Show fROM THE l CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SENTINEL L THE BIGHT RIGHT OF OP THE INDIVIDUAL Tho rho Atlanta Georgian reports a case recently ft decided in the courts o of Geor and in comment on this case caso says faR gia ma 8 PI In tho the meaning of legal statutes of Georgia corgia divine healing is not the practice pac tice tio of ot medicine and ono one who isho practices it t is not required to take out a license before before tho the le legally constituted boards to practice practice medicine This is t the tho o 10 interpretation tation stion placed on that question queston by the cour rt of appeals in m an opinion written by br J Judge Hill lull Tho TIu quotations from itEm to opinio 1 justify this conclusion In jn speaking of the called so-called irregular ular methods and of the rights of individuals nd idu 18 to employ them for the h healing of dis disease ease eS Judge rudge Hill lull said Practical legislation leg let has nothing to do with them If they arc aro part of a man mans man's s 's faith t the e right ito to their enJo enjoyment ent cannot be le e or 0 awa b by legislation He says J 3 again aiD Ie To To ro th the iconoclast who de dc denounces these things things' as the tho fi figment ment of off I f or to th the orthodox phY l. l dan who claims for his system all wis WIS' WIS WISdom dom doin in the treatment t of human malady r we ce commend tho the injunction of him who iras as called the great reat physician who 1 when told that others other than his foU follow follow- kera era wera TerO casting castin out devils ils and curing r diseases disease said Forbid thorn not What f matters the system if ii in fact d devils dils ils are arc cast t t out and diseases aro healed f r In this decision the court seems to hake take take the very er broad ground that t ther the tho h r ri rights of the individual in the pursuit of x health cannot annot bo be abridged ed b by tin tics and in this re regard regard Christian L enlists elitists are entirely in in 3 agreement with the tho court Th They do not wish to impose their views vieW'S upon others nor do they thy desire that others shall impose their I views upon them To deprive a human 5 being of the tho ri right ht to seek seck any n means by which he lie has hope of being cured of I r f the tte diseases from which ho suffers i would be to deprive him of bis his constitutional con eon t l right to tb the e pursuit of life fand t and happiness and this would be most r emphatically truo in a case which the doctors had pronounced incurable 11 Even En in these days cIas of class privilege and and and predatory wealth h the courts aro maintaining tho the rights of the people and this Ibis is the most assuring evidence that government go by th the tho people is not an experiment but hut an in accomplished facto fact o ARCHIBALD LD M 1 L JOY VS V. aRRO i. i Among Amon th the man main statements state slate ments of our text book hOlik one is is remarkable remarkable remarkable remark remark- able for its ring rint of assurance Joy Cannot be bo turned into sorrow for sorrow sor sor- ro row ron ronis i is not th the master of joy Science an and Health p p. p Long Lont before tho the doming coming of Christ Jesus the prophet iah wrote that flint the Messiah would J give the Uthe oil UI of joy for mourning ar r. r r It Vis i till MH- Master made the first pi Q of hi Ins his mission oll ho he r J lir quote quote- quoted and said saHl as ashe aslie aslie lie he dosed the honk hoole U This day cia is this f scripture fulfilled in your cars em With strange e however man many of his followers those who have l needed comfort romfort have e not taken this promise promis of tf joy and many kindred promises found in in the tho Bible hut but they ha hae instead ad pointed mournfully to the words cords in the eleventh chapter of ot John Jesus an 33 if this statement proved his submission to sorrow and d lb S words Jesus wept when studied stud- stud wi in the Ii light ht of Christian Science T. T lake on a far different meaning from that which lies on the surface As we r.-o p read the tho whole story wo we find that Jesus was obliged to leave c Judea where his L. L mi mightiest works had been performed b because uEe the officers of the law at tt the instigation of the hi hierarchy were constantly constantly con con- seeking to take him but hut it is isaid f aid said that he lIe escaped out of their I land and went away beyond Jordan In ln the meantime Lazarus his bis devoted follower follo had harl been stricken down and ho tho sisters Bisters Martha and Mary sent word t to o tb the Master laster undoubtedly expecting Ills is aid alJ The story ston becomes Yer very pa pa- when we wc r remember that they thoy lared duel not ask Jesus to como come to them as would mean his arrest by his cruel enemies enemies- the they could only fa say nay He lie whom hom thou Invest loest is si sick k tJ When T Jesus propoF d to g go to Lazarus his hig reminded him that tho the Jews had had iad been s seeking to stone him and possibly pos pea sibly lh they the feared that if they went back backo to o Judea Juden they would share their masters mas nias- ter's krs fate tate Cut But at It length after a long days day's journey they reached Bethany and were told that Lazarus rus had hall lain in in tho the grave ra e four days Thero There can be bo no Qu question as to the tho Masters Master's purpose at I this nis hour He lie was ready to prove again I tb the power of the truth be he had declared n 1 so 80 ho he said paid to Martha lartha who had como come out outto to meet him Thy brother shall rise risea a again am Martha artha responded I know that nat he hI s shall all riso riS again n at It t the last da day as if that were small comfort ln In in her hour of sorrow orro Then the Master Mas Mas- t ter r went on to make maleo tho declarations of oi vital I. I al truth which today in Christian are arc rc rousing those dead in manal ma ma- nal to a recognition of Life as God thod Ho lie said I J Christ Ghrist Truth am the e resurrection and tho tim lifo life whosoever liveth th and believeth belic in mo me I haly