The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-01-29

in the teachings of its textbook with
out practicing them. We are Chris
tan Scientists only as we put into
constant practice our knowledge Of
our religion. be that knowledge great
or small. We are Christian Scientists
only as we are kind and helpful in
thought and deed; only as we think
health and talk health instead of dis
ease and disaster. We are Christian
Scientists only as we say to evil men
as we are loving and courageous and
resolute and answering in our war
fare against sin, sickness and death.
Some SenseIess Charges.
TT IS often charged against Chris
tan Scientists because they rely
wholly upon mind that they do not do
anything for the sick When the
average man considers the needs of
a. sick person, his thought at once
turns to the medicine bottle and he be-
lieves there is nothing being done for
the sick man unless he is made to
swallow something. According to his
peremptory opinions, the sick man
should be treated with something he
can taste or smell or feel, something
that the senses can perceive. Other
wise nothing is being done for him.
He may tell you that attempting to
change the condition OF a mans body
through mind alone is foolishness.
And yet this same intelligent citizen
will readily admit that a mans body
commonly and frequently undergoes
sudden and very marked changes due
entirely to mental causes. He will ad
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eyes If he is subjected to great grief
perspiration. That anger win cause
the face to fflsh or pale, the heart to
thunp. the voice to change.
Now grief, anger and the like are
obviously mental, but because their
effect on the body is Of everyday oc-
currence, as commonplace as eating
and drinking, the lesson they disclose
is lost upon the man who hastens to
censure Christian Science for achiev-
ing what he styles the impossible, yet
which has been part of him since
the day when as a crying infant he
on his mothers arm shed his first
tears.
Origin Of Disease Mental.
Jesus proved for all time and for
all Cristendom that the origin Of dis
ease was mental and he healed 1t with
mental medicine. He gave himself no
concern 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, Tt is not that which
goeth into a man which defileth him
When He healed the sick He gave no
parting directions about diet and rest,
but on at least one occasion said, Sin
no more lest q worse thing come unto
thee thus indicating the mental origin
Of the disease. The sick were healed
by him through spiritual understand
ing, not by human will. Christian
Science, similarly relying wholly upon
divine principle, has no relationship
with will power, mental science, hyp-
notisn, mesmerism, auto-suggestion,
thought transference, spiritualism or
any Of the other cults or schools which
rely wholly or in part upon the influ-
ence Of one human mind or human will
upon another. These are essentially
adverse to the teachings of Christian
Science. wherein the human mind and
the human will are made wholly sub
OIulndIe ana SUDSeTV16nL TO the O1V1ne
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
human sense of self. and the affirma-
ton Of all good, and is condition to
which all must come sooner or later.
AS live, saith the Lord, every knee
shall bow, and every tongue shall con-
fess to Cod
In considering the immortality Of
man one Is confronted by the ques-
tons. What of the hereafter? How
am I to regard the change called
death? What and where is heaven
Christian 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 the time with mans
activities; and the awakening-alike
in both cases-will, we believe, show
no substantial change IN individuality
or advancement. The gates of heaven
do not swing open at the touch Of
death, but are to be entered by right