The Delta independent., 1915-11-12

have a mental cause Christian Science
declares that all disease has mental
cause
Human emotions. such as fear. anger
worry hatred. etc.. are now said to pro-
duce poisonous conditions on or in the phys
| ical body. II this is may not many
cases OF chronic poisoning in the human
system be traceable to chronic disposition
to give way to the emotions? Is 1t not as
reasonable to admit this as to recognize the
| fact that acute fear Immediately manifests
| itself in blanched face? II one is obliged
to admit the mental cause of some kinds
+ of physical disease. why not agree with
| Christian Science that, primarily. all dis
ease is due to mental cause? This does
not mean that all disease is the result of
conscious fear of willful sin. Many
types of disease are effects of latent fear.
hereditary temperament. superstition. ignor-
ance or some of the generally accepted be-
liefs of the human mind which TO
operate as law. Suppose man to be sick
from one or more of these mental causes.
VIII drugs cure him? Is there any anti
toxin that will destroy hatred. or any
rum that will prevent fear? Nothing but
the knowledge that God is Love and that
man as the image of God is in reality
nothing less than the expression OF Love,
and therefore cannot and does not fear
or hate. will effect permanent cure in
such
FEAR OVERCOME
All that is real exists as the effect of an
intelligent cause divine Mind. One has
only to look at badly frightened person
to see that he manifests little in
telligence while under the sway OF fear.
Therefore. we may conclude that fear is
the manifestation of an intelligent caus~.
1t is plain that II one could be - uom
fear it would be greatly to his advantage.
Many ready to point out the wi effects
of fear. They are even quite ready to
urge their friends not to be afraic. Tut
they are not always able to tell .hem Why
they have need to fear.
Christian Scientists having disccrned the
fact that fear is not an attribrte cf God.
are beginning to understand why il is TO
part of man, who is in the likeness Of God.
They reason that God Is the only cause
and is good. Fear is not good
Therefore. it is not the effect OF
the one only cause and consequently is
without actual existence. There IS no fear
in the universe Of God and nothing in that
universe Of which could be afraid
There IS no good in fear. for fear hath
torment" hence there Is God in H. and
no truth in it. Christian Scientists do not.
however, claim to have demonstrated as yet
that they are entirely immune from fear
but they are much less fearful than form
erly. and consequently. much less subject
to disease and disaster.
HEREDITY NOT LAW
No more discouraging and distressing
thought confronts mankind than the belief
in hereditary Transmission of disease or of
certain evil tendencies and traits. When
the so-caIIed law of heredity seems to have
.t,A r.I-
atively good traits of mind and character
we are apt to rejoice that the individual
has derived these from his progenitors. But
when the inheritance is that of diseased
physique or evil mentality. there is regret
and despair in place of rejoicing.
II we are to admit that good tendencies
can be transmitted by heredity. we shall
also be Obliged to admit that evil Is like
wise transmissible. But Mrs. Eddy has
freed thousands from bondage to belief In
hereditary transmission by her teaching
that ''heredity is not law tScience and
Health. page 17s). Christian Science
teaches, as Jesus taught. that God is the
only Father of man, 1t shows that in his
true nature man is the offspring OF Spirit.
Mans origin being divine Mind and that
Mind being Infinitely good. man can have
no evil heritage. His heritage is the heritage
of good and good only. He is therefore not
suject to hereditary taint or contamination
Purity and perfection are mans divine
right and are derived from his heavenly
Father. Today in many instances Christian
Science is healing so-called hereditary dis
eases and congenital defects through the
understanding that there is no law of God
to sustain them and that. therefore. they
have right to exist
MAN-MADE LAWS NOT GOOD
ell lEafa
such. for example. those that claim to
control the effects of food. climate. conta-
gion and many other generally accepted be-
Iiefs are being proved not to be law. The
understanding that God is the only law
maker shows at once that so-called material
laws not being OF His ordalning have no
divine authority and no real power over
man. Take the question OF climatic infu-
ence: Christian Science teaches that 1t is
not the weather. but the belief about 1t, that
makes climate either injurious or otherwise.
Consequently 1t shows that only right think
ing will change wrong believing and free
one from fear OF climate or of Its sup
posed effects.
Mrs Eddy once treated q woman who
breathed with difficulty when the wind was
in the east. After treating her n few mo-
ments the breathing became natural. The
wind however, continued to blow directly
from the east. (See Science and Health.
d. 1s4D This proves that II was not the
direction OF the wind. but the belief about
It, that had made this woman's breathing
difficult before she was relieved by
Christian Science treatment. 1t ls evident
that such changes take place in conscious
ness and that the mental process which
substitutes the correct idea for the mistaken
belief and its supposed penalty, is not at
all affected by the state of the weather. This
tends to show that real atmosphere Is mental,
or spiritual. was indicated by Paul when