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

it has done many good things. En-
tirely apart from the question OF
physical healing, it is generally con-
ceded that it produces d happy and
contented mentality that it destroys
fear. and makes people loving and
kind.
When We add TO this the fact
that it has healed many sick people
who had previously been unable to
find relief under other systems, that
it has cured many OF the drug habit,
and of the liquor habit, has restor-
ed harmony in many homes that were
discordant, and has given hope and
courage to people who were discour-
aged, it is easy TO understand why
Christian Science has spread from
one end OF the earth to the other with
such wonderful rapidity.
1t has been truly said that every
person has a problem, either ply
steal or mental, a domestic or a bu-
siness problem, towards the solution
of which he needs Gods help, and
if Christian Science is able to help
people to be happy, to be less fault
finding, TO be healthy, to have less
fear, and to have more love, then it
is something that every one dseires.
Before becoming interested in
Christian Science, | was a member
Of an orthodox church. | had been
taught to read the Bible and to re
spect and yenerate it's teachings and
| did so. There was one thing, how
ever, that | was never able to under
stand, and that was why everybody
who lived at the time Of Jesus and
witnessed his wonderful works did
not believe in him. 1t seemed to
me that if | had lived at that time,
and had been able to see him heal
| leDrosy. blindness, insanity, and raist
| the dead, it would have been very
easy TO believe in him. People who
witnessed those works, however
We're not always impressed in his ia
vor because OF them. Sometimes when
he performed one of the most wonder
| full cures it stirred some of the peo
| pie to rage. For instance, when he
| of the eye witnesses fastened to re
port it to the authorities in Jerusalel
and the Jewish Sanhedrin forthwith
| declared that he must be killed, be
cause, they said, if they did not kill
! him, all the people would follow him
! Since becoming a Christian Scien
fist | can understand why the people
Of his time were not convinced by
| the works of Jesus that he was The
| true representative of God. They be
! lieYed that a Messiah would come
but they expected him to come in a ce
tain way and because he did not come
in thai way they refused to believe
in him.
1t is the same quality of though
that prevents people at the prseen
time from being convinced that Chri
ton Science is the truth by the worl
that it does. All of the churche
pray for the recovery of the sick. The
do SO because they expect that Cox
will heal according to His promise
in the Bible, but when the heahn:
comes through the Christian Science
church and as the result of Christial
Science prayer, some are ready tt
condemn it. Because the healin!
Christ Goes not come in the way the.
have expected, they are just as read
today as two thousand years ago t
declare that he did his works througl
Beelzebub.
Let us not rob ourselves of an.
good thing because of prejudice O.
sectarianism. Christian Science i
knocking at the door of this age wit
a message of hope for every one. 1
declares that the truth taught ant
practiced by Jesus is operating to
day and that it is as available fol
us as it was for those who lived IL
Apostolic times.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE HEALING.
The thing that has caused the mos
criticism of Christian Science is tina
it claims to heal the sick without
drugs, by spiritual means only, thru
the medium of prayer, and as this i!
the phase of Christian Science il