The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-08

Gods ideas
 ERRONEOUS METHODS
 DISCLOSED
 | In the use of material medicine or serum, no intelligent person will agree for moment that the drug or serum has intelligence or wisdom in itself 10 | go to a certain part of the human or sanization and there do the exact thing ] necessary to be done in order to estab- l lish harmony. Neither will any in- | telligent person agree that the drug or serum has a supernatural or mag | ical power enabling it to establish har. mony. Then it follows that there must | be a combination of faith and mental | suggestion that operates to produce whatever result is supposed to follow | the use of the drug or serum
 ! None of the noble men and women l who have labored unselfishly and pa t'ently for the alleviation of human i suffering will consent to the propo- sition that any comfort they had brought to mankind was the result of l the unworthy belief that the medi- cires used were endowed either with 1 intelligence or q magical power to act
 The comfort and help that have been | brought to mankind through the lives | of noble men and women devoted to the relief of human suffering have | been due to their honest prayers de- l and not to any approximation or make l shift of matter. | It would be considered the height of the ridiculous if some person was ! to go to board of education and tell the members of that board that he had. at great expense and pains. made | a collection of chalk that had been used in erroneous mathematical cal | culations. That. from the chalk so col l lected, serum had been prepared with which to inoculate fresh pieces of 1 chalk, the theory being that the use of the chalk thus inoculated would les sen the liability of erroneous mathe- r:atica1 calculations Some one may say. Why, that is nonsense and is ri diculous That is exactly what 1t is | l---ridiculous and nonsensical. Yet is it not something of this sort that is sug gested for the acceptance of mankind, and to which mankind are expected to submit their bodies with the idea of l esta blishing harmony
 One may object to this and say: Why. l there is no logic in such an argument The chalk is simply piece of morgan lie matter; it has no intelligence or mind as has the human body. An! IL 1 Is the mind, then. associated with the material body, which must be taken into consideration and treated. In this l event, where in mind will one inject a serum or introduce a drug?
 SCIENTIFIC PROCEDURE
 Since it is the human mind that is to he treated then it must be the human n.nd that is sick.
 It Is obvious that that which is sick cannot be its own healer, else it would not be sick.
 IL follows then. that the divine or 1 immortal Mind is the only medicine and healer that can be used legitmately to cure the sick mortal mind
 | Through this action of the divine Mind the mortal mind is disabused of the belief that it has sick body. This procedure is scientific and true, and if followed understandingly and consist iently will reconstruct and heal the sick and the shining.
 1 The Christian Scientist, when ham fditng disease. has no fear of the germ enemy despite the conclusions advanced by human reason based upon the testi- mony of the physical sense. He knows something, at least, of what the omni presence of God means He knows that liz means the ompipresence of divine Mind. Wherever he goes this presence or omnipresence is with him, regard less of what the physical senses may testify as to the assumed presence and power of enemy microbes or enem! germ. The universe of the Christian Scientist Is filled with Gods ideas
 
 of diseased thought germs of the mor- tai mind. He knows that this mortal mind, being liar without truth or reality cannot produce anything that is true real. or that has power. Having ilearned something of the omnipotence and omnipresence of God, the endeavor of the Christian Scientist is to reflect or express this omnipresent Mind or good in healing the sick and in recon istructing human thought. He knows. in a degree, that the omnipotence of tGod good, is not divided omnipotence in which sin. disease, and death also isre factors
 | With thought thus established, the Christian Scientist is not particularly dis
 turhed by so-called climatic changes sea- lsonal changes. or changes of the weather. He has learned that his business is not
 with climatic or seasonal changes, with lcolds, coughs, influenza or whatever else 1t may be called tomorrow. He knows that his business first. last and always is with God. the divine. and immortal
 Mind whose name nature, or character is everywhere present and always operative for the good of mankind.
 CHARITABLE WORK It has been objected that Christian Scientists do not participate in the work
 of public charities This. however, is an
 erroneous impression which has grown out or the Iact that SnFlSttan, SCfent1StS do not pursue the methods that are gen
 orally followed in raising and distribut-
 ing so-called charity funds. While they
 gre liberal subscribers to funds for the alleviation of human suffering and ur-
 gent need, their thought in regard to
 charity is best expressed by statemen
 in the first paragraph of the Preface to
 Miscellaneous Writings by Mrs. Eddy |reading as follows: "A certain apothegm of Talmudical philosopher suits my senss of doing good It reads thus: The noblAst charity is to prevent man from
 accepting charity; and the best aims
 are 10 show and to enable a man to dis pense with aims
 There are approximately six thousand Chrsstion Science practitioners whose names appear in The Christian Science Journal at this date. It is not an over statement to say that there is an aves~s. of one patient calling upon each of these practitioners daily and receiving treat ment for which the patients are not in iposition to make financial payment. There are. therefore, six thousand persons throughout the world who are daily re- ceiving from Christian Science practition- CTS the treatment and help which is heal ing them of physical, moral, mental and