The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-10-01

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is nothing being done for the sick man
unless he is made TO swallow some
thing. According to his peremptory
opinions. the sick man should be treat
ed with something that he can taste or
OF feel, something that the
senses can perceive, otherwise Moth
ing is being done for him." He may
tell you that attempting to change the
condition of a mans body through
mind alone is foo1ishness. And yet
this same intelligent citizen will read
lily admit that a mans body commonly
and frequently undergoes sudden and
marked changes due entirely to
mental causes. He will admit that
salt water will flow from his eyes If he
is subjected to great grief. That sud
den fear will produce cold perspiration.
That anger will cause the face to flush
or pale, the heart to thump, the voice
to change. ..
Now grief. anger and the like are OBJ
v1ously mental, but because their effect
on the body is of everyday occur
as commonplace as eating n
drinking, the lesson they disclose is
lost upon the nan who hastens to GEN.
Christian Science. for achieving
what he styles the impossible, Yet
which has been a 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
state of mind can affect the organs of
the throat causing huskiness, her it
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 a change of thought will
change the flow of fluid to the eyes,
why will not q change of thought
change the flow of fluids to the stom-
ach? Is it not more rational then to
treat dyspepsia with mind than with
tabloids Inc powders?
And SO it is with all other bodily dis
eases and arrangements, they have one
and all responded to the curative influ-
ence of Mind, administered, in Chris
tan Science.
Jesus proved for all time and for all
C~hristendom that the origin of disease
was mental and he healed it with men,
tai medicine. He gave himself no con-
Germ about physical symptoms, but he
destroyed what caused them. He cared
little about what the sick man had
been eating, but muCh about what he
had been thinking. He said in so many
words, 1T Is not that which goeth into
a mai which defileth him." When he
healed the sick he gave no parting di-
rections about diet and rest, but on at
least n occasion said, Sin no more
lest a wrose thing come upon thee"
thus indicating the mental origin of
the disease. The sick were healed by
him through spiritual understanding,
not by human will. Christian Science,
similarly relying wholly upon divine
Principle, has no relationship with will
power, mental science, hypnotism,
mesmerism, uto-suggestion, thought
transference, spiritualism or any of
the other cults or schools which rely
one human mind or human will upon
another. These are essentially ad-
verse to the teachings of Christian
Science, wherein the human mind and
the human will are made wholly subor-
dinate and subservient to the divine
Mind, the will of God. Success in
Christian Science is only attained as
fallible human mentality is eliminated.
This implies self-denial, the denial of
the human sense of self, and the af-
ffrmation of all good, and is a condi-
ton to which all nus come sooner or
later. A I live. saith the Lord. ev-
cry knee shall bow, and every tongue
shall confess to God"
Hereafter. '
In considering the immortality of
nan one is. confronted by the queS-
tons, What of the hereafter? How
am l to regard the change called death?
What and where is ~heaven?". Chris
tian Science makes direct answer to
these very natural questions. That
which is called death, though always
an enemy and finally to be overcome,
as the Bible declares, is no more to be
feared than is sleep. In the present
state of our development both are in
cidental to the experience of mankind;
both interfere for a time with mans
activities; and the awakening-alike
in both cases-will, We believe. show
no substantial change in individuality
OF advancement. The gates of heaven
do not swing open at the touch of
death, but r to. be entered by right
thinking and right living, here and
hereafter. '".' r..a--s
The work of regeneration and
reformation left unfinished here will
have to be don hereafter The stir
ring command; Work out your own
salvation" follows us wherever we
may be and through whatever changes
we may pass. Death does not silence
it nor modify its demands. Love of
life, not fear OF death, is in Christian
Science the great incentive to. action
and achievement.
The isles of the blest Of the ancients,
the Elysian fields of Greek and Latin
mythology, the seven heavens of He
brew cabalism, the battle plains of the
beliggerent Norsemen, the happy hunt
ing grounds of the American Indian all
express belief in a place of happiness
after death portrayed in widely differ
ing imagery.
All of them, Pagan and Jew, Greek
and barbarian, Norseman and Indian.
Mohammedan and Hindu, unite in
maintaining that heaven stands for
futurity, that it's portal is death, it's
threshold is mystery. And now comes
Christian Science proclaiming in the
words of Jesus that the kingdom OF
heaven Is at hands here and now at
tainable. 1t declares that we do not
gain heaven by dying, but by right liv-
Ing; that death is not the gate to a
far-off paradise, but that heaven is
within our reach today and that we get
little or much of it as we conform our
lives, our thoughts and deeds, to Gods
eternal laws.
Christian Science puts aside the
NEUROLOGICAL idea of heaven as a place
and shows 1t to be a state or condition
of mind. 1t follows, therefore, that Its
attainment depends upon the mental
processes of the individual. In other
words 1t affirms that right thinking
leading to right living is the sure pass
port to heaven. Turning to the life OF
the great examplar, Jesus the Christ
we find In him the ideal thinker whose
thoughts and actions conformed in
variabiy to the laws of God-Spirit.