Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1912-01-18

the one case ana your checks VIII be
thrown ont in the other" And vet
this same intelligent citizen will read
lily admit that a mans body common
ly and frequently undergoes sudden
and very marked changes due entire
ly 10 mental causes. He will admit
that salt water will flow from his
eyes if he is subjected to great grief
That sudden 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
obviously mental, but because their
effect on the body is OF everyday oc-
currencc, as commonplace as eating
and drinking, the lesson they dis
close Is lost upon the man who hast
ems To ccnsure Christian Science for
achieving what he styles the impossi-
bic. 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.
ii then it Is conceded that the state
OF mind may disturb the sccretions,
causing the tears To flow: or that the
state of mind may quicken the action
OF the heart, causing the blood TO
rush 10 the face or away from it; or
if the state OF mind can affect the
organs Of the throat causing huski-
ness then it is plain that the state OF
mind may be held accountable for
other arrangements 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 viii stop the flow OF tears, or
i'll other words, if change OF thought
will change the flow OF fluid To the
eyes, why will not change OF
thought change the flow OF fluids Ia
the stomach. Is it not more rational
then To treat dyspepsia with 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.
Mans comprehension OF the prob
lens of life is to be measured by his
understanding of God He holds TO
contrary and widely divergent beliefs
about God and hence his interpreta-
tons of life are conflicting and dis
cordant If he comedies to God. the
primal cause of all being illimitable
power-Omnipoten ifIimitable
I.nA,,vl ,1,r. IN ti,..
next breath attributes To Him the al
tlictionS and disasters of human eX-
perience, he is setting up a god of
good and evil, of vacillation and
cruelty whom he may try to love
but is bound to fear.
The anthropomorphic idea OF God
as man-like being of human attri-
butcs and qualities enormously mag
nihed, a heritage of mythology,
handed down TO us through genera
tons OF orthodoxy, is repndiated in
Christian Science. For its definition
of God, Christian Science turns TO
the Scriptures
In our contemplation OF Deity. we
are thus led to lift our thought from
effect to Cause; from the thing created
to the CREATOR from idea TO Princi-
pie. Thus we come TO understand
God to be the infinite Personality
without corporeality, the Principle OF
all true being, the Supreme Good, the
same yesterday, today and forever.
lin whom there is no variableness
neither shadow of turning
In contemplating God as infinite
Principle, we find our life problems
must be worked out acc ording 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 principle 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
assignab1e TO our own shortcomings
and never 10 Principle itself. The
deplorable mistakes in mans history
which he designates sickness and suf-
ferng and failure and disaster will
ullllllllSll III frequency ana NllulelCC
as he applies himself TO gain better
understanding OF divine Principle. and
persists in using that understanding
in the affairs of his everyday life.
He must give it expression to the !
limit OF his cognition. for principle |
is as futile as theory
There is a short and cheering pre-
ccpt that Christian Science has TO
deliver To all who have ears To hear
1t is not a new message 1t has re-
assured the children of men ever since
they first felt the chill of fear The
loving mother encouraging her tod
ding infant, the gallant captain cheer
ing his men to greater valor. The
gentle Saviour quoting his affrighted
disciples. all use it, That message is,
BE not afraid
"And why it may be asked. docs
Christian Science lay So much stress
upon the need OF overcoming fear?