The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1913-10-14

very few who were impressed by tt
evidence presented or who experience
spiritual Transformation. The ScriI
lures record the intense hatred an
| persecution which the early Christian
endured because of their belief In tn
efficacy of spiritual power. This
corroborated in secular history and
Is noteworthy that the hatred was mos
in evidence, especially at the momen
the healing was done.
Judging it by its fruits all thought
full people must admit that this spiri
tual healing is a far better, more eff
fectual method than the use Of mater
ial means, and this being true We car
but question, Why Is it not in use
Evidently because it is not understood
for there exists today a very genera
disbelief in it's possibility, stubborn
tendency to doubt it, in spite of the
many authentic records Of such heal.
ing in the past and through Christian
Science now.
Causes Of Unbelief.
LET us then, if we may, examine in
to some Of the causes of this disbelief
in Scriptural or Christian healing.
What are they?
First. 1t is difficult for the mater
tally minded to see how physical re-
suits can be obtained through spiritual
means. The teaching of the schools
regarding the nature of matter pro-
duces such materially biased con-
seriousness that the nature of spiritual
existence and spiritual power is very
difficu to grasp.
Second. The popular teaching re-
eardiIg the nature CT Tod and of His
relation to all being, together with the
belief in the reality of material exis-
tence and it's asserted laws, is at var
lance with the Scriptural teaching.
Third. Human inertia resists belief
in anything that differs from what it
has been accustomed to, it is innately
opposed to all things spiritual or di-
vine, and it is to this mental attitude
that st. Paul referred when he said,
THE carnal mind is enmity against
God"
We thus see that it is material sense
which hinders the attainment of an I'M
derstanding of the spiritual healing of
the Bible; this is the fertile soil from
which springs the doubt, agnosticism
and inf1delity of our times.
Mental CausatiOn.
lone of the most puzzling questions
healing is this, how can
l mere mental effort bring about
| physical change, how can it restore
health and harmony? This difficulty
S largely due to the failure to under
stand the relationship between thought
md body and what real Mind is.
Let us consider the question brief
y.
"All are familiar with the effect of
ear, grief, worry, anger, passion, sin, |
lpon bodily conditions. Tears flow,
he circulation of the blood is altered |
s shown by pallor, cold perspiration, |
to-, and these effects prove that physi-
al changes follow mental distur-
ances.
According to pathology many forms
t disease are caused by the accumula-
ion or defective elimination of NOR
ific SecretiOnS, which affect organic
nd functional conditions and actions
An eminent physician has made a
cries of eXperimets showing the effect
the emotions upon the secretlons,
nd has found that under the influence
love and hate, sedenity and anger
leasure and pain, the secretions pre-
ent marked chemical differences, all
which gives evidence that mental
)nditions are the real causes of d.
ease.
Many physicians will admit that
alignant diseases have been caused
7 grief, worry and sin. Indeed it is
)w becoming evident that the cause
all disease is mental. Even what
e termed hereditary diseases and
'nditions are now believed by many
be of mental origin, as there Is no
her way to account for them.
Cure Mental.
IF, as we have seen, the origin of
sease is mental it must be dealt with
entally. We are all familiar with
e fact that diseases and distressing :
are alleviated when fear and F
ger cease and the harmonious effects
peace, happiness, and satisfaction
evail. Take a rubber ball, and grasp
tightly in the hand, thereby destroy
its perfection of shape and outline.
len remove the pressure Of the fin
res; the strain is gone, and the ball
sumes its natural and harmonious
ape. In a similar way, mental dis
rbances clamp the body, put it under
strain, and when these are removed
body becomes normal, natural.
The effect of thought on the body is
is readily seen and is admitted by
thinking people. Cheerfullness, the
bit of looking on the bright side of
ngs, is generally acknowledged to
an aid in preserving and restoring
alth, and yet the world says, can
admit that malignant and organic
eases may be caused and healed by =
ught. Possibly my headache will
appear when l stop worrying or =
ng angry but how can l get rid of r
umor or of Bright's disease by sim
thinking about it?'
In answer to this question it is we'll
bear in mind that the marvellous
ling recorded in the Bible, which is F
we and beyond any possible achieve
nts of medical or surgical practice,
5 actually accomplished through -
ntal or spiritual activity alone and u,
Christian Science has healed
ry known disease through it's men,
treatment. Admitting this fact we
prepared to consider the manner
which this healing is accomplished =
The Nature Of Existence. Fl
First it is necessary to consider
at existence is and the relation be-
en- mind and body. All will admit
to exist means to be conscious
since consciousness is mental, in
dual consciousness is individual
ltality, in other words, existence is =
ltal.