The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1911-10-04

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or pale, the heart to thump, the voice
to change.
Now grief, anger and the like are
obviously mental, but because theil
effect on the body is of everyday oc
currence, as commonplace as eating
and drinking, the lessons they dis
close, are lost upon the man who has
tens to censure Christian Science fol
achieving what he styles the impos
sible, vet which has been part Of
him since the day when as a crying
infant he on his mothers arm shed
his first tears.
If then it is conceded that the state
of mind may disturb the secretions
causing the tears to flow; or that the
state OF mind may quicken the action
of the heart, causing the blood to rush
to the face or away from it; or if the
Estate of mind can, affect the organs
|of the throat, causing huskiness then
lit is plain that the state of mind may
be held accountable for other derange.
ments of the organs of secretion. OF
circulation and of speech. And If OF
these, why not of other organs of the
body? If changing grief into joy will
stop the flow of tears, or in other
words if change of thought will
change the flow of fluid to the eyes,
why will not a change of thought
change the flow OF fluids to the stom-
ach? Is it not more rational then to
treat dyspepsia with the mind than
with tabloids and powders?
And so it is with all other bodily
diseases and arrangements, they have
one and all responded to the curative
influence of Mind, administered in
Christian Science.
In contemplating God as infinite
Principle, we find our life problems
must be worked out according to this
unerring Principle of Being, or they
will be failures, precisely as failure
follows the work of the student in al
zebra, who ignores the principles OF
mathematics. The mistakes we make
in life and their affective, results are
due to our ignorance OF Principle, or
to our disregard Of the laws express
ing Principle, and in all cases are as
signable 70 our own shortcomings and
never to Principle itself. The deplor-
able mistakes in mans history which
he designates as sickness and suffer
ing and failure and disaster will dimin-
ish in frequency and virulence as he
|applies himself to gain better un-
|derstanding of divine Principle, and
persists in using that understanding
lin the affairs of his everyday life. He
must give it expression to the limit
of his cognition, for a principle un-
expressed is as futile as a theory un-
tried.
Christian Science emphasizes the
fact that when fear is eliminated from
the consciousness of the sick man
no matter what the nature of his ILL
ness-he has taken a long step to-
wards recovery. 1t declares also that
people who are habitually free from
fear, worry, anxiety, apprehension and
the like are far less susceptible to ill.,
ness and misfortune than others. 1t
has uncovered in fear an agency of
evil, an enemy of health, destroyer
of peace and bar to mans progress
heavenward. 1t is not to be wondered
then that the elimination of fear from
human consciousness is an important
feature of the mission of Christian
Science.
Discouragement.
Christian Science brings the Truth
to human comprehension, gives free.
dom from whatever enslaves and thus
bestows mental, moral and physical
liberty. In the process of liberation
it Sits out certain pernicious prac
tees and propensities, generally re-
garded as harmless, but which are to
be stunned as allies of evil. 1t shows
US that we have INDUCED in moods
and inclinations that we believed were
guileless, if not commendable, but
were in reality neither wise nor harm
less. We find We have been warming
in the incubator of our favor, the eggs
of serpents that we believed belonged
to doves. Perhaps the most common
of these disease-inviting habits is dis
daresay we have all
been on intimate terms with it one
time or another and while We have
never found it cheerful company, We
have not looked upon it is a sinister
visitor. Yet that is just what Chris
tan Science shows it to be.
Encouragement wears the invisible
livery of evil and is constantly and
working for its master.
It is always pulling down and never
building up.