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

enlightened spiritual understanding
will uncover and destroy the manifold
delusions of sin, sickness, and death.
DISEASE AND ITS REMEDY
Gaining an understanding of Spirit
and the omnipotent power of spiritual
laws, and an understanding of the
false nature of matter and of mortal
mind and material laws, the seeker is
armed successfully to cope with any
human discord. Is il then surprising
that he should presume to attempt to
heal disease as well as sin? What is
disease that it should elude the min
lister and be assigned to the physician,
and what is sin that it should defy the
physician and be allotted to the min
lister? From whence originated both I?
From God? No, neither the one more
than the other. Jesus identical hand
ling of sin and disease should long
ago have convinced the world that
they have an identical source Gen.
turtles ago David wrote: Fools be-
cause OF their transgresSion, and be-
cause of their iniquities, are afflicted
Then they cry unto the Lord in
their trouble, and he :. sent his
word, and healed them, and delivered
them from their distinctions" Chris
tlan Science has undeniably demon
strated that much of the so-called
chronic and incurable disease is
caused by hidden or willful sin, and
very few physicians today will con-
tradict this. Then it is true that they
both have their origin in thought; their
cause cannot be in matter, since mat
terds non-intelligent. Their remedy
is that power which will permanently
heal the thought-cause, and this rem
edy is the Word OF God scientifically
understood, which, in the words of the
Bible, sis quick, and powerful, and
sharper than any two-edged sword,
piercing even to the dividing asunder
OF soul and spirit, and of the joints
and marrow, and is a discerner of the
thoughts and gintents of the heart"
My friends, to one who has proved
this truth for over a quarter of a
century, as have done, and witnessed
the Principle of Christian Science,
heal nearly every known disease and
sin, this is not theory but fact.
1t can no longer be said, as was
stated in the Medical Record" that
it is doubtful whether the sum total of
diseases is any less than it was before
the medical profession reached its
present high standing, and that lin the
opinion of some medical men diseases
are on the increase" Mrs. Eddy writes
IN Science and Health Up. 404), "Eeai-
ing the sick and reforming the sinner
are one and the same thing in Chris
tian Science. Both cures require the
same method and are inseparable in
Truth" This cannot longer be doubt
ed when spiritual sense versus material
sense is clearly understood. Fear and
sin, Christian Science teaches. are ele-
ments of all disease, and fear is the
cause of the majority of human trou-
bles. The understanding of Christian
Science prevents fear and heals fear,
and in this alone Christian Science is
priceless benefaction to the human
race. Established on the rock of
spiritual understanding, you will no
longer fear ''the fury of the oppres-
sor," or what mortal man or mortal
belief can do unto you, for possessing
consciously the sense of divine reality
and protection, "where is the fury of
the oppressor?"
FALLACY OF HUMAN WILL
BLIND FAITH
Christian Science teaches that the
real power in the universe is necessar-
lily Spirit, Mind, God, and that in the
final analysis, whatever the temporary
evidence may be to the contrary, there
really cannot be any other power than
God. Ii matter in it's different forms
cannot cure the sick, no more can it's
raise and suppositional mental cause,
mortal mind or human will, do so,
both being the same in quality and
poWerless. The human will expresses
the selfish, aggressive, and therefore
raise nature of mortal mind. This
false mentality appears to control hui
man beings and human destiny, but
Christian Science shows that in pro-
portion as the evidence of the material
senses, when it testifies to sin, disease.
or any discord, is questioned and re-
Jected through an understanding gain
ed only by Christian Science, then a
higher sense of being, purely educa-
tional and more nearly spiritual, sup
plants the false control and establishes
an improved condition of mind and
body. How much better it is for any
human being to educate himself in
this, the spiritual way, than to fol-
low the narrow, limited systems in
vogue! Human experience shows that
these do not tend to encourage and
build up the better side of human
character, and that the effect of mere
mortal mind influence upon morals is
supplying and degrading rather than
eleVatlng and inspiring. Human will
mas no more intelligence or power to
neal the sick than matter has, for tey
are Klndred and inSeparable from the
beginning. A falsity may seem at times
10 change another falsity, but this ap-
pearance is deceptive or mesmeric. In
the words of Jesus, "The last state of
that man is worse than the first. "
One error cannot destroy another err
rOr.
What is called the influence of the
human will is aggressive, not Chris
tian, and is known as mesmerism or
hypnotism. 1t is the very opposite of
the uplifting and STRENGTHENING ma
ture of spiritual thought or divine
Mind, which awakens, upbuilds and re-
generates. The healing action of
CHRISTIAN Science is the exact opposite
OF systems founded upon the use of
pima faith and human will, and as
the beliefs of mortal mind are legion.
SUCH systems are legion in name and
variety. Departing in a degree from
matter into the realm of mind, their
methods would sometimes deceive the
unwary, who may associate them with
Christian Science, but material sense
cannot possibly be related to spiritual
sense, nor be a departure therefrom.
This wide distinction must be clearly
understood, as it will be in the pro-
portion that the oneness and allness of
divine Mind are discerned, and this
Prlnclple and operation of Christian