The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-07-28

If the case is to be cured at all,
| ought not the remedy to reach the cause
and cancel it? Do you think that a
plaster will do it? If not, then con-
slider the Mind which was in Christ
and which transforms man by means
of righteousness. Consider the curative
system Of Christ Jesus, which clearly
recognized sin rs cause of sickness
and administered the emollient of
holiness which divine Love has pre-
pared in the laboratory of eternal
Life.
In consequence of ignorance and
superstition, the universal mortal
man is afraid of the very foundation
of his being.g He is afraid of God and
heaven, he is afraid of devil and hell
afraid Of his own body, of everything
he does and has, and of all that exists
on earth. This universal fear consti-
tutes universal and primary cause
of disease, and the conclusion cannot
be resisted that the curative system
which fails to recognize it, cannot in
diligently abolish it's effects.
There are two books in the world
which entreat humanity to know that
fear is illegitimate and can be least
out" These books are the Bible and
Science and Health. The latter, with
much elaboration, explains the fabu-
lous nature of fear and gives the reas-
on and rule for its elimination.
Will not those of you who are
Christians consider as to whether or
not it would have been mockerv for
! the Savior of che world compassion.
ately to implore man to resist fear if
it really has a scientific, inherent
right to infest humanity, and there
fore is irresistible?
The matter physician declares that
the proper therapeutic or curative
agency is to be found in matter or in
the use of material means.
We think the Bible is to be credited
wherein it indicates that God is the
natural healer of all our diseases, and
we know that this God is Mind and
not matter.
| How did Jesus, the only perfect
healer whom history affords, how
| did he heal the sick? Medicine had
been in use for twenty centuries.
Was it Mind, or matter? Christianity
would collapse in the admission that
1T was not Mind.
| 1t is urged that all this is transcen-
dental because contrary to the senses.
So is the hope of immortality, so is
the belief in God and heaven. The
senses testify to the extinction of man
by death and the humiliation of his
individuality, and they do not afford
an atom of evidence of God as Spirit.
1t is declared that Christian Science
practice is..intangible and is objection
able because there is no visible or
palpable animus or modus operandi.
Do you know why the earth revolves,
why your heart beats. why you can
wink your eyes, or do anything? No.
Does any physical scientist under
stand the primary impulsion of your
every act? No, none on earth ever
knew.
Christian Scientists, who have been
the first to heal malignant cancers,
know more about the modus, than you
know about the circulation of the
blood or your ability to walk.
Why did it not come sooner? 1t did
come sooner. Jesus understood the
healing Christianity; declared and
demonstrated it. The people did not
fully understand him and he told
them they could not, but he prophet
cally declared the time will come
when We shall know the truth, ant
the truth shall make you free. Since
then men have prayed that it nigh
be revealed, and now we believe i
! has been revealed.
Why did not everything come soon
err? Why did not Adam have tele
phone, steamship, piano, and thu
thousand other things of today
| OlUDly 'D6Cdus6 ITO Qluu hhoN
enough. In consequence of law, sub
stance. and possibility, all these wer
possible to him if he had only know
enough to make the discovery. TIL,
Principle and rule of Christian
Science Mind healing were befor
Adam. They only needed to be dis
covered and applied.
For a third of century Mrs. Edd.
has been pleading with mankind TO
the recognition of its right to life
: health, aud holiness according to tn
will of God. She has insisted tina
God is the natural healer of the sick
and that disease is contrary to CO.
3 and His will. She has discovered ant
made known the Science of Christian
} healing and has set forth the rul
whereby humanity is to obtain mas
3 terry over disease.
t On every one who has ever heale
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