"Born of the Spirit;" or, Gems from the Book of LifeOsborne, Zenas
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"Born of the Spirit;" or, Gems from the Book of Life
Osborne, Zenas
Free Methodist Church of North America; Osborne, Zenas
“Holy Reality! We believe in Thee that thou art EVERYWHERE present.
We really believe it. Blessed Reality we do not pretend to believe,
think we believe, believe that we believe. We believe. Believing
that thou art everywhere present, we believe that Thou art in this
patient’s stomach, in every fibre, in every cell, in every atom,
that Thou art the soul, only Reality of that stomach. Heavenly, Holy
Reality, we will try not be such hypocrites and infidels, as every
day of our lives to affirm our faith in Thee and then immediately
begin to tell how sick we are, forgetting that Thou art everything
and that Thou art not sick, and therefore that nothing in this
universe was ever sick, is now sick, or can be sick. Forgive us our
sins in that we have this day talked about our backaches, that we
have told our neighbors that our food hurts us, that we mentioned to
a visitor that there was a lump in our stomach, that we have wasted
our valuable time which should have been spent in thy service, in
worrying for fear that our stomach would grow worse, in that we
disobeyed Thy blessed law, in thinking that some kind of medicine
would help us. We know, Father and Mother of us all, that there is no
such a thing as a really diseased stomach, that the disease is the
CARNAL MORTAL MIND given over to the WORLD, the Flesh, and the Devil;
that the mortal mind is a twist, a distortion, a false attitude, the
HARMATIA of Thought, Shining and Glorious Verity, we recognize the
great and splendid FACT that the moment we really believe the truth,
disease ceases to trouble us, that the truth is, there is no disease
in either real body or mind; that in the mind there seems to be a
disease is a false belief, a parasite, a hateful excrescence, and
that what happens in the body is the shadow of the LIE in the SOUL.
Lord, help us to believe that ALL EVIL is utterly unreal; that it is
silly to be sick, absurd to be ailing, wicked to be wailing, atheism
and denial of God to say ‘I am sick.’ Help us to stoutly affirm with
our hand in Your hand, with our eyes fixed on Thee that we have no
dyspepsia, that we will never have dyspepsia, that there is no such
thing, that there never was any such thing, that there never will be
any such thing Amen.”--_Hazzard._
Mrs. Eddy of Chicago, and others, have written much on “Christian
Science.” In some of her writings she disclaims affinity with
Spiritualism; but according to my knowledge of the matter, it was
evolved from that source. Some thirty-five years since, I sat with
them in a seance, where a lady, almost gone with consumption was
operated upon by the same treatment that the “Christian scientists”
practice to-day. From a helpless, speechless condition she revived
so that she was able to dress herself and walk about the yard. She
continued to improve for about three months, then suddenly relapsed,
and died.
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