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

IN need of healing must decide be-
tween them.
Christian Science teaches it is di-
vinely natural to be healthy and un-
natural TO be sick. The discords
termed sickness and sin, and all other
inharmonious conditions and exper-
fences, can be dealt with as intelli-
gently as can the diScoTdS of music or
mathematics, and they will be over
come as readily when the divine
Principle of harmonious being is un-
derstood and the laws thereof in
telligently obeyed,
According TO Christian Science,
laws OF nature are not laws of mat
ter but laws of divine Mind, and the
worlds most successful healer de-
clared that his followers in all ages
would be able TO heal the sick in &C
cordance with these unchanging
laws.
When the sick are brought into har-
mony with Gods law they are re-
stored to health. How is this accom-
plished? The prayer of faith is the
unfailing remedy When it is under
stood that the sick are healed by rea-
son of the activity of divine Mind
operating through spiritual law, who
will say that the prayer of spiritual
| understanding is less scientific than
the mental operation which diagnoses
disease according TO material theories,
or that it is less effectual in healing
the sick than is the drug 0. appliea-
tion administered in accordaI ce with
the material diagnosisY L. can no
longer be denied that tie sick are
healed in Christian Science even
though the majority are not prepared
TO admit that the method is scientific.
One may question the method but
he cannot deny the result.
Conservation of Health
We hear great deal these days
about the conservation Of health and
the means 10y which this most desir-
able end can be attained Few per-
sons realize how much Christian
Science is doing in this direction. Chris
tian science is a preventive as we'll rs
curative. Thousands have been re-
stored TO perfect health after they
had been pronounced incurable and
there is no means Of estimating how
many have been healed before they
reached the So-cailed incurable stage.
If obedience to divine law heals the
sick, then the best way TO preserve
health and prevent the development
of disease is To know and obey the
law of God. According to Christian
Science, laws of matter, and what
are termed laws of health, are simply
man made beliefs and not laws of
God. Health and freedom are gained
through obedience to Gods law, and
not as the result of being i'm bondage
TO the So called law Of mortal mind.
The most elrectual means of con-
serving that which is good and at the
same time delivering humanity from
discordant conditions, is TO impart
the understanding Of divine law,
which always works out good and is
never the source or cause of evil "A
good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit,
neither can corrupt tree bring forth
good fruit" declared the great expo
nent of divine law. If one desires
good he must look to the source
whence good can come. lie must do
this Understandings. According to
his enlightened faith he will receive
the blessing he desires.
Physical and Moral Healing
1t is believed by many that disease
and suffering are TO a certain extent
in accordance with the divine plan.
Jesus regarded human experience
from an entirely different point of
view, and his success in overcoming
discordanU conditions proved that his
faith was right.
Mortals have made fatal mistake
in concluding that there is one remedy
for sin and another remedy for sick
ness Jesus was as successful in
healing sickness as he was in destroy
ing sin. Why then should he not be
considered az authority i'm the one
case as well as the other? In his
teaching and practice, physical and
moral healing were one Nowhere did
he intimate by word or deed that
different remedies we're required.
When the people murmured because
he said unto a sick man, "Thy sins be
forgiven thee" he asked "Whether it
it is easier TO say, Thy sins be for
given thee, or 10 say, Arise, and
walk2" To the impotent man whom
he healed he said behold, thou art
made whole; sin no more, lest worse
thing come unto thee"
Jesus declared that he could do
nothing with himself. Whatever vas
accomplished was the work Of God.
Is it not evident that he considered
the healing Of sickness as divinely
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did not teach that there are two laws,
one TO be obeyed by the sick man and
another by the sinner. There is but
one law, the law Of divine Mind, and
obedience TO this law is required OF
both the sick and the sinful. What
ever the human need, obedience to
the law of God will supply that need,
| for God is infinite good and mo good
thing will he withhold from them
that walk Uprightly,''-rr obedient
, TO divine law
Jesus commanded his students 10
| heal the sick and cast out devils as
we'll as preach the gospel, and this
command was faithfully adhered TO
until mortal belief substituted mate
rial methods fos Gods power in the