Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-03-18

Mankind fears Sickness fears accident, i
ears old age, fears if it has money it will
ose it. and fears, if it hasn't money, that |
t never will have: fears that it will die |
IT. eats, and sure that it will die if it |
DOESN'T eat fears what it calls the devil, |
ears God with unspeakable terror, and
ears death with the utter hopeessness
md helplessness of AFFECT slavery.
There is no satisfaction, no profit. no adj |
7ancement for man in fear of this kind, and
We can escape it if we will "seek first the
lingdom of heaven" knowing that we live,
move, and have our being in God who is
Love. Herein lies our freedom. for there !
is no fear in Love-"
There are innumerable instances of great
,anics in which hundreds have beeen lost
through fear; fear which made mankind
ose all thought Of anyone except itself, and
engage in mad struggle for freedom until
in it's very madness it blocked it's own en-
1eavor. and the end came to hundreds
who might have been saved, had they but
known how to obey the Masters great COM
mand, Love thy neighbor as myself
In the history Of the black plague in
London we learn that large proportion Of
those who died at that time did so solely
because of their fear of the plague. and not
because they had it.
An old Arabian fable, antedating the
Era by hundreds OF years. relates
that man coming out from the city met
two spectres going in. lie stopped them
and asked their names One said "My name
is Cholera and the other said "My name
is Fear The man asked why they were
going into the city. Cholera said. II am
going to kill one man. and Fear said, Il
will kill the rest.
The medical fraternity is very familiar
with the history of the following case:
An English criminal. condemned to die.
be bled to death lie was blindfolied. his
arm scratched with a lancet. and then a
small stream of warm water was run over
his arm, the students telling him it was his
blood. In a short time the man was dead.
He died from the belief and fear thar he
must necessarily die from the effects OF the
supposed loss of such quantities OF blood,
when. in reality. he had only lost Il few
drops.
Until we cease accusing God of being
the author Of all sin and sickness. until
we cease believing that He sends suffering.
and pleading with Him t" remove
nnu of those things ne has sent us. and
thus lose His immutnbitity. We shall never
escape the bondage OF fear nor realize our
God given dominion and mastery over our
selves which Jesus taught us to be our
birthriyht.
Christian Scientists have the right I'M
Outstanding of God. They know that sooner
or later The continued scientific demonstrate
tion they are making over sin and disease
viii permeate all consciousness. and man
kind be lifted into the realization of right
poilS health.
In the Increasing longevity so apparent
in the last twenty years. and which can
not be accounted for by any human line Of
reasoning. see the natural Outgrow1h Of
the increasing faith in Scientific Christian
ity. wherein learn that Lii" is Eternal.
and the near approach of that time fore
told in the propheSy of Isaiah wherein he
says. '''rhere shall be no more thence an in
FAINT of days. an old man that hath not
filled his days: for the child shall die an
hundred years old: but the sinner being
an hundred years old shall he accurs"d."
You will be convinced of the work Chris
tian Science is doing in this direction if you
attend Il Wednesday night testimonial meet
ing in Church of Christ. Scientist. and
hear from the lips of the people themselves
what this Word of God has raised them
from and the added years of life it has given
them.
The Christian Science text book, "Scicnce
and Health. with Key to the Scriptures" has
broken the seals of mystery that have made
the Bible a misunderstood and unread book {:
and has made the mission of Jesus of daily
practical benefit. and has taught the as
.cndancy of the law of life and its domin-
ion over the so-callcd law Of sin and death.
Christian Science teaches that works. not
words. deeds, not promises, are necessary
10 the working out of the problem of saliva
ton. and that this salvation is from all
that is mutable and imperfect. no matter
whether you call it sin or sickness
Jesus never did a thing we cannot do if
we are willing to take up the same cross
lie did and undergo the same modification
Of the flesh This fact is clearly indicated
in His statement. "lIe that believeth on
me. the works that l do shall he do also,
and greater works than these shall he do. y
Mrs. Eddy stands pre-eminent as the
greatest benpfactor the world has ever
known since Jesus was on earth. because
sac has made clror the way in which to do
NOT only the works He did but the great
er works. of His promise The greater
works than those which Jesus did are
those works which so reveal the Principle
which worked through Him that it's indi-
vidual application is possible. Mrs Eddy s
spiritual apprehension of the Scriptures has
made this possible. and man thereby made
free to know this Principle as his own and
bring out its realization now.
If God created drugs for the destruction
of disease. and put them on earth to save
and preserve the life of mankind. is it not
reasonable to ask why. as lie is no respect
err of persons certain drug appears to
save one patient and is Intellectual with
another:
II it is Gods will that we should use
drugs to be healed from disease why did
Jesus. who came doing the will Of the
which He accomplished:
He never used anything for the healing
of mankind from disease other than the
Word of God, and that never failed
All | hear some one say. but he did use
material remedies when he mixed clay and
splttle and put it on the blind mans eyes
This was a common remedy among the poor
in those days, and assume Jesus used it
because of it's simplicity, and because for
that reason it would best serve His pul-
pose in what He was about to show them
Let me ask you il question: Did the blind
man see when the clay was on his eyes:
Did the clay restore his sight: No: Not
until he had gone and washed it off did
the man see. In this manner Jesus left us
a sign that. east aside all material
remedies. no matter how simple. and go in