Show 1 FROM ELECTIONS t he e CHRISTIAN I t EG 1 SCIENCE SENTINEL I I I From an Editorial in May la Arena rena Jesus according to tho testimony of f tilt the authors of ot the gospels made HO flU distinction between functional and andors ors organic diseases fica Indeed no fact Is clearer than that to him hint all idea of ot physical causa causation lion was subordinate nate to tho the idea of or spiritual supremacy UI lie He Ic made malic no cla class S s distinctions such uch as asO those O In th the orthodox churches chinches aro arc today making In their attempt to cure tl In what they claim to b be the tho primitive way war To him the organic disease was no flO le lest lews amenable to cure rb t through t spiritual recognition of ot mans man's l oneness with God GO and tho the dominion which he believed to bo be resident In Ini i tho tilo children of ot the Father All who been created In the Imago Image and likeness of God when rhen thc they recognized or or r realized their own divine livine nature I and th their lr oneness with viUl God than titan were I tun disorder l leprosy Ital tal blindness and other ea dl-ea diseases e that I lIi L l y no stretch of the imagination could cOUil ho called merely functional II as well wull as the raising of ot tho those o pronounced by hr the physicians dead end J Jesus caus did not seem eem to be believe lic that l I any special gift grift of healing such auch as asI I in the lepers and und cV even n raising the dead cleAd was VIlH con ned to h hint him tm or to his twelve apo apostles In fact there ther Us- Us nothing In the th teachings R of Jesus explicit than that the tho gift of If C hyaline healing wa was t to be a mark of or apostle apostle- hll and anti wo arc are taught clearly lila his hl Idea a. a that G God cI was a God of or tho the living i and not of the e dead that the Lord of or Life Lite was was powerful all and that It was w not Hot Ills His will that any should suffer that the Father All was omnipotent omnipresent All in and und fluid that hat those who carao caine en rapport with I Him who learned i tI to understand nv j realize their with the time God Cod Godif of if 1 whom weco the tho reduction or 01 image g could accomplish h all things and g gain ln what whatsoever ur I the they asked I no so long OH as their h. h hearts arts wen veme pure anti and th y kept en em rapport with tho the divine lne TACo LUo the or great source or reservoir If f. f Lifts Life and Love Jov For wo ye aro are told i p that after n r- r this lila Je Jesus us sent tent out other ev nty and commanded them when f. f they tiley entered a n. town to heal the sick that aro arc r t therein Moreover loreO the i t I s o ont nt al appear pal to havo have h been I cn quite a as as RS the t twelve I e apostles apostle for fr wo WI are arc told 1 that tho seventy re returned returned re- re turned again with jO joy saying Lord Loul even uyen tho the devils de arc are subject unto us I through thy name tiame Xoi will It do lIo doto ti to attempt to jU Juggle with the facts liy by claiming 1 that Christ only delegated delegat ed this power tr to those with him bun r i In Ing his earthly ministry for his teachIngs teach tench- In ings 6 and ond the tho- New Testa narratives e and injunctions Injunction a awell aSwell as I well as au the tho chronicles of the carl early church are art all an against this position Moreover orco what In the Bible ar are aro plainer or 01 more molo explicit than these thes from Mark which It II Is represented I r the final injunction of Christ Chris after aCter his re and Immediate V ly Iy before lefOre his hi ascension ion Go ye e Int Intall Into 4 all the world and preach the gospel gospe I to ever every denture creature And AnI th these thos 80 r sighs shall follow them that believe belleVe I In my ny name shall they cast out devils i th they shall speak with new tongues the they j shall take up imp serpents and I If th they drink an any deadly thing It shall all iio not hurt them the they shall haIl lay their 1 I hands ands on the sick and they shall re re- re cover er Again Chri Christs Christ's tH teachings N in regard tp to prayer are aie equally equall explicit an anelI and anel I rt reveal eal th the same overmastering o I or conviction on out his hiM part that those thos u uI I t who came en rapport with tho the divine life with the spiritual dynamo of or th tho 0 universe e which we call cali God HO I spiritually positive l that their anI an- an u- u I I mac over ovel material limitations limitation was ab absolute On one ono oc occasion a ion he said laid Therefore I 1 Fa ay say unto you What hat r things so ver yo ye 0 desire wh when n ye 8 pray f believe o that yo ye C receive them and ye C shall have them Again h he lie says a Afek sk bk an and It Jt shall be given ghen you seek and antI yc ye C