Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-11-26
Christian Science Lecture
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no bridge between AS we perceive
the spiritual fact we dispel the evil
fiction. While we believe the fiction.
or lie. we cannot perceive the fact,
though it be at our right hand.
The world says, The material sense
of self expressing evil and disease is
not good and it is not right, but it is
very zeal Christian Science says, The
material sense of self expressing evil
and disease is not good and it is not
right, therefore it is not real, for only
that can be real which is good and
light. Can there be lawless reality
Yet that is what human thought con
tends for when it asserts that evil is
real.
No Incurable Disease
Let me call your attention to the
fact that Jesus many proofs of Gods
presence and power showed that the
apparent nearness of evil is not the
slightest reason for accepting it as
legitimate and real The mistaken
concept that two times two are four
no matter how many people believe
the misconception. No more does the
misconception that evil and it's laws
are the real order of life change the
true conception that reality is good
and it's expression.
A bold liar shouting lies in your
ear does not convince you that the
lies are true by reason of the noise
he makes, or by reason Of his physi-
cal nearness. You are too we'll in.
formed of the truth to be deceived. So
Jesus was too well informed about
the creation of God, the only true
creation, to be deceived by the lying
counterfeit creation to which sim
pain, and evil testify.
Recall how Jesus healed the ten
lepers in a moment of time when they
and their fellows had believed for
many years that leprosy was an in
durable disease. The thought which
conceives disease is all that calls it
incurable, but such thinking takes no
account of divine law and the power
of God Neither sick man nor an
incurable disease has ever been con
ceived, nor are either supported, for
an instant, by the intelligence that is
God. Jesus proved this so many times
by destroying all manner of sickness
that we should bow in shame at the
meagreness Of our faith in Gods heal
ing power
Healing The Withered Hand
On a certain Sabbath day Jesus
came to the synagogue and saw there
a man with a withered hand. To the
man himself and all those about him
the condition was a reality, and in
durable. In their thought there was.
no appeal to a higher power from
the verdict of material law. Jesus
thought differently He knew that
God and His heavenly order of crea-
ton are here. Jesus did not examine
the hand, nor manipulate the muscles
nor ask how long the man had been
so. He simply told him to stretch
forth his hand, make normal use of
it,-and it was made whole. The rem
edy was not medical nor surgical. 1t
was the remedy of Mind.
What do you suppose Jesus was
thinking of in order to cause those
withered tissues to become healthy in
an instant? In place of the commonly
accepted belief that man is the off
spring of matter, and in it, Jesus
knew that the true selfhood of man
is spiritual and perfect, the idea of
the Mind which he lives to express.
He well knew that in the divine or
der there is nothing to conceive or
support withered hand. He knew
that the material laws which claimed
to- support it are .illegitimate, and
lacking in real authority, and that
they must give way before the Word
OF God and the thinking which knows
that God, infinite good made mani
fest, is all that has real being. He
knew, too, that the hatred of the
Pharisees was powerless to prevent
the operation of this divine law, for
mans harmony and health are con-
cepts of divine Mind These condi.
lions human opinion cannot give or
take away. Jesus correct view of
man displaced, in some degree, the in.
correct view and the result was a nor
NAL hand.
Christian Science Treatment
A Christian Science treatment in
cludes denial of the claims of evil and
affirmation of the facts of being as
known to God. A lie when answered
by truth becomes silent, whether the
lie be SANDER or a sickness. In Re-
velation John saw that the dragon,
typifying all evil and sickness, was
cast out, not by drugs, nor by sur
geon's knife, but "by the word of
their testimony" This is the method
of Christian Science, the bearing of
true testimony in thought and word,
testifying Alright of God and His man.
In the Sermon on the Mount Jesus
counseled his followers, Let your