Evening journal., 1908-05-28


trouble there was quite large cavity |
Involving the upper part of the lefl |
lung. Something over a year ago I !
learned this cavity was no longer dis.
coverable, but that so far as physical |
examination could determine there was
healthy lung tissue filling the entire
space normally SO occupied.
Entering upon the study Of Christien |
Science as / did with the exception |
Of finding an addition to my medicai |
armamentarium it soon became evil |
dent to me that if the claims Of the |
system We're well grounded, If It would !
do what the reported demonstrations !
indicated it had done. if it could be de.
pended upon to producs similar results, !
there could be no hesitation on tbs
part Of anyone engaged in the healias
art in exchanging the old for the new
way.
For about fifteen months I studied
the theory of Christian Science and in.
vestigated its results from the above
standpoint. I found Z not difficult 10
be convinced that it might do away
with the use Of drugs IN the treatment
of medical disease AS to surgery |
was much more slow in believing that
mental treatment could be of any use.
and it was not until came to under.
stand that the real principle upon
which Christian Science is based that
/ understood that It will eventually do
away with operative surgery as well
as the demand for II.
1 myself have seen a broken bone
and dislocated joint restored to nor
NAL condition and function within a
few hours, and that without manipula-
tion, splint or bandage Of any kind.
To-day, however, Il is not claimed
that we can do without surgeons alto
gether; not because pure Christian
Science will not go so Car as to remove
cancers and set broken bones for it
is doing these things every day, but
for the same reason that abdominal
and intercranial surgery was not dore
with the same freedom and safety one
hundred years ago as they are to-day;
for the same reason that Adam did not
Te telephone and Noah a steams
boat: not because the laws of physics
and physiology are not the same in one
age as in another, but hecuase the
understanding Of them IS not the same.
Christian Scientists have only COM
menced to work out tie problem And
so most of them go 20 the dentist still
sometimes to the surgeon, daily to the
butcher and baker. to the tailor ana
the coal man. But because they ara
still busy learning the multiplication
tables does not indicate that the prob
lens of Euclid will not be solved in
due course. rather the contrary.
However, one does not go far I'm his
investigation of Christian Science with
out learning that the healing of indi-
vidual attacks of sickness is considered
Of minor Importance md may almost
be said TO be incidental. but that its
real purpose is the permanent healing
Of all disease. mental moral AMI
physical IN the individual; the immun-
izing, so to speak. of the individual to
all forms of illness and evil. Ono
learns early I'm the study that under
the heading of disease Christian. Sci
ence includes ills not mentioned in the
medical textbooks, a. least not in
those published before Christian Sci
ence influence began To be felt in the
worlds thinking. It's list covers such
diseases as worry. selishness, jeal-
|
poverty. dishonesty, aVarice murder
and in fact all the brood OF happiness
assassins that make IL seem imposs-
/ BILE to obey the command: Thou shall
] love thy neighbor as thyself." And one
/ learns that these diseases are amenable
to Christian Science as well as measles
and cancer and by It are being elimin-
ated from human consciousness.
Christian Science takes away from us
nothing but ignorance and depend
ence upon falsites II shows us that
we have been making ourselves the
slaves Of the things for which we have
been spending our lives. that we have
| belonged to them and not they to us.
| 1t makes us possessors of real things
not possessed by unreal things II
| is not system of medicine. nor a
/ Grug: not something 20 he taken when
we are sick or IN trouble and tn
he kept on the shelf b.tween times.
1t is the understanding Of true values
as distinguished from the false and
! Of how man is goverened by the former
/ and not by the latter. II Is a thirg
/ 10 be lived. 1t is tho way to live, the
scientific way to live. the only way to
| live right, and the way in which all
men sooner or later must come to live,
| for IL Is the Christ-way and "at rhe
name OF Jesus every knee shall bow
and every tongue confess that
/ Jesus Christ is Lord." It is the Science
/ Of Being, the Sciencs Of Life. It Is
/ the Truth that makes men free.