shall hall find knock and It shaH r be ned op opened unto you ou t Th The early church hh history tor as chroni chronicled chron chron- i In the Ac Acts Acta of the Apostles is al alJ almost almost al- al J most as rich In instances o of euros cures of or i 4 almost all manner of dl diseases am antI ami l. l even Fn of the raising raisinS of or the tho dead as Is V- V i the stor story of ot the life of Christ and andi i his hla mi earthly ministry From what wo we fluid find hero here and In th the teachings teachings teach teach- ings Inis o of the New ew Testament ut and from rom other chronicles i elating relating to the tho primitive primi primi- tIe thc church 1 before eolo it became corI cor cor- I It is li apparent nt that the apo flues flues- 7 lies III'S the tho carl early preachers and amid the earl early Christians all nil alike took Jesus f seriously serious serious- I ly h and did tild ld precisely what he so sol sal commanded and that their power power was YaK no llO less potent or pronounced pronounced pronounced pro pro- than that of Jestis Indeed to tho those e who believe In tho lie Inerrancy v fir If if the tho scriptures and who hold that I Jesus was wua divine and therefore not Dot t 1 J iJ I Ia a victim of Illusion it would woul seem that there is no escaping th tho lu conclusIon conclusion con con- elusion that Christ Chris held that diseases of all kinds kind or organic no less than titan functional fuite- fuite were absolutely subservient to spiritual domination He knew know no distinction between functional an and organic or or- ganic In the treatment of ot disease Ho To did lid riot not believe beHove as we have seen that cures through h tho the reco recognition of ot what he believed eel to be bo the tho omnipotent power pow pow- er or of or a n aGod God of or Love Lo were limited to toan an any kind of disease Furthermore he lilt did not t that ut tho power to euro cure disease dlease or to tomake tomake tomake make man reco recognize hl his hiM spiritual supremacy or essential divinity was owing to any peculiar power re resident In iii himself Indeed he lie expected greater great great- i er cr timings things s from froni his dh disciples if Ie they lher remained faithful to hl his teachings and amid I to the recognition of tho the spiritual law which ho hl held to bo be supreme For ho hoys says ys on one occasion He lie that believeth be- be oth on me the works that I do doe dohe dohl hl he e shall hall do ulo also ahlO and greater grealer works tItan than nan these shall he ho do do 11 He lie believed thul mt the tIlt more moro men came rome en rapport with ith Diet I or In one at with God Goel od the tho greater reater would bo be the recognition tion on of ot their rightful power or dominion domin- domin jell ion on which the creator had given to tolan toman roan man lan and that with that recognition would come more and more complete supremacy over o all physical condl- condl ons Christ Jesus never seemed con- con clous of ot nn any ati limiting laws which pro pro- victory save the lack of a realizing souse of or Go Gods God's s 's power ower of or dominion dominion do- do minion given Iven to Ills His children cIet cre- cre t ted d In His Ills Image and likeness oness Only the tho ho unbelief In lit spiritual supremacy th ho thu materialistic tlc thought that environed lr cn ned him him and the complete dominance domin domin- anco ance of sense perception that he encountered en- en countered on un every hand were re regarded ro- ro b by Christ t as obstacles to the manifestation of or If victory over o all the forms of disease and unhappy condi condl- ions lons That he himself felt CeU the time effect ef- ef of or this Unbelief horn born of or iam un and the necessity ity of his getting awa away at times from its us I deadly en I 1 atmosphere atmosphere atmos atmos- phere I. I IH is abundantly Indicated In the tho gospels Thus rhu we wc that In certain tam aln tain places Jesus could coull do lo no mighty works because ule of tho the unbelief of the Peel people Ic Again how real must have been his realization rN of or the need of oC spiritual strength which led lel him him to withdraw at night alone into Inlo the tho mountains mountain to that pray pray that i is to commune with the infinite Father and realize his ones one one- flees nes s with God On ono one occasion tho the disciples could coull not cure euro a n case of oC so- so o- o called obsession or what modern physicians phy phy- would term insanity In a violent violent vio vie lent form Christ promptly cured tho the case cas and In answer to the disciples disciples' question a. a as to the tho reason wh why the they were unable to lo effect the thc cure CUIC Jesus lid did not claim an any special power resident real resi dent lent In Lit himself but hut intimated that ho he