The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1920-04-22

retrospection along this line. If it
were it would remember that all the
drugs that have followed each other
in the treatment of disease, and have
been successfully discarded, have had
the same glowing record when they
were first used. The reason for this
is that it is not the drug but the belief
in it which accomplishes the healing.
Those who discover and bring forth
a remedy are strong in their belief
that it will cure, because the remedy
is the outcome of definite conviction
ed; so they obtain marked results,
while those who prescribe the same
drug later on have no such deep con-
viction, and because of their previous
experience may be even mildly skep-
tical. This state of thought brings
about failure.
Now the history of every material
method including surgery is the same
as that of drugs. The results which
come are according to the belief which
is entertained about them. One has
only to glance through the medical
journals to see that physicians them
selves are condemning many of the
operations and methods which the
world at large has, been taught to be-
lieve would heal them. Almost every
one can recall operations and methods
which were quite the rage a few years
ago but are seldom heard of today,
and it is perfectly safe to predict
that the surgical procedures which
seem successful today will be discard
ed for either tomorrow. The greatest
blessing that can come to- both the
doctor and the world is to learn why
it is that no material method is of
permanent avail and that it is God
who not only "forgiveth all thine in
EQUITIES" but "who healeth all thy
diseases"
It is essential in undertaking the
study Of Christian Science that one
should know something of the one
to whom it was revealed, and some
of the factors which led to its discov-
cry. The revelation came to Mrs.
Eddy because the particular qualities
of thought which she possessed made
it inevitable. She Investigated every
material system of healing and finally
decided that all causation must be
mental, yet it required twenty years
of effort before she really understood
that all causation was Mind, God, and
a number of years more before it had
unfolded with sufficient clarity to be
given to the world. So Christian
Science came as result of patient,
unfaltering effort to know Gods law,
and to the one who possessed the
qualities Of thought which made its
revelation humanity possible.
1t is the common experience of those
who study Christian Science that there
comes to them much larger, clearer
understanding of God than thew had
before.
In discussing the nature of God let
us begin with the fact that God is
Mind, because by recognizing this we
are enabled to see more clearly the
inseparable relationship which exists
between God and man, and to see that
because of this relationship man mani
tests the qualities of God, of Mind, and
nothing else.
The Divine Mind and Divine. Idea
In order that we may better under
infinite Mind let us illustrate the d.
vine Mind by using the ordinary con-
ception Of human mind as an ex-
ample. You say your friend has a
fine mind. You say you know this
because he has many fine ideas which
he expresses. You have never seen
his mind but you have known the ex-
preston Of it in ideas. If he never
moved muscle, never spoke a word,
you would rightly conclude that there
was no mind there. So a mind to be-
called q mind must be filled with ideas
and an idea by virtue of being an idea
must be expressed. It is impossible
to conceive Of q mind filled with ideas,
yet unexpressed; for mind with no
expression is not mind but q blank.
How do you know that rock has no
mind and no ideas? Why simply be-
cause it has no expression, for where
there are ideas there is expression.
The infinite Mind therefore, if filled
with an infinite number Of ideas or
thoughts, which must be expressed,
and the activity, the expression, the
manifestation Of these IDEAS consti-
tutes man and the universe. Gods
ideas express Him in countless spiri-
tual forms which range from the in
finitesimal to infnity, and the highest
ideas are the sons and daughters of
God" As, Gods ideas We exist In
Him and because we exist in Him the
Scriptures so declare that "in him
we live, and move, and have our be-
There is further quality Of an idea
which Il will be necessary for rs to
consider. An idea has no ability to do
anything or to be anything except as
tho idea Of the mind In which il exists.