Arizona republican., 1908-02-10

about Him is helpful and uplifting
 and healing, and then, if so desired,
 he will give what is called a treatment
 in Christian Science, which is in the
 nature of prayer. and is a recognition
 of mans harmonious relationship 10 Goa ana consequent denial of every
 thing unlike it. It is this two-fold na-
 ture of Christian Science prayer that
 gives 1t efficacy and enables it to heal
 the sick. The method involves right
 eousness on the part of the practition-
 CT: 1t means conscious and constant
 communion with Good. with God: it
 means purifcation of sense and self.
 or baptism in the highest acceptation
 of the word
 THE INFLUENCE OF PRAYER
 What" says someone, do you mean
 to say that goodness is related to
 health? Why, if that be so. how is it
 that good people are so often sick ?''
 The answer that true righteousness
 involves science or understanding
 ought to be satisfactory. A person
 may be good and yet he may not have
 realized that disease is no part of the
 divine provision made for man. He
 may even suppose that God has in some mysterious way arranged for his
 suffering or that 1t is permitted by
 God. and with such erroneous concep-
 tions. he could not possibly free him.
 self from disease. Righteousness in-
 wolves not only goodness, but correct or right knowledge. and such knowI-
 edge improves health inevitably.
 DISEASE RECOGNIZED AS MEN,
 TAl-Those who are not accustomed to associate thought with it's effect may not understand how the human
 body can be made sick or well by the influence of thought, and yet materia medica does recognize this to some extent Only Christian Science how ever, discloses the right method by which fear and sin and their effects upon the body may be destroyed. The average person learning of Christian Science as a metaphysical method, Is apt to confuse 1t with the so-called mental methods more or less prevalent today, but Christian Science is unlike them all. It involves no such thing as suggestion or the exercise of the human will or hypnotism or mermer- ism, or the use of formulae. It shows that all these methods may as readily be used for evil purposes as for good, which proves that they are neither Christ-like nor scientific. The power of Christian Science lies in the fact that 1t is the Christ method. whereby the influence of the divine mind is rec ogniZed and employed as the only power. It ought not to be so difficult to learn something of the influence of thought upon the body. since this may be observed at almost any time. Fear, which is thought. will cause a person to turn pale. Anger will make him flush, and if he come suddenly upon something which he dreads. his heart will beat rapidly and unnaturally These are all physical effects produced by thought. Suppose a child were born under the conditions of fear which so often surround mortals. and suppose the conditions were more or less con- tinuous. Growing up in that way, per haps its heart would always be beating and after awhile. if ex- amined by materia medica, the verdict might be. Poor fellow, it's all up with him.; he's got heart disease" Suppose at this juncture that the case should fall into the hands of a Christian Sci ence practitioner as extreme so-called fatal cases so often do. The practi- titioner, employing Christian Science. would get at the root of the trouble. That's what Christian Science does, and learning of the cause of the suffer- ing, he would through the righteous prayer of Christian Science begin to eliminate that cause and all the mem- Ory of the fear. and the fear being re- moved. the patients heart would be- come normal. There are thousands of normal hearts. brains and other bodily organs in the world today because Christian Science has made them so. A slight indication is thus given of the nature of disease and the means of healing it. but those who would gain a full understanding should seek it in the pages of the Christian Science text book. for Mrs. Eddy has therein ana lyzed completely the causes of human suffering. and her book stands alone in this respect. as well as in the rules for treating disease metaphysically.