Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1905-02-17

! gospel. and that there is no evidence
that it was intended for his time
| only. 1t was scientific religion that
healed the sick 10 the time of Jesus
| and his disciples, and it does the same
work now. and must always do it,
since his life and work were an
example for all time, and his method
was an universal and imperiShable
heritage of man.
What Christian Science Means.
"The steps of salvation in Christian
| Science are not unusual As in other
denominations they involve the admis-
sion or conviction of sin, sorrow for
| wrongdoing, or repentance, and re-
| formation manifested in a corrected
life. Salvation in Christian Science,
however, includes exemption from
sickness, want and woe, as we'll as
from sin. 1t is not contingent upon
death, but is way of life, way of
righteousness. Christian Science is
founded upon the Bible. ''The
Christian Science text book, Science
and Health with Key to the Script
ureS." by Mary Baker G. Eddy, is a
commentary upon the Bible. Other
denominations have commentaries,
but no other book in the world has
ever accomplished as much as this
one. Thousands of people have
testified that they have been healed,
some OF them of So-called incurahle
diseases, through the perusal Of this
book. In some instances this testi-
mOny has been given in courts of law,
and has not been in the least shaken
by cross-examination. Many of these
cases involved the most terrible
diseases known to mankind, such as
cancer, tuberculosis, locOmOtOr ataXia,
and in other Instances such diseases
as asthma. hay fever, st. Vitus' dance
and others.
1T IS erroneous to suppose that
Christian Scientists deny the reality
of things. They affirm the eternal
existence of all things, and that they
exist in the divine mind 10 their
perfect individuality and proper order.
They deny the materiality of things,
including all the discordant conditions
that material things manifest.
Not Opposed to Doctors.
''Christian Scientists are in no wise
arrayed against those who believe in
materia medica. They were all be-.
levers in it themselves until they
found in Christian Science a more
etficaclous way of healing. This way
they believe to be the very best one,
because it is Gods way, as shown in
the works of Jesus. Although charit-
ably disposed toward those who
practice materia medica, it il a we'll
known fact that meteria medica is
merely an experimental system
Surely after. four thousand years it
ought to be beyond this stage.
Furthermore, it is a self-confessed
condition of weakness that combina-
tiOns of medical societies and the
medical fraternity generally should
come before our legislatures demand
| ing special legislation, the tendency
of which is almost invariably to shut
out all other Systems. Nor can any
valid excuse be given, as far as
Christian Science is concerned, on the
ground of protection to the public,
since Christian Scientists do not
advertise nor sanction quackery, and
they believe in obeying the regulations
of health boards in relation to con-
tagious and other diseases.
i How Disease is Cured.
Those who believe that mentality
plays some part in disease and its
cure generally look in the wrong di.
rection, and say that the cures OF
Christian Science are effected by
, mental suggestion, hypnotism, will
power, mental science, which is
spurious and not related to Christian
Science, or to some other erroneous OIL
material belief. Christian Science
however, declares that it is God who
heals diseases through Christian
Science, and they of all people know
, best.
The Discoverer and Founder.
eve scarcely dare to think what
the world would have been had not
there appeared from time to time g
man or woman good enough and great
enough to be touched by eterna
truth, and brave and self-sacriticine
enough to stand for it. Mrs. Eddy
discerned and proclaimed to the
world the God-given freedom of The
race from all sickness. sin, want ano
woe. She revealed the science by
which men may begin to realize that
freedom and enter upon their heritage
of dominion over evil. Some time
this knowledge had to come. Accord
ing to the promise of Jesus, it was tC
be the spirit of truth, the Comforter
leading into all truth. Some one had
to be good and pure above all Others
in order to perceive il. Any great
discovery along given line is always
J made by one whose thoughts. desires.