Arizona republican., 1921-11-14

numbers of the medical faculty who
 boldly disclaim that bacteria have
 anything more than possibly a help
 ful role to play in disease. By these
 authorities disease germs are re-
 garded as merely scavengers, which
 are usually present for a wholly be- nign purpose. Writing recently in
 The Medical Record, one of the most
 prominent surgeons in America an-
 nounced: with regard to the germ
 and the theory of it's action in disease
 and the transmission of disease (ex-
 cept as secondary invaders) all the
 facts of my experience are in opposi-
 tion to the present teaching. The an-
 cient belief that the sick man was
 possessed with a demon which must
 be driven out has it's modern parallel
 in the belief that the starting point of
 disease is in the introduction of a for
 eign agent into the body. The germ
 is the modern demon. You have
 but to substitute the idea of the
 germ for the idea of the demon and
 the medical practice of today is but a kind of exorcism." He continues: "AS Lloyd George has said. The
 whole world must be re-made,' and in the reconstruction medical and
 surgical practice must be reformed"
 His conclusions, from exhaustive ex- periments, are that diseases are caused by poisons produced by ne
 crosis and decay of cellular tissues. T have found," he says, that mans
 greatest enemy is his own decaying | tissue"
 | Note that in this newest theory | of disease. a man is made i'll, not 1 from without, but from within. An ! nf re- no 0f ha <a1pi1-
 oscope, for here, as always, material medicine consistently looks to mat | ter as the cause of it's own diseases, | and to remove the offending tissues, l lays hands rudely upon the helpless | body.
 Jesus said: "A mans foes. shall | be they of his own household and | Mrs. Eddy has shown that a mans | household is his mentality. Meta
 physically viewed, this new medical ] .neory reveals that mortal man is
 made i'll by his own false beliefs. | Mrs. Eddy said that fifty years ago. | The proper the scientific way, to | get rid of disease is not to excise
 the effect, but rather to correct the
 cause. Christian Science heals and I prevents disease, just as it abolishes
 all other inharmonies, through the | destruction of false beliefs by the
 application to them of spiritual | truth.
 The abandonment of the germ the | ory will mark the end of the fear of | contagion and preventive medicine l and public health will be established to be cleanliness of thought and ac- Il tion, the only way to health and hol- I mess. The hour will come for all,
 even as 1t is now come with many, when the divine Mind will supplant matter in the treatment of the sick. i Even now, the healing art is i'm pregnated with the leaven of Spirit. | Christian Science is illustrating the | inevitable reunion of religion and | medicine which must come to pass | as both advance into more spiritual I attitudes. There will come a day
 when the unity of health and holi- ness will appear. Then religion at the sickbed will no longer be help : less; then the pastor making his ! rounds will no longer delegate half | his office to the medical practitioner. II Then Christ will be seen to be not
 only ''the head of the Church." as ] Paul declares, but also as he goes on l to say. "the Saviour of the body" }, THE DiscOvERER, FOUNDER, LEADER.
 l What shall we say of the Discov-
 erer of Christian Science, of the ' Founder of the Movement, of her who is today, as she has been from |. the beginning. it's inspired Leader r What shall we say of that good and | pure woman, that Mary, who echoed the cry of the prophet of old: Re
 vive thy work, O Lord; In the midsi ] of the years make known" Througf
 her inspiration and devotion, to null
 titudes the way of health and holi-
 ness has been made known, in des-
 olate hearts the work of righteous ness has been revived. Mary Baker !, Eddy, frail of body, though strong oi spirit. at the age of forty-five, view ed not her life in retrospect. but witf forward vision entered with eager ness upon a life of unremitting toi l in the service of humanity.
 : Have you ever heard it said that 1, God did not seek Mrs. Eddy? Oh : but He did seek her, He chose hel s to be the Revelator of Truth, Christ to this age, because she sought God as the source of ultimate Truth . sought Him so devotedly that she be- y came worthy to receive and reflect ' the message God had for just such 2 | purified consciousness as hers What fl ever God does to man, He doe: e through man, and He always select: the individual best fitted for tht , work Mrs. Eddy sought God ant found Him upon the Sinai of revela- !; tion, the Horeb peak of uplifted spir- ol itual thought. There, alone witt E God, she wrote the Christian Sci = ence textbook, Science and Heaitl et with Key to the Scriptures, book eI which second only to the Bible 1T nl its influence upon human lives, il ;. operating to heal and to save. There e alone with God, she founded grea : Church, the only organization in thu = worlds history greater and stronge . than the individuals comprising it | membership. There, alone with God i. she wrote The Church Manual. Tn
 Manual of The Mother Church. ade n quate now as always to guard. { e govern and to guide The Church, it l. activities, and it's members. Tn 7 Rules and Bylaws of the Manua V she said will do for the race wha "a absolute doctrines destined for flu a ture generations might not accom- l., plish." (Manual. p. 3)
 l. In her book. Science and Healt
 with Key to the Scriptures. Mir a Eddy tells us that the Bible WE ,fl her only guide to the Mount of Wis L. ion, the never failing source of h. d inspiration. Patiently she sought i la treasures, found thenS and gave the Ie to the world. Hers was love ft ,f humanity that gave all and aske lo nothing in return She has receive Il without measure the love and grat ,- tude of countless thousands. who: nl lives she ordered out of chaos. $. whom she brought the healing ar s, saving Christ and who through h. l. precept and example are learnin