The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-06-16

my mind was fully made up to return
to the use of the tonic our family
physician had told me it was as much
as my life was worth to go without.
This, however, l did not do. The
disease with which | was afflicted was
of such nature and had reached. so
advanced stage that it was impossi-
BILE for me to obtain any rest without
the use of an opiate, and [ fully in
tended taking my usual dose when /
went to bed; but the first thing of
which | was conscious, after my head
touched the pillow, was the fact that
it was broad daylight, and I realized
that I had slept the whole night
through without any suffering or dis
comfort.
I had awakened with a sense of hope,
strength, vigor, activity and joy, such
as [ had never known before in nv en-
tire life. I continued to go for treat
ment for a period of about three
months, when [ felt | was perfectly
well. Our family physician, who was
an old friend and near neighbor, had
known the treatment [ was undergoing,
and requested the privilege of examin-
ing me. The privilege was granted,
and at the termination of his examina-
ton he said a miracle had been work
ed for me, for | was as perfect physi-
cal specimen as he had ever examined.
That was in March, 1885, and from
| that day to this Christian Science, as
revealed to the world through Mrs. Ed
dy, has met every diseased condition
that has presented itself to me, has
destroyed it and left me free.
During all these intervening years
[ have seen continued evidence that
God IS word is eficacious in the de-
struction of all the ills to which flesh
is heir.
The Unhealthy of Sin, Disease and
Death
Probably nothing has been more mis-
understood by people than the state
ment made by Christian Scientists that
sin, disease, and death are not real
in Aavv, ,,fe nothing but false beliefs.
When this statement is understood, it
stands out in bold belief as honoring
God by recognizing in deed as we'll as
word His omnipotence, omniscience and
omnipresence,-as good, wherein there
is neither elemental evil nor consen-
tive passivity which seems to recognize
evil and permit its existence.
Christian Science gives us but one
standard of measurement, and that
standard is God! Whenever, there
fore, anything present itself to a
Christian Scientist, Immediately he
measures it by the standard of perfec-
ton which is God, and if it fails to
measure up to that standard, it is
known to be un-Godlike; and if un-
Godlike mot eternal; and if not eter-
nal, not real.
How do we know that sin, disease
and death are not Godlike? How do
we know that sin, disease and death
have nothing to do with God; never
did have, and never will? Jesus told
us so, and very plainly, too. He said
he came to do the will of the Father.
| He also said he came, not to DESTROY,
but to fulfil, and he immediately went
to work to heal the sick, cleanse the
leper, cast out evil, and raise the dead,
by the Spirit of God" Do we think
Jesus knew what he was doing? Do
| we think he told the truth when he
said that he came not to destroy but
to fulfil? If we believe that he told
the truth, then we are forced to admit
that he destroyed nothing when he cast
those evils out, for not otherwise can
the truth of his statement, that he
came not to destroy but to fulfil, be
upheld.
| Again he said, eff man keep nv
saying, he shall never see DEATH Do
we believe that statement? Oh, what
call that is to us to follow in the
footsteps of our Master; how it says
to you and to me: The time now is
when we shall do the works that the
Master did; when We shall take the
word of God and heal the sick, cleanse
the leper, cast out evil, and raise the
dead in the name of Truth.
We shall have every one of these
things to do, either here or hereafter.
in the self-same way that Jesus did
them, whether we want to or not. be-
cause there is no way whereby we may
enter the kingdom save through him.
If he is "the way" and the only way.
then you and | can reach the kingdom
of God which is within by doing what
he did, and as he did, to the accom-
plishment of our individual salvation
in the manner that Jesus indicated.
The Discoverer of Christian Science
Ever since 1866 Mrs. Eddy's life has
been devoted to the work of bringing
to mankind this revelation of the way
| of salvation She has dono +b;s -