Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-29

challenging the confidence, respect and
often the full allegiance of all classes
and conditions of people within and
without the pale of the church mill
tant?
There are now something like one
hundred competent and accredited
Christian Science practitioners in this
city many of whom have regular Of
fees and devote their whole time to
the work 1t is estimated that not less
than five hundred people are receiving
treatment every day in this city alone.
They are not seeking relief in vain.
Hundreds have been healed, many of
them after the doctors had given them
up to die, and many more of diseases
recognized by physicians and the pub
lie generally as incurable. such as
consumption. Brights disease and can
GER; and such more rapid diseases as
typhoid fever, scarlet fever and diph-
iberia. The lame, the deaf and blind
have been healed, and the work it IS
doing very day in the prevention of
disease and the relief of mankind from
the burdens of fear, apprehension of
evil, worry, discomfort and unhappi-
ness is beyond comprehension o. de-
scription. The freedom of Christian
Scientists from the fears and worries
with which mankind generally is op-
pressed has become proverbial and
their general appearance of content
ment and happiness as compared with
others is often noted by outsiders as
well as themselves. The work Christian
Science has done in the way of re-
demption from sin is not so patent
to the observer, but it is no less marked
and extensive III its scope. The cases
of healing from the habit of strong
drink after all other remedies have
failed, are numerous and we'll authenti-
Gated. We have numbers of them in
Los Angeles
If Christian Science had done nothing
more than this it would be worthy of
all commendation.
1t has been this work of healing that
has brought conviction to the minds of
most of the thousands of people who
have embraced this religion. 1t is diff
cult ito understand how any unbiased
reasoning man or woman can see these
evidences of this religious work done
in the name of the Master and not be-
lieve, and with such incontestible proof
of its truth, its wonderful growth is
not surprising.
This healing is not done by will
power mental suggestion, hypnotism.
mesmerism or animal magnetism. as
many suppose. but by the removal of
the fear of, and belief in, evil and the
substitution thereof of a belief in the
infinite, immanent, all power of God,
good and trust and faith in him. This
is done not by will power, or any power
of the practitioner, but by the subjec-
ton of the mind of the sufferer to the
power of the divine Mind. which brings
it into harmony with the divine law,
thus bringing or restoring that peace
and harmony of thought that heals and
saves. This is done by prayer. The
sinner is healed or redeemed, by
prayer, which reforms him, not
changes God. This all Christian peo-
pie believe. The sick are healed, in
precisely the same way, by the same
means and the same power 1t is the
evil, wrong or erroneous thought that
causes the disease. and the disease is
healed by removing the cause. 1t is
alike in both cases. SO
the Christian Science practitioner does
the work of the minister of the gospel
in that he redeems from sin through
divine power of which he is but the
and of the medical practi-
tioner in healing disease through the
same power and by the same means.
This is the work that Jesus did and
that he commanded others to do. He
said: "Of mine own self l can do moth