The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-11-27

One of the most beautiful invita-
tions ever extended to troubled hui
mainly is to be found in these
gracious words of the great Teacher
of Nazareth: "Come unto me, all
We that labour and are heavy laden,
and I will give you rest" And in
another place the Master briefly
sums up the purpose of his minis
try thus: 81 am come that they
might have life, and that they
might have it more abundantly."
The objections to Christian
Science are many and varied: that
it is neither Christian nor scientific
(that is ever the most venerable
and stupid objection of all, as even
a superficial reading of the text
book would reveaD that it cannot
heal the sick or reform the sinner,
although thousands Of people each
Wednesday evening in Christian
Science churches are testifying that
it has done so. And lately brand
new objection has been raised. A
woman said to a student of Chris
tian Science, "You people do not be-
lieve in God, do your" at which her
daughter interviewed, and said:
"Oh, no, mother, you are mistaken.
Christian Scientists are the people
who believe in God more than they
ought to!"
The Discoverer And Founder OF
Christian Science
Then there are the objections to
the revered Leader of the Christian
Science movement, Mary Baker
Eddy. Without doubt, the members
of our family were deferred from
turning whole-heartedly to this
truth in an hour of great need, be-
cause of the many unlovely critl-
cisms of the Discoverer and Found
er of Christian Science, and the
hateful statements about her which
one heard a generation ago, and
alas! still hears, although that
white-haired gentlewoman has been
gone from our sight nearly five
and twenty years. What poison il
deadlier than innuendo, half truths,
or cruel and unjust misconceptions,
which, through perverting thought
about the Discoverer, keeps mortals
from investigating a discovery the
mission of which is only to heal and
bless?
Exposing Sin In The Huwan Mind
The question may be raised, Why
should such a storm of opposition
to Christian Science have arisen,
If it's teachings are truly beneficent
and Christlike? Because possibly
more than any other Christian or
eanization since the days of the
humble Nazarene and his conse-
Grated, earnest followers, the
Church of Christ, Scientist, is 60
ing to the root of mankind's trpu-
bles and is exposing sin in the hui
man consciousness. The master
Christian once said that he had not
come to earth to bring peace, but
sword; in other words, he would not
cry, Peace, peace, when there was
no peace. He showed clearly that
before one could expect to have a
well body he must strive for
wholesome, honest, clean thinking.
"Whatsoever thing from without
entereth into the man, it cannot de-
file him." he said; "For from with
in, out of the heart of men, pro-
coed evil thoughts" and he added
"these evil things defle the
man." And Christian Science de-
mands of it's followers, and of all
those who would be healed, an
earnest, prayerful turning into
consciousness of the searchlight OF
Truth, that everything unlike good
may be uncovered and cast out.
God Is My Lifew
"God is my life!" A noted doc
tor once made the statement that
this declaration had saved many
person on the operating table about
to 20 under the surgeons knife. II
Love, good, spiritual knowing, 10
life, why do mortals vainly seek it
in Spirits opposite, namely, ma
terial sense? Someone may say:
"But I am getting so much satisfac-
ton from my life. Smoking, drink
ing, the senses give me pleasurable
sensation. Would you take these
from me and make my life q
blank?" Hear a parable: A hermit,
whose life had been spent on the
desert, knew no poisoning thing
except the cactus and few desert
flowers. "Could anything be more
fragrant and satisfying than my
cactus?" said he to a traveller.
"Have you ever seen an orange
blossom?" asked the other, "Ah, no,
and / don't care to either" returned
the hermit. Nothing could give
me greater joy than my cactus"
And so saying he stopped to caress
the spiny plant, but cried out from
the pain inflicted by the thorns.
Christian Science brings for every
cactus a fruit-blossom, for every
supposed material pleasure, a sense
of spiritual joy and real satisfac-
ton hitherto unknown. Said .
young student of Christian Science
recently: 81 wish I might adequate
" express the downright joy and
peace am experiencing since Chris
tan Science has taken from me the
tantalizing, gnawing, persistent de-
sire for liquor and tobacco that
made my days and nights moments
of ceaseless bondage. I really never
knew real joy in my tobacco or
liquor daysp
The so-called pleasures Of ma
terial sense are laden with nettles.
CLASH them and they are agents OF