The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-21

treatment of disease, and have been successiYely discarded. have had the same glowing record when they were first used. The reason for this Is that it is not the drug but the belief in It which accomplishes the healing. Those who discover and bring forth remedy are strong in their belief that it will cure, because the remedy Is the out come of a definite conviction as to l how the disease should be treated; so l they obtain marked results. while I those who prescribe the same drug later on have no such deep conviction, and because of their previous experi- 1 ence may be even mildly skeptical. | This state of thought brings about ] failure
 l Because the new remedy with its l short-lived record of success always | takes the place of the old with It's l final record of failure, these successive l changes are announced in the name | of progress. The extent of the failure | is seen in the fact that every material I thing, vegetable, mineral and animal. which imagination conceived to have i a medicinal action has been tried. The 1 ignorance of the medical methods of a hundred years ago is laughed at by l the men who seriously believe that ex- 1 tracts from calves and pigs can make 1 them better men.
 l Now the history. of every material
 method including surgery is the same l as that of drugs. The results which l come are according to the belief which l is entertained about them. One has 1 only to glance through the medical | journals to see that physicians them | selves are condemning many of the l operations and methods which the 1 world at large has been taught to be- lieve would heal them. Almost every 1 one can recall operations and methods | which were quite the rage a few years | ago but are seldom heard of today | and it is perfectly safe to predict that l the surgical procedures which seem successful today will be discarded for l others tomorrow.
 l The casual observer may be made to believe that these operations were l reasoably successful and were only l abandoned because other and better l operative methods had been discovered ! Investigation will show, however. that the operation was most successful dur I ing its early history, and that some thing detrimental-some disturbine after effect-appeared with greater and greater frequency until the meth d
 
 that it had not had time to acquire a l record of failure.
 F CHRISTIAN SCIENCE LOGICAL In what has been said there is no disposition to criticize the medical pro- fession or to minimize whatever of good 1t may be accomplishing. but 1t Is no kindness to them to refrain from stating the truth. The greatest bless | ing that can come to both the coctor and the world is to learn why 1t is l that no material method is of perma- nent avail and that it is God who not
 only "forgiveth all thine iniquities''
 but "who healeth all thy diseases" 1 In my search for the best mental
 means with which to heal the mental 1 conditions which produced disease, I Christian Science came in for its share of investigation. It was the one method l which I thought I did not want be- i cause it would not mix with any of my material thinking, but it was the only | method I could accept because it was the only one which maintained the logic of its reasoning. When human thought is filled witfr fear and belief In disease, no human statement to the
 contrary will suffice, and the thought which heals must be so evidently the l divine idea, that it comes to human ! to destroy and dispel the error. Such
 system is Christian Science and 1t
 only asks to be knoFn by it's fruits.
 ITS DISCOVERER AND FOUNDER 1 It IS essential in undertaking the
 study of Christian Science that one
 should know something of the one to
 whom it was revealed. and some of
 the factors which led to its discovery. The reveiation~rame to Mrs. Eddy be-
 cause particular qualities Of thought which she possessed made it .inevitable
 She was always of deeply religious
 nature. In her secular studies the
 trend of her thought is shown in the fact that her favorite studies were
 natural philosophy, logic and moral science, together with Hebrew. Grsak
 all that she did persistence that i, Ivery striking. study of her life
 shows that every material thing which lmight have brought some sense of sat- iisfaction and peace crumbled to ashes lwithin~her grasp, yet she never fal- Jtered nor lost faith that God would Ishow her the way out if she@persiste ed
 with sufficient diligence She invest ligated every material system of heal ling and finally decided that all causa tion must be mental. yet it required Itwenty years of effort before she real fly understood that all causation was
 Mind. God, and a number of yeare
 more before it had unfolded with suf-
 ficient clarity to be given to the world lSo Christian Science came as a result iof patient. unfaltering effort to Know 4 Gods law. and to the one who pos-
 sessed the qualities of thought which
 made it's revelation humanly possible. Because the study of Christian Sci- cree has enabled us to know the power land love of God and to recognize and Iappreciate much more fully what the Master did for us in his demonstration lof this power and love. we are grate. ful to Mrs. Eddy for having made ii possible. There is no human gift that can compare to the gift of spiritual ,understandinG for 1t .hrinRn joy into