The Nenana daily news., 1920-07-22
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normal. healthy fashion. Calling upon the health commissioner of New York to congratulate him upon the conditions which prevailed, was thanked for the acknowledg- ment and received the assurance that those in charge did not believe i it was good plan to carry on a campaign of fear that would scare the people out of their existence.
 The wisdom of this policy is shown by records which indicate that the mortality and sick rate were much lower in New York city dur ing this particular epidemic than in other cities and localities through out the country which had been held under foreboding bans and bull letins of fear This is particularly gratifying, since it is traditional with New York, that if it has an epidemic or anything else its pride is to 'get" it a little bit harder than any other locality
 Disease Thought Germs.
 Let it be understood, however, in connection with this subject, that the Christian Scientists does not ignore any more than he fears the germ or disease. Too little is really known about the germ, however, to justify taking it as seriously as some would have us do.
 Even among those who are SUD- posed to know all about the germ there seems to be very wide diff ference of opinion as to whether the germ starts the disease or the , disease starts the germ. This point is we'll illustrated in the experience , of a gentleman who graduated from ! medical school quarter of a cen- , tury ago. This man followed the practice of medicine for a period of years, until he learned that there was another and better way in which the sick were healed and the shining regenerated, by one and the same process in Christian Science.
 Since that time this gentleman has devoted his activities and en- ergies to the field. of Christian Sci ence. Some months ago business call ed this man to the city where the med | ical school is located from which he was graduated Coming into the hall of biology, he found the professor in charge and large class of students each busily engaged with his own microscope in carrying out bacterio- logical examinations. Upon being introduced to this professor the gen tleman said to him, "Well, Pro- lessor, how far have you gotten along with this thing?" The pro- lessor, somewhat surprised, asked him what he meant by his question. Well" answered the gentleman, "twenty-four years ago I was here in this very room doing the very things that you are doing here this morning, and I was wondering as I came into the hall how far you have got along with the work in these twenty-four years. Have you found out yet, which is first, the germ or the disease?" "Oh," replied the professor, looking at him curi- ously for a moment, "you come around again in twenty-four yearsv' All that there is to a germ is a diseased thought; and all there is to diseased thought-germ is in, to, and of the mortal mind, that mind which Jesus described as a liar. "a murderer from the beginning" and without truth. Mrs. Eddy refers to this subject on page 164 of "Sci- ence and Health with Key to the Scriptures" when she says, Much yet remains to be said and done before all mankind is saved and all the mental microbes of sin and all diseased thought-germs are ex- terminated" The Christian Sci enlist knows that an idea of Truth. of Mind or God, will at once de. stroy diseased thought-germs, whose only existence is in, to, and of the mortal mind. This mortal mind be- ing a liar, and having no truth in itself, cannot produce in its own beliefs either truth or reality with which to oppose Gods ideas.
 Erroneous Methods Disclosed.
 In the use of a material medicine or serum, no intelligent person will agree for a moment that the drug or serum has intelligence or wisdom in itself to go to certain part of | the human oroanizaf;on and thoro