The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1915-02-26

think of urging person to believe il
Christian Science than | should thinl
of asking him to believe in the multi
plication table. Neither one nor the
other is in the realm of belief We
are not giving Christian Science lee
lures for the purpose of asking PEG
pie to believe in it; we are giving
Christian Science lectures because we
want to help mankind. and we want to
help mankind because we want tc
help ourselves, and have realized that
the best way to help ourselves is tC
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
provided for all, we shall have to be
unselfish. Jesus did not voice mere
religious admonition but a scientific
necessity when he gave the rule
Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thy
self" He also said, Deny thyself
and follow me-"
God and Power One.
1t takes great deal of instruction
to convince the average human being
that the word God" 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 a great deal too
much. Nevertheless, so long as that
is our tendency, it ought not to be
difficult for us to recognize that the
true thought of what God is may eff,
feet 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 ewes, 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 action
of thought is educational To arouse
or awaken a human being to the neces-
sity for correct thinking and the
power to attain it as habit, is the
object of all true religious and
philosophical endeavor. For this rea-
son it is universally recognized that
in order to produce good moral re.
suits it is necessary that moral teach
ing should be carried on, and in ac
cordance with this necessity people
are taught to guard themselves against
evil thoughts, whether audible or
silent Is there not the same neces
sity to guard against the thoughts of
disease? What must then be the con-
clusion as to the present effort made
through the press and elsewhere to
instil the belief of disease into child
rem, and others, by means of processes
that are called educational?
If it were not obvious that such eff
forts are basically wrong the results
of the last ten years prove them to be
so. The advocates of such systems
themselves admit that the diseases
which such sOcalled education was
aimed to mitigate or destroy, have in
creased enormously in that decade,
and any one who has observed care
fully the influence of thought in hui
man history should have no difficulty
in perceiving that such results would
necessarily follow such wrong sys-
TEN: for, if one is to learn about dis
ease and the constantly shifting
theories Wnlcn tndTdcleflZp lHtultdl
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 baclli 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
familarize the young, and others, with
all the vices and sins that characterize
depravity, in order the they may there
by gain in virtue and morality?
If it be true, as experience has prov
ed beyond any doubt, that moral edu-
cation and high ideals tend to improve
character, why is it not equally true
that the incubation of true ideas as
to the origin, cause and law Of Being
tends to improve health, and that con
trary teaching tends to produce dis
ease?
Notwithstanding the somewhat com
mon notion that Christian Scientists
oppose sanitation and hygiene, the
fact is that they are enthusiastic be-
levers in. and advocates of both.
Scrupulous cleanliness in everything
is rule among those who practise