Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1919-12-25


applies to words concerning others. All
ungracious criticism is always dan
gerous. Il will encourage, but never
criticise,' is good thing to promise.
4. One should never fear to affirm
as truth that which he can honestly
wish to have true. AS, | am well. |
am rich. Il can do all things thru
Christ, which strengtheneth me-" My
neighbors are good ones. | can love
even my enemies, and do; and scores
of such statements.
Some people think they would be tell
ing lies to talk that way when they
have aches and pains in their bodies
and the appearance of things is a.
gainst them. Let such people remem-
Der that our bodies are not ourselves.
are in fact no part. of our true selves,
no more than the outer husk of a nut
is the kernel that we eat, no more than
the shell of the oyster is the succulent
animal that people swallow with en-
joyment.
Our true selves are spirit, and that
does not mean an ETHEREAL gaseous
nothing. 1t means a spiritual body
as real, and having definite parts, as
the physical body, so much so that peo-
pie leaving their outer bodies at the
same time as on battle ground find
themselves so like they had been, |
knowing each other so surely, that !
they cannot for some time realize that
they are not still in the physical body |
as before
The Apostle Paul speaks of the ''na-
tural" or outer body and of the "spir-
itual body and he says if the outer,
the tabernacle or tent-body were dis
solved, we have building of God, that
is, the true spiritual body which is the
true self
Now we tell no lies when we affirm
of this true self, | am we'll, | am
strong, | am free, and the like, for it
never can be anything else It is in
''the likeness of God" in such sense
that it can no more be sick or wrong
than He can.
Now it is demonstrated beyond
question, that to make the most cheer
full and vigorous affirmations concern
ing this true self of ours is a means
of health for the outer body. 1t makes
rs so hopeful and trustful toward God
and Life and all good, that builds up
a consciousness of LIFE and POWER,
and this state of consciousness has a
influence over the whole be-
ing.
More over, it gives us Faith and
makes us the more careful of our ways
and words and habits and we grow
more and more into condition of the
outer body that corresponds to that
or the true spiritual self.
1t is thus that our words have so
much to do with our life and health.
5. 1t is thus that the words of Je-
sus are proved true, "By thy words
thou shalt be justified and by thy
words thou shalt be condemned" For
our words of denial or affirmation af-
feet daily and constantly and power
fully the physical conditions and as the
Bible says ''the tongue of the wise is
health"
6. Whenever we are speaking True
words of Faith and Love, we
are truly speaking the words of God,
and therefore we can say as did Isaiah
speaking for Jehova "My words shall
not return unto me void, but they shall
accomplish that which l please and
prosper in that whereto l send them"
On the great Cosmic Plane God
creates by his own spoken thought, as
the Bible says, "the worlds were franz
ed by the WORD of Cod" but on the
individual or personal plane God Great
es thru our thought expressed by our
words. "There is no power but of
God, but we use and direct his power,
after the manner of Jesus Christ.
AS Jesus said, "He that believeth
on me the works that | do shall he do
also"