Mower County transcript., 1904-12-21

suffering. 1t has removed the inca
pacities and disabilities into which
mankind falls through sin and ignor-
ance. It has reunited families, and, is
saving little children from sudden
calamity. .. -:..s ..*x5 -
Christian Science is establishing by
degrees, in the sight of all men, logf-
CAL scientific and Christian method Of
the understanding of the omnipotence
of good But it is no mere optimism
no mere hope or expectation. It is the
understanding of the law of God and
the recognition and realization of God
as Spirit, ana man as spiritual. Its
Principle is God and it's motive is the
mental, moral and physical regenera-
ton Of mankind. 1t recognizes mater
ial conditions as effect, not cause, and
operates for. cure in the mental
realm, wherein reside the suggestions
and predisposing causes Of disease
Nor is Christian Science mere stoi-
cism. It does not involve submission
to disease and the Willingness to suffer
from it. 1t does not teach nor preach
apathetic Indifference to suffering, but
it calls for mental action to resist evil
and overcome it with the mind that
was also in Christ Jesus. Christian
Science produces a mental attitude
which is alert, agile and active, and
this mental attitude is found to make
men more capable and useful, whether
their occupations be in the various de-
partments of business life or in the
professions and arts. On all sides a
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good at the expense of evil, and this
process is leayening the general human
consciousness with it's good news Of
health, holiness and happiness.
Let it be understood at once, how
ever. that we cheerfully acknowledge
the devotion and the humanitarian
methods which characterize the mem
bers of the medical profession. We
know full we'll their diligent study and
their acts of heroism, but we are per-
suaded that we have found a better
way of healing the sick than by ma
terial drugs, or manipulation, a way
which experience and common sense
alike have led us to adopt as help in
time of trouble. )
Let me also acknowledge without
reservation that there have been fail
ures, that Christian Scientists have
not always known enough about God,
lor loved enough to demonstrate the
Principle and rule of Christian Science.
But such failures have been relatively
rare, and were for years treated as
sensational news, to be carried from
end to end of the country, and to be
headed with startling captions. The
public has now learned to recognize
that, in view of the long obituary col
lmns which appear i'll our newspapers
,earing the names of those who have
died under the most approved methods
of material medicine, the occasional
failures of Christian Scientists dwindle
nto insignifcance, and are not worthy
IF the special prominence. once.::given
TO them 81
The truth is that Christian Science
S now performing a work in modern
society and civilization which has rem
lered it indispensiblesand essential to-
day. If we could imagine it,for a mo
ment set aside, or it's beneficent activi'
ties curtailed, we would mot: know
whittier to turn in order to find a sub
,titute.
Indeed, it is now more generally
than ever conceded that many: dis.
eases are of mental origin. Progress
We physicians are found paying in
creased attention to mental symptoms.
Christian Science goes one step further
and shows that all disease, as we'll as
sin, can be traced to false mental con
cepts, either directly or indirectly
either consciously present in the pa
tents thoughts or latent in general
human consciousness. Not physical
but metaphysical medicine, is what hui
nanity Graves and ne41s. Fear, doubt
envy, malice, anger, pride, selishness
md other evils externalize themselves
n diseased matter body. Love, con
ddence compassion, humility, honesty,
md other normal states OF mind, pro
luce healthy conditions on the body.
But in order to effect change OF
thought, the Christian Scientist does
rot rely upon himself, but upon God,
he divine Principle. all powerful, all
moving and everpresent, For surely
It should not seem strange to any one
hat He, who. is infinite power and in
telligence, should be able to heal the
sick, as well as save the sinner. In
the words Of Paul, when he stood at
bay before King Aggrippa, in Caesarea;
why should it be thought thing in
credible with you that God should raise
the dead?"
If God is really eternal Life, then the
real man must be immortal and indie
structible. ~
There was time when the church
valued this. power of healing the sick
as an evidence Of it's divine origin.
For some three hundred Years Chris
tians healed the sick by spiritual
means, but when the primitive church,
strong in spirituality, gave place to an
establishment strong principally In
temporal things; when Constantine
proclaimed himself a Christian Emper-
or, and seized the reins Of power in the
church ITSELF; when Christianity be
came crystalized into a hard and fast
system; when, in a word, materialism
drove, out spirituality, then the spirit
of Christ, the mind which was also in
Christ Jesus, and which was also in
his disciples, his apostles ahd their fol
lowers, became attenuated, and the
power to heal the sick by spiritual
means was slowly lost. s #&@ &5 =
Imagine world of happy men and
women, starting out to do their work