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intelligent Interpretation pf experience, o
physical phenomena, and of the nature of TIL
human consciousness. Many of the points 70
which Mrs. Eddy. has contended are today find
ing corroboration as result of advance il
physical science and in psychology
We are now ready to concede the possibilit,
of Christian healing, that which is effected
Mind. Those who still have some lingering
doubt of this possibility should bear in mine
that many physicians are now admitting thu
mental causation of disease, the effect of thu
| emotions upon the secretions and upon func
tional and organic activity having been abund
| antly proved.
1t is further evident that the mind or in
telllgence which is the source of al RICH
ideas, is the intelligence and power which ma,
logically be looked to as remedy for al
wrong ideas conditions of human expert
ence. The antural healing power must b'
the Mind intelligence which is the under
Truth alone corrects error hence the dis
cord disease which results from falst
sense, can be put away, or healed only through
Truth Many who believe in God as ths
Greater illigocal to believe that al
though He knew enough TO make all things
He does not know enough to correct our false
sense of what He has made. fffHfhf1
BODY is MENTAL
! naving seen that all the phenomena of ma
ture mental the projection of imperfect
human sense. and that disease is mental and
must be healed mentally, it is essential fol-
! us to see clearly that body is mental
! We have seen that matter is a mental phen
omenon, a state of human consciousness, hence
we logically conclude that the so-called ma
terial body is. mental 1T is. evident that this
body is not the man, since he is not lessened
though he lose a limb. Mans real selfhood
or individuality is in consciousness, and this
is obviously mental
The appearance as well as the acts of man
express his individuality and partake of the
nature and quality of his consciousness. The
Scriptures say of a mortal AS he thinketh
in his heart, so is he But man does not live
in body can he be controlled by it any
more than mathematical truth lives in figures
or is controlled by them. The body of man
is but an outward sign or means of human
identification, and to encourage us to think OF
our existence apart from the material body,
St. Paul tells that it is better ito be absent
from the body, and to be present with the
Lord"
Let us remember, therefore, that discordant
conditions of the body in fact due to dis
cordant conditions of imperfect human sense,
sense which is not always expressed as con-
scious thought but which is part of the men
tality that creates and governs things of which
we are not conscious. For example, we
are not conscious of the circulation of the
blood nor of the assimilation of food of
the growth of tissues, yet these processes are
all the manifestations of mentality, and would
instantly mentality removed.
wrong thought. fear may cause a disturbance
in organic or functional action and then we be-
come conscious of some inharmony In other
Words as a man is Individual consciousness,
and as the body is an GENERALIZATION of con-
seriousness, of which discordant conditions are
but state healing result only as change
or transformation of this consciousness is
brought about, and this must evidently be ac-
complished mentally, through some action of
thought, since only in this way the quality
of consciousness be changed the morhc cond-
tons and their be eliminated and a
normal harmonious state be established.
CONVINCING EUTDENCE
There is an old saying that; The proof. Of
the pudding is in the eating" When first
heard of Christian Science and began its in
vestigation it seemed to me necessary to de-
termine whether the claims regarding its heal
ing were true | therefore made very care.
full investigation of a number of cases of
healing, followed up cases of abdominal tumor.
of cancer, of consumption III the last stages, of
shortened limb, of disocated hip, and others,
and I found in each that the physicians
diagnosis had been correct; that the patients
were now well and that no healing remedy
had been used except this Science. | found
to my entire satisfaction that Christian Science
heals. How the healing was done was still
a mystery but I was at least convinced of the
fact.
Especially was 7 convinced when I found
that Icoud obtain these results through my
own efforts. the only limitation of ability be-
ing my .egree of understanding, as is the case
in every science or art.
The fact that few people do not
to be healed through Christian Science treat
ment is no more to the discredit of Christian
Science than is a body's failure to solve
les. Both failures are explained the same
way. 1t us said that Jesus 'did not many
mighty works in his home city because of
their unbeief.' n
When John the Baptist sent two of his
disciples to determine whether Christ Jesus
was the Messiah. Jesus according to Lpke's
statement, having cured many of their in
hrmites and plaques. and of evil spirits, and
S1oht that blind
ed them, saying:
Go your way, and. tell John what THINGS
ye have seen and heard; how that the blind
see, the lame walk. the lepers ceansed,
The deaf hear, the dead raised, and to the
poor the gospel is prachd. And blssed is he,
whosoever shall not be offended in me-
The fact that Christian Science heals can
readily be determined by any sincere inves-
gator, and the supporting evidence reveals its
coincidence with spiritual healing, thus prov
ng this. healing to be true and possible to-
Law and establishing the fact that Christian |
Science is Messianic.
THE PHILOSOPHY OF CHRISTIAN
SCIENCE HEALING
We are i'll position to examine into |
he method by which Christian healing is sci
demonstrated.
According to the Scriptural accounts, the
lealing wrought by the Master and his. dis
1pies, was accomplished through mental OF
elton of thought Christian Science healing
S brought about in the way. In both, the
ealing Principle and law are mental, and we
re thus led to examine into the nature of Mind
nd mind action.
Christian Science teaches that Mind is that
,hich thinks, that Which expresses itself in
1eas, intelligence, consciousness Thus it is
he basis of all manifestation, the Principle and
Intelligence of the universe 1t discloses that
find is infinite, and that Mind and its ideas
onstitute all being. Mind. is that which man
tests and that which is manifested. Thus it
Turth or actuality, and there can be no
lace where Truth is not. Inhnity means
.ithout limitation or boundary. without be-
inning, end, without quantitatve dimen-
ons 1t means omnipresence, the everywhere
resent. 1t means omniscience, the all-know-
lg consciousness 1t means omnipotence, the
mighty power. The infinite Mind is Spirit,
lie substance and essence of real being; it is
oul, the identity and individuality of all I
ght ideas; it is Life, the creating and sus-
lining Principle of all activity; it is Truth, (
lie actually of being; it is Love the substance z
all goodness and harmony. This infinite, {
osolute, perfect, indestructible, omnipresent,
nnipotent being is the incorporeal Father t
[other God the divine "Us' of the Scriptures +
hose true nature is revealed through Chris f
an Science. II
This divine actually is the scientific basis \
which all Christian healing is demonstrated, c
C divine Principle whose unlimited power lis, r
ized in the overcoming of sin and sick r
,ss. Ii
1t follows automatically that perfect Prin- o
pie is manifested in perfect IDEAS hence !, a
an and the universe, the. representation and Z