Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1916-02-10

Unmistakable and irrefutable proof
is to be found on every hand of the
power of spiritual truth to destroy hu-
man error. Any earnest seeker may
with comparatively little effort learn
that thru Christian Science his fellow
men have been thoroughly and perma-
nently healed of chronic and acute dis
ease by spiritual means without the
use of material remedies. He will learn
as the result of investigation that
these cases of healing by scientific,
mental treatment include many diseas-
es ordinarily considered incurable. He
will find that those numbered among
the benefciaries of Christian Science
have been healed not merely of So
called functional and nervous troubles,
but in many instances Of those consid-
cred organic. He will ascertain that
frequently these cases have been pro-
nounced organic and incurable by re-
putable physicians, but that notwith
standing such pronouncement they
have been healed perfectly and often
quickly by Christian Science treat
ment. He will find that sometimes
physicians are quite willing to give
Christian Scence credit for these
marvellous cures.
The investigator will also learn that
thru Christian Science many have
been rescued from lives of sin and vice,
and that some have been lifted from
the very depths of degradation and de-
pravity. He will find that these per-
sons have been restored to their right
full heritage of freedom from evil and
have thus become useful members of
society. The seeker for facts concern
ing the effect of Christian Science in.
human experience will find that many
who were not able to succeed in the
struggle for existence, believing them
selves to be the victims of environ
ment and circumstances resulting in
poverty and distress, are now finding
their condition greatly improved be-
cause Christian Science has given
them a new outlook on the world and
new insight into spiritual truth. He
will find those who are glad to &C
knowledge that Christian Science has
shown them how to be more honest,
just, humble, loving, consideration
word, less selfish-than formerly. He
will be told that the depressing at
mosphere of encouragement and
doubt has for many been transformed
into an invigorating sense of courage
and confidence.
If the investigator were to inquire
how all this had come to pass, and
could have a concrete answer from ali
the Christian Scientists on earth, that
answer would be, at is because we
have come to know that God is good"
A simple answer, is it not? And yet
no more simple, and scarcely less pro-
found, than the declaration of the "a
postle John that "God is love-" Il
John iv. 81 If as John says, "God is
love-" then God must also be infinitely
good, for if we agree that God is in
finite Love, surely we shall agree that
infinite, universal, divine Love is l.
IDENTICAL with all that's good.
Christian Science teaches that God
is not both good and evil, but that He
is good only. Therefore, God, as I'M
derstood in Christian Science, is all
good and always good. He is never
anything else than good, nor ever any
thing less than infinite So as basis
for our discussion of Christian Science
in some of its phases, we have the fun
damental proposition that God is good,
not merely in relative sense, but al
ways and forever immutably and per-
fectly good.
GOD is INFINITE
According to Christian Science this
infinite GOO, divine Love, eternal Life,
= ~.