The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1895-05-16
THURSDAY, MAY 16, 1895.

not so-called germ diseases be as
much composed of mental germs as
of physical ? How did children die
of disease before they we're capable OF
having any fear The power of the
parents mind over the child was an
unknown quantity. Christian science
said that disease is often caused by
the fear of disease and from the
image brought before the mind dur
ing an excited state of feeling, which
is afterward outlined on the body"
There was no greater mystery than
photography fifty years ago.
Doctors had to use a great deal Of
deception. He knew a doctor who
cured a lady who believed she had
swallowed a frog by putting a frog
into his pocket and showing it to her
after employing an emetic. Mind,
through science, has done wonderful
things in this century. Steamships,
railways and telegraphs we're sneered
at a hundred years ago. Then the
best engineers said that it was i'm
possible that a steamer could ever
cross the Atlantic. She could not
carry coal enough to take her over.
Physical science was exact. Men
could measure, handle and weigh it.
Not so with mental science yet. Not
so with Christian science, which was
the science of mind and soul. The
psychological and the metaphysical
elements had to be taken into account
in it, which made it more difficult to
deal with. But was it not possible, at
least, that men, by-and-bye, might be able
to handle and apply mental and spiritual
laws as exactly as physical laws, when every
day the world was being startled with new
applications of laws that had been in the
world since the creation +? No man was war
ranted in saying that Christian science was
deception. Better for the doubter to take
the position of the agnostic and say II
don't know" If this counsel be of men it
will come to naught, but if it be of God We
cannot overthrow it lest haply We be found
fighting against God"
second principle of Christian science
was: Let the wicked forsake his way, &C."
He had heard the argument used, against it,
a man might be and continue as much of a
tough as he cared to be and by few words
of prayer from some expert be put right of
any disease in a moments time. That was
burlesque on Christian science. Christian
science said there could be no healing where
there was sin unforsaken. Christian science
was mind-healing-theh healing of the human
mind by the divine mind, and purity could
not enter where impurity was nursed.
third principle was whatsoever We
would that men should do unto you, &C.. The
law of love was pushed to the front. Unless
the minister, doctor, lawyer, business man
and every man carried this principle into
his life and work he could not, according to
Christian science, look for healthy body or
mind. 1t would be a good thing for the
world if every man was Christian scientist,
in that particular, at least Those three
principles were the foundation principles of
all the Evangelical churches.
Does Christian science heal: He had not
been healed by it himself. He had not tried
it, but there were men and women in this
town who believed they had been healed as
firmly as they believed their existence. He
had no reason to doubt their word. Were
there certain diseases, then, that Christian
science could heal and certain others it,
gould not heal: If the theory was true that
the mind could heal everything, Christian
science did not stop at any disease. But he
believed that it might take hundreds or
thousands of years to bring the world gener-
orally into that belief The doctors, there
fore, who lived to-day did not need to fear
that their craft was in danger. People who
had been cured had an argument which. to
them, no logic could refute. 1t was similar
to the answer of the blind, man in the Cos
pels Once was blind now I see.''
What was the rationale of healing The
patient was instructed that he was not a
helpless victim, but could resist disease:
error was contradicted and God was asked
to heal by leading into the understanding of
truth. What was truth: Christ only said
of Himself Il am the truth" To be led
Of Christ and become fully identified with
Him. That, to the lecturer, was the great
est beauty of Christian science. In it's re-
ligious aspect it led men to God through
Christ. A man could not be an intidel and
Christian scientist A man could not be a
poor Christian if he were genuine Christian
scientist. A Christian became more active
Christian by adopting at least the religious
principles of Christian science, for in doing
this he was only adopting the neglected
principles of his own Christian religion. If
a man was led to God by the belief that God
directly would drive disease out of his body
it was good thing for his soul; and it was
well-known fact that mans bodily all
ments troubled him more in many cases than
did the sins of his soul. No man could do a
better thing for his spiritual nature than
join the Society of Silent Union in connec-
ton with the Christian scientist work.
Thereby he would pledge himself to study
silently a quarter of an hour every night
some passage OF Gods Word. BY that means
his mind would be brought into harmony
with the divine mind which was undoubtedly
a grand thing for mans whole being.
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