The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-01-24

and hygiene in a we'll known -Amerf.
can university. Moreover. the dec
iafatlon was made before a legislative
committee on public health at the
massachusetts state house. A physi-
clan on this committee challenged this
declaration: whereupon the 3
invited citations. in REPUTATION OF the
assertion. and tho committeeman cit.
ed appendicitis and pneumonia. The
surgeon the proceeded to explain
that "a man said TO be suffering from
appendicitis may he operated on, his
appendix is cut out, and after a long
tune he may recover; but he isn't
healed; neealso he no longer has an
appendix, and he ought to have one.
so II Is with pneumonia" he contin,.-
ed. No dug, medicine. or physician
can heal it. We may be able to assist
the situation in helping to absorb the
accumulation; but we can never stoy
tne accumulation nor heal the dis
ease. If it is healed at all, it is nature
that does the healing" And, strange
as it may seem, the physician had
nothing to say. He could not fail to
the great truth, that it is
not the drug but nature that heals.
What IL Nature?
what then is nature? 1t cannot be
a thing in and of itself. 1t must be
the nature of something else. Jesus
said. according to the revised version
OF the Bible, that God is sirit" and
the nature of Spirit must be ana is
spiritual. 1t is this spiritual nature
that heals. Then in place of waiting
biindly upon this spiritual nature to
bring a recovery, the Christian Scien-
believe: help thou mine ~unbelief.;
Recognizing the helplessness Of q
nlind faith. he proceeds to gain that
understanding Of spiritual nature
which Jesus taught and demonstrated.
Then, clothed in that expression Of
divine nature. he can apply it to the
specific case and the sick and SHINING
are healed quickly and wholly. Mrs.
Eddy has aptly written. more ef-
fectual than the forum are our states
OF mind, to bless mankind" (Pulpit
II Press. p. SD
Resisting Truth.
When We come to recognize a thing
TO De true we make the best employ
ment of that truth by acceding to it
ana adopting 1t, not by fighting it.
But the general situation is much like
that of a company of pople who were
travelling through the mountains. II
became necessary on some occasions
to hoist themselves UP over some
precipices, n to let themselves
in the party. and at one particular
place 1t was necessary to let them
selves down over a precipice at arms
length and then make a drop of but a
few feet. They all proceeded to the
accomplishment of this. including the
ladies', with the exception of one man.
He let himself down at arms length
and there he hung. He could not let
go. He was delaying the others and
they urged him, "Just let go; you
can't be harmed" but the man SIM
ply could not do it. and there he hung
until he ached and he groaned and
finally, after a long time. through
dropped. He shortly recovered and
was able to proceed with the other
members of the party. So it is with
suffering humanity in learning the
great fact that disease in it's cause is
mental. Christian Science is at least
consistent with what it teaches be-
cause 1t proceeds directly to the re-
moval of the mental cause. and the
physical effects are destroyed along
with the cause. 1t is therefore the
most scientific method for the cure Of
disease that is known, and it has the
of being precisely the
method employed by Christ Jesus 9th
erwise it would not heal.
Conclusion.
therefore. in leaving this subject I
would commend to your further con-
sidcration h a Christian Science test
book. Science and Health with Key
to the Scriptures" whose only pur-
pose is to unlock that spiritual mean
ing of the Bible that we gain, not
through the human intellect. but
through the exercise of spiritual fac
Iltics, rising to the recognition of
God as absolute good, as the author of
only that which is good and real and
positive and immortal. by that spirit
ual understanding of the allncss and
nfn niyonfa1nn nf Tsn,1 ,t, ,,nx a.,
strate the divine law of infinite good
in destroying all that is unlike good,
including sickness and sin. For this
gives to us that spiritual dominion
that God gave to man from the be-
sinninG-that dominion that has nov-
or hcen withdrawn. Christian Science
presents this spiritual understanding
in such a way that it may be applied
from the very outset With the more
simple problems. These fruits OF
Christian Science, spread over ii pc
riod of nearly half a century. have
done more to change the thought of
the world to higher ideals thai any
religious statement or teaching of
modern times. They have challenged
attention to the fact that spiritual
teaching improves the health as we'll
as the morals of men. Such divine
characteristics as health and life,
which are reflected through man. can
no more be annulled. d~istintegrated,
or destroyed than can Coo Himself;
and we save ourselves by the con.
scious recognition of that fact.