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

think and act contrary to Truth anC
then be healed of it's consequent sui
ferings by applying something inward
| " or outwardly to the human body
! is unworthy of either science or relig.
! ion. There is no such material short
cut to health or happiness The roaC
is straight, and possibly it may appear
narrow to those who need to watch
| their thought and conduct, but it is
the only way, and when followed re-
suits in more rapid and permanent
healing than has ever been brought
about by any other method.
1t is inconceivable that divine in
telligence, Spirit, could not do any
thing directly that needs to be done
and consequently not conceivable that
it could or would provide some indirect
means for healing the sick.
Theories predicated upon the neces-
sity for material remedies or methods
in healing are wanting in reason and
logic. Now observe that the method
of Christian Science is Numerically
opposite to them. 1t illustrates the
scientific ideal; for even in the
mechanical world there has always
been the hope that some time or other
power would become available by
direct means and without waste of
energy or loss in transmission. This
idea has never been applied to the
healing of the sick or the regenera-
ton of mankind until the advent of
Christian Science. In this practice
alone we have it applied, and the ideal
practically realized and illustrated.
The power which heals disease in
Christian Science is the divine Mind.
1t is available only as Mind. While
the ordinary physician says that he
believes in the intelligent use of drugs
or other material remedies, we say
and prove that we know how to rely
upon divine intelligence itself. Where
is the real thinker who can doubt that
the latter system is far more scien-
tific than the former?
Destroys Evil and Thus Explains 1t
Jesus illustrated the way of divine
intelligence, and Christian Science ex-
plains his way of healing and shows
that it was not only good, but supreme
ly scientific also. By considering uni
versally admitted facts one may see
that the conclusions of Christian Sci
ence in this and other respects are
logically drawn. We exist at this
moment, and yet our existence is not
self-eXplanatory nor entirely satisfac-
tory. We are constantly endeavoring
to improve it, but we could not exist
at all if there were no cause for exist
ence. Cause, in the universe, must be ad-
mitted by any thinker for no one could
claim that he is self-created. Further
more, effects in the universe are in
Vulnerable and Unreasonable. Even
our limited powers of observation
teach us that much.
Now, Unreasonable and innumerable
effects are infinite effects, (which fact
not only implies, but actually requires,
an infinite Cause. An infinite Cause
is without beginning or end, therefore
not only religionists, but all scien-
lists OF whatsoever nature, and all
philosophers of schools however di-
vergent, have agreed upon at least one
fact, and that is that the first great
Cause, being necessarily Self-eXistent,
is eternal The moment that one ad-
mits that God is eternal, in that same
moment he must admit that disease
and sin could never have any being in
God, for eternality cannot include that
which is destructive or destructible.
The Discoverer and Founder of
Christian Science was the greatest of
all modern thinkers along purely
metaphysical and strictly philosophi-
cal lines. She was not only clear, but
fearlessly consistent. When other
thinkers came face to face with the
conflict between the ideals of life
which point to the spiritual facts of
being, and the material everyday ex-
periences which conflict with such
ideals, they yielded their ideals to the
evidence of the material senses. In
the light of pure reason it is not
strange that, swayed by such incon-
sistency, they evolved contradictory
theories of religion and philosophy
Mary Baker Eddy, on the other hand
saw that spiritual facts, though con-
trary to the evidence of the material
senses, and though humanity idealistic,
relate most nearly to the basic Prin-
ciple and boundless Power which men
call God. Consequently her scientific
system of healing disease and over
coming sin requires that divine facts
when discerned shall be maintained
even in the face of any and all material
evidence that appears to be contrary
to them. This method is in accordance
with the methods of the greatest in
vestigators of the world, although it
was never adopted by metaphysicians
or philosophers prior to her time. By
means of this method, original with
her, divine metaphysics became a
practical science.
In accounting for evil she shows in
her books that human existence, while
self-evident, is not self-eXplanatory 1t
indicates God, but never represe hts
Him. The mistake of ordinary sys-
TENS of education is to suppose that
it does.
No other system has ever satisfac-
torily explained evil. When Mrs. Eddy
discovered Christian Science and wrote
the Christian Science textbook she
brought to light the fact that the very
nature of evil is erroneous, and that
to Truth, which sis the intelligence
of immortal Mind" (Science and
Health, p. 1922 error must be unreal.
Here you find all evil frankly, fully
and finally explained, and the advant-
age of such explanation is that by
means of it sin and disease are des-
troyed.
Search all philosophy ana you will
find no explanation of evil that is other
than theoretical and made upon the
supposition that evil is as real as
good. Go to medical science and you
will never find disease explained other
wise than as though it were real, with
the result of increased fear of and
liability to disease. Then turn to the
comparatively short history (about
fifty years. of Christian Science. On
the one side there is an ever-increas-
ing fear of disease and no decreasing
tendency to sin in that greater part
of the human race which is educated
to believe in the naturalness, reality
and inevitableneSS of both. On the
other. the comparatively few people
who have considered and accepted
the unquestionable fact that God
could not be the author of such des-