The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-04-26

of Jesus. The healing of the sick
through divine or mental power was
largely, if not entirely, the cause Of
the great growth of early Christianity.
1t was the crOwning glory of the .le
of Jesus. The Scriptures tell us that
Jesus came to destroy the works of the
dcVil. He spent His time in reforming
the sinner, in healing the sick, and in
raising the dead. Common Sense,
therefore, attrms that sin, sickness,
and death are the works of the devil,
or the trinitarian errors Of human eN-
iStenCe and materialiSm, to Ne gradual
ly eliminated from the life of man by
a right understanding of his immortal
sinless existence
WHAT CHRISTIAN SCIENCE Is
NOT.
Christian Science healing is the eX-
act antipOdc of faith cure, mind cure,
animal magnetism, prayer cure, auto
suggestion, suggestive therapeutics and
hypnOtiSm. Mental therapeutics is an
exact, rational, and normal system of
divine Mind healing. If spiritual, ma
tuTal, and harmonious mental COM
munion with divine Mind, alias the
Over Soul, or Supreme Being, that We
call God. can be termed prayer, then
Christian Science prayer is of this sort.
The terminating ground of disease is
i'm what is known as the Suh-COnsCiOuS,
or unconscious mind. Animation, force,
energy, consciousness. life and move
mcnt are mental not physical In
heUitanCe, prenatal impressions, psyCh-
iC moods, temperament, influence of
early environment religious mind
training and disposition are the books
of life which should be consulted in
the cure of disease. Matter of itself
can originate nothing
such scientists and thinkers as
Franklin, Huxley, Tyndall, Spencer,
Clifford, Haeckel, Allan, BiXby. Her
schcl Kelvin and Oswald tell US that
back of all the material evidences of
life is Mind force. Christian Science
therapeutics deals wholly with Mind in
the prevention and cure Of disease.
There is no such thing in Science as
physical causation, What is known as
q physical effect is the result of an an
terror cause. Christian Science is the
exact understanding Of mental Causa-
ton. 1t utiliZes certain universal laws
of Nature. It's operations are based
upon an exact Principle. 1t resolves
matter into its primary elements NOR
tai or human mind. 1t thus brings the
realm Of the physical under the control
of the mental II dominates the mate
rial with the spiritual the lower with
the higher, the negative with lhe posi-
tive, by this method it mentally dis
solves cancer, heals diseased bones,
elOnEates limbs, destroys progressive
paralysis, restores the wasted tissues
Of the body, and the decaying sub
stance of diseased organs, dissolvcs
cataracts. and cures deafness and i'm
paired vision,
ORIGIN OF DISEASE.
The origin of all disease, the con-
tagiOn of frVers, smallpox, cholera,
and grip, is the operation of mental
not physical forces, We are now told
that the miCrohc is one of nature ;
scavengers and that it is simply a low
form of animal life feeding on a still
lower form.
Nansen tells us that in Greenland
there are no such things as colds These
widespread luXuries, he says, We're left
as a part of the North Temperate zone
I'm China physicians get no pay when
they fail to cure. The diseases known
to one country are unknown to an