Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-29

through the lenses of the spirit
lenses that are composed of truth, i
spiritual understanding, meekness,
humility, love, faith and purity-they
VIII then see q constantly improving
man and universe. AS this mental
transformation progresses, disease.
sin, sorrow, poverty and the limita-
tions OF old age will disappear and
the spiritual real man will begin to
appear. When this transformation
shall have been completed we shall
then see man and the universe as
wholly spiritual as they now appear
to God and as they have always ap-
peared TO God, for God has never seen
His children nor His creation through
mortal eyeglasses. He has always
seen us as spiritual. and hence to Him
we have always been perfect. In that
uay we snail know, as in fact we have
now learned. that nothing that God
made is material or ever needs to be
healed, and that the only thing that
needs to be healed is our own false
concept of that which He made per-
feet.
III all this were only a theory peo-
pie might be justified in refusing to
accept 1t, but Christian Science prac-
ttloners are proving daily in all parts
of the civilized world that by holding
the perfect man in concept, by know
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and is governed by an all-loving God
and by arguing steadfastly from the
standpoint of the reality of good in
stead of from the standpoint of the
supposed reality of evil the sick are
healed, and human conditions do inn
prove.
Christian Science. therefore, is
proving step by step that the declara-
ton made by Jesus Is true, and that in
proportion as the knowledge of the
truth fills human consciousness, driv
ing out error and false beliefs. men
and women come into the possession
here and now of their God-given do
minion.
Mental CausatiOn Explained
7 know how difficult thing it is
for people who are unacquainted
with the teachings of Christian Science
to understand what is meant by men
| tai causation. Humanity has been ac-
| customed through so many centuries
TO consider that all causation is vested
in matter, that when we begin to dis
cuss the subject of mental causation
we are dealing with something that is
unfamiliar to many. When l first
turned to Christian Science, I did so
for physical healing. and was healed
under circumstances that admitted of
no doubt that I had been healed. /,
| therefore, became deeply convinced
that Christian Science must be the
truth, because it had wrought in me
so great a change. When I was told,
however that there was no intelli-
gence or sensation in the human body,
said that the thing was so mani
testify absurd that no intelligent per-
son could believe 1t for q moment,
and in spite of the fact that l had
been healed through Christian Science,
came very near turning my back
/ NNTn . 1T. L.
| determined to make an honest ef-
fort to find out, II could. what Chris
| tian Science meant by the statement
| that there is no intelligence or SEN
sation in the mortal body.
l had not proceeded very far be-
fore / found that the statement was
true, and then l found that it was
necessarily true. and then I began to
wonder why I myself had not thought
of it long before, because it appeared
so perfectly plain and obvious. 1t
was pointed out to me that this body
which people worship and fear, and
which most people get down on their
knees before every day and say to ii,
"Oh, body, what can L do for you to-
day, to keep you from hurting me?"
is composed of something over roper
cent. of water. and that the balance
of it Is chalk, lime, starch, potash and
a few other things-that is matter,
just as truly as the ingredients of the
dirt and wood are matter.
then learned that there could be
Ino more intelligence or sensation in
matter when in the form of flesh,
bones and nerves than when in the
form of dirt or stone, which fact is
proved whenever an opiate is given
to a person and the human mind is
put to sleep. The body may then
be cut and gashed and the nerves
lacerated, without the slightest indi-
cation of intelligence or sensation.
I thus learned that sensation and
intelligence do not reside in the hu-
man body apart from the human
mind.
Some day all mankind will recog-
nize the immeasurable service that
Christian Science has performed for
the human race in making this fact
plain. For if it be true. and it is true.
that sensation and intelligence do not
reside in the human body, apart from
the human mind, then it follows, alb
solutely, that the human body cannot
do anything, feel anything, or have
anything, except that which the hu-
man mind first DEGREES, and that by
educating. instructing and controlling
the human mind with truth, we shall
thereby control the body with truth.
and the body will then be healthy and
harmonious.
Effect of Right Thinking
Just as certainly as the human body
has suffered from disease and discord,
and has gone down in wreckage in all
of the ages of the past, as the result
OF wrong mental government, Chris
tian Science is proving that in the
future the body will respond with
health and harmony, when it shall be
governed by that mind which was
also in Christ esus."
Regardless of what any one may
think or say to the contrary, Christian
Science has proved beyond all possi-
bility of successful contradiction, that
the human body is not self-acting. 1t
is not a self-acting machine. Since it
possesses neither intelligence nor sem
sation in nor of itself, it can act only
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 whatever to allow the
so-called mortal mind to dictate the
terms and conditions upon which he
may live, but upon the contrary, 1t is
the right and privilege OF every one
to be governed by the law of Spirit
instend Of the so-called laws of mat
ter. and that by telling the truth to
mortal mind, and thereby destroying
false belief to preserve his body in