Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-02-18

thing and every power necessary to his
permanent welfare.
THE God we worship is good and He
is able, willing and ready to redeem
mortals from the evils imposed upon
them by an utterly perverted sense OF
existence
They will never emerge from the
area of disease until they comprehend
the scientific fact that all that means
God-all that means the natural law of
God-all that means basis, source and
cause-law, government and power, is
contrary to the inception and continuity
of sickness.
''At this point is seen one of the chief
differences between Christian Science
and all other schools of religious belief.
We believe that all evil is finite, unlaw
full and unnecessary and that it has no
Immortality or inherent power of con-
tinuity. We believe that through a
knowledge Of the truth which Jesus said
would make us free, we may in time
dominate and abolish every form of
evil in accordance with His command
and example.
Now, if what have said be true, it
follows that nearly the entire philoso-
ply of life which has governed men for
ages, is false and destructive. Certain
ii is that people regard sickness as nat
ural and according to law, and are sub
hitting to it and living and dying in ac-
cord with philosophy of death which
Christian Science declares to be abso-
lutely wrong.
"a discussion of this subject of heal
ing hinges on the question: What are
the primary and intermediate causes of
disease?' Physiology, which takes no
cognizance of the mental, moral and
spiritual nature of man, answers this
question by declaring that sickness and
death are caused by matter and by evil
laws, and the prevalent human belief is
that matter includes in its nature and
law the power and disposition to make
man sick and finally TO assert a fatal
mastery over his existence.
This theory of causation naturally
creates universal and individual state
of dread, alarm and fear. ln fact, it is
absolutely indisputable that the whole
human family is in state of conscious
and unconscious fear of pam, disease
and death which it supposes are caused
wholly by matter.
Here Christian Science differs from
materia medica, physiology and all
other material theories and beliefs. 1t
declares that nearly all disease is caused
false beliefs, sin and fear, and locates
causation in the mental realm instead
of the material,
Il do not intend to try to consider all
of this subject now, but will refer to
evil and sinful conditions of thought
and to fear and its effects in order to
indicate the way in which Christian
Science becomes available in such cases.
Continuing our discussion of the
cause of disease, | refer again to the
statement that sin is a cause.
The Bible says: Through sin came
death into the world and death by sin,
and this, of course, should be under
stood to mean that through sin came
sickness, of which death is the ultimate.
We do not understand this to mean that
the word sin refers only to crime, vice
and immortality, but that through. all
kinds of ignorant and destructive be-
liefs and an evil and fatal misconcep
ton of life and what pertains to it, the
world has involved itself in mortality.
christian Science practice is demon
strating absolutely the verify of its own
disclosure which is that hatred, grief.
remorse, envy and kindred evils, as
well as fear, will, if persisted in, newt
ably cause bodily disorder and suffer
ing. 1t shows that the Bible statement
that. whatsoever a man soweth, that
shall he also reap is positively true.
"Such evil and intlaming mental con-
ditions quickly disturb the nervous sys-
TEN, the circulation of the blood and
the integrity of organic action Very
many instances of sickness have no
other cause, and yet how much atten-
ton is paid to the moral or immoral ele
ment in the patient in the ordinary
diagnose of disease? None. In such
instances the drugging system is abso
lutely obllvious to the actual cause. No
wonder that it does not dominate dis
ease.
People have been urged for hun
dredS of reasons to abandon sin. Chris
tian Science joins in this entreaty, and
while it pleads this cause because right
eousness is far better, it also warns
men to fee from sin because of the sure
ness of the penalty which sin intiicts
upon its victim.
GOOD AND BAD CHARACTERS.
Picture to yourself some man or
woman who is kind, loving and upright;
one whose fair life is marked by the
milestones of benevolence and good
deeds Notice the effect that such a
mental condition has produced on the
face of this person with the softened eX
preston and pleasing lines.
ION the other hand, witness the man
whose mind is evil; who for years has |
been animated by hatred and other
brutal propensities that distort and de- |
bauch mankind.
Witness his face, hard, repellant |
and twisted. Its very offensiveness of |
outline and shape is itself an evidence |
of the incarnation of evil You know |
that this disfgured and twisted face |
has been caused by wicked and sinful |
mind
Now ask you if such evil thought |
can twist and distort his face don't you |
suppose that it can twist and distort his |
LIVERY Suppose that such man who |
was suffering the consequence OF his |
evil thoughts should resort 10 the prev /
aent theory and practice of medicine /
for relief. Can you conceive ii possible 1
that there would be any scientific pro- |
cedure in administering liver pills to 4
him, or in changing his diety Such 4
patient does not suffer because he ate 4
ice cream or mince pie, but because his /
very being is wrencPeu and torn by i
evil thoughts and motives. He needs
not a change of diet, but the transfer
nation of mind
My friends, Christian Science
teaches that God has already done
everything Tor man that he requires
and that we need Oily lay hold upon
the possibilities of fIse and find that in
the mind which was il Christ is health,
life, prosperity and dominion over evil
aud To- tind that this mind, this savior,
is within The Christian Scientist is
gaining knowledge which is power
which IS an ever present help. Under
all circumstances he finds that he eQuIps
him the better to withstand evil aud To
manifest good and to fulfill the utter
ance, / can do all things through
Christ which strengthened me
The practical influence OF Christian
Science does not stop ut the reforma-
ton ard healing uf the sick aud sinful,
but extends itself into the everyday
life and into all the affairs Of busy men
aud women. 1t aceomplishes for such
people benefits that are As marked and