Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-12-25

spect that most religious sects and
systems diverge from each other.
There are hundreds of these sects.
There are 140 Christian sects alone,
many of which have been III the most
| violent antagonism toward each
other. There is, therefore, no unity
of religious belief with which we can
compare Christian Science, but
shall explain wherein it is different
from all others.
In her effort to enlarge the human
concept of the infinite God, Mrs.
/ Eddy has added somewhat to the
technical definition of deity, and af-
firms, among other things, that God
is divine Mind and that this Mind is
| good,
God is either mind or mindless
The Mind that is God, and which in
cludes all wisdom, intelligence and
science is good. This mind is the an
tidote of what the Bible calls the
''carnal mind" or that which Mrs.
Eddy designates mortal mind" the
mind of sin, which is entirely against
God
MIND WHICH WAS IN CHRIST.
The science of Mind declares that to
the extent that man is governed by the
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ton, health, life, welfare, prosperity
the ampleness and completeness of
harmonious existence. 1t was this
Mind which was also in Christ, which
Cancelled temptation and sin, healed
the sick, raised the dead, raised Jesus
from the dead, and overcame 1.-THE
world, the flesh and the devil" ITO
be earn ally minded is DEATH" Sin and
disease are the offspring of this carnal
mind; they are no part of the nature or
of the procurement of the divine Mind
God is good in nature, design, power,
action, substance and operation. All
that He has made and done is good
His laws are good, and He has already
done everything that is essential to the
supreme welfare of man. Conversely
we repudiate the efforts to solve the
nyster of eyvil by assuming that any
part of it has been instituted by God,
or that he needs to involve Himself in
or with evil in any way of for any pur-
pose, or that He does so involve Him
self.
GOD THE LAW OF LIFE
God is not only life, but has ordained
life and is the law of life and health for
man. The theology of Christian
Science is consistently parallel through
out with this declaration. 1t also
declares that God has created man that
he might have being and not for the
purpose of inflicting upon him inveter-
ate agony and disease.
We repudiate all assumption that His
law is the law of sin and death, Sick
ness is contary to God, and God is con-
trary to it. God is the natural healer
of the sick and is able, willing and ever
ready to save mortals from the evils
imposed upon them by an utterly per-
verted sense of existence.
The supposition that God has in
duced the pangs and horrors of disease
and death engenders fear of Him-a
fear ana alarm concerning the author
and the law and the destiny of human
| life; fear concerning the very founda-
ton of existence. We Christian Scien-
fist are no longer afraid of God or of
His heaven, which we are learning is
with us to the extent that we are gov
erned by the mind which was in Christ.
GOD NO LONGER UNKNOWN.
In Christian Science there is no
longer an unknown God No longer
do the distorted craven image of HUI
man thought mask or hide from us the
real God who is altogether lovely, who
is our dearest friend, whose help is ever
available, whose grace is sufficient and
who created man that he might have
life and peace. Christian Science
promises to lead mankind to God
through the highways of health and
life instead of death. 1t promises to
humanity, in the name of God, not the
doubtful felicity of the grave, but a
sensible, practicable dispensation of
good, DOW. 1t promises to incline men
naturally and willingly to a more spirit
ual life, which will satisfy them; and it
promises that as they wend their way
to a sure heaven this Christ-truth will
be the Christ way-shower through all
the mazes and besetments of an evil
sense and an evil age, until, with I'M
deviating trust and confidence, they
abide under the shadow of the AL
mighty.
We disagree with others concerning
the nature of evil. Mrs. Eddy knows
full well that whatsoever a man
soweth, that shall he also reap" and
that sin inevitably imposes suffering on
it victim, nevertheless, she declares
that sin, sickness and kindred evils are
unreal, meaning thereby that they
belong in the realm of the temporal,
lillegitimate, abnormal. They are the
paraphernalia or mortal belief of the
carnal mind-unlawful, unrighteous
and sary-monstrosities of I'M
natural existence.
Christian Science explains that sick
ness is of a kindred unreal nature,
and is to be obliterated by the same
process, whereby everything that has
no right to exist or continue is to be-
come extinct through Christ and Chris
tianity.
If insanity and sickness are real,
then God, who includes all reality,
must have made them If He made
them and bestows or sends them, then
tits sin to try to get well or to want
to get well.