aJ never r die and ho demanded I II Marthas Martha's assent to this proposition it on F. F Then inen th they camo came to the tho grave grave JESU Jesus I t ino tho o sorrowing sisters tho the trembling disciples die die- and the mocking enemies who ho expressed their wonder that he ho who had opened the eyes cyca of the blind could not bave Jave aye prevented tho the death of a n loved It seems that tho the Greek idiom translated groaning in h himself in conVeys con con- Veys s rather the idea of deep i di naIon na- na tin Ion on n the Jon part of him him who had bad como come to offer lif life abundant life all to but hut no 0 was despised aud and rejected of Although Jesus wept at tho the ravo gravo J of Lazarus it could not have been 1 for sorrow over Lazarus Lazarus Lazarus' fate for was h e pot not lot about to call him forth to life b agai agamy aln Was Vas it not rather because those be ti h was seeking to save were so blind to t the e truth 7 Even after Martha had pro pro- teased ed her faith in tho the Christ she ed to tho opening of her brothers brother's tomb and nd a said By By B this time timo ho he Vaa was Vas not the Masters Master's fa grief f on this thill oc- oc lon the same annie when he as 34 wept over Jerusalem Jerusalem savin saving If thou known f even thou at it least in this thy day the tle things which belong unto th thy Peace but now ut-now now tho they are liro hid from thino ov eyes A. A Did ld ho no not for foresee seo at that moo ino- IK the lon lonS centuries of darkness till the vl wt ii light I cht ht of Truth olf-Truth should break a again am 7 th Vho o can tell i Enough Enouch for us to know now that bat In Christian n Science the li Ii light ht ha has half dawned v U as ho promised au aud to re roo ro- ro member that sorrow is n not t counted among ml ong the he fruits of Spirit but Jut in instead love 0 joy peace ANNIE M. M r. r KNOTT l' l wish to bear grateful testimony to toe e r redemptive dempt e and healing power of iVf 8 ln S Science For years I vor fo was adi ad ad- i Dieted to the liquor and tobacco habits tho o 0 saloon was v to mo me a where I Il j Gulit pleasure and happiness and ad l there I spent p nt much of my hard earned d money At times mv row better sense would assert itself and 1 I would resolve resol never to drink or to go into a saloon a again ain but I could not I keep keen ce the rc resolution reso o lution lOtion and in in n a short time timo I would be ho helplessly drunk Finally the thc drink got me into lOto a serious trouble in the tho tight sight of the law an and in this extremity a 1 friend advised acl mo me to try tn Christian Science During the first t three weeks of treatment all I desire for drink left inc me and I b have wo loathed loathe the time verv ver thought of It since later I J lost all taste for tobacco That which had wrought m me much misery and suffering and had for years yeam-s bowed mv nn- mothers mother's head in in grief wan va suddenly lifted lifter from my life life and has become a adream dream of the time past past to to be forgotten How grateful I Iam Iam Iam am to the torch bearer to this thil age Mrs Eddy for lifting liftin tho the curtain of un unreality unreality un- un reality and revealing mans man's true anI anti and only selfhood as nR a child of God As the the the- Principle of Christian Science un unfolded unfolded un- un folded to mo me in its purity and nd immor- immor I found my myself ell healed of stomach and throat troubles For the freedom from the enslaving in habits and physical diseases discuses before belore referred referred referred re re- re- re to I am truly grateful grateful- but hut aboyo all aU else I prize tho the spiritual uplifting uplifting up up- lifting and incentive c to better living nJ which Christian Science ha has broll brought ht to me Every day I find that divine Principle Principle Prin Prin- ciple is helping me to a larger er sense of dominion over pr the man of the flesh ALEXANDER WILLIAMS Salamanca N N. N Y About two years rears ago IrO r I became berame dissatisfied dissatisfied dis dis- satisfied with the teaching of the church of which I was then a member and as ns I J needed help for physical troubles I asked a friend to lend d me some Christian Christian Chris Chris- tian Science literature She brought me Inc a copy of Science and Health and some somo S Sentinels and I began reading at once I bad had read from and anti Health only onh a fow few days when I real realized bed that I r no longer net needed dd glasses which I had worn for about twelve years The Tho oculist had told me inc I could never ne go without them but hut I have hao never nc felt Celt the tIme need of them since and there has aas never nover been any more suffering from my eyes s A serious cond condition tion of the spine also yielded in a aver very short time r I had suffered terribly from this trouble and aud spent R a great reat deal of mODO money for medical treatment The last osteopath to whom I went finally finay said that he could not relieve tho the trouble unless I could have absolute rest for at least a year M of My back lack has been perfectly well welland welland and strong since sinco the first few weeks of reading Science and aud Health Helth It seemed very wonderful to me me for at times I could feel the change taking place How beautiful it was to know that I was no longer lonter in bonda bondage e to the tho belief in in rn material laws but that I was free to do domy domy domy my work and care cUC for m mj my famil family as I should hould These arc are only two of the many demonstrations of the power of Truth over oyer error which we have hac had and before closing I want vant ant to tell of an an- other Last Christmas morning our fourth child was WM born horn I had bad always before suffered Buffered for hours hail had taken chloroform and had a slow recovery This time timo there was almost no pain and the second day I ate atc supper with the famil family Words can never express In my gratitude for this wonderful healing truth w which ich our dear Leader Mrs Eddy Edd has revealed to the world HARRIETT 0 O. PERKINS Toledo 0 O. |