Milford chronicle., 1922-11-10


pears the nearest quotation to the on
used by Mrs. Swan and il reads
J. sickness is a belief, which must b
) annihilated by the divine Mind" Sure
ly thousands of years of drugs an
other remedies have failed to ann
hilate disease and sickness and
seems that since Jesus annihilate
disease in those whom He healed tina
the statement made by Mrs. Edd
.. must be true. There are many ref
n erences in the Bible that corrOberat
! this, see Exodus. 1925, II Chronicles
r 1912 and 1S, Isaiah 35:5.
+ Mrs. Swans reference to the lack o
sympathy on the part of parents
brings to the writer's thought an ex
, perience in his early study Of Chris.
, tian Science. Together with a frienC
the study was being pursued and the
friend stated that Christian Science
was the religion for him until after
visit to his home city when he re-
turned with the following statement:
"I am done with Christian Science"
and when asked why he said: that he
had seen the spectacle of a little child
born a cripple, allowed to stumble
along and cut it's knee while the par
ents remarked, "Oh, your not hurt, get
up" The writer asked the friend if he
had ever seen lodge man that was a
fanatic on lodge matters? The reply
was 'Yes." Then he was asked if he
had ever seen any church members
that were fanatics and the same re-
ply "Yes," then said the writer may
it not be that these people are fan
atics on this subject? Two years la
ter the friend was met and at the be-
ginning of the conversation he said
Before go any further 1 must make
an OpOlogy for the story that 1 told
you about the child in my home city.
I saw her last Sunday and she is
beautiful specimen of childhood and
completely healed, she walks perfect
ly. 1 guess those people knew what
they were about but at the time it
seemed cruel to me-" Now, Christian
Scientists do~not treat their children
in any such way, and while there may
be young students that do as the par
ents mentioned above if they are real
ly in earnest they will see the right
way and be as gentle as the man Jesus
whom they try to follow and the re-
suits will be the healing as mention
ed above. Mrs. Eddy also carefully
instructed her followers to report at
once any contagious disease to the
proper authorities and then to abide
by the laws made to safeguard the
public and Christian Scientists do so.
Mrs. Eddy certainly proved very
conclusively that those who under
stand God never need to fear poverty. |
She left very large estate in trust
for the advancement of Christian
Science and the good of humanity |
which is today being administered for
that purpose. No one could possibly !
think of Jesus as being poverty strick-
en-. The man who could secure his
taxes from the fishes mouth, turn the
water into wine and feed thousands
with only few loaves and fishes, GER
tainly proved that poverty was man
made belief and not a necessity or
that could not be dispelled.
That Christian Scientists do not close
the avenues of benevolence is evil
denced by their work in the recent
world war during which time they
contributed from their own resources
without any drives" or public solicit
tations Two Million Dollars ($2,000,-
O00) for the relief of the war suffer- 1
ers. At the time of the Halifax disas-
ter Christian Scientists were early on
the scence with money, provisions end
workers and contributed $4,000 in
cash.
The statement quoted from page z76 ]
loes not appear on that page in the t
attest editions of Science and Health. [
IN page 492 Of the latest edition line /
'6 is this: "GOd is Mind, and God is /
infinite, hence all is Mind" On page i
rs of Science and Health is this state
nent about God: "The starting point j
If divine Science is that God, Spirit, a
s All-in-All, and there is no other l
md therefore He is divine Principle"
nd further on the same page Spirit, 7
life, Truth and Love combine as one, t
and are the Scriptural names for a
AOd." Christian Science does not de- a
hrone the God of the Bible but rather C
oes it give such a clear understand e
lg of God as ii make Him a very "
resent God that is available at all
ines and in all places. Does it not
lake God more real to you, and more
elpful, to think of Him as you would
ne principle of mathematics which is
lways at hand and can always be
sed, always ready to give an audience al
, your call for help. If you want to tI
Sc the principle of mathematics you ic
D not have to wait for someone else 81
get through with it, you do not have =
be able to call louder than someone
Sc, you do not have to plead with it. II
allow you to use it to help you to
live any problem. No, you just use =
You know that it is at hand and
ways ready. But, if God is a per-
N away off somewhere in the sky,
we long believed until Christian
,ience came to enlighten us, then
light it not be that at the time we NJ
anted to talk with Him he would be N
busy with someone else that you A
uld not get an audience with Him, or "a
at He might be so far away that
e could not hear you or that your
ice would be too weak to reach
i'm? "Am God at hand, saith the
)rd, and not God afar off," (Jere- ak
lah 1928. m
Christian Science does not teach
nat is known as "Pantheism" but it Ill
Us the ak at the root Of this false
nse of God. The Greek prefix "Pan"
cans all and "Theism" means God.
le commonly accepted definition of IL
is term is, that God is in all, that III
, is in matter, that He is in man.
le Bible does not say that God is in
IN but in many instances does it
NV that God oo111d mot ho in mat -