Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-04-15

constitutes this spiritual reflection,
and when spiritual reflection heals the
sick or the sinner, error and evil are
cast out, and the cause and the effect
of the disease are then, and only then,
fully and permanently destroyed. Spir
itual reflection will uproot and en-
tirely remove what willful suggestion
only smooths over or changes into a
different evil form.
The relapse of disease and it's con-
tinuance in new forms, difficulty so
prevalent and mysterious under mater
ial modes of treatment, is now under
stood, and such experiences are not
possible when divine Principle has
destroyed the evil thought-germs of
mortal mind. 1t is also understood in
Christian Science that acute, chronic,
and organic forms of disease are only
in essence more or less deeply seated
states and stages of mortal belief,
which require in a like degree more
positive and radical spiritual realiza-
ton to heal.
JESUS THE WHATSOEVER
My friends, Jesus once said to his
followers, "He that believeth on me,
the works that 1 do shall he do also;
and greater works than these shall he
do" 1t is quite universally accepted
that Jesus did his healing works
through spiritual means and methods,
through his spiritual understanding
of God and not by means of drugs,
blind faith, or will power. Surely
Jesus meant that his followers should
wi hot he
work as he worked. Otherwise how
could he be the Way-shower? He must
have regarded sickness as mental the
same as he regarded sin, and he cast
them both out of mind, as when heal
ing the palsied man, he said, 'Thy sins
be forgiven thee" and to the man who
had been physically infrm, "Sin no
more, let a worse thing come unto
thee" If Jesus understood that his
Father was our Father, as he declared,
he certainly knew that this spiritual
Father was the one Spirit, or Mind,
and desired that his followers have
this same Mind that was in himself
Moreover that they employ the intelli-
gence and understanding of this di-
vine Mind to overcome every ill.
Jesus daily proved the divine Prin-
ciple of his being, the oneness and all
ness of divine Mind, by casting out
the sins and errors of mortal mind,
and it was the cross or burden of
his career that his mission to human
lty was so little comprehended, and
that they were unready to understand
the many things" of the kingdom of
heaven, which he strove by parable
and similitude to teach was within
them, condition of Mind here and
now, and not condition of matter to
be hoped for hereafter. Is it not prob
able that Jesus would experience the
same anguish could he be here in the
flesh today witnessing the terrible
hatred, conflict, want, and woe con-
Stunning the world simply because most
mortals have failed as yet to under
stand the mesmeric nature of material
sense in its subtle, selfish, willful, and
autocratic processes? 1t is indeed en-
couraging that the leaven of di-
vine Principle in the spirit of world
wide justice and individual liberty is
seen to be overturning and uniting in
one Mind the people of the earth.
is not this forerunner of the eventual
daWnlng in every consciousness of the
love and purity, the healing and peace,
OF the impersonal Christ. Mrs. Eddy
maps the way to this universal har-
mony, when she says in Science and
Health Up. 46T, at should be thor
oughly understood that all men have
one Mind, one God and Father, one
Life, Truth, and Love. Mankind will
become perfect in proportion as this
fact becomes apparent, war will cease
and the true brotherhood of man will
be established"
JESUS AND THE CHRIST
Among the many remarkable state
ments in the writings of st. Paul is
this one, "Henceforth know we no
man after the flesh; yea, though we
nave known Christ after the flesh, yet
now henceforth know we him no
more" This would seem to mean that
Paul recognized two distinct charac-
ters, namely, temporal man, Christ
after the flesh, or Jesus, and the real
man, Christ after the Spirit, or Christ
the son of God. 1t was thus that Jesus
seemed to recognize himself, as when
he spoke of himself as the son of man
or OF Mary, who had come in the flesh
to be the Way-shower, and as Christ |
the son of God, one before Abraham
with the Father, who as the spiritual |
idea of God was to be manifested
through the spiritual consciousness of
Jesus, and save Jesus from the sins of
the world. /
This is the teaching of Christian
Science which removes the mystery
and confusion from mortaps belief in
this wonderful dual personality, and
distinctly separates the spiritual from
the material, which is vital idea for /
all men to understand and demon !
strate. Christian Science teaches that |
each mortal must awaken and Ciscoy-
er in himself the spiritual idea, or