The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-10-20
Those who are true to their teach

Those who are true to their teach
ing and profession are, in some mea-
sure, proving the possibility of doing
the works that Jesus declared would
be done. They have done work thus
far, however, which in meekness and
humility, they may we'll take as hope
full indications of the great POSSIBLE
tiles in store for those who are faith
full. Past achievements have been
such as to offer high hopes and great
encouragement for the future, and
thus they press onward with faith
and trust in the omnipotent God, fol-
lowing, as best they can, in the foot
steps of he who commanded his disci-
pies to teach all nations all things
whatsoever he had taught them. For
SO laudable a purpose as this, for
thus honestly endeavoring to carry
out the full teaching of the Gospel,
shall any set of people be con-
demned or maligned or ridiculed or
ostracized or ruled out of the mod
ern synagogues?
The Cause Of Sickness.
AS already indicated, a chief point
in Christian Science is that sickness
is not of God. He is not its creator.
1t is no part of His law. 1t is,
rather, the result of not conforming
to His law. This is surely true of
those kinds of sickness that are we'll
known to be the direst result Of sin.
I do not wish to be understood that
every kind Of sickness is due to will
full disobedience of the divine law,
or the law of right living, for l am
aware, as you are, that some of the
best people the world affords seem
to suffer most from some forms of
derstood as saying is that every kind
of sickness is the result of long ages
Of human error, Of straying away
from Gods law, and the innocent suf-
fer with the guilty because we are
all, ore or less, under the ban of
these long ages of transgression until
we come into an understanding of
the divine law by virture of which
the error may be overcome and de-
stroyed. Jesus came to make known
this divine law to mankind, and he
did make it known by proving the
possibility of overcoming, in his own
works, these human conditions.
1t is apparent from what has thus
| for hoon coi1 fhot rhric%;o~ Co;o~o,
teaches that sickness is the result OF
sin, in it's broad definition as human
error. Let me briefly explain. All
will agree that the sin of lust, or
Righteousness, is a prolific cause OF
sickness. 1t is a source of 1oath-
some and fatal disease. Physicians
agree to this.
Another fruitful and appalling
cause of sickness and death is drunk.
enness, the excessive use of intoxi.
eating liquors.
These r among grosser 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 percentage of the source OF
sickness that would reduce its ag-
gregate to an amazing extent.
But these are not all there is that
produces sickness. Sorrow, grief, the
multiplied forms of disappointment,
Encouragement, and depression,
these mental conditions act upon the
physical and bring about many of the
disorders and complications which
are called physical diseases.
Other prolific causes of sickness
are the disorders arising from bust
ness worry and disappointments.
These are mental, although produc-
ing myriad forms of physical dis
turbance. How many men and women
have been driven to sickness and to
death by reason of these untoward
conditions! Remove this single cause
of sickness and death, and you have
wrought nightly for health and
peace on earth, But the Christian
Scientist goes further in his analy-
sis of the causes of sickness. He Is
aware that there are many other
qualities of the human mind that
are Notwithstanding. / enumerate
these briefly as hatred, malice, re-
venge. jealousy. dishonesty, distrust,