Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-05-11

Say lildu lalluf6 was due TO their lack |
of faith, or spiritual understanding.
Fitness to Receive
Good is Infinite but it comes into |
human experience only as men are
prepared to receive it. Belief in gooa
and the possibility of its attainment
is step in the right direction; faith |
is a more spiritual quality of thought
wherein one begins to rely upon the
Infinite and to expect the desired re-
suit, but spiritual understanding,
which is faith in the true and broad
sense of the word, demonstrates Gods
presence and power
1t is fundamental teaching of
Christian Science that God, divine
Love, has bestowed countless bless
ings upon all mankind No good
thing is withheld; but there must be
an ability 10 perceive and fitness to
partake of that which has been be-
slowed. On several occasions the
Master said to those who appealed to
him for help, According TO your
faith be it unto you" and to certain
of those who were the recipients of
Gods goodness he said, 'thy faith
hath saved thee" BY this he meant
that they were prepared to receive
the blessing of Truth. 1t is recorded
that on one occasion he did not per-
form many mighty works because of
the peoples unbelief. They were
not prepared to receive what it was
in his power to give.
In his parable of the sower the
Master taught that results are salts
factory only when conditions are
| favorable. The soil must be good,
and it must be prepared for the seed.
If the soil is of inferior quality or is
not properly prepared it is unreason-
able to expect bountiful harvest.
III one would receive the blessing of
Truth he must make lit preparation.
If he is unwilling to do this he
should not complain when he fails to
experience the good he desires,
Obedience to Law
At the very beginning of his public
ministry Jesus declared that he was
not come to destroy the law but to
fulfil the law. BY example as well as
precept he taught obedience to divine
| Principle. Neither in word or in
deed did he transgress the immutable
law of God.
When one learns that eternal good
can be gained in no way except
through obedience TO divine law he
has begun to build on sure founda-
ton. The thought of God as person
has encouraged the belief that one
can gain good merely by asking for it,
but the understanding that God is
divine Principle operating through
spiritual law shows what is required
on mans part and why it is required.
All sin, sickness, discord and suffer
ing is the result of false sense of
God and man. That which produces
discord is not the remedy for discord,
and can never succeed in removing it.
When this self-evident fact is recog-
nized twill be understood that the
only remedy for evil is that which
cannot produce or contribute to evil.
Paul had clear sense of truth and
error, good and evil, and throughout
his writings he is very careful to
separate one from the other. What
could be more to the point than his
positive declaration that "to be
carnaliy minded is death; but TO be
spiritually minded is life and peace?''
The carnal mind includes all evil,
but spiritual consciousness has no
sense of evil and is life eternal. To
human belief the tares and wheat,
good and evil, truth and error, grow
side by side. Spiritual understand
standing separates the chat from the
wheat. All that emanates from
divine Mind is good, while that which
originates in mortal mind has no
legitimate place in consciousness.
Diagnosis
1t is apparent to all that sin is a
quality of the carna', or mortal mind,
and that it can be overcome by gain
ing the true sense of gooG. 1t is not,
however, so generally understood that
sickness is from the SAME source as
sin and that it can be elfectually
healed in the same manner. The in
fluence of thought upon the body is
being recognized more and more, and
mental conditions are being taken
into consideration even in the ply
steal diagnosis Of disease. 1t is ad-
| mitted that many times what are re-
| garded as purely physical conditions
could not result from the same natu-
raj causes if mental conditions were
| different. Even from material point
of view harmonious mental condi-
tion is most desirable.
In all the affairs of human exper-
fence it is believed that TO under
stand the nature of a trouble and
what has caused IL, is a great help
in overcoming the difficulty. This
is believed TO be especially true Of
disease, and many persons argue that
before one can heal a disease he must
know its name and nature and what
! has caused it, A correct physical
diagnosis of disease is welLnigh an
impossibility, as is shown by the
great diversity of opinions among
those learned persons WHO have spent
years Of study along material lines
Many times What Is considered d
cause is merely an effect, and the
first or primitive cause is unknown.
1t must be admitted that many sick
persons have recovered, or at least
appeared to do 50, when the physi-
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