St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1906-10-31

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animate drugs destroy sin? The sopor-
life effect of a drug may stupefy the
mind so as to produce temporary relief,
but cure it cannot; heal, finally and
effectually, it does not for it has dealt,
at best. only with effect; it has not
reached root-cause.
| Nor can the surgeons knife cut out
mental conditions or moral defects.
| The utmost it can do is to remove the
physical effect of these.
| In saying this | wish to cast no re-
| Election upon those who are practicing
medicine and surgery. They are work.
| ing up to their highest standard of
the healing art Their purpose and
effort are to relieve human suffering
and stay the ravages of disease The
question here submitted is: Are they
practicing the highest and best method
of healing? Have they reached the
true remedial standard? If not and
better exists, then the truly unselfish
and sincere of their class will welcome
and endorse that which is better, as
soon as they become convinced that
there is better
In view of the plain and well known
facts in human experience to which l
have adverted, may / not again ask,
| Do not these facts distinctly coincide
| with Jesus treatment of sin and sick
ness, and do they not clearly indicate
why he almost invariably said to those
whom he healed, "Sin no more, lest
a worse thing come unto YOU
In this connection l also ask these
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tanned that Jesus came to save the
world from sin but not from sickness?
Could even he separate cause from eff
feet? He who saves from sin saves
also from all the consequences of sin.
This Is the simplest logic.
So far as Christianity has been sue
cessful in improving the world morally
and spiritually, just so far has 1t re-
duced the percentage of all sickness
which is the result of sin. The preacher
whose labors have reduced the per
centage Of immortality or wrong living
in any form, has contributed his part
toward reducing also the per centage of
all sickness resulting from such wrong
living. So with the temperance reform
err and so with all who are laboring
| IOr II better SIuUuuEu VI HE
THE CURE OF SICKNESS.
What, then, is the cure for sickness?
| have already indicated the Christian
Science answer to this question. |
have, in general way, pointed out the
cause or causes Of sickness. The true
Office of the physician, or the meta
physician as the case may be, is to get
at and remove causes, not to doctor eff
fects. The best remedy for those forms
of sickness which are known to be the
direct result of wrong living, is to stop
the wrong living.
Suppose stream or reservoir OF
water which furnishes the supply of a
city becomes so polluted that many
inhabitants are getting sick and dying
from drinking it? What is the sensi-
BILE and effective things to do? to pay
no heed to the water, but give all time
and attention to doctoring the sick and
burying the dead? Would not all SEN
sible people say that the thing to do
would be to remove from the water
the poisonous elements and thus puri-
fl it and stop the cause of the sickness
and death?
The Christian Science position is
; that this same sensible rule should be
applied to all kinds of sickness, and
therefore the great aim should be to
seek out causes and destroy them
rather than to tinker effects. 1t is IT.
J rational and unjust for men to go care
, lessly and thoughtlessly on disregard
J ing the conditions which produce sick
ness and death, and then when these
: calamities come, charging them to the
will and purpose of an inscrutablt
! Providence. They should rather turn
: their attention as earnestly, at least, tt
learning how to avoid the consequences
of disobeying the divine law, as they
do to promoting their worldly purposes
q To the extent that they do this they
r may be sure that they will reap the
!, due reward of their efforts, and rela
e lively speaking, a much greater re
e ward than mere worldly seeking car
: bring.
r If the cause of sickness is of such
$ nature that the patient is unaware O.
' It, then the office of the physician, Of
4 metaphysician, is to ascertain thu
: cause, and apply the remedy. Ii TIN
4 cause Is found to be mental--and till
Is what the Christian Science prac
s titioner always looks for-then tn
e work to be done is to regulate or re
t move this mental cause. The Chris
n tan Scientist endeayors to awaken hi
Il patient spiritually and point out t
y him his true relationship to God
t This is prayer in the highest sense Q
Il the word. Not alone the prayer OF sir
cere desire and duplication, but more
g the realization of Gods all-presenct
), all-power and all-Life.
l. This God is your Physician, as we
as mine. We can go to him daily
# hourly, momentarily, in sweet and $
o lent prayer, and If we pray Alright, II
e will heal us of our diseases and n
re move from us our infirmities. We ca
r know, in the very depths of our beinl
1T that He is our Physician, our Con
q forter, our Life, our Health, our All-il
all. and in the fullest and most abs
at lutte sense, very present help
ne trouble; and that in Him indeed v
1t, live and move and have our being.
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