The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-09-17
Christian Science
Lecture Sunday by
Virgil B. Stricken

viii, s, z, ITO be carnally minded is
death; but to be spiritually minded is
life and peace. Because the carnal
mind is enmity against God; for It is
not subject to the law OF God, Meth
er, indeed, can be-" Again in Philip
plans ii, 5 it is said, Let this mind
be in you, which was also in Christ
Jesus" and in Romans xii, 2, BE
We transformed by the renewing of
your mind"
These significant statements from
the Scriptures leave no room for
doubt as to the cause of sin, disease,
and death, or their cure. The carnal
mind is nothing more or less than
the unregenerated human mind. 1t
is the human mind in its natural
state, when filled with hatred, sell
fishness, deceit, dishonesty, and 9TH
er evil qualities, and with supersti-
ton and false beliefs. These evil and
erroneous mental qualities result in
sin, disease. and death. and in all hui
man discord.
The command is to get rid of erro-
neous mental qualities, and to have
in us 1.-The mind which was also in
Christ Jesus" for in this Mind there
was not a single sinful quality, nor
any superstition or false religious be-
lief. Thus the human mind is re-
newed by the destruction Of erro-
neous and sinful mental qualities,
and the substitution in their place Of
Qualities that inhere in the Mind Of
the Master.
AS this renewing process goes on,
sickness, suffering, and discordant
conditions begin to disappear, and
when it is finished, and every mortal
thought has been brought into sub
lection to Christ, then man will be
transformed from a SHINING, suffer-
ing mortal into a state Of peace and
harmony The carnal mind with it's
sin and superstition produces the
conditions that lead to death, while
to be spiritually minded, that is to
have the Mind that was in Christ
Jesus, lis life and peace" Christian
Science teaches that this is the
precise process by which human be-
ings are saved from sickness and
sin.
| 1t will thus be seen that Christian
Science healing in every case is
spiritual, and results from the opera
tion OF Truth or divine Principle in
human consciousness, and not from
the action of one human mind upon
another, nor from human will, nor
from hypnotism, nor from, mental
suggestion.
To summarize the matter in a sin
! gle sentence, it can be said that
Christian Science healing is accom-
plished through the activity Of right
thinking and right living, and in no
other way can one demonstrate the
Principle that heals.
Honest Skepticism.
] Although the healing Of physical
and mental diseases by spiritual
means was widely practiced, both in
Old Testament and New Testament
times, and was expressly command
ed by Jesus, and although Christian
/ Science during the last SO years has
actually healed in this way large
numbers of people from all kinds of
/ physical and mental diseases, there
are still q great many people who
honestly find 1t difacult to under
stand how IL Is possible for the sick
| to be healed without drugs, and en-
< tirely by spiritual means. Even
among those who profess to believe
/ in the Bible and in the omnipotence
OF God, there are many who have
J honest doubts that the power of God
Is sufficient or available to deliver
from sickness, and these doubts Of
I, ten prevent the effort to gain an un-
Outstanding of the way by which
spiritual healing is accomplished.
Il
Jesus healed the sick without drugs,
and, what is more important to us,
he taught other people how to do so.
thus proving that his method of
healing physical disease by spiritual
means could be taught to others, and
understood and practiced by them.
AS the disciples walked up and
down the country with Jesus, listen
in8 to his explanations Of spiritual
truth, and watching him apply this
truth to human needs as he healed
the leper, the lame. the deaf, the
blind, whom he met by the wayside
they began to understand for the first
time that divine Love Is adequate to
meet every human need, and that
Jesus has come to teach the way
whereby every one might learn how
to prove Il.
Some of the disciples seemed to
grasp this truth and the manner of
its demonstration very slowly, but to
them all there finally came a time
when Jesus considered that they had
made sufficient progress to prove it
for themselves. He then sent them
forth with the command that they
heal the sick, cleanse the lepers and
raise the dead and the Bible records
that they were able to do So
Later these same disciples taught
the Principle of spiritual healing
which they had learned from Jesus
to their own disciples, and history
shows that on down through period
OF about ten generations the healing
OF the sick by spiritual means con-
tinued to be a part OF the regular
ministry OF the Christian church, and
that the dead were raised during the
first and second centuries. Moses
4. n. 4 I'll
and raised the dead and did many
other wonderful works in demonstra-
tion of the power Of Spirit to meet
human needs, and the Old Testament
Is filled with such instances.
It viii thus be seen that the knowl-
edge of spiritual truth, and the meth
Cd of its application to deliver peo-
pie from sickness. sin, and every kind
of evil human condition has reap
peared upon the earth at many times,
and IL is claimed for Christian
Science that Ii is the reappearance
In our own generation Of the under
standing Of the same spiritual law
that was known and understood i'm
part by Moses and the prophets, and
which was perfectly understood and
demonstrated BY Jesus, and by him
taught TO his disciples. There is no
mystery about IL, and the results I
produced by Christian Science are |
the results which have always fol- |
lowed, and must necessarily follow, |
from the apprehension and demon
stration Of spiritual truth. Chris |
tian Science is nothing more nor less |
than a return TO primitive Christian |
tty, and every one who turns to IL /
fairly and honestly will ind In. it |
that which win satisfy his spiritual /
aspirations and meet his human |
needs.
Mrs. Eddy's Discovery.
Mrs. Eddy is acknowledged to be
the Discoverer and Founder Of Chris
tian Science. and many people ask /