Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1921-02-19

would produce This aggravatlon =.
wen as medicine. so i was evident
'i''' ms too Was mental
MATERIAL METHODS FAN
anyone wno goes back INTO m,
history Of nlaterial medicine IS i,a.
pressed by The fact thai for mr.,
ii'aIlF every diseased aandit;,,
mere mas been "A continual succr~s
'oA "i drugs, one following the of,-
az ANA II is always claimed fo,
'i'e East ohta with the .reatesr On
'"''siasm and positivcness thar If
''rtalliy does heal the disease aud
Ia support of this contrntion rbar..
Ili'y ne offered the records or
: nl'thy cases that have been eutnd
human thought is not much given
10 r'troSrecticn along this line 10 IL
were II would remember that an
, 'h| drugs that have followed each
"thcr IN the treatment of disease
ana nave brtn Succvssiyclv disca,l
'"' hoNe mad the same glowing rec
oFd when they We're first used. Tb,
; IeaSoh lor this is that it is NOT tEa
/ 'FuS but the belief in it which ac-
,phiPllshcs the healing. Those who
discover and bring forth remedy
''fe strong in their belief that il will.
ruI"' because the remedy is the ont
come Of definite conviction as to
now the disease should he treated.
so they obtain marked results
while those who prescribe the same
drug later on have no such deem
conviction, and because of their
previous experience may be even
mildly skeptical. This state of
thought brings about failure.
Because of the new remedy with
IT'S short lived record of$success al
ways takes the place of the old
with its final record of failure.
these successive changes are an
nounccd in the name of progress.
The extent of the failure is seen
in the fact that every material /
thing, vegetable, mineral. and AMI
NAL, which imagination conceived
to have medicinal action has,
hcen tried. The ignorance of the
l't'AiIONlf0 VI Al HutllltN /
years ago is laughed at by the men
who seriously believe that extracts
from calves ana pigs can make
them better men.
Now the history of every mater
.al method including surgery is the
same as that of drugs. The results
which come are according to the
)clief which is entertained about
hem. One has only to glance
through the medical journals to
zee that physicians themselves arei
many of the opera
ions and methods which the world
II large has been taught to believe
would heal them. Almost every one
,an recall operations and methods
which We're quite the rage a few
ears ago but are seldom heard of ,
o-daV, and it is perfectly safe to !
,rcdict that the surgical proceed !
res which seem successful to-day
viii bed iscarded for others tomOr- !
ow. '
The casual observer may be 'nadc !
D believe that these operations i
'ere reasonably successful ana t
,erc only abandoned because other =
nd better operative methods had t
cen discovered. Investigation viii =
how, however, that the operation t
AS most successful during its early Z
istory. and that something detri- {
,ental-some disturbing after of- /
with greater ana tt
reatcr freouencv until the method v
as abandoned for another so new {
1at il had not had time to acquire !
record of faiIu-r
l1pIcTIAN SCIENCE :OcrCAy i
IA, ,ybat has been sid thero IS /
n disnosition IN criticizo the pedi- ;
Al n,nfossion ~. to minimize what I
,o,, or Good il may he .ccounIisb /
70 Inn, If is no Kindness to Them q
rof.,i, fron, stotinc rho t,,uth q
,,a ,,ra,t..t l1a,si,m tbot o,r t
,r,o to hotb tho doctor and tbe u
n,.ld is to loarn ,vbv II is thar no II
aterial method is of permanent Il
vail and that it is God who not C.
lly "forglVeth all thlne lnlqultloS
1t "who healeth all thy diseases
I'm my search for the best menta' =
cans with which to neal the men
! conditions which produced dis y
lSc,, Christian Science came In lof y
5 share of investigation. II was the =
lc method which | thought | dId
1t want because it would not mix y,
tin any of my material thinking -
At ii was the only method ! could
,cept because it was the only one -
hich maintained the logic of its =,
asoning, When human thought IS ."
He'd with fear and belief in dis q.
Use, no human statement to the -
'ntraIy will suffice, and the o.
fought which heals must be 50 =,
'idently the divine idea, that it ~
mes to human consciousness as