Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-01-19

ing my progress, and was only caused by
the selfish and ungrateful carnal mind in
myself which, as st. Paul says, is not
subject to the law of God, neither indeed
can be- learned that ingratttude
darkens ones thought and shuts the
door on progress, and that If one is
| ungrateful he Will be unlov1ng ana I'M
just. In the years following 1t was my
privilege to know Mrs. Eddy intimately,
| for over year to be a member OF her
household, to watch her daily habits, and
to weigh and follow her advice; and |
can testify in dispassion and In truth
that such was her deyout obedience 10
God, her unwaveripg devotion to divine
| Principle, and her unselhsh love Tor
others, that it may be said of Mrs Eddy
that she was one who measured up to
the Masters ideal, and not only laid
down her life once for her friends but
did so daily.
THE chief difficulty mortals have in
understanding a spiritual idea is the ob-
stinate unwillingness of the material
mind to accept anything which may dis
| premacy The material mind is in1ately
| selfish and jealous Of Its supposed ma :
| terial comforts and rights. From THIS
! mistaken sense proceeds willfulness, ana
| the material human will is the CHER op-
! stacle in the way of mortals understand
! ing Christian Science. The natural SPIT
itual fact Of the allness of God, or
! Spirit, and of spiritual man and spiritual
! universe which the Bible teaches, is most
unnatural to the material senses or NOR
| tails, whose god is matter, whose man
/ and universe are material, and whose VIII
! or law is material opinion or BELIEF.
/ Matter seems to these material senses
to be the great and only fact. Honest
! thinkers sooner or later learn that the
/ so-called law of material belief, and its
! effect, called matter, Is contradictory,
! confusing, and false claim, and Is wholly
contrary to spiritual law They come to
/ see that material sense Is no law nor
] lawmaker whatever. Matter is the oppO-
| site Of Spirit in nature and expression.
| and being the very reverse of God it can
not be the creation of God, Spirit. Hence,
If Spirit, God, is n-all, and therefore
| the positive force of being, as most peo-
! pie believe, matter must be negation
| and an Illusion. A minute examination
of matter verifes this conclusion, for the
more thoroughly it is analysed the more
! it contradicts and negatives itself and
/ the more its nOthingness is discovered.
The New Testament is very explicit
| in denouncing the flesh as being con-
trary to Spirit, as witness many sayings
of St Paul and the following In par
ticular: For l know that in me (that
is in my fiesh,) dwelleth no good thing !;
for the flesh lusteth against the Spirit.
! and the Spirit against the flesh: and
| these are contrary the one to the other ::
so that We can not do the things that ye
would; so then they that are in the
flesh can not please God. But ye are
not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be
that the Spirit of God dwell In you and
that conclusive saying of Jesus, 1T Is
the spirit that Quickeneth; the flesh
| profteth nothing That the flesh meant
| matter in general is certain, since all
forms of matter, in nature and quality,
/ are equally the opposite OF Spirit. These
/ inspired Bible statements are a strong
! argument against the reality Of matter
! and the carnal or material senses. Says
! Paul, The carnal mind is enmity against
God Nobody really loves matter; one
merely has a sense of life and Intelligence
in matter which he believes is pleasur-
able. But as matter has no life nor in
! tellgence, this belief of pleasure is an
| Illusion and is enmity against God. This
/ is realized as the real pleasure as life
and intelligence in Spirit dawns upon
cone Of the common beliefs Of life and
Intelligence in matter is the power that
is given to a drug to restore health.
/ This faith in matter in the form Of a
! drug is more important and harmful tnan
/ most forms because II shuts the. door
on direct faith in God, Spirit, as the i'm.
! mediate and only restorer of health and
| life. What a god some pt ople MAKE Oh
/ medicine! The drug is said to be given
/ to assist nature to produce a cure; but
/ the drug has no intelligence, 1t does not
know where to go, then how can 1t as
/ sist nature in the cure Of diSeaSeF Ma
ture truly is the natural healer or dis
ease. but matter is not nature. Nature
/ rightly understood, is the manifestation
/ of divine Principle, and Principle, or
| Love, and the spiritual Life thereof are
/ not expressed through a negative false
belief called matter Physicians say that
| YOU will get we'll If you have good con
| stitution and enough vitality, ana tnal
/ nature cures you, but what are vitality
and n good constitution, and what Is
TELLS OF CURE
EFFECTED ON HIM.
There are more delusions and super
| Stitions about health than there are hours
| and days in the year. For instance how
many people still believe that horse
! chestnut or a potato carried In the pocket
will prevent rheumatism now many De
lieve that only nauseous medicines cure
that the germs of typhoid Will cure
| typhoid that rabbits foot on water
! chain will dispel fear? A piece of raw
pork, tied behind the left ear, Is sun
| recommended in some regions as a SURE
| remedy for colds; and when / was boy
my mother ardently believed that
| periodical throat trouble, caused by ar
| elongated palate, which doctors said
had, could only be relieved by wrapping
my throat with a piece of red fanne
snleared with lard, camphor and salt
and the flannel always had to be rec
| was healed in Christian Science, she I'm
! mediately commenced healing others; anC
| in two treatments. which she gave M
| fifteen minutes apart, that palate, whlcI
ton, suddenly became so shortened ina
| I have not known since that ever nae
one. There is also superstftlous De
lief. which possesses some logic that Il
medicine is good for sick people it mus
be still better for well ones: And !
drugs really possessed any virtue thl'
would be So Spiritual Truth and Love
the real healer of mortals, is not only
good for sick people. but is equally go0(
for well ones a universal, everlasting
benefit to mankind in sickness and il
health.
the so-called Spanish influenza is not
able example of the negative results from
material means of healing. From va
riety Of sources came a variety or eX
perfments and results, which doctors
freely admitted were for the most par
conflicting and unsuccessful. One hun
dred volunteers, who for several weeks
in 1918 were under observation by tn
navy public health service to ascertain
the cause of influenza, had infuenzi
germs placed in their nostrils ant
throats and ate them with their food
with the interesting result that not only
no cases of disease developed but the
only noticeable effects of the expert
ment, according to the physicians, wer'
increased appetites and more vigorOui
health The health officer Of New YOrl
City, Doctor Copeland, in an after inter
view THE Christian Science Monitor
April 3, 1917 stated that "the chic
thing he had to do in the control O
that epidemic was to preserve the moral,
Of the community and eliminate fear
and it is well known that the mortality
during that period was lower in New
York City than in any other large com
munity.
at is not necessary to continue thes'
citations: they are commonly known
Why is it not seen that the uncertainties
in the progress of medicine, which his
tory has shown, are due to the uncertain
ties of matter and material belief WheI
Will Ill good people see that drngs d.