The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1916-10-21

: nOuSD 10 the ODedlence OF CHRIST,
III. Cor. 10:5) as the Bible CON
mands. 1t shows that the cause of a.
: disease and sin is mental, and nc
r physical. and that both sickness an
r sin are destroyed by the evangelical
. ton of the human mentality wit
truth and love. 1t teaches without a.,
= reservation whatever that the trutI
: taught and ~practiced by Jesus, whel
{ understood and applied, is sufficien
: without drugs or any material means
10 heal the sick and ~regenerato thu
: sinner, and Christian Scientists every
where are engaged daily in demon
strating and proving this to be true.
Every student of religion should be
gin to give heed to what the Bible
teaches concerning the Importance o
looking to the mental rather than e
the physical for deliverance from hui
man discord. I'VE read in Romans
iii. 6, 7, ITO be carnally minded is
death; but to be spiritually minded
is life and peace. Because the carnal
mind is enmity against God; for it is
not subject to the law of God, Meth
er, indeed, a be-" Again in Phil
ippians ii. 5 it is said, LET the mind
be in you which was also in Christ
Jesus" and in Romans xii. 2, BE we
transformed by the renewing of your
mind"
These significant statements from
the Scriptures leave no room for
doubt as to the cause of sin, disease,
and death, or their cure. The carnal
mind is nothing more nor less than
the unregenerated human mind. 1t is
the human mind in its natural state,
when filled with hatred, ~selfishness,
deceit, dishonesty, and other evil
qualities, and with superstition and
false beliefs. These evil and erron-
eous mental qualities result in sin,
disease, and death, and in all human
discord.
The command is to get rid of erro-
neous mental qualities, and to have in
us "the mind which was also in Christ
Jesus" for in his mind there was not
a single sinful quality, nor any super
stition or false religious belief. Thus
the human mind is renewed by the de-
struction of and sinful men
tai qualities, and the substitution in
their place of qualities that inhere in
the mind Of the Master. |
AS this renewing process goes on,
sickness, suffering, and discordant
conditions begin to disappear, and
when it is finished, and every mortal
thought has been brought into sub
lection to Christ, then man will be
transformed from a SHINING, suffer-
ing mortal into a state of peace and
harmony. The carnal mind with it's
sin and superstition produces the
conditions that lead to death, while to
spiritually minded, that is to have
the mind that was in Christ Jesus, sis
life and peace" Christian Science
that this is the precise pro-
cess by which human beings are
saved from sickness and sin.
1t will thus be seen that Christian
healing in every case is spirit
Ial. and results from the operation of
truth or divine Principle in human l
consciousness, and not from the ac- |
ion of one human mind upon another, I
Tor from human will, nor from hyp- |
nor from mental suggestion. {
To summarize the matter in a single /
.sentence, it can be said that Christian q
healing is accomplished I
through the activity Of right thinking /
nd right living and in no other way t
an one demonstrate the Principle e
hat heals. d
IOnest Skepticism About Healing by il
Spiritual Means
Although the healing of physical and t
rental diseases by spiritual means v
yas widely practiced, both in Old C
testament and New Testament times, a
was expressly commanded by n
esus, and, although Christian Science e
uring the last so years has actually il
called in this way large numbers of Is
from all kinds of physical and "
diseases, there are still a great s.
people who honestly find it diff it
to understand how it is posi-
e for the sick to be healed without q
rugs, and entirely by spiritual means. II
ven among those who profess to be- e.
eve in the Bible and inthe OmnipOt- m
of God, there are many who have T.
)nest doubts that the power of God az
sufficient or available to- believer p
sickness, and these doubts often pt
event the effort to gain an under dc
of the way by which spirit NJ
IL healing is accomplished.
To all such it can be said that XII
healed the sick without drugs, II
i'd, what is more important to us, OF
taught other people how to do so, SD
us proving that his method of heal tn
6 physical disease by spiritual sa
could be taught to others, and nj
Iderstood and practiced by them. hi
Moses and the prophets also healed by
e sick and raised the dead and did
any other wonderful works in dem III
stration of the power of spirit to &c
eet human needs, and the Old Tesla 10
mt is filled with such instances. no
1t will thus be seen that the knowl- isl
ge of spiritual truth, and the method ST.
its application to deliver people an
IN sickness, sin, and every kind of lo1
human condition has r%eappeared an
on the earth at many times, and :
is claimed for Christian Science sis
It it is the temperance in Jul own sin
leration of the understanding of the hu.
spiritual law that was known pa
4 understood in part by Moses and Hill
prophets, and which was perfect the
understood and demonstrated by fro
;us. and by him taught to his dis
les. There is no mystery about VIII
and the results produced by Chris dee
Il Science are the results which ans
e always followed. and must nee the
follow, from the apprehension il