Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-02-16
that divine Love never afflicted man

that divine Love never afflicted man
with suffering and disease.
When Jesus healed the lunatic child
be did not rebuke tue angles of God
in the belief that God inflicted the dis
ease, but she rebuked the devil and he
departed out of him; and the child was
cured from that very hour" Even .
poor crippled woman he referred 20
as "a daughter of Abraham, whom
Satan hath bound, 10. these eighteen
years, and he healed her by first cast
ing out the sinful cause
The mission of Christ Jesus was to
destroy the works of the devil" He
regarded both sin and sickness as be-
longing TO that class, which he pro-
ceeded to destroy with Truth and
Love. His sense of devil, however,
was not a something with hoofs aud
horns, but the carnal mind which is
epmity against God The sick man,
however, by reason of his sickness may
not be half so sinful as the well man,
as you viii perceive by the following
words: those eighteen upon whom
the tower Of Sloan fell, and slew them,
think ye that they were sinners above
all men that dwelt IN Jerusalem l
tell you, Nay; but except you repent We
shall all likewise perish And from
what should we repenl.if not the carnal
mind with its lrain OF materialism, that
we may hold fast that which is good?'
So good man as job regarded his
sickness as the buffetings of Satan and
not of God; and he sought his release
through a better understanding, not of
his disease, but of the power of Goo, -
the Truth that makes free, He was
axhnrfn H N GaHnnotnf thucnlf Nit !,
him and be at peace" Finally he cried
out, 81 have heard of thee by the hear
ing of the ear; but now mine eye seeth
thee, " and he was healed, restored to
life and health.
MRS. EDDY's DISCOVERY.
Before Mrs. Eddy discovered CHRIS.
tan Science, she had been searching
for years along this line of mental
causation She had been studying
homeopathy and learned the mental
nature OF disease, and that the higher
attenuations of medicine which con
tanned the least of drug and the
most mind were the most powerful
She continued her Investigations be-
yond homeopathy to a mental stand
point, with the question ever before
her, whether matter or Mind heals the
sick.
In her subsequent Investigations of
mental Influences she learned that the
carnal will or magnetic healing was
absolutely opposed TO her own ideals of
mental healing as practiced by the in
spired Christians, and she turned from
it. She possessed a spiritual insight
that others failed to appreciate. Surely
God was even then guiding her up to
the right understanding of primitive
Christian healing. Indeed she sub
mitted to all manner of stress and trial,
but withal, proving special fitness TO
receive the revelation of TsGt.th, by cling
ing so naturally to her ideal of right
and fOrsaking the counterfeit.
1t was at this period of her exper-
fence that the great spiritual light
dawned upon her consciousness, aud
found her waiting and prepared TO re-
ceive the message. The circumstance
which brought this spiritual awaken
ing and thereby established her con-
illusions was her remarkable recovery,
in the year 1866, from an injury caused
by an accident. She was seeking to con
sol her suffering sense by reading
passages from the Scriptures, when she
caught the depth of its spiritual import
and was instantly healed This was
the vindieation of her long search, for
it was the Spirit that quickened and she
knew it
Now that Mrs. Eddy had found the
Comforter, which is the spirit of
truth" and which heals the sick, she
resumed her search of the Scriptures
for a scientific explanation of it, that
she might impart it to others. She
soon learned that the healing operates
according TO divine law, aud she be.
gan to write out her observations.