Rock Island Argus., 1913-06-18

as well as the laity, will go on in the
belief that drugs and surgery are the
only means through which mankind
can be delivered from disease, when,
after diligently trying such means for
so many centuries, not one disease has
been permanently eradicated, nor the
increase in the number of diseases
prevented. For the hope of mankind
there must be some better way, and
Christian Science claims TO teach that
better way.
MEDICAL BELIEFS NOW CHANGING.
1t is fact that at the present time
there is going on great change Of
belief in the medical profession as TO
what is the best method for healing
the sick, for the profession is now
drifting rapidly away from the use of
drugs. A well-known physician in
New York city, Of the allopathic
school of medicine, recently said that
there is a constantly increasing num-
Der of physicians, and especially
among those Of the better class, who
have ceased TO believe in the value or
efficacy OF drugs. He said that while
many eminent physicians still main
tain that the best method for treating
the sick is TO dose them with drugs,
as they have done for centuries, yet,
notwithstanding that fact. he said that
/ there is today a constantly growing
belief among physicians that drugs
are not really beneficial in the cure
OF disease. He said that while some
doctors maintain that not more than
six or eight drugs are really beneficial,
SO far as he himself was concerned,
he considered that if all the drugs in
the world but three were destroyed
it would be for the good of the human
race.
Another physician, also of the al
lopathic school, has recently given me
list of diseases which the doctors
now treat without administering any
drugs at all. II is astonishing to find
that this list includes many of the
most dreaded diseases, all of which
we're considered by the doctors, until
a few years ago, absolutely incurable
without the use of drugs. More as
tonishing still. it Is now stated with
respect to many of these diseases,
that drugs not only are not helpful
but, upon the contrary, are positively
harmful. and tend to produce fatal re-
suits, for which reason he said that
the leading men in the profession had
/ discontinued the giving Of drugs to
I persons suffering from such diseases.
TRUE RELIGION.
People have been taught that sin
ners are to be saved through the min
istry of religion, but that the sick can
only be saved by medical treatment.
To find out now religion can heal
sickness and destroy sin, it is first
necessary to understand what is re-
ligion. There are many different
forms of religion. 1t is said that there
are more than two hundred sects of
the Chrirtian religion alone. Every
one VIII concede that, at least, some
of the religious beliefs entertained by
people are erroneous, although each
one believes very sincerely that his
particular belief is the true one. In
order TO gain the benefits which the
! bible promises shall come to true be-
levers, 1t is necessary to get rid of
that which is erroneous in religious
belief and practice, and TO find out
what constitutes true religion.
There are many who honestly think
that it makes no difference what re-
hgious beliefs they entertain, so long
as they are sincere in them. mo-
ment's reflection, however, will show
that such d theory is pernicious and
destructive, for 1t is perfectly plain
that if a thing is not, in fact, true, no
amount of sincerity on the part of the
believer can ever make il true. No
engineer ever arrived at a correct re-
suit, no matter how sincerely he may
have believed that his processes were
correct, If they were not so in fact.
With respect TO many things it may
be unimportant whether the thing be-
lieved is true or not, but with respect
TO the things that people believe
about God. and about themselves, and
| about their relationship to God, they
are vital, because it will be shown that
the things believed with respect to
these matters, become laws that are
binding upon the believer, and that
suffering, limitations, and all evil con-
ditions result necessarily from erron-
eous beliefs concerning these all i'm
portant subjects.
Jesus said, "Ye shall know the truth.
and the truth shall make you free" II
this statement was true, then It fol
| lows by irresistible logic that the en-
| Shaving conditions from which human
| ity suffers must be due TO the belief or
something that is not true. In other
words. If the time is ever TO come, as
Jesus has declared that 1t will come.
when the knowledge Of the truth shall
emancipate humanity from It's bondage
10 sickness, sin, unhappiness, poverty,
cid age and death, such time can only
! come when the knowledge of the truth
/ shall have displaced out of human
consciousness the belief OF that which
is not true. There is no escape from
this conclusion.
/ Christian Science shows that II is
the effect produced by truth, operat-
( ing in human consciousness, destroy
ing superstinons, false and vicious
beliefs, that must and will. some day.
emancipate mankind from bondage TO
sin, disease and death.