Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-11-21

never been found in matter, however
industriously sought there. To sup
pose that it could be so found is so
manifestly illogical, and so clearly i'm
possible, that it seems strange that
thousands of devoted and learned men
and women have spent untold years
in the vain endeavor to locate in mat
ter the Unreasonable, uncomfortable
Principle, Life, God.
Life is eternal now. Nearly all re-
ligiOus doctrine has been to the eff
feet that eternal life would come af-
ter death. Such theories utterly ig-
more the meaning of eternaiity at the
same time that they claim to teach it.
Postponed eternality is no eternality
at all. Creation is not something that
begins or ends. When the Bible is
read spiritually instead of materially,
it Enthusiastically shows that the only
thing which ever begins is not crea-
ton, but human beings conception
of it. Eternal Life is unquestionably
to be attained by enlightenment and
demonstration. Life is the basic Prin-
ciple of Being, which needs to be and
can be humanity proved through
Christian Science by eliminating the
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sin and disease.
Mind Not Dependent Upon Brains
The only thing that ever lives is
Mind. Take away all thoughts or
consciousness and matter does not
even appear to live. The fact is that
| matter neither lives nor thinks, and
this is true notwithstanding the gen.
eral belief that brains, as matter, con-
| stitute a thinking organ. This belief
| is so universal that it overwhelms the
whole race, so that when an injury
happens to the brain the mind Of the
| person is affected unless he be res
cued by Christian Science from that
universal belief This is not to say
that human being could get along
without brains. The object of Chris
| tian Science practice is not to have
him get along without brains, but to
have him get better brains, which he
will do in the proportion that he
learns in Christian Science and proves
by means of the facts which constitute
this science, that Mind is God, for by
| so doing fear is removed, and fear
is the only thing that is the matter
| with anybody's brain.
Invisible Power the Only Power
Thoughts alone constitute education
The consequent improvement of ma
terial things, together with all other
visible evidences of human progress,
is made possible only by improved
thoughts, which, though invisible, are
thus shown to have tangible being and
evidence. After all, material tangibil-
| ity is comparatively unimportant 1t
is merely the outward and temporary
sign of something far more enduring
and tangible. All science consists of
thoughts, and so to the thinker who
looks for Cause in the world and
searches for its law, thoughts are the
phenomena of first Importance. All
science, art and religion consist of
thoughts. Even the science of mathe-
MATES is invisible in principle and
rule. Can it be said on that account
that it is not tangible? Music and
poetry consist of thoughts. No art is
possible without ideas, and they must
indeed be of very superior nature to
justify the use of the word art in rela-
ton to them.
The greatest things of the world are
all invisible, which does not imply
that they are tangible. Thought,
though invisible, constitutes all educa-
ton and does everything that the HUI
man race is said to be doing. Truth
is invisible; life is invisible; law is
invisible; intelligence and mind are in
visible; the love which you have for
your family is invisible; and even
ones own character, which indeed to
the extent that it is good is the only
thing about one that indicates the real
| man, is invisible The divine likeness
is thus humanity indicated, though not
materially seen.
Integrity and honesty constituting
reputation, all invisible, are so tangi-
BILE in business that if they be in evil
dence, one may borrow money on
them at the bank when he could not
borrow dollar on his visible body.
Which then is really more tangible
to that really practical man, the bank
err the invisible character or the
visible appearance?
The thought which constitutes i'm
proved education, though itself invisi-
BILE, is producing visible results. Why
should this not be true in Christian
Science also? AS matter of fact it
is strikingly true. To exercise an
invisible power, then, in healing dis
ease is a necessity, seeing that all
power is invisible Even medical
science depends upon faith in matter
| to heal disease, and that faith is in
visible.
Belief Which Limits
The power which Christian Science
| exercises is the understanding of God.
| 1t is truly invisible, but not unavail-
able on that account We walk and
| talk and move and have our being by
invisible power. If we understood this
power Alright nothing could ever inter
| fere with our walking or talking or
| moving. AS it is, humanity is taught
| to believe that the power which moves
| the body, as well as the power made
| available in mechanics and physics,
| is material. With this belief of power
| is associated all the fear and limita-
| ton incidental to matter The man
who walks or moves, as all do more
| or less in accordance with this human
| sense of power, may find that disease
| or some disaster interferes with the
! legitimate use of such power, and
/ may lUdL u6
| cannot walk or move tremendously
Christian Science, lifting thought above
such theories of power, reveals its true
nature, and making it available, heals
him. When Power snail be fully I'M
| derstood according to its divine nature,
| then it will be found that there is
no law of adhesion, cohesion or attrac-
ton, or of any other kind whatsoever,
that can injure man, for the real char
acter of law is blessed, seeing that it
has its being in the divine Principle,
the one God, who is Love. For this
| and other similar reasons Christian
Science differs from other sciences.
| Ordinary systems of science take no
account of moral or spiritual require
ments. Christian Science is unique in
this respect 1t cannot be understood
| nor. demon Strafpd fully fhrouDh mara