Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-07-07

Spiritual and Physical Remedies.
OMAHA, July ITO the Editor OF The
Bee In hecent issue of the Church
and Home appears an interesting and
impartial discussion of the relation OF
the church TO healing.
without admitting that the physician
can operate in the dual capacity of using
both spiritual and material remedies for
the sick. we certainly can agree that the
Christian physician believing in the
eternaIity of life rather than death would
be a tremendous agency for the eradoa-
ton Of fear and ignorance which con-
stitute the prime cause of much Of sick
ness and death.
Concerning this question Mrs. EDDY
expresses the thought suggested by the
article in question in the following apt
language:
Physicians whom the sick employ in
their helplessnees, should be models OF
virtue. They should be Wise spiritual
tremblers on the brink of death, who un-
derstand not the divine truth which is
life and perpetuates being, physicians
should be able 10 teach II. Then when
the soul IT. willing and the flesh weak,
the patients feet may be planted on the
rock Jesus Christ, the true idea OF
spiritual power.
IN the subjects involving the relative
authority to be given the canonicsl ana
apocrypal writings and therefore Is
not in position to deprecate the use Of
the book OF Ecclessin sticus as authority
for some OF the positions taken, but
from a Iaymsns standpoint the prophet
Isaiah more fully sounds the inspired
note when he says:
And / will bring the blind by a way
that they know not: will lead them in
paths that they have not known; 1 will
make darkness light before them. and
crooked things straight
The author referring to Christian
Science suggests that he would be loath
| TO erect q church upon the one gift OF
healing the sick" as Christian Scientists
| have done.
1t might be pertinent upon the direct
/ point to seriously consider whether the
health Of the community, moral and
| physical, IL not the ENHANCEMENT in our
immediate path and that the church
might well center all of its energies upon
this problem as the prerequisite to the
next progressive STEP but to linger upon
this argument would not be fair to
Christian Science inasmuch as healing
the sick IL but incidental to the building
of the perfect structure which Is the
end and aim Of Christian Science.
While the cure OF disease attracts the
attention Of the outside world both be-
cause OF the worlds great need 70 be
healed of its diseases. as we'll as the
radical departure In the methods EN-
ployed by Christian science yet the
thousands who have been healed in
Science testify that their physical healing
is relatively unimportant compared to
tho mental awakening which has come
from some understanding of what Paul
meant when he said. For the law Of the
spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made
me free from the law OF sin and death
and the writings OF Mrs. Eddy fully Jus.
tify her statement. that the mission Of
Christian Science now. as IN the time Of
it's earlier demonstration. 10 not phi.
marty one of physical healing. Now, a,
then. signs and wonders are wrought In
the metaphysical hesling of physica
disease; but these signs are only t
demonstrate its divine origin-to Attes
the reality OF the higher mission Of IN,
christ-power to take away the sins o.
the world CARL e. HERRING.
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