Arizona republican., 1918-04-02

we unconsciously studied the Bible with the view of substantiating our preconceived notions about what it ought to teach,
 We are led through the study of Christian Science to try to stop view ing man as sick and shining, and to accept the fact of his righteousness and dominion, which is insisted upon throughout the Bible, and to under take to manifest this dominion over all things.
 No Healing in Drugs
 To most of us the body, with it's many forms of sickness and error, seems to need most immediate atten- tion,-firSt, because it has such vast number of sicknesses to which it lays claims and second, because the history of material means for the alleviation of these troubles shows them to have been almost a complete failure. l say almost complete fail ure, because the latest remedy and the latest method. the ones that have replaced last years remedy and last years method, have not as yet been proven useless; but the history of the past hundreds of years will re- peat itself, and next years material means will replace what will then be this years failures.
 Some years ago a new and suppos- edly wonderful remedy was advocated for the treatment of pneumonia, and the medical journals were full of the records of the almost instantaneous cures which had come about through it's use. As a practicing physician l prescribed this remedy at the first opportunity that presented itself, but with no result. 1 have since come to see that the remedy worked just so long as it had some enthusiastic opti- mists believing in it's efficacy, but failed 50 work as soon as it became generally used by a generally pessl- mistic profession; a profession grown pessimistic through it's continual his tory of drug failure. This drug, in spite of the marvellous cures accred- tied to it for several years, has long since gone the way of dismal failure of those that preceded it.
 Another famous remedy that came i into almost immediate prominence within the last year or two, and which has been lauded as an absolute specific for certain disorders, is now being condemned by some of it's for mer supporters as doing no good anu much damage. It has been remark able both for the claims made for its | efficiency and the charges made for | it's administration. It was a. brilliant success so long as people believed ir | it's efficacy, but it is now fast becom- ing a. dull failure.
 Other Material Methods Fail Surgical and other material forms of treatment are in this same process
 of change. It has only been a very i few years since soaring of parts o1
 the body with a red-hot iron was advocated as good treatment thougl
 we would condemn this now as bar barous, and the day will surely come and is not far distant, when the
 wholesale removal of the tonsils anC
 the injections of the many kinds 0.
 animal serums will be considered quite
 as barbarous; for just so long as wt
 cling to materiality, to-day's appareu
 success will be to-morrow's failure.
 Vaccination has remained in a posi-
 tion of supposed efficacy for :
 longer period than anything of whici
 I know. We can most of us remem I Der when to be able to show a gooC
 scar meant a lifetime of protection
 But the years of it's supposed useful.
 ness are constantly shortening, unti
 now it is maintained that it protect' for few years only. with an eve | increasing coterie within the rank
 of the medical profession maintain
 ing that it does not protect at all
 Again and again in toxic condition
 and in immunity from contagion, tn
 Christian Scientist is proving tha
 spiritual understanding gives the pro
 tection of which Jesus spoke when h
 said to those who believe, If the,
 drink any deadly thing, it shall no
 hurt them.'
 Medical and surgical methods ar
 changing with such rapidity tha
 among the profession the idea c
 yearly examinations has at time
 been agitated, the thought being tha
 if it could be shown that physician
 was not conversant with the yer
 latest method, he should not be al
 lowed to practice,-though this
 admitting that what was good prac tice a few years ago is not goo practice today.
 . I am not criticizing the doctor,-h does the best he can with the DOG [ weapons which have been given hin
 T am sympathizing with him, be , cause just when he thinks he has i l he finds he has not.
 Disease is Mental
 } In practicing medicine l soon foun
 that there was a certain mental ele ment in every case, and as it wa obvious that this element could not / reached by any material means, 5 began to try to estimate just ho . large a factor it was in every cas ? that came to me. At first I thougl . some cases were quite largely phys . cal. and others quite largely menta . but as time went on and throue e practice my observation of the ment = side of the question became mol t keen, l saw that many types of sicl e ness were wholly mental, and final t came to see that they were all er ' tirely so.
 1 This did not mean that I was
 Christian Scientist when l had al C rived at this point-far from it! e decided that since I had to deal vii t so large a mental question, which u = medical profession either wholly e almost wholly ignored, I would stut r mental healing from every stan' |. point from which it had been pr = sented, with the idea that 1 wou e find in all literature on the subie e the presentation of the same pril q ciple, and so would have broad n view of the question than any sing 0 writer. and with this knowled