The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1908-11-25


to Revelation. and he unable to heal a
single disease. for it is the spiritual
understanding that needs to be opened.
''The letter killeth." says. the Scripture.
hut the spirit glveth life"
To present this spiritual understand
ing. it was necessary for Jesus to be-
gin on their plane IF thought. where
they could grasp the meaning of his
teachings. He began with parallels.
and without u parable spake he not
unto them. y little later he said II
snail no more speak unto you in pro-
verbs, but ! shall show YOU plainly of
the Father
In this he did precisely what the
mother does when she teaches her child
that two and two make four. The child
does not understand II at first for the
reason that 1t is mental. He sees moth
ing but physical forms. Therefore the
mother begins with something as tam
giDle as red apples They mean some
thing directly, and he can understand
that two red apples in one hand placed
with two red apples in the other make
four red apples. The mental character
of the problem. however. has thus far
escaped the child's notice. For his
and he must learn by thinking red
apples that two and two are four
Then for his third lesson. he is ready
TO- grasp the mental problem without
Jesus taught { disciples first In para
| bies. usingS things Of common expe-
ricnce which they could readily under
stand. Gradually in this way he turned
| thrlr thoughts away from the physical
y more spiritual sense of things un-
I'll they began to apprchend Il degree o
reality in spiritual things Indeed their
i4lth was strengthened by visible
proofs or healing performed by their
Master. To watch others solve these
problems. however. was Insufficient
Tor their second lesson. they We're sent
out III pairs to heal the sick and thus
To- a H..
behold they returned saving Even the
devils are subject unto us through thy
1 ilaine. me great mental Principle
undeflies all being and action was un-
! ioidine to them and they grasped the
spirit of it all by the actual demonstra-
tlon of healing so that Jesus could saw
rs an opening to his third lesson Il
shliI no more sneak unto YOU In pro-
the Father That is. he could then
teach them spiritual things in spiritual
terms and they could understand spirit
uiilN. FROM That time their healing
was even more remarkable than be-
Tore IN proof of their positive under
standing of spiritual law
some there are VINO believe that the
healing works of Jesus are not in
obedience to teachable law ayerring
that the disciples gained their UNDER
standing through the personal inspira-
tioh OIL the great Master. If this were
tlrue what shall we say of Paul and
u
personal disciple of JESUS but he under
stood how to heal the sick and raise
the dead. lie was at fist a prosecutor
OF the CHRISTIANS, actively engaged in
opposing their teachings; but the mo-
ment he gained a spiritual sense of this
divine Principle, he gave to the void
the proof of his understanding by the
healing works. 1t was no longer un-
reasonable to him. He had learned that
the carnal mind is no fit standard BY
which 10 judge the spiritual facts of
being For three hundred years this
same Christian healing continued to be
exercised by the church.
Disease Mental.
hen one turns to God for comfort
or consolation 1t Is commonly through
prayer. Christians are taught to pray
for deltverance from sickness and from
sin. They continue their preaching
against sin. bur the Christian healing
OF sickness is apparently apathetic
from unbelicf The reason may lie in
tire physical appearance of sickness, for
IHt sickness We're known to be as mental
as sin. then it could he seen how
mental prayer could control both. If
d iseasc were purely physical and could
be reached only by drugs or material
means. there could be no such things a
Christian healing. One of the leading
points in the theology of Christian Sci
ence and one which physicians are now
admittirg to be true, is the mental ma
tGre of disease.
We should look beyond the physical
OIIeCtS TO tnelf mental cause lust
Moses did, for when he withdrew his
hand from his bosom white with lep-
rosy he awoke to the mental nature of
ieprosy Again when he returned his
word of God. and Withdrew it free from
that dread disease. he learned of its
mental cure, and that the divine Mind
IS the healer. 1t follows therefore that
Christian prayer should be Just as
effcacious in healing disease which Is
mental as in casting out the belief in
mental sin
Now ewhen a dentist admins tiers
anesthetics to suspend or divert the
thought during the process of an ope-
ration. he is proceeding on the assump-
tion that If man can not think he can
not be hurt; for during the time when
the patients thought is suspended or
diverted his flesh and bones can of
themselves experience no pain. sensa-
ton, life nor intelligence. Consequent
" pain is all in the thinking. II is in
the mortal mind and not the physical
form. 1t follows therefore that even
surgery may prove indirectly the men-
tai nature of disease.
Human Mind not Regenerative.
The observation that disease is men
tai has aroused the frequent remark
We'll. II pain is all in the thinking.
just think you are we'll and you will be
So Now the same ignorant belief that
causes disease can never cure it, for.
| If thinking YOU arc well is all that is
"
at twelve o'clock tonight to have eV-
erybody thing they are we'll, then all
the pain and suffering of the world
misht he wiped out in a singl night.
But the most masterful logic T.. mate
rial philosophy can never convince a
suffering man that his pain is not real,
-. the same mind that produces dis
easc can never destroy 1t. Only the
spiritual Mind as taught by Christ
Jesus can uncover sin and disease and
destroy II, and that Mind that was in
Christ Jesus has stood forth in bold
relief throughout the Christian era as
the panacea for the worlds ills. There
fore "let this mind be in you which was
also in Christ Jesus"
Christian Scientists do not go to the
sick he'd with the heartless assertion,
Nothing ails vou." Jesus had compass
sion for those who We're bound He
never healed q man by ignoring his
difficulties. but by recognizing in that
bondage n problem which needed to be
solved in obedience to divine law. and
not from ignorant belief. for the spirit
ual understanding OF this law exposes
the nothngness OF evil and dissolyes Ii
like dew before the sun.
Jesus Escrrwed Human VIII.
II Is well to know that the supposed
cause of disease obtains in the mortal
mind and that the understanding of the
divine Mind will cure it; but human
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