Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1914-03-17

his dealings with his fellow men ana
in the sanctity Of his innermost
thoughts.
Hence it is that there Is no such
thing as purely theoretical Christian
Scientist No man can become a
Christian Scientist by merely believing
in the teachings 81 its textbook with
out practlcing them. We are Christian
Scientists only as we put into con-
slant practice our knowledge of our
religion. be that knowledge great or
small. We are Christian Scientists
only as we are kind and helpful in
thought and deed; only as we think
health and talk health instead of dis
ease and disaster. We are Christian
Scientists only as We say to evil men,
tai suggestion, 'sPeace, be still - Only
as we are loving and courageous and
resolute and answering in our war
fare against sin. sickness and death.
BODY S RESPONSE TO MIND
1t is often charged against Christian
Scientists because they rely wholly
upon Mind that they do not "do any
thing" for the sick. When the aver
age man considers the needs of sick
| person, his thought at once turns to
the medicine bottle and he believes
| there is nothing being done for the
| sick man unless he Is made to swallow
something According to his peremp-
| tory opinions, the sick man should be
treated with something that he can
taste or smell or feel, something that
the senses can perceive. Otherwise
Nothing Is being done for him."
He may tell you that attempting to
change the condition of a mans body
| through mind alone Is foolishness
And Set-this same intelligent citizen
will readily admit that a mans body
commonly and frequently undergoes
sudden and very marked changes due
/ entirely to mental causes. He will
admit that salt water will flow from
his eyes II he is subjected to great
grief. That sudden fear will produce
cold perspiration, That anger will
cause the face to flush or pale, the
heart to thump, the voice to change.
Now grief, anger and the like are
obviously mental, but because their
effect on the body is of everyday oc-
currence, as commonplace as eating
1 and drinking, the lesson they disclose
is lost upon the man who hastens to
censure Christian Science for achiev-
ing what he styles the impossible,
yet which has been a part of him
since the day when as crying infant
he on his mothers arm shed his first
| tears.
| If then it is conceded that the state
of mind may disturb the secretions,
causing the tears to flow; or that the
state Of mind may quicken the action
of the heart, causing the blood to
rush to the face or away from it; or
if the state of mind can affect the
organs of the throat causing huski-
| ness, then it is plain that the state
of mind may be held accountable for
other arrangements Of the organs of
secretion, of circulation and of speech.
| And if of these why not of other
organs of the body If changing
grief into JOY will stop the flow of
tears, or in other words if change of
! thought will change the flow o.
fluid to the eyes, why will
not change of thought change
the flow Of fluids to the stom-
ach? Is it not more rational
then to treat dyspepsia with mind
than with taboids and powders?
And so it is with all other bodily
diseases and arrangements, they have
one and all responded to the curative
influence Of Mind, administered in
Christian Science.
Jesus proved for all time and for all
Christendom that the origin of dis
ease was mental and ne healed it
with mental medicine. He gave him
self no concern about physical symp-
toms, but he destroyed what caused
them. He cared little about what
the sick man had been eating, but
| much about what he had been think
ing. He said in so many words, st
is not that which goeth into man
which detileth him. When he healed
the sick he gave no parting directions
about diet and rest, but on at least
| one occasion said. "Sin no more lest a
worst thing come unto thee" thus
indicating the mental origin of the
disease. The sick were healed by
him through spiritual understanding,
not by human will. Christian Science,
similarly relying wholly upon divine
Principle, has no relationship with
will power, mental science, hypno-
tism, mesmerism, auto-suggestion,
thought transference, spiritualism or
any of the other cults or schools
which rely wholly or in part upon the
influence Of one human mind or
human will upon another. These are
essentially adverse to the teachings
Of Christian Science, wherein the
human mind and the human will are
made wholly subordinate and subser-
Went to the divine Mind, the will OF
Ged. Success in Christian Science is
only attained as fallible human men
tality is eliminated. This implies
self-denia,, the denial of the human
sense of self, and the affirmation of
all good, and is a condition to which
all must come sooner or later. ''As
live. saith the Lord. every knee shall
bow, and every tongue shall confess
to God"
HEREAFTItR
In considering the immortality of
m IN ono iS c0ufrapfod hv the nunS-