Our Realm

Our Realm

The supernatural realm is really the realm of the believer. No one knows how much the mind and spirit can be developed. If the body is kept in fine fettle, there is almost no limitation to man’s mental and spiritual development. We have been slow to come to a realization that man is spirit and that his spirit nature is his basic nature.

We have sought to educate him along intellectual lines, ut¬terly ignoring the spiritual, so man is a self-seeking and self-centred being. Thus man has lost his sense of relationship and responsibility toward God and man. This makes him lawless – an anarchist.

We cannot ignore the spiritual side of man without magnifying the intellectual and physical; to do this without the re¬straint of the spirit is to unleash sex passions and give them dominance over the whole man. Man must have fellowship for his spiritual nature.
There must be a culture and development of the spiritual nature to the point where it can enjoy fellowship with the Father God.

The heart or spirit of man craves the touch of the supernatural. The love for the miraculous is in man. The spirit of man cannot be analyzed or classified by the mind; it is above the mind, as God is above the physical nature. Man’s intellect is ever conscious of supernatural forces about him that he cannot understand or interpret; perhaps, that is the reason why man longs to perform miracles.

The Soul Cry for Miracles

The curiosity for the miraculous is deep-seated in man. Man was brought into being by a miracle-working God and man will ever yearn to work miracles. The supernatural realm is really man’s realm. Sin has blinded us and has kept us from finding the secret door that will lead us back to our lost estate.

But the hunger is there, and the miracle is the way to bring man to God. Is there a miracle element in Christianity today? Did miracles end with the death of the disciples?
Are the so-called miracles that men claim to perform today fraudulent or purely psychic?
These are questions that we cannot ignore.

There has come a falling away on the part of the churches. Modernism dominates the great religious forces of Christendom; its denial of the supernatural element in Christianity makes it simply an ethical religion.

On the other hand, we have those who are contending for an original, miraculous element in Christianity, but declaring that miracles ceased with the death of the apostles; that Christianity does not need the miraculous today to convince men of the Deity of Jesus.

Then we have a third group who claim miracles are still being performed; that the sick are healed, that prayers are answered, and that God is a living reality in the daily life of the believer.

We cannot ignore the amazing growth of Christian Science. Unity, New Thought, and Spiritism. The people who are flocking to them are not the ignorant masses, but the most cultured and wealthy of the land, and their strongest appeal is the supernatural element of their so-called religions – the testimonies of healing by their followers are their strongest asset.

We cannot close our eyes to the fact that in many of our cities on the Pacific Coast. Mrs. Eddy has a stronger following today and a larger attendance at her churches than have the old line denominations; and the largest percentage of her fol¬lowers have at one time been worshippers in the denominations -they have left them because they believe they are receiving more help from Mrs. Eddy’s teaching than from the preachers.

They will tell you how they were healed and how they were helped in their spiritual life by this strange cult. This is a libel upon the modern Church-it is not only a libel but a challenge.