Arizona republican., 1899-06-01

nan mind of the operator attempts to
 meet and deai with claims of disease:
 it is case of one mind controlling 3Q-
 other, and, as Carol Norton puts it.,
 the patient yields up the sacred right
 of individual self-goveTnment; he thus
 becomes voluntarily or involuntariiy,
 controlled by the human mind Of
 peTsCn." HypnCtism has no thought
 of God in it; in Christian Science no
 thought of human power attaches; the
 human will is ignored and man turns
 alone in confidence to God, the sole
 and infinite good, and is made whole
 through the conscious realization of
 the healing and Tedeeming power of
 divine love. Yet it is not faith cure,
 for faith cure locks upon Gcd as one
 aside, one upon whom we have no real
 claim. cne who So delights to plea se
 His Sen that He is willing to do Us fa
 VOrs for that Sons sake if we ask in
 faith. Christian Scientists believe that
 we may in our own divine right. and
 not ivy faith alone but through the un- derstanding of the perfect principle of science of healing as demonstrated Icy Jesus and revealed to the world 1 through the teachings Of Christian Sci
 ence, cast off diseased and sinful i thoughts and beliefs and come into our ! heritage of health. We as truly be- 1 lieTe God 10 be kind and loving as ,Il
 the sincerest advocates of faith cure i but we do net consider ourselves as outsiders to whom crumbs are tossed l by the All Powerful as the rich give
 crumbs to the beggar We take God
 at His word; We believe we were tru.y
 made in His image: that cur apparent | diseases and all the manifestations of | Q perverted mortal sense are false and 1 temporal, and that cur Father nas given us the power of rising above | them and of realizing our share in His | infinite perfections.
 l said that hypnOtism in it's aDpar- ent design has the human being as 4he basis cf its power. but does any one know its true method Of operation? Physicians and hypnotists attempt to talk learned.y of cure by suggestion It is easy to call the unknown by a
 name and then delude ones self with
 the idea that the problem is solved; ! but as matter of fact. how mucn more does 9 doctor know of the real
 mOdus Operandi of the cure after he
 has rolled the word suggestion from
 his mouth than he knew before? Sup pose, indeed, that he does hypnotise a
 patient and that while the patient is
 under hypnosis the doctor suggests
 that some pam with which the patient
  be there when he is brought out of the
 hypnotic condition. And suppose that when he is brought out the doctors
 words prove true, and that the pain has disapp peared-does the doctors saying that il was dOne by suggestion clear away the mystery? Does il explain anything whatever of the how cf the cure? Does it show just what happened after the suggestion was nade-anything of the process in pur- suance of which the pain disappeared? | Not man of them can explain how anything is cured by suggestion. Not | man of them knows anything more ! about what actually takes place than | he knew before he ever heard that he ! could cure by suggestion. It is mys- i tery as unfathOmable to each of them i as the mystery of the universe itself. | Il has besn discovered that something | can be done, but nothing has been dis covered as to how it is doHe-ab absolute | ly nothing cf the real operation and Of | the law involved. IL has been given a name, but TO one really knows what [ the name truly means. The fact mere ly hides behind the name, that is all.
 Yet I believe that the Christian Sci enlist has the key to it, and one clear in it's simplicity. Completely and ab sClutely root out fea- Of and belief in evil and man, from his very nature, must be well; there is no i'll in him when he is truly himself In the case Of hypnotic suggestion he is, to a linn iIed eXtent, amenable to the re- moval Of such beliefs as he is tod do not exist and hence he is relieved, tenn porarily at least. of the particular re- suit of mortal belief which disturbs him. Yet it is nc. necessarily per maneHt cure: it is not cure of other false conditions; il is not an elevatiug Uf the man into his perfect spiritual heritage: and hence. in spite of Jhe partia. removal of the diseased condi- ti0n, he is not where a perfect under ;nanding and truly spiritual trust in the divine Allness would put him, Complete and permanent cure must come from an understanding of and obedience to the divine law Of healing.
 Mrs. Eddy calls the sermon on ihs Mount The Divine Digest of Christian Science: she brings into bright relief the fact that Christ wrought the cure ] 1f disease through divine mind; Iha1 the divine mind includes within itself 3.l intelligence: that to cure disease s to destroy mental error made mani fest physically: that Healing the sick Is the smallest part Of Christian | Science: that the emphatic purpose | of Christian Science is the healing Of sin. Christian Science teaches tha, i God is the only life, substances. soul in the universe, including men. That man-the real not the I seeming man, with his false claims u z 'eality-is an emanation from the di- l vine. partaking of the divine nature. | IS a ray of light is a part of, and may be followed to its home in the sun. rom which it emanates. It teaches hat God is love, and that man, being owes idea, is privileged to the perfec- ion due to his origin and to the al ainm ent of true at-one-ness with Him.
 If. as we were anciently told man , vas created in Gods image and if, as Ye are also told, God is spirit, and if we believe the sacred word, we cannot .scar,a frnI1 the cnnnI1sinra that tha-