Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-11-08
INDIANA DAILY TIMES, MONDAY, NOVEMBER s, 1920.

to a false sense, but sense testimony re-
garding evil should never be accepted.
Is not all sin deceptionf Is 1t true
that there is pleasure in wrongdoing, as
material sense would have man believe
Did a mortal ever gain anything really
worth while by resorting to the methods
of eyill II nothing that evil can say OF
itself is true. wherein is 1t to be ac-
cepted as a realityl
Let us 20 back to the first appearance
of evil as recorded in the third chapter
of Genesis. What was at the bottom OF
that man would gain something by &C
cepting evil as a reality Jesus called
evil lie and the father of the lie. Where
is there to be found better definition
Master said to his followers, "And ye
shall know the truth, and the truth
shall make you free"
MENTAL CAUSATI0N
is DEFINED.
If one gains the victory over sin by
making good real, and this Is proven In
the daily experience of anyone, he can
overcome sickness In the same manner:
In the beginning, sin is an error Of
thought, and so 1t is with sickness. Even
from a medical point of view, based
wholly on material hypothesis, thinking
and talking about disease and suffering
result from this practice and it is to be
condemned.
Most persons admit that thought at
I feets the body somewhat, but they are
unable to see how the belief In sickness
and the fear OF It could produce a sick
| body. If the effect of thought on the
body Is accepted as an established fact,
where can one draw the line and say,
Thus far and no fartherf" Just how
much is 1t possible to think and talk
about sickness and experience no bad re-
sultsi Since there is no satisfactory an
swer to the question, would 1t not be
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all thought Of disease and inharmonyP
/ Even though one may not be prepared
to accept the teaching of Christian Sci
ence that sickness is not a reality In
1t Is no part of Gods creation, he can at
J least understand that the less he thinks
and talks about sickness the better.
/ The vital connection between thought
and action is worthy of careful consid-
Grafton. If one does not think right, he
will not do right; conversely, II he does
not do right, he will not long be able
/ to think right for action has a retro
active effect on thought.
Some persons may wonder why they
are not able to gain that clearer sense
/ Of the ever-presenee of good and the
! might of omnipOtence which others en-
/ JOY Perhaps If they examine them
selves they will see that they are not
/ doing IS well as they know; and here
| Is the answer to their query. One can
not hope to succeed In any endeavor
/ without doing as well as thinking. He
must be consistent In the application OF
what he understands. The varied and
perplexing problems Of daily living re-
/ Quire right thinking and right doing.
The wise man wrote las he "a mani
thinketh In his heart, so IS he" Think
: ing makes the man what he Is. His pres
ent mental condition is largely the re-
suit of the thoughts he has entertained
In the past. His morals too are the out
/ growth of his thinking. Some day ne
will realize that his thoughts have had
greater affect on his physical condition
| than he supposed, and then heawill I'M
/ derstand why he should give more at
( tention to the trend Of his thoughts and
! less consideration to what he has been
| taught to believe are the laws Of health
/ The persistent EFFORT to eradicate the
thought of sickness viii do for him far
more than has been accomplished by
material methods of healing.
| SCIENTIFIC APPLICATION
/ is DEMONSTRATED.
| The question is asked, How Is one to
apply the teachings Of Christian Science
! In overcoming physical and moral evils
4 In the drst place Ii should be under
stood that man is unable to save himself
I either from sin or disease. He is as
helpless in the one instance as I'm the
| self do nothing: &" the Father that
| dwelleth in me, he doeth the works. 81
/ Whatever Of good any man has accom-
/ plshed was due TO the activity OF divine
| Mind, and not to any effort he was able
! to make in his own strength.
| In his epistle to the Epheslans Pau
| writes, For by grace are ye saved
through faith; and that not of your
selves: 1t is the gift OF God" IL Is
| through faith that man is brought into
! harmony with the law OF God, and re-
celyes according to his deserving.
| Faith is that quality OF thought which
! eleyates human existence above the falsl-
! ties Of mortal belief. IL Is evil, the
/ supposed opposite 81 good, which seems
/ to make man a sinner and an invalid.
When the evil sense, or sense or evil,
| Is destroyed, the effects of evil disappear,
/ for there is nothing to Rrolong the ulu-
! sion. EVIL is overcome when thought
/ Is brought into harmony with God. the
/ divine Principle Of mans being II
/ one does not possess sufficient spiritual
understanding to free himself from the
| letters of sin and disease, II IL possible
! for another to give the needed help.
The apostle James gave this word OF
! instruction to the faithful wherever
/ found: Us any sick among you? LET
! him call for the elders Of the church
and let them pray over him, AMOUNTING
/ him with oil In the name OF the Lord
and the prayer Of faith shall save the
sick, and the Lord shall raise him up
/ and II he have committed sins, they
/ shall be forgiven him.
No distinction Is made between types
| or forms of disease. The method OF
practice here outlined will suffice In one
| case as we'll as another. Jesus did not
discriminate between physical AID moral
/ infirmittes, but he healed them all ana
/ taught his followers do likewise.
INSTRUCTED SICK
TO CALL ELDERS.
! James instructed the sick 70 "call for
/ the elders OF the church" 1t is evidence
/ he did not mean that the sick should
appeal only to those who had been elected
| OF appointed to some official position
| in the church organization, for in the
same epistle ne tells them TO pray one
! for another that they might be healed.
/ By the elders OF the church the apostle
must have meant those who were ad-
vanced In spiritual understanding, those
/ who had gained such grasp OF the
| teaching OF Jesus as would enable them
! TO DO the works which the Master de-
clared would be done by all who under
| stood him.
LET them pray over him, amounting
/ him with oil in the name Of the LORD.
These words are not 70 be Interpreted
as Endorsing the use of material rene
/ dies. The oil had nothing TO do VIII