Article October 22, 1910 Issue

THE DIVINE REMEDY METAPHYSICAL NOT PHYSICAL

SUE HARPER MIMS.

IN that very remarkable 4th chapter of Zechariah we read the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel, "Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts;" and today as never before thoughtful Christian people are asking, Is there power in Christianity to meet every human ill? Does the Bible teach any other than spiritual ascendency over material obstacles? Is this remedy universal, is it metaphysical and spiritual, not physical or material?

Nothing more deeply concerns humanity than these questions. As we see a seeming increase in epidemics, and a growing ascendency of material methods for relief and prevention invading every avenue of human experience, we are led to ponder deeply these things. Is not our God "a God at hand"? Do we forget that obedience to the statutes of God was the only basis on which the diseases of Egypt were kept from the children of Israel? Are we oblivious of the triumphs of the prophets and the glorious example of the master Christian, who overcame sin, disease, death, the grave itself, by spiritual means, the utilization of that "law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus," which, St. Paul says, "hath made me free from the law of sin and death"? Where is our ever-present God, the lawmaker and governor of man and the universe, the only cause and creator? Why do we declare with the lips that God is infinite, omnipotent Spirit, and then recognize a reign of discord, disease, misery, and death? Where is our logic? Where is the spiritual discernment that separates between the seen and the unseen, the false material evidence and the spiritual facts of being? Are we not admonished to "look not at the things which are seen," because they are temporal, but rather to fix our gaze on the unseen and eternal? Jesus said, "There is one good, even God."

Surely "the time for thinkers has come. . . Ignorance of God is no longer the stepping-stone to faith" (Science and Health, Preface, p. vii.). Mrs. Eddy has aroused this age to a more profound contemplation of a spiritual, primal cause, whose effects must logically correspond to that cause. This logic, so simple, so profound, is the Logos, the Word, the wisdom of God, that heals the sick and reforms the sinner, even according to the Scripture, "He sent his word, and healed them." According to this logic, if God is Spirit, then man and the universe must be spiritual and perfect, because the Father is perfect. Here we begin to glimpse the spiritual idea or true thought which must correct and displace a false, material, mortal concept of God's man.

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