Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-10-01

consciousness of mortals. A mind
laden with images of sin and disease
has not experienced the coming OF
Christ. 1t may profess belief in God,
but such belief fails to bring saliva
tion or even surcease of suffering.
What Is the great burden litter, OF
mankind? 1t is the spiritual under
standing that man has no real life or
existence apart from God. This UNI
derstanding brings a sense of peace
joy and health that surpasses all hu.
man knowledge. It softens the dispo-
sition, chastens the affections
silences false pride and self-will and
mad ambition, comforts the sorrow
ing, quenches false appetites, and last
but not least, 1t does away with the
evidence Of disease Thousands OF
witnesses in all parts of the world
will testify under oath that Christian
Science has healed them of so-caled
incurable diseases. There can be no
intelligent denial of such testimony.
The evidence is overwhelming that
Christian healing Is today an estab-
lished fact in the world.
False Teaching.
Even in this enlightened Twentieth
Century the world is burdened with
false teaching There Is much con-
cerning health and disease which is
misleading in the extreme. 1t Is the
province of Christian Science to cor
rect such teaching by turning the
thought of humanity to Christ Jesus
as the sole authority on all subjects
essential to human progress and hap
piness.
Who could accuse Jesus Of ever es-
tablishing clinic? He paid little at
tention to disease or its symptoms,
but he constantly healed the sick by
the spoken word. and he bade his fol-
lowers do likewise. His ideals Of life
exclude dali recognition of disease as
an entity or reality. His mission was
to prove all knowledge of such things
to be false knowledge, knowledge
of unrealities and nonentities. This
was not and can not be done through
human argument or reasoning. 1t re-
quires spiritual understanding to do
this; and according to Scripture this
understanding is knowledge of the
holy" or holy one.
What would be thought of a watch
maker who were to establish school
for the purpose of teaching and
studying the subject of broken
watches? Would not this be rather a
futile way to acquire knowledge of
the construction of perfect watch .
Would the musician who advocated
a systematic study Of disco-ds ever
succeed n Liinging out true sense
of harmony to his pupils?
Would the moralist who spent the
most of his time in delving into vice
and wicckedness be enabled to i'm
press his followers with sense of
purity and moral rectitude? Would
not this negative research on his part
tend to dim his perception of spiritu-
ality? 1t is the pure in heart" who
see God.
Has anyone ever heard of school
of mathematics where mistakes in
calculation are specialized, to the ex-
clusion of the rule of exastness which
alone enables one to correct such mis-
takes.
What housewife would add to her
skill in bread making who devoted
her time and attention to analyzing
and classifying different kinds of un-
palatable bread?
Would human parent be very liza
BILE to advise his child to make a spec
ial study of malice. envy, hatred and
revenge, as a necessary preliminary
to understanding the nature of ever
present, divine Love?
Then why make an exception in the
case of disease? Why insist that it
alone among the errors of the human
mind shall be feared, studied, investi-
gated, diagnosed, discussed and pub
lished broadcast in the attempt to
find health, that which annihilates
disease? Christian Science makes it
very clear to the world that this is
very sure method of perpeuating dis
ease and of eradicating ones true
sense of health. 1t is an age-old
method, but accompanied by fear, dis
ease and suffering.
One Of the first lessons of Chris
tian Science teaches us to reverse this
barbarous habit of thinking, talking
and hearalding the symptoms of dis
ease. There is nothing more enervat-
ing and demoralizing than to magnify
in thought some phase of evil which
one Is striving to overcome. Can the
popular theory of so-called disease
germs ever be eradicated without
ceasing to fear It, and without ceas-
ing to hear, think and talk about
such subjects? Every protesting
Christian should know that the men
tai image of disease, next to that of
sin is one of his very worst enemies,
and that 1t is the mission of the
Christ, or true idea of God, to rid
him Of this enemy. He will then rec
ognize Christian Science as his best
friend and become a staunch advo-
,ate Of health and an opponent of
iisease. He will study, think and
ak about the thing he wishes to ex-
)erience, and not about It's opposite. !
There Is a lesson for us all in the
experience Of the specialist, who often
Iuccumbs to the very disease Of which !
he has made a specially, Many Of US
tnow the effects of reading medical
works
Why should humanity by loath to !
lear the truth about the action of
wrong thought and to take the neces- {
AIRY steps to correct it? Why should
t be skeptical concerning the only
'ossible means Of protection from
erroneous beliefs?