Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-05-26

God with which the Dark Ages had
beclouded thought.
This work remained to be accom-
plished by a movement more spiritual
in tits perception, more comprehensive
in its understanding of the gospel. r
In the year 1866 Mary Baker Eddy,
whom medical skill had failed to re-
lieve of serious physical trouble, was
instantly healed through reading the
Scriptures. Christian Scientists know
that with her healing began the modern
fulfillment of Jesus promise: when
he, the spirit of truth, is come, he will
guide you into all truth" Instead of
taking her physical healing and losing
herself in the throng Of the unthankful,
her gratitude to God and compassion
for suffering humanity led her to in
vestigate and to mediate. On page 100
Of Science and Health with Key to
the Scriptures Mrs. Eddy writes /:
For three years after my discovery, /
sought the solution Of this problem Of
mind healing, searched the Scriptures
and read little else, kept aloof from So
ciety and devoted time and energies to
discovering positive rule" This rule
she discovered, stated, calculated and
demonstrated, over and over again, in
healing the sick, thus reinstating the
most practical feature Of primitive
Christianity.
Mary Baker Eddy.
A Cristian Scientist does not give his
to exploit himself, but to ex-
press gratitude for the great things
divine Love has done for him. The
Fpsalmist expresses this desire in the
words: Il have not concealed thy low
ing Kindness j. from the great con-
gregatiOn." i have alluded to my own
healing out Of the. deepest gratitude to
the discoverer and founder of Chris
tian Science. had hated her without
a cause, had ascribed to her base mo-
tives, and had conceded to her no ac-
acknowledgement of good. Il opened the
book, Science and Health with Key to
the Scriptures" and read on page Il:
THE prayer that reforms the sinner
and heals the sick Is an absolute faith
that all things are possible to Cod
a spiritual understanding of Him, an
unsettled love-" My heart was moved.
l said to myself, "Only one who has
lived near to God could write thus
With that honest recognition Of JUS
tice to Mrs. Eddy, the healing came.
About six months afterward began a
careful study of her life. From various
sources found an illuminating mass of
unquestionable testimony to her worth.
In studying the records Of the. courts
to which Mrs. Eddy appealed in order
to protect her writings and maintain
the truth of Christian Science unadul-
terated, there was revealed corrobOra-
tive evidence Of her unsettled love for
humanity. This candid investigation
clarified my thought and deepened my
conviction already formed that Mrs.
Eddy was the most remarkable woman
since the birth of Christianity.
What is Christian Science healing?
1t is the overcoming Of disease by the
same method which Jesus employed,
that is, by understanding and utilizing
the infinite power of God who, accord
ing to the psalmist, healeth all Of our
infirmities. The results in Christian
Science healing differ from those
brought about by other methods in that
they are moral as well as physical, and
are far more complete, satisfactory and
enduring. Jesus never employed nor
recommended the use of matter in any
form to cure disease. 1t is not easy
to see how a physician can be follow
er of Jesus and yet in his profession
adopt remedy exactly the opposite of
that which Jesus. by his acts, author
lied This is no insdiOus arraignment
of the medical profession. This is not
an assertion that medical doctors can
not be Christians 1t does not impugn
their sincerity and their noble pur-
pose. 1t simply asserts what they
themselves sometimes vchemently de-
clare, that they do not follow Jesus
method OF healing. Christian Scientists
abide by the fact written i'm the Bible
that the "effectual fevent prayer Of a
righteous man avaiIeth much" In one
of her books miscellaneous Writings,
D. 96) Mrs. Eddy says of Cristian Sci
cncc healing 1T is not one mind act
ing upon another mind; it is not the
transference of human images of
thought to other minds. :. it is not OF
the flesh, /. !. :. 1t is not one mortal
thought transmitted to another's
thought from the human mind that
holds within itself all evil" at is
Christ come to destroy the power of the
flesh: it is truth over error" This def
milton of Christian Science healing is Il