Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1914-11-19


suits of the last 10 years prove them
TO be so. The advocates of such sys-
tens themselves admit that the dis
eases which such so-called education
was aimed to mitigate or destroy,
have increased enormously in that
decade, and anyone who has observ-
ed carefully the influence of thought (
In human history should have no Diff
fculty in perceiving that such results
would necessarily follow such a
wrlAg system; for. If one Is to learn
about disease and the constantly
shifting theories which characterize
medical science in order to guard
himself against disease, If one Is TO
be forced to build up in his own
thought images of disease and germs
and microbes and bacilli through the
use of charts and experiments in the
laboratory and other means in order
to be healthy, why would it not be
as necessary to familiarize the young,
and others, with all the vices and
sins that characterize depravity, in
order that they may thereby gain in
virtue and morality?
If it be true, as experience has
proved beyond any doubt, that moral
education and high ideals tend to i'm
prove character, why is it not equal
~ true that the inculcation of true
: ideas as to the origin. cause and law
of Being tends to improve health,
and that contrary teaching tends to
} produce disease?
= Notwithstanding the somewhat
, common notion that Christian Sci
!, entists oppose sanitation and hygiene
n the fact is that they are enthusiastic
!. believers in, and advocates OF both
!. Scrupulous cleanliness in everything
n Is rule among those who practice
J. Christian Science. They require moi
d only personal cleanliness but clear
|, air. clean food clean streets, clear
= water. clean clothing, clean houses
It and that everything be clean Will
d which they may be associated or sur
It rounded. And when all this is done
n Christian Scientists are still unsatis
lie fed. for Christian Science shows tina
t, little has been accomplished in tn
l. nature of true hygiene, and very i'll
N tie that Is worthy the name of san
f. tation. until the human mind itsel
is is cleaned out and kept clean.
Jesus stated this fact more stront
" than anyone else could. and Chri
On tian Science practise has proved col
~ clusively that to the extent that II
an human mind is emptied OF fear, ma
lie. ice. envy, hatred. revenge, evil thin
as ing. evil speaking. and all the belle
en- of vice and sin and disease, Just
or that extent is a true sanitary syste
,e. being established. And furthermol
re Christian Science has proved in
mr. Vulnerable instances that when su
we system of hygiene. purely ment
III. is established, all of the worlds I
,ur gienic requirements are more Tn
nit fulfilled, and just in that proporul
ne also is the law OF health unmists
ect ably and permanently establish
ght both individually and collectively
all Until Christian Science is und
I'd. stood in some measure at least,
,ur the functions of the human body
.ry- carried on, not by conscious kh'
of ledge OF divine Principle. VII
ing is the knowledge that character
not the mind which was also in Ch
self lJesus." but by that conglomerat
of human beliefs called the hun
: TO mind. Thousands Of us may en-
hat tain the same thought but II
in thought were to originate in o.
nse- brain it would be confined there,
gat- only one person could have sue
and thought, and the other person VIC
such be obliged to have different
In We can see from this that even
have man experience shows the utter
,cat- possibility of combining the min'
vet intelligence within the brain or b
r re- Yet so general is the belief that T
/, or has its source in brain cells that v
the the brain of the human being Ii
cam iured the mind is apt to be af1e
n In unless something greater than
n us man belief or material systems i
word venes.
their The human body never gets II
NJ an cause of any inherent capacity
intel so. To put it exactly as it is, tn
# an man body does not know enoui
h for suffer. Deprived of mind 1t
NOS suffers. In Science and Health
o hest her other works. Mrs. Eddy has
.ouire clearly set forth the fact that 1t
,tel,i- human or mortal sense of thing:
no in suffers. The mortal mind, soc
40 re- is the sufferer, and she has en-
,icb is thousands of people through
books to prove that immortal
heals. The objection made to
action often to the effect that you c
rouse have thought without thinke
no no this contention is based upon tn
, -. nosition that a person is q thlnl