The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1917-04-30

useless? For a long period they wers
supposed TO heal disease. II their
curative potency was God-given. would
it be possible tha, II could be lostr
The supposed action OF these drugs
was q deception based upon human
Credullty Human faith in these drugs
was lost because Of their failure TO
heal and that was the reason they
were discarded. Drugs backed by
blind belief can produce no lasting
benefit and since Christian Science
has become more generally known de-
crease In the use OF drugs has been
most striking. The long list of dis
cases pronounced incurable by mate
ria medica points unmistakably to the
fact that drug healing is a hopeless
failure Jesus told his disciples that
il they drank any deadly thing it would
NOT hurt them. He knew the false
basis Of the drugging system, and he
also knew the power Of scientific UNI
derstandng which annulled the false
action Of the drug IL the divine pow
err annuls the poisonous action OF
drugs Is that not positive proof thar
drugs are not Of God? The word Of
God destroys evil only, not the mani
llestatlons of good.
Reliance on drugs is reliance on
mammon 1T Is the spirit that quick
enoth;' said Jesus "the flesh profit
eth nothing" John 6:63)
lf Mrs Eddy had done nothing
more for humanity than to show the
line OF demarcation between so-called
I dnghealng and the divine mode OF
| healing, she would have merited the
lasting gratitude OF the race. The
time Is rapidly approaching when faith
IN the efficacy Of drugs, toxins, and
animal serums will disappear just as
that other delusion that the earth Is
flat has been discarded
Operations Remove Effects, Not
Causes.
With the gradual recession Of the
druggmg system has come an. influx
Of surgical operations But surgical
operations can only reach effects, not
causes The cause is hidden.-beyond
the reach OF the knifel Fear, worry,
hate, sin, and other wrong mental con
ditions, poison the body and produce
disease. How can an operation reach
wrong mental states? Jesus warned
his followers to cleanse the thought,
not merely the outside of the platter
Macbeth's inquiry
"Canst thou not minister to mind
diseased;
Cleanse the stuff'd bosom of that per-
ilous matter
Which weighs upon the hearth
opens q question that should cause
4 every man to stop and ponder Chris
/ tian Science proves that diseases are
the result of "a mind diseased" ard
that when thought Is corrected and
the offending mental errors manifested
on the body as disease are cast out,
the body then resumes its nor
NAL, healthful activity. The
many disastrous results which follow
surgical operations should sternly
warn the public that there Is some
thing fundamentally wrong in the
practice So true is this that it has
been remarked that 1t Is sometimes
\ difficult TO determine whether the ap-
lpendix has been removed from the
body or the body from the appendix.
The Unreality of Matter.
When Mrs. Eddy made the famous
\ declaration on D. 46S Of Science
and Health that "There Is no life,
truth intelligence, nor substance in
matter she bearded the lion of ma
teralism in its den because she, for
all time, made for human thought the
separation between matter and Spirit
and thereby reduced matter to its own
noh-intelligence. In the next sentence
"All is infinite Mind and its infinite
manifestation, for God Is All-in-all"
she defined the true universe and
opened the way for reason to gain a
right conception of God.
Physical scientists have not agreed
upon what matter is. They have adj
yanled many theories to explain mat
ter but have never reached an agree
ment .For a time the atomic theory
seemed to offer a solution to physical
scientists but it presented difficulties
and has never become more than a
theory More recently the electrou
hypothesis came into vogue The cleo
tron hypothesis seeks to explain mat
ter by reducing it to form Of energy.
Arthur J. Balf0ur, former Prime Min
lister Of England, Is reported to have
said. "The material sciences are
now explaining matter by explaining
it away" Matter" said Huxley, sis
a name for the unknown Hypothetical
cause OF states Of our own conscious
mess" And Professor Oswald Of Leip.
sic University said: Matter is only
a thing imagined" The physical sci
enlist has become aware that all the
evidence he has Of matter is obtained
through the physical senses. Take
away thought. and the form, color,
hardness. and other characteristics OF
a chair-for instance-entirely disap-
pear Without mortal thought to cog
nize it there can be no matter.
The greatest metaphysician the
world has ever known, Christ Jesus,
went far beyond the conceptions OF
the physical scientists who reduces
matter to energy or who perceive that
without the cognizing mind matter is
impossible Christ Jesus proved him
SELF the master Of matter He knew
that IN the false concept Of life in mat
ter inhered all the ills that have be-
fallen the human race. Jesus healed
The palsied arm-made a change in
the form of natter calmed the storm,
controlled a movement of matter;
transported a boat instantly across a
lake passed through walls instantly,
rolled back the stone from the tomb,