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

illustrated. Isaiah prophesied hun
dreds of years before the event tina
the coming of Jesus would exemplif,
the availability of Gods power among
men, Emmanuel, God with us,-observ,
not only God with him, but God will
us, showing the universally of truth
Jesus has been called the Saviour o
mankind because he illustrated tina
universally. He said: "Ye shall know
the truth and the truth shall max,
you free" To one who reads tn,
Bible without preconceived notions OF
prejudice, it unmistakaby announce:
the impersonality of the Redeemer
The Book of Job was also written cen
turtles before Jesus was born. 1t says
81 know that my redeemer iveth," an(
decares the ever-presence and power
of that Redeemer, by showing that the
impersonal Redeemer shall prevail
over the final efforts of evil in ones
consciousness. The words are "An(
that he shall stand at the latter day
upon the earth"
Jesus constantly referred to the i'm.
personal truth as constituting the
power which he understood and ex-
ercised. He deplored the tendency Of
his diciples to rely upon him person
ally, and showed that they could not
fully demonstrate Truth, the Christ
until Christ, Truth, became impersonal
to them.
There is one way. 1t is the mental
way, the spiritual way, it is the way OF
Christ Jesus, ''for there is no other
name under heaven given among men
whereby we must be saved" (Acts iv
12) That name is the right way OF
thinking, and certainly not way OF
believing in matter. The thinking
that constitutes the way in Christ
Jesus, or the true, saving name OF
Christ Jesus, is pure spiritual under
standing. We enter upon it when we
begin to understand the Truth and
separate evil from Truth. Entering
upon that way we begin to see what
disease is and how it happens; and
when we begin to see how it happens
we see also how it shall not happen,
how there shall be brought to pass
that in human experience which shall
prevent disease from happening, or
shall stop it if it has happened. Such
is true mentality. Jesus the Christ
was powerful for what he knew and
not because of his appearance, grand
and noble though it must have been.
Overcoming Fear
AS long as you fear disease you will
never be entirely happy: therefore the
material ways of getting rid of dis
ease are not SatiSfac Glory
Fear is no legitimate part of educa-
ton. The Bible says that God has not
given us the spirit of fear, and that
statement. beyond all questions is logi-
cal and revelant. The fear which
forms a part of the ordinary persons
education can be overcome at least
gradually through even a slight under
standing of Christian Science. This
is especially true of the fear of dis
ease. No other system but Christian
Science has ever recognized the I'M
desirable and affective nature of fear,
and no other system has ever provided
for the mitigation or complete extinc-
ton of fear. That such a result may
appear one needs to realize the natur-
alness of divine Power and help, and
such realization comes through Chris
tian Science as one learns more and
more how to test that Power. No mat
ter how fearful one may be, no matter
what the difficulty may be under which
he labors, if he will stand for his I'M
derstanding and against fear he can
prove that his understanding of God,
though slight, is more powerful than
the fear which seems to beset him,
and as he thus faces and overcomes his
fears step by step, they diminish and
disappear. This shows that it is the
practice of what one understands that
is most important, because it is by
means of this practice alone that fear
can be destroyed.
1t is far more important to get rid of
the fear of germs and microbes than it
is to get rid of the germs or microbes
themselves. Doctors often find that a
very harmless germ and much fear
produce fatal results, while even a
comparative state of fearlessness with
the presence of so-called deadly germs
gives the patient at least fair chance
for recovery.
In view of their own experiences,
how foolish seem to be all their pres
ent propaganda. 1t reminds one of
the old views of theology in which it
was supposed that a person was not
properly prepared for heaven unless
he was thoroughly afraid of hell, not
withstanding that the Bible says, "fear
hath torment"-or is hell, and that
fear could never be found in heaven,
90 hat Gx,I
so long as he was afraid of hell, or of
anything else. In the same way health
can never be found in the ways of
fear, for health and fear are opposites ;
the one is legitimate and inevitable
incident of heaven, the other has no
place therein.
Health Necessary to Heaven
The healing which is being accom-
plished through Christian Science is
now acknowledged perforce. The ex-
PLANTATION which Christian Science
gives of it is spiritual, but is objected
to quite as often by those who call
themselves religious as by those who
call themselves scientific. This is not so
much to be wondered at. With post
poned heaven and remote God it is
not strange that there should be doubt
as to the present attainment of the
one or the help of the other. But let
Christian Science educate you and give
enlarged views and nobler concepts
of the words heaven and God and then
observe the results. Instead of theo-
ries or beliefs one then gains spiritual
facts which from their very nature
are in heaven, and which, when they
come to you and become your own,
constitute heaven in you. The truth
is that heaven is a word which, like
the word God, has no value at all il
you associate absence with its mean
ing. Happily there is no proper defini-
ton of either given among men that
justifies such an association. Heaven
unquestionably includes and requires
health. General religious belief pro-
mulgates the theory that the way to
heaven is through disease and death
when the fact is that heaven is at
tanned just in the proportion that dis
ease and death cease.
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