The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1921-03-30
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
TREATMENT

treatment In Christian Science !
means doing something for the sick
according to an understood Principle,
instead of experimenting upon them
with poisonous drugs, and then wait
ing for days, weeks, and sometimes
for months, to see whether they get
well. Christian Science treatment
gives sight to the blind and hearing
to the deaf, by doing something for
them which no other form of treat
ment ever has done or ever can do.
When it gives a sufferer immediate
possession of health and strength,
after materia medica has pronounced
its verdict of hopelessness, it does
something for him which physical
sense does not and cannot explain.
When all manner of diseases are
healed in one Christian Science treat
ment, and fear and sin are destroyed,
does this not prove that intelligent
action has been taken in behalf of the
afflicted? When the anxious and
fearful mother asks help for her in
nocent babe, who, the doctors say,
cannot possibly survive, and Chris
tan Scence gives instant relief by
breaking the mesmeric environment
of ignorance, fear, and anXiety-who
would presume to declare that moth
ing has been done for the helpless
infant? If Christian Science treat
ment makes a specially of any one
thing, it is in doing something for
suffering humanity, instead of thrust
ing God aside in the hour Of trouble
by bowling down to the verdict Of the
deceitful senses.
When these senses pass judgment
upon man, declaring that he is sick,
even going so far as to pronounce the
verdict of death upon him, is it the
exercise of good common sense" to
sit idly by and accept the testimony
of five witnesses who know positively
nothing of the God "who healeth al
thy diseases ?" Or shall we rise in
righteous rebellion against such tes-
timony, knowing that the power anC
presence of God and His Christ are
more to a man than anything else
in the world? 1t is the physical
senses, remember, that advise and
would compel the use of material
remedies; that call sin and disease
real, and man a mixture of mind anC
matter; and that demand complete
medical supervision and control o.
the human body. Is the hand of tn,
Lord shortened that it cannot save
God never inspired faith in the US,
of poisonous drugs. 1t goes without
saying, then, that Christian Scienc,
treatment is not founded upon the be
lief of intelligent matter.
Let particular attention be calleC
to the fact that Christian Scienc,
treatment is not the erroneous in
fluence of any form of mesmerism o.
hypnotism. The experience of (
young man seeking help from pro
fessiOnal hypnotist, will make thi
point clear. His very first visit re
suited in seeming relief from extrem
pain, but the relief was of short dura
ton. Again, he sought the SAINT
source for help and with the same re
suit He soon found himself making
several calls a day, and each time tn
interval Of apparent ease from pail
grew shorter, until finally, afte
spending several hours a day wit
his would-be helper, and experiencing
no relief at all, he discontinued hi
calls.
At this junction a friend recon-
mended that he try Christian Science
He did so and was quickly and per
manently healed. The Christian Sci
enlist, understanding the omnipotenc
and omnlpresence of divine Mind, wa
enabled to prove to the patient tn
unhealthy of pain, and this heale
him, and awakened within him a de
sire to know more about God, some
thing which never takes place unde
the soporific influence Of mesmerisr
or hypnOtism.
TREATMENT NOT SUGGESTION
From various human quarters Their
comes the amazing assertion tina
Christian Science treatment is moth
ing but human suggestion. AnyOn
who knows how to give a scientific
treatment, knows that suggestio
plays no part in it. When one learn
how the sick are healed in Christia
Science, one will neither advocate no
make use of hypnotic suggestion
any form. The only healing power
divine Love, and the vitality an
warmth of divine Love could not b
impaired through suggestion. Sug
gestion is the child of self-will; it
a lawless human make-believe, whic
neither heals nor blesses.
> Hundreds of men and women hav
had their experience with the sc
: called clever salesman, who persuade
them, against their own better juds
D ,,,o,,4 p ,,,7roboco co,,ao paadIacc a