Durango semi-weekly herald. (Durango, Colo.) 1899-1907, 1903-09-21

eide with Jesus treatment of sin and
sickness. and do they not clearly in
dictate why he almost invariably said
TO those whom he healed. Sin no
more lest a worse thing come unto
your"
The Cure Of Sickness.
What, then, is the cure tor sickness.
do you ask? have already indicated
the Christian Science answer to this
question. | have, in a general way.
pointed out the cause or causes OF
sickness. There is no sickness with
out a cause This is the simplest
logic. Sickness does not come Of IT.
self. There is a cause for every form
of it. The true Office OF the physi-
clan, or the metaphysician as tie case
may be. Is to- get at and AbAA0ve
causes, not to doctor effects. The best
remedy for those forms OF sickness
which are known to be the direct re-
suit of wrong living. is TO stop the
wrong living and go to living rightly.
Suppose q stream or reservoir OF
water which furnishes the supply of
city becomes 50 polluted that many
inhabitants are getting sick and dy-
.ng from drinking it? What is the
sensible and effective thing to do? to
pay no heed to the water. but give
all time and attention to doctoring
the sick and burying the dead? Would
not all sensible people say that the
thing to do would be to remove from
The water the poisonous elements and
thus purify 1t and stop the cause OF
he sickness and death?
The Christian Science position is
that this same sensible rule should
be applied to all kinds Of sickness,
and therefore the great aim should
be to seek out causes and destroy
| them, rather than to tinker eternally
| with effects. 1t is irrational and I'M
| just for men to go carelessly and
,houghtlessly on. disregarding the con-
ditions which produce sickness and
| death, and then when these calami-
ties come, charging them to the will
| and purpose of an inscrutible Provi-
renee. They should rather turn their
| attention as earnestly, at least. to
learning how to avoid the conse-
| quences OF disobeying the divine law,
as they do to promoting their world
| ly purposes. To the extent that they
do this they may be sure that they
will reap the due reward of their
efforts, and relatively speaking.
much greater reward than mere
| worldly seeking can bring.
| If the cause of sickness is of such
nature that the patient is unaware of
1t, then the Office of the physician, or
metaphysician. is to ascertain the
cause, and apply the remedy. If the
cause is found to be mentaliand this
is what the Christian Science practi-
toner always looks for-then the
work 10 be done is to regulae or re-
move this mental cause. The Chris
tian Scientist endeavors to awaken
his patient spiritually and point out
to him his true relationship to God.
This is prayer in the highest sense of
the word. Not alone the prayer of
sincere desire and duplication. but
more the realization of Gods all
presence, all-power and all-Life, nay.
Lite eternal.
And | say to you in conclusion, my
friends, that this God is your Physi-
clan, as well as mine. We can go to
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sweet and silent prayer, and if we
pray Alright, He will heal us of our
diseases and remove from us our in
firmities. We can know. in the very
depths of our being. that He is our
Physician, our Comforter, our Life,
our Health, our All-in-all, and in the
fullest and most absolute sense, very
present help in trouble; and that in
Him we live and move and have our
physical and spiritual being.
May | not, then, appeal to all good
people, of every belief or sect, to aid
us in spreading this healing and saw
ing gospel? May / not deeply, earn
estly. and in the most fraternal spirit,
ask you to rejoice with us that God.
in these latter days, is sending around
the world a mighty current OF healing
Truth, and may l not ask you to unite
your voice with ours in pleading for
higher and more general recognition
of God as all-power, and OF all that is
opposed to Him as baseless and i'm
potent before His almightiness?
May l ask II the day is gone by
when God shall cease to be almighty?
when human error-sin-should no
longer be overcome and destroyed?
when sickness, sorrow, misery and
distress should no longer be striven
against until they are annihilated? 1
ask, in all sincerity and candor, has
the healing and saving Christ been
Withdrawn from human reach because
there is no longer need of such a
Christ? And, in this sense, has the
day of healing miracles passed be-
cause there is now no necessity Tor
them? AS Christian Scientists we
maintain, however, that divine heal
ing is miraculous only as it is not I'M
derstood. All true healing is done
through the understanding of over
operative law.
In the closing words of the Preface.
the author of the Christian Science
text book thus tenderly launches her
precious volume upon the ocean of
public thought: I'm the spirit of
Christs charity-as one who 'hopeth
all things, endureth all things and is