The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1921-12-03

/ Chalk ana the human BODY. he Will
tell you that the piece OF chalk is sitnp-
~ riecc OF inorganic. inanimate mat
| ter, which has neither human sense nor
human intelligence as has the body.
Now. we are making rapid strides. 1,
is tho human mind. then. associated
with the body. which must be taken
into confederation and treated. Let us
! assume a blackboard to be f1lled with
erroneous, discordans. siclp mathmeti-
cal calculations. What is wrong herel
The blackboard cannot be said TO be
sick, nor the chalk, nor the hand which
| made the figures. nor the muscles
which guided the hand. The so-called
| human mind which produced the err
| roneous results is sick and at fault
This human mind. IL should be clear
~ understood. 10 not the divine Mind
nor Ia IL related 20 the divine, inmof-
tai Mind. The human mind is COM
prised in the belief that evil IS real
ana that matter fs intelligent This SO.
ness and cannot be the healer of dis
ease. Only the truth embraced in the
infinite. divine Mind can correct the
| errors OF mortal belief.
| In order to correct erroneous mathe-
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| moment that IL is necessary to i'm
prove the structure OF the blackboard
| or Of the chalk: nor that it is neces-
| sary to strengthen the hand or the
muscles which have been used in put
ting down the erroneous figures. VIVA,
Is IL that differentiates the human body
| from the piece OF chalk? Obviously II
| Is the human mind. Take away entire
atr4
body and there remains.--matter, Just
as inanimste as the piece of chalk
II fe. then. tho human mind that must
be taken into consideration and treat
| ed
Having seen disease to be mental
who will contend for the use Of mater
ial medicine7 II has been seen that
matter medicine cannot reach the men,
tai cause OF disease. Apart. however,
from the material evidence which has
been reviewed In this connection. who
Is willing to admit that a material
medicine has the intelligence, when
taken into the system. TO go to the
exact part of the human system, and
there do the exact thing necessary 20
De done TO establish harmony and TO
relieve suffering? Does any one be-
iieve that inert matter possesses with
i, IN itself the intelligence necessary 20
do this? The answer can only be no
Then why continue longer subject to
the idoiatrous practices involved IN
matter medicine7 Any seeming good
which follows the use OF material mad
,cine Is the result of hypnotic susges-
ton and human faith In matter. n ia
worthy TO be noted that Christian
science healing follows a strictly ieei-
innate line OF thinking. Christian
Science. recognizing sickness TO be
mental. q discordant sense of the NOR
tai mind. demonstrates that only tina
truth OF the divine Mind or God can
destroy this discordant sense of the
mortal mind.
PhECAUTfoN AND AVOIDANCE
Human beings are STRUGGLING in
way out OF the wilderness of belief
and discord into which mortal think
ing has plunged them. 1t Is a sad
commentary, however, upon these ef-
forts, that many OF the methods which
are followed produce conditions more
painful than those from which human
ify would escape. Never before has
the need been so great as now for a
btAt9mGHL
ing--a statement OF ching once
Christian and scientiic--which will
lead the individual into the true I'M
Outstanding of being and selfhood
Evidence OF this need accumuiates up
on every side.
Announcements recently made in the
newspapers indicate that the British
Medical Association has approved and
adopted a system of mental therapeu-
tics to be used in medical practice. The
system adopted is said 10 be that of
suggestion. Mental suggestion repre-
sents the action of one human mind
upon another. IL il not clear, then,
that human thought can make use OF
suggestion just as readily for evil pur-
poses as for good? \ movement re-
Gently tnaugurated to establish Chris
tian healing in the churches adopted
the method Of hypnotic or mental sug-
gestion. and this method WAS said by
the author of the movement to be
the same that used by all other
systems of mental healing, including
Christian Science, as we'll One Will not
criticise the purpose to establish Chris
tian healing in the churches. Indeed.
~ the church is to fulfil its true func-
lions, IL must inevitably demonstrate
the ability to hear and 60 obey the
command OF Jesus not only to preach
the gospel" but also to heal the sick"
Because. however, the statement has
been made in this connection, that
Christian Science uses hypnotic or
mental suggestion. II Is proper to cor
rect this erroneous assumption 1t
would be difficult to make more er-
roneous statement than TO say that
Christian Science makes use OF mental
suggestion or hypnotism in any man
ner. The use of hypnotism or sugges-
tion contemplates the action of one
human mind upon another. Sufficient
has been said upon this subject to
show that il is the human or mortal
mind that is sick. How, then. Is it
possible for the mind that is sick and
that produces sickness to be at the
same time the healer of sickness? The
same fountain does not send forth
both sweet waters and bitter. The
theory that the human or mortal mind
heals sickness involves hypnotism or
suggestion. Moreover. when an opera
tor who uses hypnotic suggestion en-
deavors to suggest to the patient that
the latter is not sick, that he is all
r,s ht, and that there Is nothing wrong
with him, this operator is stating
something which. from his own view
v,ofpt 10 a Main lie This sort of an