The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-06

a part of truth, it would be perpetuated mot destroyed; and such attempted eX- planation would be just what it al- ways has been in all previously prevail ing systems, calamity rather than a Ihelp to the human race.
 TRUE HEALING
 IS SPIRITUAL
 | That there must be, step by step scien- | tific discernment, understanding and de | votion before there can be absolute ir' | refutable proof hardly needs to be pointed 1 out. Material methods of healing, how ever strongly entrenched in opinion and | belief, are not scientific. They ignore l human consciousness or human mental l ity, or If they are forced to consider fl | they have no means with which either tc l meet or overcome it's difficulties. Such | systems are not truly educational. All | accurate observations pertaining to dis | ease tend to prove that 1t is necessary to probe more deeply for the root or cause | of human suffering than do those who | look for it solely in matter In order to understand anything of correct mental l healing we must remember that the hu- 1 man body possesses no sensation as mere l matter. Sensation is only present when ] human life is present. Now if one stop | to consider and remember that a human l being is not entirely material, but that l he is largely mental, the conclusion, if drawn correctly will be that all of his 1 experiences are at least partially men tal The more one views human life the more exclusively must one see that when disease appears it is a part of what one calls himself. and that this self is a conscious creature. The disease is there fore @ part of what is called the hu- man consciousness. On this account any propaganda tending to increase fear is not only a mistake, but is inhuman. One who is taught to fear disease is virtually taught to give power to dis ease. because disease has only the power which universal belief ascribes to it. and has no other law than universal human opinion to sustain it. Therefore any system which tends to increase the fear of disease lends equally to increase the hold of disease, not only upon the indi- vidual but upon the human race, which is the exact opposite of the ostensible object even of medical science.
 There should however, be no misun- derstanding of the attitude of Christian Scientists toward other systems of heal ing. Christian Science stands alone. It is not competing with other methods or systems of healing. While we have got beyond the use of medicine ourselves, we would not prevent others from employ ing any method of healing which ap-
 
 right for ourselves.
 SANITATION
 We are not opposed to physicians nor to their legitimate attempts to do good.
 We are not opposed to sanitation. We are only opposed to its present made quacy. We believe that it should not only mean perfect cleanliness of body and environment, but that it should ex- tend to the human mind and character, which should be thoroughly cleansed and kept clean. No one need to take my word for the efficacy of such a system. Any person or community can try it. Just as the tendency to sin can be weak ened and destroyed by refusing to en- certain degrading thoughts in exactly the same way the tendency to disease can be weakened and destroyed. Christian Sci ence not only explains all this. but gives one the power of Christ with which to ac- complish it.
 Within the realm of eternity there can- not be a single destructive element, therefore sin and disease, which are both destructive, cannot exist there. You may go on thinking along such lines fear lessly. for nothing but blessings can ever come from doing so. No suffering, sin or trouble can ever be found in the realm of God, the divine Mind. The Bible says: 'The Lord is in His holy temple. Let all the earth keep silence before Him. May not this holy temple be the realm of right thinking?
 FALSE MENTALITY REALM OF
 DISEASE AND FAITH IN
 MATTER
 To those who feel that nothing is be- ing done for them unless material rem edies are being used, Christian Science choUo thot ic doVo fcr when material remedies are being used. This becomes evident if one stops to consider the nature of material remedies and also the requirements for healing disease. To heal disease is a most in- telligent action. To suppose that non- intelligent thing can accomplish it is not only unreasonable, but foolish. People believe that they are helped by material remedies, when in fact the material rem edy does not possess any intelligence, and cannot heal or even mitigate dis ease, and that is true notwithstanding the fact that people who take material remedies or use them often experience relief, and not infrequently, if the diseas is not considered serious, recover under the use of material remedies They sup pose that the material remedy accom- plishes the result, but they could not sup pose such thing if they thought deeply about it. When disease is either miti- gated or the health of the patient inn proved under such systems it Is the faith in these remedies or in such sys- tems, a faith as universal as the race and as old as it's history. which accom- plishes the result All so-called material healing is faith healing on very low plane, whereas Christian Science is even higher than the highest faith healing. for it is not merely faith in God, but the knowledge of Him, which as evidence of both presence and power accomplishes the desired result.
 The conclusion that disease is error or false mentality is not weakened by observing that people sometimes have diseases which they never heard of. One only needs to remember that if one be- leves in disease and fears and expects it, he is mentally prepared for disease. and might therefore have any disease, whether he ever heard of it or not The whole trend of human education is to prepare us for trouble, yet none of that preparation provides against trouble. It starts wrong by giving power to evil, a human habit which is incontrovertibly wrong. Whenever true religion has con . stituted the only science and the only philosophy 1t has always declared Thou shalt have no other God before me-" From the standpoint of pure logic such religion is right, and the conclusions drawn by material views are wrong.
 The race needs to be educated in truth, not in error. In proportion that it is so educated it becomes a healthy race through mind. It can never become so through matter or through beliefs in ma tier.
 CHRIST TRUTH THE REDEEMER