Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-01-24
HEALING ACCEPTED
AT FULL MEANING.

Al i I'LL mEANlNG.
The real meaning Of the word heal Is
to make whole, to restore 10 original in
tegrity. Christian Science alone among
the healing agencies Of the present day
accepts this word Mt its full meaning.
Christian Science not only heals the men
tai Or physical disorder but sets in mo-
ton those processes Of thought which
result inevitably in the restoration Of
man to his original integrity as the in
dividual expression Of God.
I am frequently surprised to observe
how ignorant many people still are Of the
feet that Christian Science really heals
the sick. Despite the fact that for forty
years this church has successfully healed
all manner Of disease so as to be Epe-
officially recognized 8as a healing agency
by the laws Of moro than thirty Of our
States, by the executive and ndministra-
tive branches Of our Federal Government,
aud by many honest physicians there
are still many who say, But does Chris
tian Science really heal. and heal all
kinds of disease?" 1t does just that.
We're it not for the healing work that
Christian Science has been able to do
there would not be Christian Science
church or a Christian Scientist in the
world today. for practically all those who
have come to II came. at least In the
carly part of its growth, for physical
healing. They stayed because they re-
ceived that which they sought and more.
Only forty years ago the first Christian
Science CQurCu was oIENulLCA III Db1kOu.
Since then nearly eighteen hundred or
Plantations have been formed throughout
The world. Christian Science is offering
to the world today n volume of testimony
as to the efficacy Of its healing work UNI
/ excelled in the history of therapeutic syS-
TENS From business men, educators
| lawyers judges, physicians, ministers
! and men and women or all trades ano
! classes it is offering evidence OF health
| and happiness restored to the individual
7 Ovip heard the
Wednesday evening meetings OF the
| church.
| sEsTERIAL MEDICINE
OPPOSED 70 CHRISTIANITY.
Christian Science has no quarrtd with
/ honest physicians. II respects them and
reioices in Ill the good that they may
be able to do. It frankly differs with
their healing methods and resists every
| attempt to have them made compulsory
| by law. 1t believes that every healing
/ system should stand or fall on its own
| merits and that men will find the system
| which can best secure their health. An
autocracy In medical practice 1t believes
! to be as intolerable as compulsory re-
! ligion. The tyrannical medical treatment
forced upon our boys in the Army stands
as n warning Of what State medicine
would bring into civil life.
Why should a system which has its
root in the pagan worship of apollo, later
changing to the worship Cf inanimato
herbs a system which has not one jot
Of Biblical or Christian authority for Its
teachings, a system which during -four
thousand years has failed to reduce the
/ number of diseases among men, whose
theories have shifted from one genera
ton to another as the sands of the sea
shift with every storm, which relies on
poisonous drugs and narcotics to do the
work that Jesus Christ did and taught
his followers to do, have any right 10
impose on us Its tyrannlcal DEGREES? This
is the system that. in the words of a