The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1913-03-12

out practicing them. We are Christian
Scientists only as we put into constant
practice our knowledge of our relig-
ion, 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 disease and dis
aster. We are Christian Scientists
only as we say to evil mental sugges-
ton, Peace, be stilln' Only as VIZ
are loving and courageous and reso
lutte and answering in our warfare
against sin, sickness and death.
1t is often charged against Christ
ian Scientists because they rely wholly
upon Mind that they do not do any
thing" for the sick. When the average
man considers the needs of sick per-
son, his thought at once turns to the
medicine bottle and he believes there
is nothing being done for the sick man
unless he is made to swallow some
thing. According to his peremptory
opinions, the sick man should be
treated with something that he can
taste or smell or feel, something that
the senses can perceive. Otherwise
Nothing is being done for him." He
may tell you that attempting to change
| the condition of mans body through
mind alone is foolishness. And yet
this same intelligent citizen will read
lily admit that a mans body commonly
and frequently undergoes sudden and
very marked changes due entirely to
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 OBJ
viously mental, but because their effect
on the body is Of everyday occurrence,
as commonplace as eating and drink
ing, the lesson they disclose is lost
upon the man who hastens to censure
Christian Science for achieving what
he styles the impossible, 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.
Jesus proved for all time and for all
Christendom that the origin of disease
was mental and he healed it with men- |
tai medicine. He gave himself no con-
Germ 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, at is not that when
goeth into a man which defleth 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 a worse thing come unto
thee" thus indicating the mental orr
gin of the disease. The sick were
standing, not by human will. Christ
ian Science, similarly relying wholly
upon divine Principle, has no relation
shin with will power, mental science,
mesmerism, auto-sugges-
ion thought transference, spiritual
SIN or any of the other cults or schools
which rely wholly or in part upon the
influence of one human mind or human
will upon another. These are essen
tally adverse to the teachings OF
christian Science, wherein the human
mind and the human will are made
Wholly subordinate and subservient to
he divine Mind, the will of God. Sue l.
ess in Christian Science is only at
aimed az fallible human mentality IS
Eliminated. This implies self-denial, =
he denial of the human sense of self, II
nd the affirmation of all good, and is a.
condition to which all must come
ooner or later. "As l live, saith the -
ord, every knee shall bow, and every .,
ongue shall confess to Cod" .,
In considering the immortality OF -;
ian one is confronted by the ques- -
ons, What of the hereafter? How M
m I to regard the change called T,
cath? What and where is heaven! ~
hristian Science makes direct answer .,
, these very natural questions. That III
hich is called death, though always N
1 enemy and finally to be overcome, N
, the Bible declares, is no more to be n,
AIRED than is sleep. In the present m
ate of our development both are in 70
dental to the experience of mankind; or
9TH interfere for the time with mans
tivities; and the awakening alike IN a,
9TH cases-will, we believe, show no he
bstantial change in individuality or
Iyancement. The gates of heaven 40 no