They respond
spoken, and that spiritual recePtiyity,
which Is born Of God, opens the way to
heavenly harmony.
Blessed are they that mourn: for
they shall be comforted" In the sec
ond Beatitude, Jesus considers those
who have learned through suffering TO
turn from matter. Their suffering had
prepared them for the Christ healins
which brings them greater comfort than
mere release from physical Ills. 1t
brings the peace and harmony of God $
Kingdom, making the comfort as abid-
ing as is the kingdom Itself.
These two groups Of people seem to
be the only ones ready for the kingdom
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are still on probation. Their blessing
thus far has been partly the work Of
others, as when a child first begins to
walk; for one group was helped along
by a preacher, and the other by a healer.
Now they must learn to walk alone. The
only way by which they can gain the
divine power for themselves is through
the quality of meekness. blessed are
the meek: for they shall inherit the
earth" Dominion over all the earth is
gained. not through matter or the hui
man will, but through the divine idea
Of meekness. Considered as a group
the recertivity that leads to heaven, the
yearnlng that gains divine comfort, and
the meekness that achieves divine power
are all ideas OF God. Through these
ideas, we perceive Gods true nature
and we gain perfection by demonstrating
these ideas.
TWO GROUPS ONLY ARE
/ PREPARED FOR KINGDOM.
4 II Is sometimes charged that Christian
ministry Of this Science, but the crltics
should remember the lesson OF the
Beattudes, that only two groups OF
thinkers are really prepared for the king
dom. What Jesus iterated In the Beati-
tudes, be reiterated in the Parable Of the
Great Supper. When the invitations 10
the feast were given out. you may re-
member, all made excuses. One had pur-
chased some land. SO he could not come
another oxen, and so on. Iney all begged
TO be excused bat one. That one could
not come because he had married a wife.
They were all so absorbed In material
things that they gave no heed TO spiritual
things. So the master Of the feast found
/ II necessary to turn TO those who might
/ be awakened through suffering to seek
! the kingdom. He Invited the poor, the
MANNED the halt aud The blind-those
1 that mourn, and still there was loom, Tor
not even human suffering had allenated
the faith Of many from their reliance on
such lessons have taught the Christian
Scientist to serve those who are drawn
Of God. because they are ready and WILL
+ ing TO receive the blessing according to
the plan of our great Master. Unless
they come willingly. through the teach
ing or through the healing, they are not
! prepared to understand the spiritual
message; for spiritual things must be
spiritually dIscerned." Jesus warned
( us, moreover, not to give that which IS
/ holy TO the unprepared thought. Ho"
many there are who have read a few
pages Of our textbook, only 10 declare
with sweep 81 the hand There IL
nothing I'm it," Even so, the healing chal-
planned away. One should remember
that there IS something else beside hui
man intellect necessary to comprehen
spiritual things. 1t is indeed that spir-
comes sin and disease first in ones self,
and then In others. But IL one is welded
to some position in his church. business
or society, and he begs to be excused,
he Is not ready for the blessing. Hence
the usefulness of all PROSECUTING propa-
ganda. God must indeed open the way
TO every sincere seeker through Gods
own ideas.
SIGNS OF
THE COMFORTER.
When Mrs. Eddy established her church
in 1870, she declared that It's object was
to 'reinstate primitive Christianity and
its lost element Of healing" The healing
o. sin has always been regarded as a
province Of the Christian church. We
learn I'm Christian Science that Cod g
power Is always available to heal physic-
ollv as we'll MS morally The same Draver