Arizona republican., 1917-02-19


They suppose that the material remedy
accomplishes the result, but they could
not suppose such a thing if they
thought deeply about it. When disease
is either mitigated or the health of the
patient improved under such systems,
it is the faith in these remedies or in
such systems, a faith as universal as
the race and as old as its history. which
accomplishes the result. All so-called
material healing is faith healing on
very low plane, whereas Christian
Science is even higher than the high
est faith healing, for it is not merely
faith in God, but the knowledge OF
Him, which as evidence of both Pres
ence and Power accomplshes 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 believes 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 edu-
cation is to prepare us for trouble. vet
none of that preparation provides
against trouble. 1t starts wrong by
giving power to evil, human habit
which is incontrovertibly wrong.
Whenever true religion has constituted
the only science and the only philoso-
ply it has always declared Thou
shalt have no other Gods 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. 1t can never be-
come so through matter orr through
beliefs in matter.
CHRIST TRUTH THE
REDEEMER
Paul says that He shall be trans
formed by the renewing of the mind.
Our minds consist of thoughts. For
our minds to be transformed, therefore,
we must get better thoughts. and the
very best are as easy to acquire as any
other, and UNNECESSARILY more helpful.
1 That they are divinely natural all
spiritual teachers of the world have
declared. and in some degree illus
trated. Isaiah prophesied hundreds of
I
ing of Jesus would exemplify the
availability OF Gods power among
men, Emmanuel God with us-observe
not only God with him. but God with
us. showing the universally OF truth.
Jesus has been called the Savior of
mankind because he illustrated that
universally. He said 'Ye shall know
| the truth and the truth shall make you
| free" To one who reads the Bible
! without preconceived notions or preju =
I dice it Enthusiastically announces the
J impersonality Of the Redeemer. The
/ Book of Job was also written centur-
4 les before Jesus was born. II says
/ Il know that my Redeemer liyeth," and
/ declares the ever-presence and power
of that Redeemer by showing that the
/ impersonal RedeeTner shall prevail over
/ the final efforts of evil i'm ones con-
seriousness. The words are And that
he shall stand at the latter day upon
( the earth.
Jesus constantly referred to the i'm
I personal truth as constituting the pow
/ er which he understood and exercised
| He deplored the tendency of his dis
! ciples to rely upon him personally. and
showed that they could not fully DEM
I onstrate Truth, the Christ. until Christ
| Truth. became impersonal to them.
There is one way. II is the menta
way. the spiritual way. ii is the way OF
Christ Jesus. for there is no othel
name under heaven given among men
/ whereby we must be saved" tActs iv
/ ID That name is the right way OF
/ thinking and certainly not way o.
! believing in matter. The thinking thai
constitutes the way in Christ Jesus. OF
the true, saving name of Christ Jesus
I is pure spiritual understanding w,
enter upon it when we begin TO un.
| derstand the Truth and separate evi
| from Truth. Entering upon that wa,
We begin to see what disease is anC
how ii happens; and when we begin t,
see how it happens we see also how i
/ shall not happen. how there shall b,
| brought to pass that in human expert
ence which shall prevent disease from
happening. or shall stop it il it ha,
happened. Such is tiue mentality
Jesus the Christ was powerful 70
what he knew and not because of hi
+, appearance. grand and noble though i
| must have been.
OVERCOMING FEAR
As long as you fear disease you will
never be entirely happy; therefore tn
material ways OF getting rid Of diseas'
are not satisfactory
Fear is no legitimate part of educa
ton. The Bible says that God has no
! given us the spirit of fear. and tina
statement beyond all question is logi
cal and relevant. The fear whicl
forms part of the ordinary persons
education can be overcome at leas
gradually through even q slight under
standing of Christian Science This 4
especially true of the fear of disease
No other system but Christian Scienc,
has ever recognized the undesirab l
and affective nature of fear. and n,
other system has ever provided for tn,
mitigation or complete extinction o
fear sThat such result may appea
one needs to realize the naturalnes
of divine Power and help and sucl
realization comes through Christian
Science as one learns more and NOR
how to test that Power. No matte
how fearful one may be- no matte
what the difficulty may be Under which
he labors, If he will stand for his un
derstanding and against fear he car
! prove that his understanding of God
! though slight. is more powerful thai
the fear which seems To beset him, ant
as he thus faces and overcomes hi.
fears step by step, they diminish an,
| disappear. This shows that il is tn.
practice of what one understands tina
is most important, because ii is b,
means of this practice alone that feal
can be destroyed.
II is far more important to get rio
of the fear Of germs and microbes thar