Norwich bulletin., 1914-10-05

! very material Business and pleasure
 occupied my entire attention. was
 not accustomed to seeking my hcIp
 through prayer, therefore l eould see
 no probability of regenerating sueh @ mind. One evening, while thus con
 templating the seriousness or my s BLU
 ation, I opened the Bible and VeISes
 five and six of the third chapter oI Proverbs came to my notice, "Trust l.i the Lord with all thine heart' ana lean not unto thine own underStanu- ing. In all thy ways acknowledge hliii' and he shall direct thy paths.
 l I pondered over these declaratiohs long and earnestly, and finally con cluded to do as they directed, that ls' | acknowledge God in all my ways. Ihus; whenever l rode or walked, l declaresp d st | God as the power which permitted IL. I affirmed His wisdom in every trans | action, and accredited every supply 70 | Him with gratitude. l did not go to sleep without acknowledging Him lo | be the giver of all rest and peace; ana | so, whatever I did, wherever I went, l had God in my thought continually.
 To my surprise, in a comparatively | short time I found this kind Of think l ing quite natural desirable and ex- | tremely satisfying. I found myself | rejecting sin, I was learning to think Ill | a spiritual way, and yet such thinklnS | was practical. I had evidence or tn-S from a better state of heaIth, ana gooo
  l unceasing inclination to help others, | to forgive my enemies, and to be more | kind, just, true and honest nau a | great wish to pray and to heal the l sick-all things which I had never known before. I am thankful to say | that I have made progress from the very hour when I first determined to l have God with me in all my thoughts. | Many of my acquaintances have had, | and are having, similar experiences, for | nI1lU i ing believed, but the faculty of self 1 proof as well.
 | Health the Result of Good Thinking.
 If you were the only person in the world and you had been thinking good l and evil as the world generally does, | and then you should conclude to dis continue this way end decide to think | exactly as the Commandments ana l the Sermon on the Mount direct, and | you should carry this out to the very letter, that is. think and do only that which is good, pure and upright, then | where would evil be2 Evil has no principle, law or government to up- hold it. It is only what you permit It to be, in your thought. ,fiate, jealousy, anger and revenge are devils and they are our worst enemies to health and happiness.
 Good thoughts, such as the chi1dlike trust in God, kindness, love, gentle ness, purity, honesty, uprightness, re-
 
 the body, while their opposites-trust in material help, hate, jealousy, dis honesty, immortality etc, express dis cord and sickness in the body.
 Medical Authorities Recognize Mental
 Causation of Disease.
 The Chicago Record-Herald of March %, 1914, contains a very interesting article relative to the experiments and | observations of Dr. George Grille, the eminent surgeon of the Lakeside hos
 pital in Cleveland, O., as to the effect of fear, anger, and malice upon the
 human system of the individual who
 indulges in them. After elaborate ex-
 periments with rabbits and dogs, and
 extensive observation of acquaint- ances, friends and patients, he an nounces that under disturbed mental
 conditions the normal bodily secretions
 become poisonous, and are thrown into | the blood in excessive quantities by the
 excited organs subjected to abnormal l emotional strain.
 Another and similar statement comes | through The Associated Press from a | specialist in the medical department of | the Johns Hopkins university, saving l that appendicitis and certain serious | diseases of the stomach had, in his | judgment, a purely mental origin. He l advised, before any other treatment was attempted, that inquiry be made into the condition of the patients s
 
 ous system arising from business UT domestic worries, apprehension or fear l The cause once fairly located, 1t, was | easy, in his opinion, to deal with the effect. Mental disturbances being | abated, all the ugly physical symptoms would disappear.
 l All this Mrs. Eddy brought to light l almost a half century ago, and 1t Will l eventually be found that not only the l diseases enumerated by these distin- l nh | evil mental conditions, but that all diseases have their origin in abnormal | thinking.
 During the IA years of my study and | investigation of Christian Science l have seen nearly every kind of chron- | ic and acute disease healed by tfe | power of divine mind, after medical | practitioners had given up all hope. | Among them were cases Of insanity, | acute pneumonia, albuminaria, cancer, | tumor. acute appendicitis, gall stones, | chronic constipation, neuritis and many others. A number of these headings | were among my own relatives. what | I know of Christian Science, and what have seen it accomplish, have given me the positive and absolute convic- | ton that every disease known to hu- | manity can be healed by the under standing and practice of Gods law, as | set forth in Christian Science. Much is said in these days about | hardening of the arteires, and high | blood pressure. They, too, are the re- suit of disturbed mental conditions. Commercial Panics the Result of Fear.
 What is true of the human body is also true of the body politic- A panic produc es a rigid state in the arteries | of trade, in the manufacturing comA | mercial centers, so that nothing seems to move without extreme pressure. The l dictionaries define panic as "extreme or l sudden cauSeless, unreasonable fright l To cure such a condition, confidence | must be restored. 1t was the great cry during the panic of 1907 that every | thing would be righted if only the fear | of the people would relax.
 | If all people were Christian Scientists l there would be no more panics because | they have confidence in the protecting | and sustaining care of their heavenly Father, and thus lose the sense of anx- | iety in regard to their supply. They believe in the verity of the statement of our Master, Seek ye first the king | dom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto | you."
 | IdoIatry Widespread. Breaking the law of the First Com | rflandment, having other gods, indulg- l ing in idolatry, is the greatest of all | evils and vet nearly every one is more