The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-09-15

that sickness is not of God. He is not
its reator. He does not send it. 1t is
no part of His law. II is. rather. the
result of not conforming to His law.
This is surely true of those kinds of sick
ness that are well known TO be the direct
result of sin. l do not wish TO be under
stood that every kind of sickness is due
to willful disobedience of the divine law.
or the law of right living. for 1 am
aware. as you are. that some of the best
people the world affords seem to suffer
most from some forms of sickness. What
l do wish TO be understood as saying is
that every lind OF sickness is the result
of long ages of human error, OF stray
ing away from Gods law. and the inno-
cent suffer with the guilty, because we
are all more or less. under the ban of
these lyong ages of transgression until
we come into an understanding of the
divine law by virtue of which these hu-
man conditions may be overcome and de-
stroyed. Jesus came to make known this
divine law to mankind, and He did make
ii known by proving the possibility Of
overcoming these human conditions in
His own works.
"All will agree that sin of lust. or IL
centiousness, is a prolific cause of sick
ness.
Another fruitful and appalling cause
of sickness and death is drunkenness,
the excessive use of intoxicating liquors.
Destroy the appetite for liquor, remove
the drinking habit. and the varied and
horrible forms of sickness flowing there
from will cease.
Christian Science has provel efficacious
in destroying the causes OF licentious-
ness, as we'll as the appetite for liquor
Thousands of your fellow citizens and
mine have risen up and testified to this
and the number is daily increasing.
Many Of the cases of redemption from
these distressing sins are as pathetic in
their circumstances as they are glorious
in their outcome
These are among the grossers sins Of
mortals They are admitted by all TO
be wrong. They are the cause Of more
sickness than all other causes. Remove
them and you have taken away a per-
centage Of this source Of sickness that
would go far towards Transforming this
earth into a paradise.
But these are not all there is that
produce sickness Sorrow. grief. the
multiplied forms OF disappointment, dis
enlargement and depression, these men
tai conditions act upon the physical and
bring about many Of the disorders and
complications which are called physical
diseases
If | were to single out another pro-
life cause Of sickness it would be the dis
orders arising from business worry and
disappointments. These are mental. al
though producing myriad forms OF phys
ical disturbance.
But the Christian Scientist goes fur
Their in his analysis of the causes Of sick
ness. He is aware that there are many
other qualities Of the human mind that
are misunderstanding I enumsrate these
briefly as hatred. malice. revenge, teai-
ousy dishonesty. dis;rust. anger and kin
dred qualities Need l remind you that
these cause sickness Remove them am
heaven has been brought vastly neare
20 earth. and an enormous work has
been done toward establishing good
health.
Now. my friends. let ne ask you. can
these multiforn mental causes OF SICK
ness be cured by any other than moral
and spiritual means2 VIII material med
icines reach and destroy mental condi-
tons and moral defects?
What. then Is the cure for sickness
do you ask? I have already indicated the
Christian Science answer 10 This Ques-
ton ] have. 1 IA general way. pointed
out the cause or causes Of sickness.
There IS no sickness without a cause.
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This IS the simplest logic Sickness does
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every form Of H. The true ofhce q the
physician. u the metaphysic!zn a. the
case may be- Is 70 get Al and remove
causes not % doctor effects The best
remedy for those forms % sickness which
are known % be the direct result q
wrong living. Il 10 stop the wroas Hyiag
and go 70 living rightly
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60 czreiessly and thoughtiessly on. dis
regarding the conditions which prodlce
Sickness and death ard then when thesf
czlzruities come. charging them % tse
will ana purpose q an inscrutab3e Pro-
idsnce.
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