Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1917-02-14
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
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know the truth and the truth shall make
you free
What Christian Science Seeks to
Accomplish
Christian Science aims to destroy or
roneous religious beliefs by SUBSTITUTE
ing knowledge Of truth IN place there
Of. and to destroy out of the human
mind all evil qualities by planting good
qualities in their stead 1t wages re-
lentleSS warfare against all wrong men,
tai qualities 1t seeks to substitute love
in place of hate, unseltishnesS in place
of seltishness. honesty In place OF dis
honesty. and truth in place of error. 1t
lays tremendous emphasis upon the ne
cessity for 'bringing into captivity eH-
cry thought to the obedience OF Christ,
Oh. Cor. 1850 as the Bible commands.
1t shows that the cause of all disease
and sin is mental. and not physical, and
that both sickness and sin are destroy
ed by the CHARACTERIZATION of the human
mentality with truth and love. 1t
teaches without any reservation what
ever that the truth taught and prac-
ticed by Jesus, when understood and
applied. is sufficient without drugs or
any material means to heal the sick
and regenerate the sinner. and Chris
tian Scientists everywhere are engaged
daily in demonstrating and proving this
to be true.
Every student of religion should be
gin to give heed to what the Bible
teaches concerning the Importance of
looking to the mental rather than to the
physical for deliverance from human
discord. We read in Romans viii. 6. I,
ITO be carnally minded is death: but to
be spiritually minded Isl life and peace.
Because the Carnal mind is enmity
against God: for it is not subject to the
law of God. neither, indeed. can be-
Again in Philippians ii. it is said
~ <1,S~ ~ ,l,:o
also in Christ Jesus" and in Romans
xii. ?. BE We transformed by the re-
newing 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 moth
ing more nor less than the unregener-
ated human mind. 1t is the human
mind in it's natural state. when filled
with hatred. selfshness, deceit, dishon-
esty. and other evil qualities. and with
superstition and false beliefs. These
evil and erroneous mental qualities re-
suit in sin. disease, and death, and in
all human 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 his mind there was not
a single sinful quality, nor any super
stition or false religious belief Thus
the human mind is renewed by the de-
struction of erroneous and Sinful men,
tai 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 con-
ditions begin to disappear, and when it
is finished. and every mortal thought
has been brought into subsection to
Christ, then man will be TRANSFORMS ed
from SHINING. suffering mortal into a
state of peace and harmony. The car
nal mind with it's sin and superstition
produces the conditions that lead tc
death, while to be~spiritually minded
that Is to have the mind that was in
Christ Jesus. lis life and peace" Chris
tian Science teaches that this is the
precise process by which human beings
are saved from sickness and sim
1t will thus be seen that Christian
Science healing in every case is spirit.
ual. and results from the operation OF
Truth or divine Principle in human con
seriousness. and not from the action Of
one human mind upon another mol
from human will. nor from hypnotism
nor from mental suggestion
10 summarize the matter in a single
sentence, it can be said that Christian
Science healing is accomplished through
the activity of right thinking and RICH
living. and in no other way can on,
).
Honest skept1cism About Healing b,
Spiritual Means
Although the healing of physical ant
mental diseases by spiritual means wa
widely practiced. both in Old Testamen
and New Testament times. and was ex
pressly commanded by Jesus, and, al
though Christian Science during tn
last SO years has actually healed in thi
way large numbers Of people from al
kinds of physical and mental diseases
there are still a great many people WIN
honestly find it difficult to understan.
how it is possible for the sick to b
healed without drugs, and entirely b.
spiritual means. Even among those VIII
profess to believe in the Bible and il
the omnipotence of God. there are man,
who have honest doubts that the DOVE
of God Is sufficient or available to de
liver from sickness. and these doubt
often prevent the effort to gain an un
derstanding of the way by which spir
1tual healing is accomplished
To all such it can be said that Jesu
healed the sick without drugs, and
what Is more important to us, he laugh
other people how to do so, thus prov
ing that his method of healing physica
disease by spiritual means could h
taught to others, and understood an,
practiced by them
AS the disciples walked up and dow
the country with Jesus. listening to hi
explanations of spiritual truth. an,
watching him apply this truth to hu
man needs as he healed the leper tn
lame. the deaf. the blind whom he me
ny the wayside. they began to under
stand for the first time that divine Low
is adequate to meet every human need
ana that Jesus has come to teach tn
way whereby every one might lear,
how to prove it.
Some of the disciples seemed to eras,
this truth and the manner of it's dem
onstratfon very slowly. but to them q
there finally came a time when Jesu
considered that they had made sniff
c1ent progress to prove it for them
selves. He then sent them forth witt
the command that they heal the sick
cleanse the lepers and raise the dead
and the Bible records that they wer
able to do So
Later these same disciples taught tn
PRINCIPAL of spiritual healing whicl
they had learned from Jesus to thei
own disciples. and history shows tia
on down through a period Of about to,
generations the healing of the sick h,
spiritual means continued to be a par
or the regular ministry of the Chris
tan church. and that the dead wer
raised during the first and second cen
tnrles: Moses and the prophets ais
healed the sick and raised the dead an,
did many other wonderful works il
demonstration of the power of spirit t.
meet human needs. and the Old Tesla
ment is filled with such instances.
1t Will thus be seen that the knoWl
edge of spiritual truth. and the metho,
of its application to deliver people from
sickness. sin. and every kind of evi
human condition has reappeared upo,
the earth at many times. and it il
claimed for Christian Science that it /:
the temperance in our own generatio,