The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-11-26

stood and put into practice this
law Of God.
Coming down to Jesus time. we
6nd a the life and teachings Of
the humble Nazarene the most
complete explanation and exposi-
ton of this law of God ever given
tn mankind. In his turning the wa
fer into wine at the wedding feast,
his first public demonstration of
fhe mower of Gods law. he at once
proved that all true law is spirit
nal. or mental, and what We term
matter is. OF itself, not lawmak-
or. that all the so-cailed laws of
matter may be annulled and set
aside completely by an intelligent
application of Gods law.
Substances Not Materially Com
posed.
When He walked the waves He
completely overcame one OF the
most unvarying material laws OF
which we have any knowledge. In
this instance Jesus proved that
true substance is not materially
composed and that there is but
one true attraction. the attraction
Of God, of Gods law.
In these instances it is proven
that not only is mans supply in
finite and ever available but that
the multiplication enjoined upon
man by God. in the first chapter of
Genesis, is a process dependent
wholly upon submission to the law
of God and not upon any human
concept of propagation and in
crease These thousands of in
stances of healing, most of them in
Simultaneous, show US that there is a
law of God which. when applied.
can heal all our ills, be they what
they may; that God is not the auth
or OF sickness and that matter has
no authority nor power in itself to
create, to heal or to alleviate sick
ness.
If there are two things which
stand out above everything else in
the tea chings and works of Jesus
they are, first, that death is an
enemy which must, be overcome
through the correct understanding
and application of Gods law, and
second that heaven is not locality
off somewhere in the blue empyr-
can but that heaven is, rather, a
divine state OF consciousness which
may and must be obtained here and
now through mental regeneration.
And after all, my friends, is it
not self evident that if the world is
ever to be ChristianiZed it must
/ come about because of tangible, I'M
I mistakabIe evidence OF healing and
/ regeneration such as Jesus accom-
| plished and which he said we
! should be able to accomplish also
! because of our understanding OF
the law of God, which He came to
| establish with us?
! We have for years and years
! been sending our good, noble. self
/ sacrificing missionaries into the
! countries of the unchristian, or
! heather, with the hope that We
! could bring them to Christ through
! preaching without practice, with
: the result that today but very
small percentage of the earth's pop
ulation can be called christian, and
, this, because We have been unable
{ to offer our heather brethren the
i tangible and unmistakable signs OF
/ Christly understanding which Jesus
said should follow them that be-
; Iieved-them that understood God s
+ law and the method of its applica-
+ ton. When we have gone to one
and told him of the beauties OF
Christianity, of the JOY, the peace
and the comfort that come with a
demonstratab Bile understanding OF
God and His law and have proven
! through the healing of the sick
! and the comforting of the sorrow
/ ing and the saving OF the sinful
! that what We have said is true and
/ demonstratable here and now, we
have gone a long way towards win
! ing him to Christ
! Turning Men to God.
And that, my friends. is the mis-
sion OF Christian Science, to turn
men TO Cod, TO Jesus, to Christ,
through those works which Jesus
enjoined on all mankind as the
only evidence we can ever give OF
our Christianity--of true salvation
With Isaiah We cry, "Ho, every one
that thirsteth; come We TO the wa
tiers, and he that hath no money
come We, buy and eat, come buy
wine and milk without money and
without price"
And now the question of how to
bring into action this ever-present
law of God, how to apply it to our
present needs, how to heal the sick.
comfort the Borrowing and save the
sinner. as Jesus did, naturally pre-
sents itself. This, my friends, is
accompanied in Christian Science
solely through the prayer Ot under
standing. Our every thought, in
clination and deed must be the out
come of constant mental attitude
of prayer if We would follow the
Master in the way Of His appoint
ing.