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Science of Health.

Science OF Health.
Health christian science defines as
Wilderness, or holiness" the speaker
said. According to christian sci
ence, true holiness, christian grace,
and moral rectitude, must of necessi-
ty include a normal relationship with
the divine Being which we call God.
Thus bodily health is made manifest
in the quickening of what is called
the mortal body of the spirit (mind).
according to the teaching of script
ure and scientific law. If God is All
mall as divine perfection, He has an
intimate relationship with the physi-
cal health of man with his spirit
ual harmony. If immortality is moral
discord. and materiality the reverse
of spirituality, physical ill-health is
certainly bodily discord. If the body
is to be transformed by the renewing
of the mind. health is therefore :
spiritual condition, and man. in prop
err mental harmony with the divine
mind or spiritual law, can no more
have bodily disease than can men in
harmony with the law of God, good,
express moral deformity. Therefore
christian science teaches the estab
lishment of health through mental or
spiritual processes. 1t invokes the di-
vine aid through the prayer of un-
derstanding, spiritual communion
with Deity. 1t attacks all organic
and functional disease in the realm
of causation; namely, mentality, and
there conquers the disease in its
breeding ground, i. e., the conscious
and sub-cOnscious mortal thought.
Jesus came to destroy the works of
the devil. He spent His whole time in
the regeneration of the depraved, in
the healing of the sick, in the destruc-
ton of error, and in the raising of
the dead. Is not christian science,
therefore, both logical and scriptural
in its assertion that sin, bodily sick
ness, error and death are of mortal,
not divine origin, and constitute the
works of the devil in human affairs?
Laws of Natur.she Misnamed.
"The miscalled laws of nature are
but the eternalized manifestations of
what is known as impersonal mortal
mind, alias, mortal or human nature.
The self-destructive forces of earth.
hurricane, tidal wave, pestilence.
| famine. drought, flood. extremes of
heat and cold, poisonous plants, rep
| tiles, ferocious beasts, contagious dis
eases, the evils of hypnotism, heredi-
tary sin and disease, germs, bacteria,
deathdealing electricity, fire, togeth-
err with the barbaric tendencies dor
mant and aggressive in the animalized
minds and actions of mortals mani
Testing themselves in cruel warfare,
murder. bull, cock and dog fights, and
| in all forms of human brutality, eX-
press not the manifestation of the
nature of that God who is referred to
in the Send chapter of Deuteronomy
as "A God of truth and without ini-
putty, just and right
Jesus illustrated the power of the
true laws of nature when He Gained
the tempest on the Sea of Galilee. 1t
is recorded that in manifesting His
power over the elements He rebuked
the storm and it ceased. Would He
have rebuked that which manifested
the eternal love? Does the everlast-
| ing love ever express itself through
death-dealing forces, either elemen-
tary, physical or human?
Future of Christian Science.
christian science was the greatest
discovery of the 10Th century. The
christian science textbook was the
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