Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1923-05-17

IL oOihO AiyoISI1OuS OI OCCuAI u1duuSI
That is. we have been taught to be-
lieve that the healing works accom-
plished by Jesus were the manifesto
lions of a superhuman power with
which Jesus was especially endowed
to distinguish him from the rest of
mankind; that this power was some
thing mysterious and that it is in no
wise the heritage of all who obey God
This is a very erroneous concept Of
Jesus and of the import of his holy
mission and it is a concept which has
robbed Christianity of the very es-
sence of that for which Jesus strug-
gled and for which he permitted his
crucifixion. In this mistaken concept
that the power to heal the sick and
to raise the dead by spiritual means
alone ended on the cross, do we find
the blighting limitation from which
Christianity must be freed. This
wrong concept, that spiritual healing
was a special dispensaticn from God
bestowed upon Jesus alone and for
limited period of time, has for cen
turtles deprived mankind of those won
derfu1 blessings which Christian
Science has come to restore.
Miracles of Jesus Scientific
Jesus did not heal the sick. walk
the waves. multiply the loaves and
fishes. raise the dead and many other
wonderful things simply for the graft
fication Of the multitude; nor were
those works done for the mere pur-
pose of showing mankind what ne per-
sonally could do. He did these things
to show to the world, to you and to
me, what are the fruits of a right
understanding of God and mans re-
lation to God He did these works. to
show humanity what it means to be
a true Christian. Jesus said:
These signs shall follow them
that believe; III my name shall
they cast out devils; they shall
speak with new tongues; they
shall take UP serpents; and if
they drink any deadly thing it
shall not hurt them; they shall
lay hands on the sick and they
shall recover"
What Jesus accomplished by way
of healing and saving was the positive
result of his mental application of
scientific principle. Jesus was the
only truly scientific man who ever
lived and he scarcely uttered word
or accomplished deed that was not
in direct opposition to what we have
anyways conceived to be physically or
materially scientific. In other words
Jesus completely disregarded and null
lifted, through those works which he
accomplished, every so-called scien-
tific principle based upon materiality,
or matter, of which you or / have any
knowledge, showing conclusively that
God does not operate through mater
ial law and that the law of God, when
scientifically and intelligently applied
is one of humiliation to the so-called
laws Of matter, or of evil.
Heaven
Thus we find that Heaven, instead
Of being far off place or event, OBJ
tainable only through the experience
of death, is here and now a present
and immediate reality-a condition
capable of present attainment If God
is Mind, as He must be, then the
Kingdom of God, or Heaven, must be
the kingdom Of Mind or condition
of Mind. Heaven then is a state of
Mind or consciousness and that state
of consciousness is obtainable right
here and now in proportion as we
substitute in our thinking the divine
for the carnal. AS we put off this
earna. mind with its deeGs-this mind
of sin and sickness and sorrow and
hate and lust and greed and selfish,
ness and in its place reflect that
Mind of spiritual purity which is God,
are we entering the Kingdom of
Heaven. Jesus said
The Kingdom of Heaven is at
hand not afar off. And you will re-
call that on one occasion Jesus was
asked relative tc the whereabouts of
Heaven and when it should come and
his raDly was
1.-THE Kingdom of God cometh
not with observation, neither
shall they say, Lo here! or Lo
there! for behold the Kingdom
of God is within you
So, entering the Kingdom of Heav-
en- through the pathway Of prayer, is
not process of overcoming matter
with mind, it is the process, rather, of
overcoming the carnal mind with the
divine Mind evil with Good. We
are eliminating, in other words, the
creations of the carnal mind-"the
world, the flesh and the deyil'-with
that Mind which was in Christ Jesus
We pray ourselves into the Kingdom
of Heaven rather than enter Heaven
through deaths doorway. For did not
st. Paul say
For to be carefully minded is
death; but to be spiritually mind