Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-09-27

about In some other way.
ITO 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 en-
deavor. For this reason it is univer-
sally recognized that in order to pro-
duce good moral results it is necessary
that moral teaching should be carried
on. and in accordance with this neces-
sity people are taught to guard them
selves against evil thoughts, whether
audible or silent Is there not the
same necessity to guard against the
thoughts of disease? What must then
be the conclusion as to the present eff
fort made through the press and else
where to instill the belief of disease
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 be
so. The advocates of such systems
themselves admit that the diseases
which such so-called education was
creased enormously in that decade
and any one who has observed care
fully the influence of thought III human
history should have no difficulty in
perceiving that such results would
necessarily follow such a wrong sys-
TEN; for, if one is to learn about dis
ease and the constantly shifting theo-
ries which characterize medical science
in order to guard himself against dis
ease, if one is to be forced to build up
in his own thought images of disease
and germs and microbes and bacilli
through the use of charts and expert
ments in the laboratory and other
means in order t. he healthy. why
would il not be as necessary to IA
miliarize the young and others with
all the vices and sins that characterize
depravity in order that they may
thereby gain in virtue and morality?
Notwithstanding the somewhat com
mon notion. that Christian Scientists
oppose sanitation and hygiene, the fact
is thai they are enthusiastic believers
in advocates of both. Scrupulous
clea ness in everything is rule
Sell Zee They require not only per
SOD q cleanliness. but clean air, clean
fa0, clean streets, clean water clean
c2thing, clean houses. and that every
sthing be clean with which they may be-
associated or surrounded. And when
Tall this is done. Christian Scientists are
still unsatis.ed. for Christian Science
shows that little has teen accom-
plished in the nature of true hygiene,
and very little that is worthy of the
name Of sanitation. until the human
mind itself is cleaned out and kept
clean.
Until Christian Science is under
stood in some measure at least, all
the functions of the human body are
carried on, not by a conscious knowl-
edge Of divine Principle. which knowl-
edge characterized the mind which
was also in Christ Jesus but by that
Congiomeration of human beliefs called
the human mind. Thousands of US may
entertain the same thought. but if that
thought were to originate in ones
brain it would he confined there. and
only one person could have such a
thought and the other person would
he obliged to have a different one. We
can see froEl this that even human ex-
perience shows the utter mpossibility
of combining the mind or intelligence
within the brain or body Yet so gem
eral is the belief that mind has its
source in brain cells that when the
brain of the human being is injured the
mind is apt to be affected unless some
thing greater than human belief or ma
terial systems interyeHes.
The human body never gets i'll be-
cause of any inherent capacity to do
So TO put it exactly as it is. the hui
man body does not know enough to
suffer. Deprived of mind it never suf-
fers. In Science and Health and her
other works. Mrs. Eddy has most clear
ly set forth the fact that it is the hui
man or mortal sense of things that
suffers. The mortal mind. so-called. is
the sufferer, and she has enabled thou
sands of people through her books to
prove that immortal mind heals The OBJ
lection made to this is often to the eff
feet that you cannot have thought with
out a thinker and this contention is based
upon the supposition that a person is
thinker by means of a mind which
he contains. Christian Science shows
that Mind is infinite and cannot he con-
tanned. The divine Mind is the primary
and only thinker When we learn to
think with that Mind which Mrs Eddy
in Science and Health declares to be
the only Mind of man, then what we
call our mind will be so purified and
regenerated as to manifest the omni-
potence Of good in healing the sick as
well as in saving the sinner
IF a human being uninstructed by
Christian Science should hear of Won
derful machine to which he could re-
sort at any time and have it work in
his behalf to remove his evil tenden-
cies and any of his diseases, he would
be lost in admiration at this extraordi-
nary invention and he would exclaim
What wonderful scientific discovery:
1t goes without saying that no such
machine has been discovered or will
be, for the simple reason that diseases
and sins are too deep seated to be
reached by any mechanical means
There was something. however. dis
covered in the year 1866 by a lone New
England woman whose thought was
clear enough to perceive facts far more
scientific than any which had been re-
vealed through the evidence of the
senses. and who was strong enough of
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