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

and we can prove it. We are confident
that when this way is scientifically
understood and becomes scientifically
operative, it will manifest its saving
efficacy by transforming the race.
We believe that Christ Jesus was the
representative of God to humanity,
that He was the voice of wisdom and
intelligence, and that He knew more
about God, man, and the universe than
all the other people combined. We be-
lieye He came to do the will of God and
to fulfill law. What God, and what
law The God that is good and whose
law is the law of life, health, harmony
and holiness. We believe He came ito
seek and to save that which was lost, !"
and that He found the sinner and the
sick man. We believe that He came to
destroy the W orks of the devil" and
that He was "about His Fathers bust
ness while He was doing it.
CHRIST AS A HEALER
Unless he was destroying the works
of the devil when He healed the sick,
there must have been time when He
was not in the fulfllment of His mis-
sion, for He gave much attention to the
cure of disease and Himself declared
that such healing was a part of His
works" We believe this healing
was natural and lawful; that all His
works were done in exquisite accord
with the eternal law of changeless
God We believe that the teaching of
Christian Science through Mrs. Eddy
removes she ministry of Jesus from the
realm of mystery and brings it within
the range of law, order and scientific
modus operandi We believe that God
and His Christ are too wise to be unlaw-
full Or to procure or induce or make use
of that which is in contravention of
law. We believe that the unlimited
divine volition does not need 70 upset
or undo any natural law in order 10 be
good.
We believe that the Christ ministry
is an object lesson in demonstration of
the imminent ever available power of
Spirit, God, to destroy evil We believe
that Jesus manifested the supremacy of
spiritual law which is the law of life,
and its power over the fictitious law of
sin and death
AN UNMYSTERIOUS SALVATION.
Christian Science teaches that this
proof--the deeds, the achieved results,
the mighty works-is to illustrate the
way Of salvation, and that Christian
salvation is for the sick man as well as
the sinner. All this is different from
the belief that His work was miraculous,
meaning that it was mysterious and in
the way of Intervention or of violation
of law and nature.
Jesus never intimated that His work
was mysterious. On the contrary, He
indicated the universal nature of the
divine animus by declaring: 'These
works shall We do" The contrary be-
liefs of men, which have filtered their
way down through the dark ages lead
to the most absurd conclusions, and
tax to the utmost the credulity of man.
They pre-supposed that, after promis-
ing for 200 years that Messiah should
come to save a suffering world, God
arranged and carried out plan of
which all future generations should
have right to say: 1T is an impene-
trable mystery" They require people
to believe that Jesus largely devoted
Himself to mighty works which were of
no utility to subsequent generations of
men, and which have exhausted their
service when people are induced to be-
lieve that it was according to the divine
nature of God to heal the sick man in
one age and refuse or neglect to heal
him in subsequent age. They require
men to believe that God and Christ,
who were willing to save that which
was lost, limited that salvation on the
sinner and Disseminated against the
sick man. They require us to split the
ministry of Jesus Christ in two; decide
that the healing work was without
scientific or universal avail; that it was
nothing we can possibly understand
and lastly that Jesus did not mean what
He said when He declared that Chris
tians who understand His Christianity
must preach the gospel and heal the
sick and that they could do it.
CHRIST WORK.
They require us to repudate the
works of Jesus as the legitimate inter
prefers of His mission and His words.
They require us to believe that in say
ing heal Che sck'' He shows the
way which is contrary to His way.
If instead of regarding evil as a
mysterious entity, men had understood
the science which detects and correctly
designates the phenomena of evil, such
misconceptions of Christian salvation
would have long since been dissipated.
Sin and disease are in immediate kim
ship. They are as allied as cause and
effect. The Scripthral statement
Through sin came death" is scientific.
Every physician knows, or ought to
know, that anger will arrest digestion,
that grief, revenge and envy will impair
the integrity of the body.
If Jesus came to save from one then
He came to save from both. He could
not possibly save from one without saw
ing from the other. He clearly indi-
Gated this to those who heard, though
they could not understand it. When
Jesus healed the sick, did he destroy
the work of God or devil? Was it the
mission of Jesus to destroy the work of
God? If sickness is the work of the
devil, then is God for or against it? If
God is against and contrary to it, are
His laws for or against it? If His laws