had hall simply through spiritual absorption absorption tion lion and prayer gained ahel ah el greater power pow pow- er cr than the they possessed that Is that through prayer he hu hud had come more COmI completely en rapport with the tho divine Ine spiritual reservoir of Life anI and Love These and other passages that ml might ht l he be c cited cHed prove pro clear clearly that In Christs Christ's consciousness th there rc was vas no question but hut that through holiness and spiritual spirit spirit- i ual supremacy man could como conic so Into I oneness with God as to lo reflect th the su su su- I premo spiritual truth lruth and overcome disease dlease and unhappy conditions con con- HUong incident to the lie material life lIe It must be in remembered that Chris- Chris j linn inn Scientists take Jesus's words and andi i the statements n givin n In the Bible in regard to dl disease ase quite seriously They b believe c he was neither untruthful nor ignorant that he meant what hut ho sale said when who'll he declared that the healing ol of the tho sick nick in his hiE name was one of the signs that marked his discipleship They hell believe eve the Bible record of the cures cure made mado b by Jesus the tho apostles the and the early earls Christians after his day clar to be historical verities which prove the truth of Jesus's teachings In regard to And to tho the thousands and tens of thousands of persons who have been cured after regular physicians have o tailed failed to benefit bene bone fit them and In numbers of c cases ses atter after aft att- er or the regular doctor had pronounced a death sentence on them their euro cure together with the now exalted faith and moral enthusiasm m that tho they have derived from lh the now no understanding of the truth Christ have led lell to a be belief belief be- be lief lIet that the thc founder of or Christian Science Set Set- ence has hag rediscovered the tho truth which Jesus taught laught lived practiced and which WUN vima a priceless s heritage of ot tho the church before the days clays of or Constan tino a tine a heritage that largely explains tho the rapid spread of primitive Christian Chris Chris- tian I ty But to return to tho the central thought of or this paper Do tho the millions of orL orl or- or L- L l'- l' J M I Inspiration and the divinity of or Christ and do tho ministers of or tho the churches who e creeds teach these things thing carl carry car car- l' l ry ly tho the sl sign n that Jesus declared should JIOVO them his disciples Do the they attempt to do as a he solemnly commanded commanded com corn them to do o in the presence of or sickness s There can cn be bc but one truthful truthful truthful truth truth- ful answer to this lila queston question Even those who are aro driven Iriven b by tho the rapid I growth glowth of ot Christian Christa Science to do clo something adopt a 0 method that frankly rank discredits J sus's theory theor an and claim and the results that are sal said to have havo followed folowell his treatment and that of his disciples Jesus commanded th the tho disciples to heal Iseal all al manner of ot disease to cleanse the thc lepers and raise the thc lead dead and If the Bible re report report report re- re port Is Js true the tho Nazarene and his disciples disciples disciples dis dis- dis- dis during the life of Christ on onearth onearth onearth earth and amI after aCer the tho establishment oC or orthe the Christian Christan church lid did dil these thing things Organic disease was as quickly quick quick- ly h and successfully met as were functional tune tune- tonal diseases If 1 the records of ot the theNe New Ne Testa Testament nent are trustworthy an anif and If the Bible as the great reat orthodox orthodox world claims Is Inerrant there can cn be no question on this point Hence is ht it I not perfectly clear cear that tho attitude atti atti- ali ali- tude tUie of orthodox x Christianity Christianity- t today day In regard to tho treatment of tho the sick Indicates all al but universal al Infidelity to the long cherished and defended theological theo thoo- logical position of or the orthodox churches touching plenary In Inspiration and the divinity of ot Christ And If I the tho Bible Is to ho he taken as aM the theer er very er Word VoId of God Goll It I necessarily must be betrue true If I Christ Is the very VCr Son of ot God h ho would would not have been Ignorant ignorant Igno Igno- rant of or the laws o of life This It seems ought to ho 10 a n vcr very solemn thought for the millions who imo think tho they believe beleve in the inerrancy o of tho the Bible DilIe an and the thc divinity QI of ot Christ t. t It mn may also help them to understand one great groat reason for the astonishing growth of oC Christina Christian Christan Science during tho the last two decades s. s |