The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-02-03

PROSECUTING process, but explains di-
vine principle. I should no more
think OF urging person to believe In
Christian Science than I should think
OF asking him to believe in the null
duplication table. Neither one nor the
other Is in the realm of belief. We
are not giving the Christian Science
lectures for the purpose of asking
people to believe in 1t: we are giving
Christian Science lectures because we
want to help mankind and we want
to help mankind because we want to
help ourselves, and have realized that
the best way to help ourselves is to
help others. No human being can be
selfish and ever put off mortality. For
one to attain Immortality, which is
the natural heritage that God has pro-
vided for all, we shall have to be I'M
selfish. Jesus did not voice a mere
religious admonition but a scientiffc
necessity when he gave the rule,
Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thy
self He also said, Deny myself and
follow me-
God and Power One.
1t takes great deal Of instruction
to convince the average human being
that the word Cod does not mean
something remote or inaccessible.
Now We can think certain ideas which
reveal God. We have seen that here.
These ideas reveal power because
God and power are one. They are God
with us, and therefore power with us.
On the other hand, we can think of
our bodies, and as a matter Of fact we
think of them great deal too much.
so long as that Is our
tendency, 1t ought not to be difficult
for us to recognize that the true
thought OF what God is NAV affect
our bodies, since some kind Of thought
is doing Something to our. bodies all
the time. We walk because of mind;
and talk and think, and wink our eyes
because of mind, and do everything
else We are doing because of mind.
and we do absolutely nothing because
Of matter. for matter cannot think nor
talk nor walk by itself when thought
is absent
influence Of Thought.
To recognize the nature and ac-
ton of thought is educational. 10
arouse or awaken a human being to
the necessity for correct thinking and
the power to attain 1t as habit, is
the object OF all true religious anG'
philosophical endeavor. For this rea-
son 1t is universally recognized that
in order to produce good moral re-
suits it is necessary that moral teacn-
ing should be carried on, and In &C
cordance with this necessity people
are taught to guard themselves
against evil thoughts, whether aud-
IDLE or silent. Is there not the same
necessity to guard against the
thoughts of diseaseo What must then
be the conclusion as to the present
effort made through the press and
elsewhere to instii the belief Of dis
ease into children, and others, by
means of processes that are called
educational?
IF it were not obvious that such
efforts are basically wrong the results
of the last ten years prove them to
h.e 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 de-
cade and any one who has observed
carefully the influence of thought in
human history should have no diff
Guilty in perceiving that such results
would necessarily follow such
wrong system; for, if one is to learn
about disease and the constantly
shifting theories which characterize
medical science in orGer to guard him
self against disease, If one is to be
forced to build up in his own thought
images Of disease and germs and mic
robes and bacilli through the use OF
charts and experiments in the labora-
tory and other means in order to be
healthy, why would it not be as neces-
sary to familiarize the young, and
with all the vices and sins
that chara cterize 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 1t not equally
true that the incubation Of true
ideas as to the origin, cause and law
Of being tends to improve health, and
that contrary teaching tends to pro-
duce disease?
Advocates Of Hygiene.
notwithstanding the somewhat
common notion that Christian Scien-
lists oppose sanitation and hygiene,
the fact is that they are enthusiastic
believers in, and advocates Of botn.
cleanliness in everything
is rule among those who practise /
Christian Science. They require not
only personal cleanliness but clean air. |
clean food clean streets, clean water, |
clean clothing, clean houses, and that
everything be clean with which they !
may be associated Or surrounded. |
And when all this is done, Christian
Scientists are still unsatisfied, for
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