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

book of Job, in the Bible, you may re-
member how Satan once challenged the
/ purity of Jobs goodness, possibly be-
/ cause the Deceiver Is always the most
deceived SO he insisted that Jobs good
| ness was nothing but a subterfuge to
! gain some reward in heaven-that Is to
| say, a form Of selfshness. Those who
make sel1shness instead of Principle the
standard of their actions must agree with
/ Satan in UNFOLDING the law of neces-
/ sity." But the trainers of the American
Declaration of Independence recognized
an eternal Truth when they wrote that
men ARE endowed by theif Creator with
certain unalienable rights; that among
these are life. liberty, and the pursuit of
happiness" The God of Christendom,
therefore, is the divine Principle or Gre
Rtor of those life giving and liberating
fruits Of the Spirit, which are expressed
unselhshly in right minded men and
/ women everywhere.
An intelligent pagan of education and
refinement may be found obeying the
ordinary canons of honesty, because be
has learned that honesty will serve his
best interests, therefore he will be found
acting as honestly as he can. But his
standard of honesty is not the Christian
God, or the divine Principle Of honesty ;
for he worships 8 god fashioned by the
hand of man. so long as he has no
derived from Principle and therefore no
real sense Of honesty. Thus mans
standard of right depends entirely upon
the nature Of the God he worships.
RULE AND PRINCIPLE
GENERALLY CONFUSED.
According to the Century Dictionary,
There are no two words in the English
language used so confusedly one for the
other as the words rule and principle.
/. g.. You can make rule; you cannot
make principle; you can lay down a
rule; you cannot, properly speaking, lay,
down a principle . 1t is a prin
ciple that the Sabbath was made for
man" The fact that the fourth Com
mandment is an emanation from Prin-
ciple was the lesson Moses learned from
his experiences in the wilderness with
the mama. Always there was enough for
their daily supply and nothing more; but
on the sixth day, a supply Of bread for
two days could be gathered. The same
God who supplied the Children of Israel
with food to eat for forty years, also set
apart the seventh day for sabbath rest
from toll. This same God or Principle
supplies every needA and because He sup
plies our every need He is not cold and
austere He is indeed the loving Father
who blesseS all mankind;
In her book, fundamental Divine
Science" Mrs Eddy answers the ques-
ton, what is the Principle Of Christian
Sciencef" in these words: 1t Is God,
the Supreme Being, infinite and immor-
tai Mind. the Soul OF man and the uni
heaven. 1t is substance, Spirit, Life,
Truth and LOve-these are the delhc
Principle"
Contrast. If you Will, the guidance OF
divine Principle through law, with the
practice of heather rites and ceremonies.
In one OF the great cities Of China, for
example, there stands brave little Chris
tian Science church, dedicated to the heal
ing ministry OF our great Master. Sur
rounding this church. there are heather
temples filed with idols fashioned by tine
hand of man. Not long ago a severe
drought afflicted the city, and for many
days the pagan priests tmplored their
gods to send rain. When the drought
the temples took matters into their own
hands, and proceeded to punish the gods,
The idols Of their own making were re-
moved from the cool, spacious temple and
placed out Of doors in the full heat OF
the sun. Then the priests began to mock
and chide them like so many children.
even haunting them with such remarks
as, 'Stay there and see how you like to
bake in the sun" And there they sat
until the rain came. About the ssme time
an accident which was Immediately
charged to the anger of the gods, oc-
CURED in me Of the mines Of Korea. SO
the mines were closed until exorcist
priests we're brought from long distances
to perform rites and ceremonies intended
to appease the wrath Of the gods. 1t
seems, therefore, that the heather deity
which is liable to wrath. is very much
Ike the Satan Of the Bible.
CHRISTIAN GOD IS
HEALER OF SCIENCE.
The Founder of Christianity repudiated
the nation that Satan could cast our Sc
tan. and gave as q reason that q king
dom divided against itself cannot stand.
He once spoke Of a certain woman who
had been bowed together eighteen years
and could in no wise lift up herself, IS
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hath bound, 10, these eighteen years.
He healed her Immediately by the power
Of God, and 1t was on the Sabbath day.
The Christian God, therefore, does not
send disease, but He heals disease. He
is in other words, the divine Principle
of our health and holiness.
To the Christian Scientist, the Christ
idea bears the same relation to the divine
Principle as the suns rays bear to the
sun itself Christ Jesus declared him
self to be the light OF the world,-the
same light that appeared in the begin
ming when God said, Let there be light
and there was light" That light was
the saving Christ; but God, the divine
Principle, was the Creator OF 1t. In due
course, the coming Of that light as a
saving power was spoken Of as "Imman-
uel or God with US" which is the ap-
pearing Of divine intelligence in human
consciousness, healing and saving man
kind.
Bible scholars make a distinction be-
tween Christ and Jesus. which Christian
Science explains; for God appointed the
man Jesus to the office Of Christ. Christ
Jesus therefore was the promised Mes
siah, or Mediator between God and men.
He rightly declared himself to be. not
God, but the Son of God. bearing witness
I through his healing ministry unto the
Christ, Truth that redeems and saves all
mankind.
For a long time professed Christians
fell into such idOlatrous methods that
they utterly lost sight of the healing
power Of Christ. All they beheld was
the visitation Of evil. and they prayed
after the manner of the athen to ap-
pease the wrath Of their God In effect.
they really became worshippers of Satan.
and that continued until n young priest
Of the church started a movement which
made it possible for people Of every rank
and station to read the Bible in their own
language This was the great reformer,
Martin Luther. AS result of this Bible
study, the people began to gain a more
correct view of Gcd. and occasional in
stances of healing rewarded their faith.
very significant and important re-
suit Of Luther's Bible study was the heal
ing of his disciple, Melanchthon. The
man had lost consciousness his eyes
We're set, and the court physician had
pronounced him beyond human aid When
Luther saw his dearest friend in that
condition. he was visibly frightened.
| Then, rousing himself. he exclaimed: 20
| God, how has the devil injured this thy
Instrument There ives the evidence OF
his Bible study; for he refused to at
tribute that sickness to God. Rather did
he appeal to the Giver Of all good TO
save his friend. To use his own words
I ''wearied His ears with all His prom
| ises Of hearing prayers, which 1 could
| repeat out Of Holy Writ so that He
could not but hear me, if ever l were
to trust In His promises" Then grasp
ing MelanchthOn by the hand. Luther ex-
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