WILL ROGERS QUOTE:

 

 

PREAMBLE TO THE ALASKA STATE CONSTITUTION:

THE FAMILY ALTAR

May 13.

"Whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after Me, can-

not be My disciple". Luke 14:27.

If Holy Scripture contained no other passages to expose clearly

the dangerous doctrines held by the so-called Christian Scientists,

this single passage would do so. In it Christ calls every man

who would be His disciple into the fellowship of suffering. As

Christians we must not only be willing to suffer all manner of

afflictions, but we must suffer them patiently and in submission

to God's will, even as our Lord Jesus did before us. But this

the Christian Science people refuse to do. They deny the reality

of pain and disease because they deny the reality of sin. In doing

so they also brazenly deny the atoning love of our Savior which

prompted Him to die for our sins and save us from their guilt

and punishment. Again, when our Savior in the days of His

flesh healed all manner of sickness among the people (Matt. 4, 23),

He did not play the juggler, but cured real maladies, removed

real pain, and thus showed Himself a real Savior from sin and

all its consequences. Trusting in His mighty love and power,

we can look up to Him in days of sickness with the trustful

prayer: "Lord, behold, he whom Thou lovest is sick," and know

that He will not let us suffer one moment longer than is good

for our temporal and eternal welfare. But all this Christian hope

and comfort is destroyed by the teachings of Christian Scientists.

These people declare all pain and sickness to be only imaginary,

denounce what the Bible says about sin and its evil results, and

use prayer as a sort of magic to make themselves immune against

all bodily infirmities. They refuse to bear the cross of sickness,

though our Lord Jesus in His work as Savior took on Himself

our infirmities and bore our sicknesses (Matt. 8, 17), and thus

they read themselves out of the discipleship of Christ, are not

Christian, but unchristian, and we must beware of their soul-

destroying doctrine that nowadays has poisoned the minds of many.

0 Thou, from whom all goodness flows,

1 lift my heart to Thee;

In all my sorrows, conflicts, woes,

Dear Lord, remember me!

If worn with pain, disease, and grief,

This feeble frame should be,

Grant patience, rest, and kind relief;

Hear and remember me!