Rock Island Argus., 1913-06-18


I harmonious.
Just as certainly as the human body
has suffered from disease and dis
cord, and has gone down in wreckage
! in all Of the ages of The past, as the
/ result of wrong mental government,
Christian Science is proving that in
the future the body will respond with
! heath and harmony, when it shall be
! governed by that mind which was
/ also in Christ Jesus
Regardless of what any one may
think or say to the contrary Christian
| Science has proven beyond all pos
sibs.ty Of successful contradiction
/ that the human body is not self-acting.
1t is not seif-acting machine. Since
it possesses neither intelligence nor
sensation in nor of itself, it can only
act in obedience to the mentality that
governs it.
At this point, Christian Science per-
forms an Invaluable service TO man.
kind by explaining how each one may
take possession of his body and gov
ern it harmoniously. Christian
Science here declares that no one is
under any Obligation, what ever, to
/ allow the so-called mortal mind to
dictate the terms and conditions upcu
which he may live, but upon the con
trary, that it is the right and privilege
| OF every one TO know the truth, and to
| dictate the truth to mortal mind, and
that by telling the truth to mortal
mind, and thereby destroying false
belief to preserve his body in health.
To illustrate how the body responds
to the mentality that goyerns it, OBJ
| serve what happens when a person
becomes angry. Immediately, the
functions of every organ in the body
are disarranged. The liver at once
begins to secrete bile, and to diffuse
i through the system, so that one
OF the first results of fit of anger is
that the breath becomes foul. The
heart action is also disturbed, either
oelng accelerated or retarded, and the
face becomes pale or flushed. Any
| physician will say that many deaths
have occurred from fits of anger. and
yet anger is only mental quality or
state.
Now, let one ask himself that, since
such results as these, which are wit
messed daily, can arise from a sudden
wrong mental impulse, does it REQUIRE
much thought to see that like evi. re-
suits will also occur from the ha-
olluaI entertainment CT a wrong men
tai quality? Is it not plain, that
hatred, and all of its subdivisions and
oy-products, such as malice, spite, re-
sentiment and revenge, must neces.
sarlly produce evil and discordant
conditions upon the human body?
And, likewise. that every evil quality
OF the mortal mind, such as dishon-
esty, Jealousy, greed, avarice, self-wil.
fear and the ike, are so many con-
splrators against the peace and har-
mcny OF mankind, and that until these
qualities are cast out, and are dis
placed by the qualities of that mind
which was also in Christ Jesus"
men and women will continue to suf
fer sin, be unhappy, and die.
Again, one man believes that if he
sleeps IN draught he will take cold,
and 1t will be so. Sitting right by his
SIDE is another man who believes that
/ unless he sleeps in a draught, he viii
be sick, and it will be so. and there
are two exactly opposite results fol-
lowing from the same draught, not be-
cause there is any power in the
oraught, but because of human belief
about it; thus showing that the body
responds to whatever the human mind
! believes concerning it.
Thus Christian Science is proving in
many different directions that the
BODY is not self-acting, that it has no
| intelligence to act and no sensation to
feel and that in every case, it obeys
and responds to the mentality that
! governs it.
Indeed. this fact is so plain, that
when it is once pointed out, every one
VIII readily observe instances 10 uroye
IT, and the more one gives heed to it,
the more It becomes plain that BY
controlling ones mental state witt,
truth, he can thereby control his body,
and govern its feeling and action.
REAL SIGNIFICANCE OF JESUS,
WORDS.
1t then becomes easy to understand
the immense significance Of the words
/ OF Jesus, when he said, "Ye shall
know the truth and the truth shall
make you free" for when the human
mind is filed with truth instead OF
error, the body will respond with har
lrony instead of with discord. It also
becomes self-evident that humanity
must and viii be c.nancipated from
bondage TO sin, sickness and death
net through drugs, nor through re.
/ lance upon dead ceremonies. nor
through blind unreasoniuz faith.
ou; through the regeneration Of the
human mind.
Is that not precisely what St. Paul
meant when he said, BE We trans.
formed by the renewing Of your
mlnd?" Can there be any other wsy
Tor suffering men and women to be
liberated from evil conditions. and
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