The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1920-09-25


Of Solomon. "As he thinketh in his
heart, SO is he" In all cases.
whether we are aware of it or not.
sickness and disease are first ac-
cepted in thought before they can
be manifested on the body. The
lrugging practitioner assumes that
the body is self-Acting organism
and attempts to heal it by the use
Of drugs, but takes little account of
the human mentality, which is the
breeding ground of all mortal Ills.
Wiser than the doctors of modern
medicine, Jesus declared that "out of
the heart, the human mentality
proceed evil thoughts. which de-
file a man." The wise gardener does
mot merely cut off the top of tho
noxious weed that chokes his gar
den,-he digs it out, every root of il.
The fad of surgical operations.
stimulated by morbid fears and sub
tie mental suggestions, never gets at
the root of any ill., The effect may
be removed by the operation, but
the mental cause remains to bear
fruit after its kind, and later may
engulf the patient in Iblacker cloud
Of fear and despair. The human
thought mast be purified before we
can hope to cope successfully with
sickness, pain, and disease. The
body is not our master, but our
servant, and it is the duty of every
one of us to prove this fact. Paul's
clear insight when he declared that
whilst we are at home in the body,
we are absent from the lord" has
not been generally comprehended
The remedy for bodily ills is to look
away from the body, refuse to ac.
cept its false evidence of pain and
disease. and to hold thought stead
fastly to the realm of divine Mind,
where man possesses unchanging
health based upon the eternal truths
of God. "A man is immune to pain
and disease only as he lives in
spiritual consciousness. Mrs. Eddy
saw clearly that thought must rest
on things divine, and not on matter
and the body or health and peace
would never be gained. And so she
tells us i'm the Christian Science
textbook page 264. "The crude Gre
ations of mortal thought must finally
give place to the glorious forms
which we sometimes behold in the
camera OF divine Mind, when the
mental picture is spiritual and eter-
nal. Mortals must look beyond fad
ing, finite forms, if they would gain
the true sense of things Where
shall the gaze rest but in the un-
seachable realm Of Mind?"
TRUE HAPPINESS BASED ON
SPIRITUAL UNDERSTANDING
Happiness is the universal goal of
men and women But happiness is
not possible without peace of mind
and peace of mind can only be at
tanned when thought rests on
divine basis All that the physical
senses apprehend is fading, transi-
tory, mutabe. If we rest upon that
basis, the foundation of our struc-
ture will sooner or later give way
and confusion and loss will be our
portion. We must learn to reject the
false and to hold the true, if
would dwell in the secret place OF
the most High" We are to know
that God is the only Life, and that
our life is derived from God. We
are ever to refuse to accept any
human belief that man lives in the
flesh, or that a matter world ever
existed or ever can exist. We are to
hold thought to the eternal fact that
infinite Spirit is the creator and
governs ALL and there is no other
creator and no other creation.
If we are wise we will seek to
gain spiritual understanding, which
is the pearl of great price. With
spiritual understanding we make
clear distinction between right
thoughts and wrong thoughts, be-
tween divine ideas which people the
realm of Spirit, and mortal beliefs
of sin, pain, disease, and death
And we are to hold to Gods ideas
and to repudiate mortal misconcep-
tions. We gain spiritual insight as
we ponder the things of God, and
as we think on these things, their
healing power and meaning are re-
vealed, if we study the Bible, and
Science and Health with Key to the
OCIlpluIcS, OuI luOuSuI Is uplliLeu
and purified we learn to detect the
difference between spiritual ideas
and sensuous concepts just as read
lily as the musician, through his
grasp of the laws of harmony, can
discern between tones that are true
and those that are false. And as the
nature of "the One altogether love
ly.' dawns upon our thought, we can
sing with the Psalmist,
How amiable are thy tabernacles,
o Lord of hosts!
My soul longeth, yea, even faint
eth for the courts of the Lord: my
heart and my flesh crieth out for
the living Cod"
Every man can begin now to gain
spiritually. We can begin now to
think Gods thoughts and refuse to
think evil thoughts. The problem OF
our salvation is worked out in the
realm of our own consciousness. No
man is so darkened mentally; no
man is in an environment so un-
favorable but what he can make
in right thinking. and re-
fuse wrong thinking. God has given
to every man power to control his
own mentality We must arouse our
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