The Monticellonian., 1915-11-11
DISEASE MENTAL


 Jesus healed physical disease on the basis that the Truth makes free. Four thousand years of medicine has en- deayored to force the conclusion that disease is purely physical, and that it requires physical remedy. The result is that diseases have actually multiplied. Jesus proved that sick ness, disease and fear are the errors and not the truths of being, and they can be healed by mental process. Their basis being wholly material, and matter being mortal error, the truth of God dispels those errors just as light dis pels darkness just as the understanding that two and two are four dispels any denial of that fact. And when one un- derstands that truth, he does not have to sit up at night to be certain of it in the morning. Jesus so understood the nature of God as Truth, that he could make 1t just as consciously apparent to the man with the withered hand. and that diseased condition was wiped out by that process just as effeetually as one could take sponge and wipe out the wrong figures on the blackboard
 It is generally recognized that cer- tain nervous disorders are mental; for though the person may be sick almost to distraction, examination may dis close no diseased organ, tissue or nerve. He may have apparent physi- cal ailments, such as that trinity of disorders known as dyspepsia, heart palpitation, and insomnia: but an ex animation discloses no organic disease. | The patients troubles are actually unreal, in the sense that they have no physical cause. But to the patient they are decidedly real, in the sense that he feels them constantly, and can not free himself from them.
 Though a patient may be perfectly sane while suffering from some ner- vous ailment, his belief must be chang ed before he can experience his heal. 1 ing. That is never brought about by imagining himself well. Such primitive emotions as fear and anger, which are common to men and beasts, are said to produce depressing and poisonous con. ditions. The thought of guilt is said to be even more deleterious. Anger may cause person to become flushed or pallied in the face, indicating the l m a of 10 1lat n deed it may stop ones digestion alto gether, showing how ones thought has equal control over the digestive sys- tenn. A severe examination may effect students with retarded digestion due to their fear. With the proof that funct- ional disorders are mental in their cause, due to erroneous thinking, in- vestigating has continued until medi- cal experiments have proved that diabetes is entirely the result of fear or emotion. In fact it is more generally conceded today that consumption may be just consuming fear. That may be the reason why no drug or medicine ever healed them. The Christian Science textbook says: "The procur- ing cause and foundation of all sickness is fear, ignorance, or sin" It teaches, i'll other words, that all sickness is un- real in the sense that it has no physical cause.
 So long as one believes his malady is physical, he naturally feels helpless But when he knows it is the result of erroneous thought, then he is encour- aged in the conscious ability to change that thinking by the presence and power of Gods truth. Some fears seem more real than others. They,seem more real when tissue Reorganization is apparent. But when examination discloses no diseased organ or nerve, those fears are regarded as intangible and superstitious. The fear from sup erstiton is called a delusion, and is said to be unreal. The patient is said to be deceived by unreality. In either case we must know how to prove to the patient the unreality of his fear, just as Jesus did when he said, "Peace be still" and the storm abated.
 Physicians have observed that the de- pressing and poisonious effects of fear, anger, hatred, jealousy and so forth are relieved by the wholesome effects of faith, hope, eheerfulness and loving kindness which promote health. How then shall they be administered to the patient? The method taught by the schools is by suggestion, human will, and human reason, which are as material as the disease. They may be employed just as well by a wicked man, by an lntidel or pagan,-one who knows nothing about the truth o f God. The Christian Scientists, on the other hand, employ only the spiritual Mind which transcends brain or matter That Mind is never transmitted through suggestions; because it is every where present, and its government prevails wherever it is most needed by the patient. We simply have to un- derstand the everpresenee and activity of that truth for the patient, and the truth makes free. The scripture says that Fear hath torment" but "per. feet love casteth out fear" There is no remedy known to the human con