Reasons Why | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Sep 30, 1908

Reasons Why.

HERE are two reasons why people seek Christian Science. One is for relief from disease and pain; the other for surcease from care and worry. And there is no question but that both of these are obtained, temporarily at least.

The modus operandi is simple. Most diseases are caused by the mind, and many others are aggravated by care and worry. The one thing needful to effect a cure is rest. If the mind is at rest, every bodily function is helped, all nervous and physical energy can be used to build up the waste and worn tissues, and the physical healing of organic troubles is greatly helped. The soul is made to rest, and the law of rest in the very nature of the case is bound to assist in restoring the equilibrium of the body, even tho the object relieved be most weak and unworthy. In most cases, especially if the patient be sensitive, anxious, nervous, the taking of a drug becomes greatly beneficial if the patient has faith in it, but powerless if the faith be wanting. It is not the drug, but the rest which gives the body opportunity to build again through normal functions the diseased part.

Of course such help is but temporary in serious cases. The only real strength or power gained is the better use of that within through the law of rest. Often when the weakness of the object upon which the mind rested is revealed, the mind immediately reverts to its former condition of worry, and physical ill-health returns.

Christian Science has persuaded its devotees to base their hope on the sayings of Mrs. Eddy. In her they find rest, and healing, and peace, for a time supreme. They are taught to believe there is no ill, no sin, no evil, no disease, no death, save in perverted human thought; and believing this, all that comes is good, and naught is ill. Herein lies its secret of success. Yet it is the counterfeit, not the genuine; it is a self-salvation, a human salvation, which will fail in the ultimate.

Better, infinitely better, is the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It does not deceive you. You are a sinner; you are diseased; there is evil; death is a terrible reality. All these conditions it recognizes; but Jesus Christ helps you in the very death-grip of all. He is the Saviour from sin. He is the Healer from disease. He is the Shield from all evil. He has conquered death by dying. He stoops to the lowest depths of human misery and wo, and cheerily, heartily says, "I will

help you, I will make all the afflictions work for good if you will but trust Me."

With infinite pleading Christ calls, "Come unto Me, all ye that labor and are heavy-laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn of Me; for I am meek and lowly of heart; and ye shall find rest unto your souls; for My yoke is easy, and My burden is light." Trusting in Him, the soul can find rest in calm trust and submission to His holy knowledge, love, and almighty power, and can say with the apostle: "We know that to them that love God, God worketh all things with them for good." Eternal triumph over all things evil is assured in Christ Jesus, and in Him only.