Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-10-25


as any lav Of geomeiry. that tho more Of
tins aversion and impAtisnce We feel. the
more intensive Is the pain. The one Is the
exact measure Of the other, The pain on
the spiritual side of il is nothing but this
feeling OF aversion, and the impatient haste
to be delivered from the sensation. five
can bring ourselves to feel that the pain is
not an evil, but q good, and that all good
is desirable and delightful, and remove
from our minds the repugnsncs to it, and
replace IT BY q Etate Of perfect patience,
and tranquil endurance, the pain viii sub.
side and finally cease. SEedenborg defines
pain to be feeling Of repugnAnce arising
from interior falses, fur that which il re.
pugnant to Us is painful. (Apocslypse
Revealed. 697). In it, spiritual essence
pain is feeling Of repugnance, and the
aversion We feel toward il arises from
misapprehension of its nature and use. II
springs from our falsely viewing it as an
evil, whereas it Is always good. The
correction Of this deep seated delasion is
the cure of it All men love and desire
what is good, and we cannot avoid this, for
p
love and desire affords "a delight, and
never pain. If we can remove from our
mind the aversion to what we call pain,
under the mistaken notion that il Is an
evil, the pain will go with the aversion out
of our consciousness. There is not q law
ofnsture or mind more certain in its opera
ton than this. Pain Is caused by our in.
teffering with and obstructing the opti-
mism Of nature. The divine life in the
world, and in the human body always
works in the direction OF our supreme good.
And when We can say, not as prayer for
something We have not, but as state into
which we have entered, Thy kingdom
come, and they will be done in earth Tor in
the material body as it lie done in heaven"
our pain will cease. If the pain we feel,
as that Of boil is a good thing land il
certainly is not evil or q disease, but an
effort of nature towards the renewal OF our
Gfe). then by viewing Il as such, and lay
ing aside on. aversion or repugpance TO it,
and orr impotence and the divergence of
our will from the Supreme Will, il will
change the nature Of it, for all good is
pleasant to us.
In regard to any painful disease, when
we perceive and affirm that what occasions
the pain is not an evil, but good, and
when by the light Of the supreme knoRl.
edge which dispels oil our illusions and
seDsuous fallscies, we view 1t as q good,
our repugnsnce or aversion to it ceases.
and as that is the causal source Of the pain,
that also disappears from consciousness.
For an effect must cease on the removal of
its cause The principles of this brief
article will stand the test of experiment.
/ have known persons in the deepest agony
to find immediate and permanent relief by
an application OF them. Let us remember
that our real self, the 81 init OF man, is in.
cluded In the Divine Being, and into this
great habitstion never tear or sorrow came.
What we call pain is An illusion. II is
positive good, aud all good iS delie hful.
When we view things in the light Of the
supreme truth, or as the Divine Mind views
them, and bring our will into line with the
will tina. creates and governs all, our pains
and petty sorrow fall of like drops OF rain
from q lotus leaf An eternal rest,
solid nnd enduring peace, closes round the
soul of him who dwells in God