Article March 16, 1899 Issue

Christian Science Reading Room Opened in Excelsior Springs

A. S. Orear

The time is here for us to begin to clean up for the number of visitors we expect this summer. While we are sweeping and cleaning our houses and streets, let us not forget to sweep out the dust of ignorance and prejudice from our own consciousness that we may be prepared to reflect the good spiritually as well as materially. This point in religion we are prone to forget. Would we rather look at another, to see and magnify his faults, than first to pluck the mote out of our own eye, so that we can see clearly how to lead the erring one in the way he should go, and by our example lead him to Christ? Many come here who are thirsting for the waters of Christ, Truth. Let all Christians be ready to point them to the fountain of Life. (Christ), where they may drink and never thirst. It occurs to me that Excelsior Springs is a great field for God's work. People come here who are blinded by hypnotism, mesmerism, spiritualism, so-called Christian Science, necromancy, occultism, mind cure, mediumship, clairvoyance, so-called divine healing, quack doctors, and other evils, and it is our duty so to reflect divine Love that they turn their gaze to the Christ, and thus be lifted to newness of life in Him.

I became a student in Christian Science about nine years ago. I went through a class at that time and have since received a certificate. I knew that it was God's work then, and I am daily more and more convinced that it is the Truth, the whole Truth, and nothing but the Truth.

I studied the system taught by Rev. Mary Baker G Eddy, Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, and this is the only system called Christian Science to which I adhere. Christians are falling beneath their privilege when they neglect to throw out the search light of Truth daily. Cast out the evil self and through the grace of God let the light shine. Christians are living in disobedience to him who said, "go ye into all the world, heal the sick and preach the gospel," if their lives are given only to preaching the gospel, and they do not heal the sick. Christian Science healing is no miracle, but a proof of God's power and presence. Christians should know this and believe it. Any Christian should be able to heal the sick which is done by realizing there is no power in self but that God is omnipotent and omnipresent.

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