Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-04-02

mediate relief from suffering.
The greatest reform movement on
earth today is Christian Science neal
ing; because it means the coming OF
Christ to individual, human conscious
ness. One who honestly approaches
Christian Science, even as a remedy
for some so-called physical allment'
will meet with the greatest surprise
of his life.
FALSE TEACHING
Even in this enlightened Twentieth
Century the world is burdened with
false teaching. There is much con-
corning health and disease whlch Is
misleading in the extreme. IL is the
province of Christian Science TO cor
rect such teaching by turning the
thought of humanity to Christ Jesus
as the sole authority on all subjects
essential to human progress ana nap
piness.
Who could accuse Jesus OF ever es-
tablishing a clinic? He paid little at
tention to disease or its symptoms;
but he constantly healed the SICK by
the spoken word, and he babe ms 1ol-
lowers to do likewise. His ideals OF Lie
excluded all recognition of disease as
an entity or reality. His mission was
To prove all knowledge OF such Things
to be a false knowledge, knoWleuge
of unrealities and nonentltles. inns
was not and cannot be done through
human argument or reasoning. 1t re-
ouires spiritual understanding to 90
this. and according to Scripture, TINS
4. 30,
holy" or holy one.
Would the musician who advocated
systematic study of dlscords ever
succeed in bringing out true sense
of harmony to his pupils?
Has anyone ever heard OF school
of mathematics where mistakes IN
calculation are specialized, to the ex-
clusiOn of the rule of eXactness, which
alone enables one to correct such mis-
takes?
Would human parent be very Ia
bile TO advise his child to make Spe-
cial study of malice, envy, hatred ana
revenge, as a necessary preliminary
to understanding the nature or ever
present, divine Love?
Then why make an exception IN the
case of disease? Why insist that II
alone among the errors OF the human
mind shall be feared, studied, 1nyestl-
gated. diagnosed discussed, and pub
Iished broadcast in the attempt to
| find health. that which ann1hllates
| disease? Christian Science makes II
very clear to the world that this is q
very sure method of perpetuating as
| ease and of graduating ones true
sense of health. 1t is an age-ole
method; but accompanied by fear, DIS
| ease and suffering.
One of the first lessons OF Christian
| Science teaches us to reverse this par
| barous habit of thinking, talking, an(
| heralding the symptoms OF disease
| There is nothing more enerVatlng ant
| demoralizing than to magnify II
thought some phase of evil which on'
is striving to overcome or destroy.
PRACTITIONER AND TREAIMEN
Students of Christian Science, Wht
have experienced healing and mora
| regeneration; who have made thor
ough study of our Leaders works
and are loyal to her teachings, ar
! in a position to prove to others thell
understanding of the Christ healing
| hundreds of persons throughout TIT
world are daily being healed IN Chrls
tian Science Such treatment is no
| the erroneous influence OF any form
mesmerism or hypnotism, of one hu
| man mind over another, but it is thu
| activity of the Word of God in human
| consciousness. 1t is the mental ap
| proach or coming of the right idea o
God. 1t is the prayer that knows in
| stead of believes what constitutes thu
| kingdom of God in man.
MANY who are sufficiently purified
in thought and manner of living to eX
press the right idea of treatment; AM
who can devote their time to sucl
work. are known as Chr stan Sclenc
practitioners. Their mission is no
primarily to effect physical healing
but to bring to humanity a scientific
understanding of God and his 'savin;
health" This right idea of healtl
acts as a spiritual leaven, purging on
of human consciousness every enron
eous or unholy thought.
There is nothing more sacred thai
treatment in Christian Science; ant
the practitioner who knows that o
| llIllS6ll HC tdll uO hOIllilSy bob via
il is through divine power alone tina
the healing works are wrought, is in
deed a true follower of the Christ.
THE TEXTBOOK
Along with all great subjects, Chris
tan Science has its textbook, Scienc,
and Health with Key to the Scrip
lures, by Mary Baker Eddy. Thi
book is indeed spiritual key to thu
Bible, and as such it has proved it
self to be the Bibles best friend |
has opened up the hidden, spiritual Of
metaphysical meaning of the Scrip
lures, has caused thousands of persons
to reverence the "book of books" a!
never before; to ponder and study it:
sacred pages from pure sense O.
love for the Truth; has greatly in
creased its sale and circulation; il
| fact has made the Bible an indispensa
BILE companion in numberless homes
throughout all sections of the world
| Despite all opposition to what NOR
tails imagine Christian Science to be
the demand for Mrs. Eddy's book is
constantly increasing; and its in
| spired, healing message continues to
bring joy and happiness into the lives
of suffering humanity.
CONCLUSION
Christian Scientists are earnestly
| striving to be loyal, patriotic citizens.
They are in full sympathy with those
high ideals which make for a true
Christian democracy; and in the pres
ent, great, world struggle for the life,
liberty, freedom and justice of all ma
tons, they are courageously doing
their part in upholding these ideals,
which are to usher in universally that
government of the people, by the
people, for the people" which shall
not perish from the earth"
In the year of 1912 Lincoln gave ex-
preston to another remarkable ut
terance, when he said: Happy day
when-all appetites controlled, all
poisons subdued, all matters subjected
mind, all eonQuering mind, shall live
and move, the monarch of the world.