The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-13
FEAR, ANGER, WORRY
Produce Poison in Body-Not Cured
by Drugs.

In lecture at the high school audi
torium Sunday, George Shaw Cook.
c. S. B., member of the board of lee
tureship of the First Church of Christ,
Scientist, Boston, Mass. said there
were certain bodily ills, or manifesto
tons of the maladies of the flesh that
are not durable by medicines.
He said in part:
Human emotions. such fear,
anger, worry, hatred, etc, are now
said to produce poisonous conditions
on or in the physical body. If this is
so may not many cases of chronic
poisoning in the human system be
traceable to a chronic disposition to
give way to the emotions? Is it not
as reasonable to admit this to
recognize the fact that acute fear i'm
mediately manifest itself in a blanch-
ed face? If one is obliged to admit
the mental cause of some kinds of
| physical disease, why not agree with
| Christian Science that, primarily, all
/ disease is due to a mental cause? This
does not mean that all disease is the
result of conscious fear or of willful
sin.
MANY types of disease are effects
of latent fear, hereditary tempera-
ment, superstition, ignorance, or some
/ of the generally accepted beliefs of the
human mind which seem to operate
as law. Suppose man to be SICK
/
causes. Will drugs cure him? Is
there any antitoxin that will destroy
hatred, or any serum that will proven
fear? Nothing but the knowledge that
God is Love and that man as the i'm
age of God is in reality nothing less
| than the expression of Love, and
therefore cannot and does not fear or
hate, will effect permanent cure in
such a case.
''All that is real exists as the effect
{ ixrin
One has only to look at badly fright
ened person to see that he manifests
little or no intelligence while under
the sway of fear. Therefore, we may
conclude that fear is not the manifes-
tation of an Intelligent cause 1t is
plain that if one could be free from
fear it would be greatly to his adj
vantage. Many are ready to point out
the evil effects of fear. They are even
quite ready to urge their friends not
to be afraid, but they are not always
able to tell them why they have no
need to fear.
Christian Scientists having dis
cerned the fact that fear is not an at
tribute of God, are beginning to I'M
derstand why it is no part of man,
who is in the likeness of God. They
reason that God is the only cause and
is good. Fear is not good. Therefore,
it is not the effect of the one only
cause and consequently is without &C
universe of God and nothing in that
universe of which man could be
afraid. There is no good in fear, for
fear hath torment hence there is
no God in it, and no truth in it. Chris
| tan Scientists do not, however, claim
to have demonstrated as yet that they
are entirely immune from fear; but
they are much less fearful than for
merly, and consequently, much less
subject to disease and disaster.
[ d.
. herents to pray without ceasing,' and
constantly to seek a higher and better
understanding of the true nature of
God, and of man as His likeness
Furthermore, it requires the demon
stration of this understanding in right
thinking and right living. Such
! thinking results in the lessening of
sin and disease.
Those who are familiar with the
true nature of Christian Science know
that it is quite unlike every form of
mesmerism. 1t even differs from what
is ordinarily referred to as faith
cure
Christian Scientist is based upon his
spiritual diecernment of the fact that
there is but one Mind. The mes
merists endeavors are based upon the
belief that there are minds many and
that one of these many minds can in
fluence another for good or evil.
& Herein lies the danger of mesmer-
ism or mental suggestion; whereas
4 the safety of Christian Science prac-
tice consists in it's entire dependence
4 upon the power of one infinite Mind.
! the effect of which can be only good.
Mrs. Eddy has been declared by the
4 governor of her native state to have
been New Hampshire's greatest wom-
4 an, and truly she may be so regarded
4 by reason of her achievements. But
of all her wonderful works, that for
& which Christian Scientists revere and
i love her most is her discovery, and
4 declaration, and demonstration of the
& life-giving truth that God is good.
4 Therefore they say to you, 'Acquaint
now myself with him, and be at
i peace Dob xxi 21).
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