The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-10-05

ence was demonstrated" page no
She stated that Science in the Chris
tian Science book so simply and
logically that the simple reading OF
that book has brought the healing
Comforter to multitudes of those in
sickness and distress, and made them
every whit whole.
Mrs Eddy has thus become the dis
coverer of Christian Science, and the
founding of its institutional work was
to follow In her joy to share such a
great blessing she appealed to the
spiritual thought of learned men, only
to suffer the rebuff OF dignified silence.
Her first ray of hope came when that
silence waaf turned into ridicule and
abuse; for it meant that she had gain
ed at least a hearing. Deserted by
friends and relatives, and opposed by
subtle and powerful influences which
ever way she turned, this woman pa
tiently kept her course in the founding
of the various institutions of Christian
Science, until the movement has
spread itself over the world, and all
within her own lifetime. By her clear
statement of scientific Christianity,
Mrs Eddy has enormously increased
The number Of followers of Christ's
teachings The sick are healed of
bodily ailments by reading it's litera-
ure; the sinner may know how to lib
,rate himself from his sin and great
Of aJI I,a &c, ,riu l1
power to save himself from the gener-
Il belief in sin, so that the good he de-
3ires to do, that he can do. Mrs. Ed
ly has therefore proved, in accordance
With the vision in the apocalypse, that
1 pure-minded woman, armed with the
Science, can unlock the secrets of "the
law of the spirit of life in Christ Je-
3us," and reveal the promised Comfor-
ter
Try as hard as one may, it is i'm
possible to separate Moses from the
commandments, or Jesus from the
)eatitudes. When Jesus had that ex-
llted vision of law and prOphesy on
he Mount of TRANSPORTATION, the hu-
man representative Of law and pro-
.)hesy became apparent to those near
enough to get the lesson. 1t is equal
y certain that the human representa-
i've of scientific Christianity can nev-
ar be separated from the spiritual
treasures which she has opened to our
Use.
Disease Mental.
Jesus healed physical disease on the
basis that the Truth makes free. Four
thousand years of medicine has en-
leavored to force the conclusion that
disease is purely physical, and that it
equires a, physical remedy. The re-
,ult is that diseases have a tually
multiplied Jesus proved that sick
less, disease and fear are the errors
md not the truths of being, and they
AN be healed by a mental process.
Their basis being wholly material, and
natter being mortal error, the truth
IF God dispels those errors just as
light dispels darkness, just as the
understanding that two and two are
our dispels any denial of that fact.
And when one understands that truth,
le does not have to sit up nights to be
certain of it in the morning. Jesus
20 understood the nature of God as
truth, that he could make it just as
consciously apparent to the man with
he withered hand, and that disease
condition was wiped out by that pro-
cess just as effectually as one could
take sponge and wipe out the wrong
igures on the blackboard.
1t is generally recognized that GER
ain nervous disorders are mental; for
| hough the person may be sick almost
distraction, examination may dis
close no diseased organ, tissue or
| nerve He may have apparent physi-
| cal ailments, such as that trinity of
| disorders known as dyspepsia, heart
palpitation, and insomnia; but an eX-
animation discloSes no organic disease
the patients troubles are actually
| unreal, in the sense that they have no
| physical cause But TO the patient
| they are decidedly real in the sense
| that he feels them constantly, and
| cannot free himself from them.
Though the patient may be perfect
| ly sane while suffering from some ner-
vous ailment, his belief must be chan
ged before he can experience his heal
/ ing. That is never brought about by
| imagining himself we'll. Such primi
tive emotions as fear and anger, which
are common to men and beasts, are
said to produce depressing and poi
| sonous conditions The thought o.
| guilt is said to be even more deleteri
ous. Anger may cause a person tt
become flushed or pallid in the face
Indicating the mental control of th'
circulation. Indeed it may stop ones
digestion altogether showing hov
ones thought has equal control owe
the digestive system. A severe ex
animation may affect students with re
tarded digestion due to their fear
With the proof that functional disor
ders are mental in their cause, due t.
erroneous thinking, investigation ha
continued until medical experiment
!. have proved that diabetes is entirel
the result of fear or emotion. In fac
it is more generally conceded toda
that consumption may be just con
suming fear. That may be the rea
son why no drug or medicine eve
t healed them. The Christian Scienc
| textbook saws "The DrOcurin