Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-10-07
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a greater or less degree, they only
inner aUouI now Tar this mental IN.
.luence ex.eDds All agree that ex
~essipe woFry. lear. anger, and other
sental extremes, are familiar caus
IS o. physical disorders. All viii ad-
nit for example. that q man may va
~ himself sick. that excessive
ear may produce weakness, and thai
4 violent outBdrst Of anger may
ause phyicaI collapse But how fan
other toTms OF bodily arrangements
are TO be attributed TO mental caus-
es, authorizes 90 not agree. Just
where the vague line snoC'd be
drawn which the dacto~s say exists
between mental and material causa-
ton is a matter of dispute among
the doctoS themsreel wees. One school
of medicine maintains that only so
called functional diseases are men
tally produced, while another more
progressive admits that certain form
OF elementary organic disorders
may have mental origin.
Here Christian Science enters
the arena and boldly declared that
The -.uman mind is TO be held &C
countable Tor every discordant condi
ton of the body; not only in cases
where jus action is direct and ap-
parent, as in those Just named, but
where it's operations are remote ana
obscure and are only dlscernIDle BY
those TRAINED in the study OF
mental causation.
Then arises a throng of questions
by the beginner, typical ones being
NOW about the sickness of an in
fant, whose mind is undeVeloped; !"
or, How can a mans mind bee the
cause OF his pain when ne sWaI-
lowed something liz his food that he
lid not know was harmful" 1t is
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that causes the mischief, but minds
Gu all rtaIs-mortal mind, in O.
tner words. 1t is Rhis mortal mind
which mas decreed that certain ply
steal effecis Will follow certain oaus-
es. it is this mortat mind that has
ia down many OF these TROUBLE max
ing Jaws about the physical body an
the material world where 1t claims
to have complete control. 1t holds its
subjects in a grip of iron, and sick
ness, pain, distress, sorrow anG
misery are the results. 1t is aic
GATOR, a tyrant, despot, and the
human body is its obedient servant.
Yet it may be stripped OF all its
assumed power and aggresisYeness,
and be reduced to nothingnes.
KNOWING GOD.
IT at this stage of his enlighten-
ment it is explained to the beginner
that right knowledge OF God, di-
Vie Mimi, is essential to his pro-
gress, he naturally asks, How am /
% learn to know God, divine Mind,
that His benign influence may har7
monte my troubled life and heal this
ailing boay thai gives me so much OIL
distress? How am l to understand
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Who is to teach me?
Jesus of Nazareth was not only
the greatest physician but also the
greatest teacher The world has ever
known. He taught men TO know
God and now, as then, mans great
need is right understanding Of
God and His law.
Most men know so little about God
as Life, Truth, and Love, supreme on
earth as in heaven that they think
they can get along just as well with
out such knowledge as with it. Yet
there j nothing within the range of
human consciou sness that is more ga
senhaI to mans happiness, health
and true success.
RIGHT IDEA OF GOD.
We Will then ask the beginner to
set aside for the time his inherited
and impedimentve beliefs about God
and TO consider with an open mind a
little OF the teachings of Christian
Science about God, good, the God
whom Jesus taught men TO know.
Let US expGai4 to him that Goo
is Love; that God is Mind; that He
is Spirit; the infinite Principle OF be-
ingthaL He is Truth, that He is Life;
that He is omnipotence, omniscience,
omnipresence. Do these definitions
of God quickly appeal to the man
a finite personage subject to the
limitations OF time, space, and cir
oumstance? Perhaps not. But let
US propose aus an aid towards afulleT
comprehension, that he choose from
among these definitions the one
which most nearly approaches his
conception of the highest possible
-, and let his thought dwell upon
that. mans highest ideas of God
can be no higher than his highest
conceptions of good, but they should
always be that high.
If the thought OF God as Love, ey-
er blessing never condeming; ever
healing, never affecting, including all
mankind in hs fatberly protection
and infinite affection; if this thous hit
God comes to you with tender ap-
peal, hold fast to it and cherish it,
1t win unfold and enlarge and deYeI-
op, and aaually lead You to a yet
broader 1uIIer knowledge of Him as