Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-09-12
SASS SCIENCE
HEALED HIM

Al this Juncture a friend recon-
mended that he try Christian Science. He
did so and was quickly and permanently
healed. The Christian Scientist. under
standing the omnipotence and omnipres-
ence OF divine Min J. was enabled 10 prove
to the patient the unreality OF pain and
this healed him, and awakened within
MIN a desire to know more abouC God
something which never takes place under
the soporihc influence Of mesmerism or
hypotism.
From various human quarters there
comes the amazing assertion that Chris
tian Science treatment is nothing but
human suggestion. Any one who knows
how to give scientific treatment, knows
that suggestion plays no part In it
When one learns how the sick are healed
in Christian Science, one will neither ad-
vocateNnor make use Of hypontic sugges-
ton. Suggestion is the child Of self will :;
IL Is lawless human make believe,
which neither heals nor blesses.
Hundreds of men and women have
mad their experience with the so-called
clever salesman, who persuaded them
against their own better judgment to
purchase some needless article This
phase Of wllful suggestion NAV some
times appear to be clever, but it is never
Christian. travelling salesman. for
getting the Golden Rule. and wishing TO
esta bhsh record for himself, sometimes
yields TO the temptation to make use of
suggestion. What is the RESULT Word
soon reaches him from his house that
certain orders taken bv him a short time
Lefore have been cancelled by letter or
wire from the purchaser If statesmen
were Christian Scientists they would
surrender their positions rather than stoop
to such wrong methods.
With certain class of business men
q successful salesman is one who can
sell a bill Of goods to a dealer who
does not need them. Christian Science
dose not support any such theory nor
does 1t uphold any such practice
salesman has no right to argue mentally
that certain dealer wants his goods
and that he will buy them whether be
needs them or not. The use of mental
argument by which to accom- pIish auv
selfish purpose is prohibited in Christian
Science.
Human autocracy, personal domino
tlon-all selfish human control. plays no
part in legitimate business. Instead of
being remedial or constructive, it spells
inevitable disappointment and defeat for
any one who continues, either Ignorant
ly or Intentionally, to make use Of it.
SCIENCE NOT
HOLDING THOUGHT.
Asking our friends to hold good
thoughts for US is a careless habit. If
we want them to treat u.s. to pray for
US scientifically, we should say So 1t
should be stated, right here, that hold
Ing thoughts for persons in order to
smooth over their aches and palms Is
not the practice Of Christian Science. The
rule for Christian conduct In Christian
Science is TO keep ones own thought pure
at all times, and to believe only what Is
spiritually true about God and man.
This rule definitely separates Christian
Science treatment from the practice of
sO-called mental science and new
thought
Christian Science so thoroughly re-
flutes the false claims of clairvoyance,
that when a clairvoyant turns to Science
for help, he soon loses all faith in his
art and forsakeS its practice. The sooner
such erroneous practice is destroyed, the
better for humanity, for some of the
saddest of human experiences have come
10 those who have been induced to be-
iieve its misleading divinations.
christian Science treatment is the
plain and simple truth. understood and
demonstrated, which makes free indeed.
1t Is the prayer of those who think and
live above the plane of human suggestion.
AT this particular time, when the
thought OF the human body is being so
abnormally accentuated. when spiritual
ism and mediumship are so obsessng the
public thought, and the unavailing at
tempt Is being made TO associate the
name of our revered Leader Mrs Eddy
with those who believe IN communion
with the departed, let it be said that Mrs
Eddy never believed In spirttualisfn, nor