Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-10-14

Science cHufcn OF CHRISTIAN Scien-
fist in the world today, for practically
all those who have come to it came. at
least in the early part Of it's growth,
for physical healing. They stayed be-
cause they received that which they
sought and more.
Only forty years ago the first Chris
tian Science church was organized in
Boston. Since then nearly eighteen
hundred organizations have been
formed throughout, the world. A pub
fishing society employing more than
seven hundred people is supplying the
ever increasing demand for literature
explaining the teachings of Christian
Science. Christian Science is offering
to the world today volume of tes-
timony as to the efficacy of its healing
work unexcelled in the history of ther-
apeutic systems. From business men,
educators, lawyers, judges, physicians.
ministers, and men and women of all
trades and classes it is offering evil
dence of health and happiness re-
stored to the individual These testi-
monies may be heard in the Wednes-
day evening meetings of the church
or read in The Christian Science
Journal, the Christian Science Sen
tinel or the Herald, which is pub
lished in French and German.
MATERIAL MEDICINE OPPOSED TO
CHRISTIANITY
Christian Science has no quarrel
with honest physicians. 1t respects
them and rejoices in all the good that
they may be able to do. 1t frankly
differs with their healing methods and
resists every attempt to have them
made compulsory by law. 1t believes
that every healing system should
stand or fall on its own merits and
that men will find the system which
can best secure their health. An au-
tocracy in medical practice it believes
to be as intolerable as compulsory re-
ligion. The tyrannical medical treat
ment forced upon our boys in the
army stands as warning of what
state medicine would bring into civil
life.
Why should a system which has its
root in the pagan worship of Apollo.
later changing to the worship of in
animate herbs, system which has not
one jot of Biblical or Christian au-
thority for its teachings, system
which during four thousand years has
failed to reduce the number of dis
eases among men, whose theories have
shifted from one generation to an
other as the sands of the sea shift
with every storm, which relies on
poisonous drugs and narcotics to do
the work that Christ Jesus did and
taught his followers to do, have any
right to impose on us it's tyrannical
DEGREES? This is the system that, in
the words of noted English ply
sician, has "been vivisecting animals
now for upwards of two thousand
years without the slightest benefit to
the human race" For such a system
to seek state sanction by which it
could with impunity close our church
es, put matter first and God last, force
on you and on me and on defenseless
children NEGOTIATIONS with the poison
pus from diseased animals and sickly
men, is this not indeed a mockery on
people who regard Christianity and
its teachings as the bulwark of their
civilization and Christ Jesus as the
greatest physician the world has ever
known? Those who mistakenly seek
power to enforce the teachings of a
system still true to its pagan root do
not need more power but do need more
knowledge.
Serums and vaccines come from sick
animals and men, and are injected in
to healthy persons on the theory that
the one so inoculated is given a mild
form of the disease and so prevented
from having worse form later on.
In other words the vaccination of a
man means just this, Inject him with
little devil before big devil gets
him." Observe, please, that it is all
in the devil family. What is really
needed is something that casts out big
and little devils, gets at the root of all
disease. The only power that does
that is God. Either Jesus. knew what
he was talking about when he attri-
buted disease to mental cause and
healed it on that basis or he did not.
Either the New Testament presents
the true way to heal disease or it does
not Christian Science is proving to
all who have eyes to see that the very
same law which raised Lazarus,
healed the lepers, opened the eyes of
the blind, is still operative and that it
is wholly above and apart from medi-
cal diagnosis, narcotics, vaccines, and
the butchery of Gods lower creatures.
Signs multiply to show that men
must inevitably recognize the power of
right thinking to overthrow all dis
ease. One of the tragic results of the
war has been a malady termed shell
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lent conclusion of high explosive
shells. Those affected have been al
most helpless mentally and sometimes
physically for long periods. Rarely
have cures been wrought by medical
treatment. The statement was recent
ly reported as made by the Surgeon
General of the army that more than
two thousand of the American soldiers
in France suffering from shell shock
were healed by the news of the sign
ing of the armistice worker among
the wounded in the Paris hospitals
writes, "On the day the armistice was
signed the soldiers in the hospitals
threw their crutches and canes in the
air, and, in many cases they never re-
sorted again to these supports. They
had been severely wounded in many
cases, so that their ills could scarcely
be said to be imaginary; but they al
lowed themselves to be healed by the
one word; Peace" If the power of
thought, turning from the horrors of
war, its wounds and maladies, to the
thought of world at peace, can thus
heal many of the wounds, cure what
seemed to be incurable maladies: what
can be done when men learn to think
constantly with that state of mind
which realizes the reality only of the
peaceful and good, to think with the
Mind which is God, a state of con-
seriousness against which material law
is powerless. for it is the natural state
of being? To this haven Of mental
peace Christian Science lights the
torch and leads the way. Isl
SACRIFICE
There are many lessons for all of
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