The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-11-16

habits by destroying the harmful causes that form them. Back of every wrong habit is a wrong desire, and Christian science heals the wrong habit by destroying the wrong desire The hard drinker may assure you that he does not like the taste of liquor, but he longs for it's effects, and that longing, that desire, is what enslaves him. You may break his bottle into a thousand pieces and spill every drop of the envenomed stuff into the gutter, but that does. not break the desire Christian Science does not break the bottle the man himself is to do that, but it breaks the desire for the bottle, and this true reformation.
 What is It That Heals
 When the man who is healed in Christian Science realizes that he has ! restored to him the blessings of health and happiness, usefulness and ability those valued things that were so sorely threatened, he is almost ov-
 erwhelmed by a surge of emotions. 1 Amusement, curiosity, and desire i to understand are uppermost. What i has done this wonderful thing, and how can I get hold of it?' are the 1 insistent questions he propounds: ''I want this marvellous power to help others; I know so many people that
 need it badly and I want to carry it
 to them at once,'' he earnestly de-. l elares.
 This zeal is natural and commenda-
 b1e, but, unless it is tempered with
 wisdom, it may be har1nfud2 rather Khan- helpful. To talk Christian Sci ! ence enthusiastically and indiscrinn- i inately without having lived it per | sistentIy.- is to invite opposition where l we had hoped for acceptance. It pro | duces prejudice instead of support, in credulity instead of belief.
 Much needless antagonisrn to Chris
 tian Science has arisen from theN in
 discreet and incorporate assertions by 1 those exhuberant ones whose healing l}had seemed to them such a wonder | full thing that they could not compre- | hend how any one could regard it ! differently, and hence they have talk 1 ed Christian Science. to almost any l one willing to stand still. We must learn to choose our hearers we'll
 as our words.
 Answering, then, the eager ques-
 ton that is uppermost in the mind of | the man who is turning to Christian Science, What is it. that does the | healing?" let us say to him that 1t 1 is the power divine Mind practically
 applied to beliefs about the human
 body and to the affairs of men. Let 1 us assure him, too, that it is the in i f1uence of divine Love operating in l human consciousness. Does this sat | Isfy him? Does he quickly grasp the l 1eep sigEificance of. the words "di- l vine Mind? 2" Does he comprehend,
 even in a degree. the nature of God's 1 love, Not very often.
 l Let us see what can be done to- I wards aiding the beginner to a bet
 ter understanding of the healing pow J CT of divine Mind. Let us begin by
 saying a, little to him about. the hu
 man. mind, an entirely different thilas l i
 Minds Control of Body
 | All intelligent persons agree that a
 man, s mind influences his body to 8 I greater or less degree. they only diff i fer about how far this mental inf1uz
 ence extends. All agree that exces-
 sive, worryS fear, anger, and other
 mental extremes, are familiar causes i of physical disorders. All will admit, for example, that a man may worry
 himself sick that excessive fear. may
 produce weakfess, and that a violent i outburst of anger may cause physical I collapse. But how far other forms | of bodily Arrangements, are to be at tributed to mental causes, auth critics 1 do not agree. Just where the vague
 line should be drawn which the doc l tors say. exists between mental and | material causation is a matter of dis
 pute among the doctors themselves. l One school of medicine maintains
 eases are mentally produced, while another more progressive admits that l certain forms of elementary organic I disorders may have a mental origin.
 Here Christian Science enters the
 arena and boldly declares that the ] human mind is to be held account able for every discordant. condition of
 the body ;ot only in cases where it's 1 action is direct and apparent, as in those just named, but where its op-
 erations are remote and obscure and
 are only discernible by those train I ed in the study of mental fcausation.
 Then arises a throng of questions
 by the beginner, typical ones being:
 How about the sickness of an in 7! fant, whose mind -undeve1oped; ;'' or. How can a mans mind be the 1 cause of his pain when he has swal-
 lowed something in his food that he did not know was harfnfuI2'' It is
 not the mind of any one individual
 that causes the mischief, but the
 minds of all morta1s- mortaI mind,
 in other words. It is this mortal
 mind which has decreed that certain | physical effects will follow certai& I causes is this mortal mind that has laid down many of these troubl making laws about the physical body 1 and fhe material world where it I claims to have complete control It
 holds its subjects in a grip of iron, l and sickness, pain, distress, sorrow
 and misery are the results It is
 a dictator a tyrant. a despot, and the human body is its obedient, ser
 want
 A Yet it may be stripped of all it's as
 sumed power and aggressiveness, and
 be reduced to nothtngness
 F Christian Science is revealing that I the human mind, this "carnaI mfnd''
 as Paul calls it, is rendered absolutely
 poWerless to do evil when it is con
 fronted by the divine Mind-God Him l self;~that it's so-calIed laws of health
 and sickness are annulled and obli-
 terated when confronted by the laws l of God, and that this mortal mind
 may be controlled, directed, infIuenc-
 ed, and ultimately destroyed by inn
 mortal Mind, which, in the language