Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-03-27
HOW HEALING is ACCOMPLISHED

| slider difficult to understand is how
healing is accomplished through Chri
tan Science. Conceding that God is
Mind or Principle, they ask, How is
that Principle to be brought into re-
Lat onship with the human mind, so
as to destroy sickness ard sin? In
other words. how can man proceed
to establish the unity between HIM
self and spiritual law so that this
law may operate through him, and
free him from sickness and from the
desire to sin?
Christian Science explains the
matter, and makes it plain. In fact,
Jesus explained it and made it so
plain that there never should have
been any misunderstanding about
it.
If you We're TO connect your lamp to
an electric wire with a wooden rod
you would have no light, but II you
made the connection with a metal
rod you would come into instantane-
Gus communication with the power
house at the other end of the line,
and your light would glow. God is
spirit, and when people try to esta-
bhsh the connection between them
selves and Spirit with the wooden
rods of human will, ignorance, self
ishnesS, pride, or any other form of
wrong thinking they Will be disap-
pointed; but when they use rods of
the true metal of truth, love, humil-
ity, meekness, kindness, and the gold
en- rule of doing unto others as you
would have others do unto you the
nexus will be established and the
divine power will flow from Spirit in
to the human consciousness, impart-
ing to it qualities and capabilities
that it had not poss essed before and
bringing into it a sense of peace that
it had not before known.
The prophet Micah said a mans
enemies are they of his own house
hold, and Jesus repeated the state
ment. | used to understand their
meaning to be that a mans enemies
that a mans enemies are they of
, his own mental household. The men
tai guests or thoughts that We en-
terrain in our mental homes are eth
eT our friends or our foes. Hatred,
fear, self-love and alleyil qualities of
thought are enemies that bind man
to sickness and death, and man viii
never gain his freedom until he
drives cut these enemies and makes
his consciousness the temple of God.
, We are told in Christian Science
that fear is an ingredient of every
disease, and if fear were entirely de
stroyed a large number of diseases
= would go with it. If We could ina
CINE this world with all hatred, fear,
destroyed out of it. it is conceivable
that longevity would be increased
, and that happiness and health would
be more secure
If Christian Science had. never heal
ed case of sickness it would still be
entitled to lasting praise for compel
ling this age to recognize the power
! and influence of thought. Solomon
q declared three thousand years ago
: that as a man ''thinketh in his heart
, SO is he.' In other words, the quail
ty of the man is determined by the
1 quality Of his thought. 1t is there
, fore of supreme Importance that man
should know the truth, to the end
tina the may know how to think cor
rectly.
. PARABLE OF THE PRODIGAL SON
In the parable of the prodigal son
Jesus illustrated the power OF thought
, You will remember that the young
: man took the property with which his
father had endowed him and went in,
+ to a far country where he made bad
use of it. After a while he began to
, be in want and finally secured EN-
r ployment in a very mental position.
The position, however, did not yield
> enough to keep him from starving, ant
he was obliged to eat husks. About
that time a voice said to him. why
do you not go home? In your faith
G eicis house is enough and to spare, and
why do you stay here?' Immediate
ly self-love became active, and said,
do not go home. The neighbors
VIII ridicule you, and the servants
will laugh at you, and, anyway, there
is no certainty that your father will
let you return" Thus the argument
of self-love was sufficient to keep
MIN on the husk plane of conscious
ness for some time longer. After a
while, however, he said that even
though the neighbors should ridicul,
him and the servants laugh at him,
he would go home and tell his father
the whole miserable story, and would
say that he was no more worthy to
be called his son, but if the father
would only let him come home he
would be as one OF his hired SER
wants.
We can there see that meekness
and humility had taken the place OF
lself-love and had silenced pride, and
Instantly the line of communication
was opened between himself and the
father. The father saw him a great
way off, and ran to meet him, and
put robe on him, and a ring on his
finger, and the son found that he
had been a son all the time. Moth
ing but his own false sense had made
him suffer, and when he got rid of
the false mortal beliefs of a prodi-
gan and revealed the qualities CT a
son the scales fell from his eyes
and he found himself in his right
mind
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