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

er controlling the weaker. while in
Christian Science it is the operation
OF truth in the human mind that neu.
lFahzes and destroys the error, and
produces the healing
There is not a case of physical
healing in Christian Science where
the person healed is not benefited
morally and given a spiritual uplift.
whereas the effect of hypnotism is
harmful. a professor of psyschol-
ogy IN one of our leading umversi-
tleis has stated that hypnotisln is
capable OF causing every crime ex-
cept murder, and that he was not sure
but that it would cause murder. A
short time ago one of the leading
physicians of Philadelphia published
an article in one of the medical jour
nails in which he warned the medical
profession and the public against hyp
notism, saying that it is an evil and
dangerous thing
While most people nov admit that
hypnotism is a bad thing there are
some who claim that mental sugges-
tion is a good thing. l know of some
clergymen who claim that Jesus heal
ed by mental suggestion. The fact
is that mental suggestion and hyp-
notism are ON the same plane of opel
ton and differ only in degree. The
same college professor says that it
is impossible to tell where hypnotism
shades off into mental suggestion.
Hence mental suggestion is merely
hypnotism that stops before complete
hypnosis is produced.
All who claim that Jesus healed
by mental sugge SSiOn are virtually
accusing him of having been a hyp
notist, and Christian Scientists deny
that he healed through any such me-
thod. Amy one has the right to be
lieYe in hypnotism and mental sug-
| gestion if he wishes to do so, but
| it should be made plain that those
things have no connection with Chris
| tan Science.
GOD NOT THE CREATOR OF EVIL
| Another subject about which the
teaching of Christian Science is
much misunderstood is the unreal
| ty of evil. AS matter of fact the
Christian Science position ON this
subject is very plain. The Bible says
that God made every thing that was
made, and that everything He made
was good. God therefore did not
create evil. Wherever it came from
it must be accounted for in some o.
Their way than as being a part of
Gods creation.
Since God did not create evil,
Christian Science says it is not real
that God made is eternal and indie
lstructible, and if He had made evil
it would possess those qualities. 1t
lis a fact that evil, whether in the
form Of sickness or sin, can be de
strOyed. Jesus made war upon it
and destroyed it, and the entire hui
man race is at this very moment en-
gagged in a warfare against it.
Christian Science is aiding in this
warfare against evil, and has shed
much light upon the subject by show
ing that evil exists nowhere except
in human belief, and that it cam be
destroyed by Truth operating in hui
man consciousness.
| Christian Science points out that
| evil has no inherent power, and that
it cannot manifest itself either as
sim or as disease without the coop
GRAFTON Of human belief. BY showing
that evil resides in human belief
and has no divine causation, Chris
tan Science has performed an i'm
measurable service to humanity 1t
robs evil of its supposed authority;
it sets man free from fear of evil,
and gives him working hypothesis
by which he may destroy it.
CREATION
| The subject of creation is also one
about which there is much misun-
derstanding. l have found that many
people do not know that there are
two accounts of the creation in the
! Bible. The first account lis to be
found in the first chapter of Genesis
down to and including the third verse
of the second chapter. Beginning
with the fourth verse of the second
chapter there follows a second ac-
count that is wholly different from
the first, In the first chapter we are
told that God created everything,
and that He made It. good and last
ly that He made man In His own i'm
age, and after His own likeness, and
| that He gave man dominion over all
the earth and over all that it con-
tanned
The second account contains the
allegory about God coming down to
earth and mixing up dust and calling
it man. In the second account we
have the story of Adam and Eve and
the Garden of Eden. Then We are
told that a mist went up from the
earth and after that sin appeared,
and brother killed brother, and from
that time to the present the man
made of dust has been sinner and
has been at enmity with God.
The great difference between Chris
tan Science and all other systems
of religious teaching is that Christian
Science accepts. the first account of
the creation as true, while all others
accept the second account as the ba- |
sis and foundation upon which they |
build. All through the centuries the |
trouble has been that people have |
regarded the Adam man as being the |
real man, created by God in His I'M
age and likeness, and have tried to
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