The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-06-18
FEAR AND DISEASE,

is full of significance to all who will
study and profit thereby:
Fear causes more diseases than do
microbes, more deaths than famine,
more failures than panics; it costs
more than war, is always a failure,
and is never necessary. Fear weak
ems the hearts action, induces con-
gestion, invites indigestion, produces
poison through decomposing foods and
is thus the mother of auto poisoning,
which either directly causes or great
ly aids in the production of quite 80
per cent. of all our diseases.
Heartily concurring in the above
opinion from this eminent physician,
and congratulating the world on the
fact that its doctors are awakening
to the truth that largely our troubles
are mental, | offer a few comments
and suggest a remedy, which the doc
tor failed to do.
In this remarkable statement we
find that fear lis never necessary"
To think of something with so much
power as is here given to fear, and
at the same time to be told that it is
never necessary, must awaken in the
thinking mind a state of wonder and
speculation as to how to rid oneself
of such an incubus, if it is never
necessary" The doctor did not tell
us how to make it powerless, or how
to stop its poisonous effects and de-
structive forces. When we turn to
the book, whose leaves are for the
healing of the nations, we find an an
tidote for the auto-poison (self-poison)
through fear Jesus said of those who
believed, I'm my name (name here
signifying spirit shall they cast out
devils (evils)," and heal the sick.
Again, IF they drink any deadly thing,
it shall not hurt them" The process
of drinking carries into the stomach
the poison that produces fermenta-
ton or decOmposing conditions which
are destructive to physical life; this
Jesus said should not hurt you if you
relied on Spirit-God-as your anti
dote. Fear, acting through the human
mind, we are told, produces just the
same condition in the stomach, Gin
duces congestion, invites Indigestion,
produces poison through decOmposing
foods, and is thus the mother of auto
poisoning" If this be true, then this
selfpoisoning, or mental suicide, is
produced by erroneous thinking, or
fear.
Our remedy for this and all other
troubles, lies in having, as Paul says,
the "Christ-Mind." Through faith
(Which is mentaD we are able to I'M
derstand (Which is also mentaD that
God is Love" or Mind, and that per
feet love cesteth out fear" If cast out
of mind it has no place or presence
wherein to produce "decomposing con-
dition," and its deleterious effects be-
ing thus destroyed, it is nothing, there
fore unreal Paul gave Timothy a spe-
cific which if declared and realized
may times each day, would eventually
sap the foundations of fear God
hath not given us the spirit of fear;
but of power, and of love, and of a
sound mind"
If God did not give us fear. then
whence did it come? From the car
nal mind (the human sense) which
Paul says is enmity to God. Then we
have right to enter our protest
against any suggestion of fear and
say to it because we are told by DR..
Meachen that it is not necessary
what the founder of Christian Sci
ence, Rev. Mary Baker G. Eddy,
teaches in all her writings, and es-
pecially in "Retrospection and Intro
spection," page "a:
Science saith to Fear: You are
the cause of all sickness; but you
are a self-constituted falsity-you are
darkness, nothingness. You are with
out hope and without God in the
world" You do not exist, and have
no right to exist, for perfect love
casteth out fear
God is everywhere-'there is no
speech nor language, where His voice
is not heard; and this voice is Truth
that destroys error, and Love that
casts out fear.
christian Science reveals that fact
that if suffering exists it is in the NOR
tai mind only, for matter has no SEN
sation and cannot suffer"
1t is a belief in the reality Of dis
ease, produced by conscious and I'M
conscious fear, that has mesmerized
hn 1 or world IL
preme effort grasp the reality of Gods
power and presence as the only power
and presence, and hold to it steadfast-