Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-12-21

mics to health and happiness.
Good thoughts, such as childlik,
trust in God kindness, love, gentle
ness, purity, honesty, uprightness, re
fleet health, harmony and beauty up
on the body, while their opposites-
trust in material help, hate, jealousy
dishonesty, immortality, and the like
express discord and sickness in the
body.
Nearly half a century ago Mrs
Eddy discovered that all disease is
mental rather than physical-the il.
fusion of false mentality-and that
such illusion can be eliminated, and
harmony restored, by scientific OF
true thinking, which is the exercise
of divine Mind. The truth and effica-
cy of her discovery have been demon
strated by the healing of all kinds
of disease, sin. sorrow, distress and
poverty. Mrs. Eddy declares, on
page All of Science and Health, that
1.-THE procuring cause and foundation
OF all sickness is fear, ignorance, or
sim" OF these, fear is doubtless the
most prolific. The most acute cases
of bodily pain and sickness can be
overcome by restoring confidence in
God and His ever present sustaining
influence.
Whaf iS Of hn -
also true of the body polite. A panic
produces a discOrdant state in the
arteries of trade, in the manufacture
ing and commercial centers, so that
nothing seems to move in perfect
harmony. The dictionaries define
panic as "extreme or sudden cause
less, unreasonable fright" To cure
such a condition, confidence must be
restored. 1t was the great cry dur
ing the panic of 1907 that everything
would be righted if only the fear of
the people would relax.
If all people were taught to think
from a scientific standpoint, there
would be no more panics, because
they would then have confidence in
the protecting and sustaining care of
their heavenly Father, and thus lose
the sense of anxiety in regard to
their supply. They would believe in
the verify of the statement of our
Master:
Seek We first the kingdom of God,
and his righteousness, and all these
things shall be added unto you"
Breaking the law of the first COM
mandment, having other gods, in
dulging in idOlatry, is the greatest of
all evils, and yet nearly every one is
more or less involved in this error
ldolatry does not consist solely in the
worship of material images. Parents
often make idols of their children;
men worship persons and professions;
artists worship their art; students
worship earthly wisdom; pet animals
and physical adOrnments absorb the
affections; wealth, fame, worldly am
billions and pleasures often ill the
consciousness and exclude the needed
spiritual thought. These are idOla-
trOus and harmful. Humanity ex-
cuseS them by calling them "hobbies,"
and the peculiar results they produce,
'eccentricities of the professional
Mrs. Eddy has named the sum total
of all wrong thought mortal mind.
All that pertains to evil, sin, sorrow,
sickness, pain, disaster, war and
death originate and have their SEEM
ing existence in this so-called mind.
On the other hand, all that relates to
life, health, peace, harmony and per-
lection have their origin and eternal
existence in divine Mind.
Prayer Without Ceasing.
Christian Scientists are sometimes
said to be a prayerless people. No
aspersiOn could be farther from the
truth than this. Christian Scientists
believe in prayer without ceasing"
We believe in keeping thought active
in the right direction, in order to ex-
pei all the errors of false training,
and to separate the mental chaff from
the wheat, as did Jacob of old in his
conflict with evil. We believe we
should never cease to acknowledge
Gods supremacy over all, and His
loving and merciful kindness to His
children.
Our prayer is not so much in sup
plication to God for help as in &C
acknowledgement of the good which He
already has given. If one had a gold
mine, filled with the precious metal,
he would not think it consistent to
pray for gold, but would expect to
help himself to that which was al
ready his. Christian Scientists do
ask God for guidance, wisdom and
help. They know that He has given
them all things, and that their need
is only to awake from their dreamy,
mortal mind sense to avail themselves
of His infinite goodness. Scientists
try to become wholly submissive to
the divine will, and to be ever alert
TO resist thoughts which are unlike
good. This is their prayer, and it
conforms to the Scriptural admoni-
ton: Submit yourselves therefore
to God. Resist the devil evil and
he will flee from you"
When a Christian Scientist is
tempted to think of pain or sickness
he Immediately turns against it and
declares for the allness, completeness,
and absolute perfection Of Gods crea-
ton, which is expressed in man. He
refuses to believe that pain or disease
is any part of perfection. This re-
sistance of ungodly thought, if cor
rectly understood, prevents the error
from entering the consciousness, hence
it cannot exist. When in this way