Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-05-09

ual and eternal? AS a matter of fact,
the physical senses have no higher
conception of reality than that which
can be weighed and measured, whereas
spiritual sense recognizes as substance
only that which is imponderable and
infinite.
Beginning with the objective uni
verse, many philosophers, reasoning
inductively from effect back to cause,
ultimately arrive by way of atoms,
ions, or electrons, at what they call
force or energy. Mrs. Eddy attributes
to what she terms mortal mind" all
that seems to be material, evil and
mortal This term mortal mind" is
used by Mrs. Eddy, as the best term
available, to describe the false sense
of intelligence and life that claims to
exist as the antipode of God. But she
explains that the real Mind and Gre
ator is not mortal, but immortal; not
human, but divine. Thus the world
of sense-perception is left without
divine cause. The troublesome thing
called matter is left outside the realm
of divine reality. 1t is found to have
no real authority and no enduring
substance. OF this fleeing, temporary
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things which are seen are temporal;
but the things which are not seen
are eternal" QICor. iv. 49,.
Pain and Suffering Illusive
Because the mortal, material body
is not conscious, it cannot, apart from
the human mind, be painful or sore or
sick. The human body separate from
the human mind can have no sensa-
ton. 1t is obvious, then, that the
sense of pain and suffering is in the
human mind and not in the body.
Many have Doubtless had the experience
of dreaming that they were in pain
when the body was in what is re-
garded as a normal state. Christian
Science shows that all suffering and
disease is a dream from which the
dreamer needs to be awakened. The
first step in the direction of freedom
from this evil dream of disease and
mortality is to know that these evils
are not of God. God never made any
thing that is not good. Furthermore,
God, being always good, cannot make
use of evil for any purpose or tolerate
its existence in any form.
The Christian Scientist is willing
to admit that suffering and disease
seem to exist and that matter often
seems quite real and very painful. He
does not deny that to human sense
this is so, but seeks to correct this
false sense of things with the truth of
being. He finds that by letting that
Mind be in him that was also in
Christ Jesus thereby substituting as
consciousness ideas that are good for
beliefs that are evil, he can free him
self of the sense of pain and suffering,
which is called sickness, as surely as
he can, by a similar mental process, re
SiSt and overcome the temptation to
sin. Evil, pain and disease are with
out divine authority or actual exist
ence and cannot even seem to exist
to one who is fully conscious of the
allness and ever-presence of good.
Disease Unlawful
The question is sometimes asked
"Since the Bible contains a record of
human suffering, why does Christian
Science, which is said to be founded
upon the Scriptures, teach that suf-
fering should be OppOsed?'
Christian Science is a restoration
or rediscOvery of primitive Christian
ity. 1t is based upon the life and
works of Christ Jesus, who was the
founder of Christianity. Christian
Science, therefore, accepts Jesus as
the master Christian. The question
arises, What was the attitude of Jesus
toward human suffering?" A study
of the gospels reveals the fact that
while the attitude of Jesus toward the
Of
he evidently regarded suffering and
disease as illegitimate. He declared
that he came not to destroy, but to
fulfill. He came, in other words, to
do the will of the Father, God. We
find that much of the ministry of Jesus
consisted in his work of DESTROYING
sickness, and disease. If Christ Jesus
came to do the will of God, and spent
his time largely in relieving mankind
through the destruction of disease as
well as of sin, then it can only be con-
cluded that he regarded suffering as
unlawful and contrary to the will of
God.
Furthermore, Jesus said, Eye shall
know the truth, and the truth shall
make you free" John viii, 32). The
question occurs, Free from what?"
The answer is again found in the
record of his works among men. 1t
is recorded that he went about doing
good" and healing all manner of
sickness and all manner of disease
among the people" The conclusion
again is that if the truth as taught
by Christ Jesus makes free from sick
ness and disease, then these evils are the
opposite of truth and should be re-
sisted and cast out as being no part
of the purpose and plan of God for
man, who is created in His likeness.
Christian Science teaches that the
works of Jesus were done in accord
ance with divine law. 1t teaches, there
fore, that the same works can be done
again in the same way, for real law
never varies in its operation.
Disease Has a Mental Cause
What of the experience called sick
ness, or disease? Practically all are
familiar with the fact recognized and
admitted by physicians, that certain
kinds of disease have a mental cause.
Christian Science declares that all
disease has mental cause.
Human emotions, such as fear, an
ger, worry, hatred, etc, are now said
to produce poisonous conditions on
or in the physical body. If this is so
may not many cases of chronic poison
ing in the human system be traceable
to a chronic disposition to give way
to the emotions? Is it not as reason
able to admit this as to recognize the
fact that acute fear Immediately mani
tests itself in a blanched face? If one
is Obliged to admit the mental cauSe
of some kinds of physical disease, why
not agree with Christian Science that,
primarily, all disease is due to a men
tai cause? This does not mean that
all disease is the result of conscious
fear or of willful sin. Many types
Of disease are effects of latent fear,
hereditary temperament. superstition, |
ignorance, or some of the generally