Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-12-05

opponents. And why, pray do you suppose
Christian Science has found itself
ton? Why has it been so maligned
and misrepresented? Why, for the
very same reason that the Holy Nazarene
was prosecuted from city to city, from
country to country; for the same reason
that he was villiied and ridiculed; fol-
the same reason that he was stoned and
spat upon for the same reason that he
was sentenced to death on the cross and
for the same reason that he suffered
and endured the agonies of Calvary
because-simply because-he healed the
sick and brought comfort to the SHINING
and sOrrowful; because he healed the sick
through prayer and by spiritual means
alone, to the complete discredit of all
material so-called methods of healing
simply because he taught complete
salvation from sin without the lettering
and unaYailing requirements of scholastic
theology and without bowling before the
Journalism of the creeds and ritualtstic
dogmas of priest and rabbi. Had Jesus
never healed the sick spiritually; had he
never taught that it is sinful to resort to
material means for healing; had be never
comforted and reclaimed the sinner with
out the show of hollow cant and more
than worthless ceremony, the world never
would have witnessed that awful tragedy
on Calvary and there would be no Chris
tan religion today-no scientific re-
hgion.
Likewise, OaQ Ue6li
unable to accomplish these same heal
ing and regenerating works of the Mas
ter in the same manner and through the
same means that he did, in strict obedi-
ence to his commands, his teachings and
his precepts, it never would have been
the object Of the misrepresen alton, per
secution and intolerance to " 1ich 1t has
been so often subjected. 1t was tnevita-
BILE that Jesus should have suffered the
agonies of Calvary and it is inevitable
that any religion following in his foot
steps and obeying his command to go
into all the world, preach the gospel,
heal the sick and raise the dead shall
bear his cross of ridicule and condemna-
ton, shall drink his cup of bitterness and
humiliation, until it prove to an I'M
willing and sEeptical world its words
by its works.
SPIRITUAL
HEALING RESTORED.
Christian Science has come to human
ity to restore to it the lost art Of heal
ing which the great Master Christian,
Jesus the Christ, declared should exem-
plify the understanding of those truths
Of existence which he gave to the world
some twenty centuries ago. One can
hardly read the New Testament without
firm conviction that much Of the vital
ity given it by the life and works of
Jesus has been lost or eliminated
throughout the intervening centuries.
Jesus taught that it was his understand
ing OF God and Gods government Of His
universe which enabled him to do the
works Of healing and regeneration he so
freely accomplished throughout His
brief ministry and of which he said in
no unmietakable terms He that be-
lieveth on me, the works that do shall
he do also"
CHBIsT's MISSION
ON EARTH.
Jesus mission on earth was to establish
with men that understanding OF God
which would enable them to do the very
works that he did. He said I'VE shall
know them by their fruits" and In ex-
PLANTATION Of this saying you will recall
that near the close OF his earthly minis
try, 10 emphasize TO his disciples the
fruitlessness of merely external appear
ances OF piety, he cursed the barren fig
tree-the fig tree which, to all outward
appearances, was a worthy example of
its species, but which, on intimate &C
Quaintance. proved to be entirely devoid
Of fruit but profuse in beautiful and
promising foliage. Jesus taught that his
works Of healing and regeneration were
not Of a miraculous nature but were in
digenous to the correct understanding OF
God which he came to give US. Jesus
came to establish the kingdom Of heaven
on earth for all mankind throughout all
time-fOr you and for me, right here and
now. In that mighty prayer, given US In
his Sermon on the Mount, we find these
words: Thy kingdom come. Thy will
be done in earth, as it is in heaven. -
That which enabled the disciples OF
Jesus time to heal the sick. cast out
demons and even raise the dead was in
tended for you and for me just as much
as for the disciples, otherwise the marvel
Gus works and teachings Of Jesus are OF
no avail as our Savior. There is nothing
in the Bible and in the teachings and
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 OF Jesus. In the sixteenth
chapter Of st. Marks Gospel Jesus gave
this explicit command to all mankind
through the medium of his disciples
"These signs shall follow them that be-
lieve; in my name shall they cast out
devils; they shall speak with new
tonguet; 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. y
And is It not a glorious thing to know
that at last we have been awakened
through Christian Science, to the recognl-
ton of the fact that that command was
for you and for me, and that we have
been given, through Christian Science
that understand ding of Jesus teachings
which makes the fulhllment OF this COM
mand a present and immediate possibility
and that you and I may know enough
right here and now to assist in estab-
fishing the kingdom Of heaven on earth?
SPIRITUAL VS..
MATERIAL LAW.
If you will carefully follow the life
OF Jesus as given in the New Testament
and consider his works in connection
with what he taught you will discover
that what he did was merely to estab-
fish as a demOnstrable fact what he
taught, and that what he taught and
did were said and done in accord with,
and In explanation OF, some immutable
ever present, universal law You will
see, in other words, that his words and
works were looking to the establishment
with men of divine, omnipotent spiri-
tual law which will eventually rule all
mankind 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 universe and had looked and
still does look, upon law to be that
which has to do with materialitv or mat
ter. In fact, II you VIII consider for q
moment, you will agree that we have
never associated law with anything but
with matter. All material or physical
manifestations of whatever name or ma
ture-all material phenomena-cIaim to
be the product or outcome Of some ma
terial law. Everything cognized in the
experience Of mortals from the cradle to
the grave is claimed to exist or to trans
plre because of a law of matter. and II
we will carefully analyze our concept OF
this entire material existence we will
find that we have attributed all material
conditions, phenomena and manifesto
tons to God. Have we not? Have we
not always looked upon everything of
which we have been cognizant through
the medium of the senses Of seeing. hear
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