The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-12-11


later shows that that great army in the
hands Of Elisha was as clay in the
hands OF the potter.
Note also the Shunammite woman
who held steadfastly to the fact that
man never dies, that death is an
illusion. Her son, TO human sense, had
died. She went to the prophet Elisha
for help. In answer to his inquiry. is
it well with the child?" she answered.
1T is well" Brave motheri brave re-
ply! That answer in the face of the
supposed finaHty of sense evidence has
eheered the unwavering faith of un-
numbered thousands down through the
centuries. Her vision had pierced the
veil Of materialism and she saw that
man is deathless. Her steadfast reli-
ance on God, despite the opposing evil
denees of the senses. was rewarded and
her son was. restored to life through
the ilumined prayer of the fearless
prophet.
coRPoREAL SENSE EVIDENCE
MISLEADING.
Christian Scientists, therefore, do
not accept the conclusions Of the physi-
cal senses as they formerly did. They
truly have, to a degree at least, made
the discovery that spiritual sense
alone guides them and that the physical
senses cognize a world which has no
real existence. Like the great spiritual
thinkers of the Bible, they see differ
emily, and act differently than they did
when they accepted the evidences of
the corporal senses. Let us notice
they became Christian Scientists, they
associated fear with disease. They felt
themselves more or less hopeless in
contending with it. They thought of
disease as condition of the physical
body, whereas they now know that it is
a wrong state of mind And then, in
the background of thought always
lurked the spectre that sooner or later
death would be the inevitable outcome.
OF many things mortals are uncertain,
but of one thing they believe that they
are certain, namely that death is un-
escapable. Eow differently Christian
Scientists view these things. They
know that God never created disease,
and that a right understanding of Him
completely destroys disease. They see
that all there is< Of disease is fear and
acceptance by the sufferer of a false
mental picture. When mental picture
of disease gains a Judgment in thought,
either consciously or unconsciously, it
may sooner or later apparently be
manifested on the body as a so-called
disease. How does a Christian Scientist
handle this situation? BY prayer, sci
entific righteous prayer, in which he
declares the purity and perfection Of
God and his creation, man,
and the universe. He denies
that man, as the perfect child Of God,
can manifest anything less than the
purity and perfection Of his Creator. He
the disease to a false concept
OF the human mind. denies the power of
that concept to control the man. and
when the mesmerism of the false be-
lief has been broken through the appli-
cation of the Truth as revealed through
Christian Science, and the mental pic
ture eradicated from thought, the pa
tient is healed This spiritual healing
illumiues the patient. He sees that the
healing is of God and he gives to God
the glory You remember that when
Jesus healed the sick, they glorified
God. When Peter healed the lame man
at the gate of the temple, we are told
that he entered with them into the
walking, and leaping, and
praising Cod Joy, gratitude and
praise of God. always follows spiritual
healing The healed one enters into the
temple, the consciousness Of divine
Truth and beholds the glory and PEI
lection Of God and man, and the moth
ingness of ehe mortal dream.
In a like manner, Christian Scien-
lists do not accept the teachings of
and medical works. Physi-
ology and medical works are deduc-
lions regarding men gained from the
physical senses. These deductions are
that man is physical lives in the
flesh, and is subject to birth, maturity.
decay and death. Christian Science
accepts the statement about man given
in the first chapter of Genesis: And
God said, Let us make man in our inn
age after our likeness" Since God is
spirit, man. Gods image and likeness,
is spiritual, and this fact is eternal1y
true, despite all the medical theories
and human Conclusions to the contrary.
W nat then, Is wrong ABOUT accepting
the conclusion that man lives in the
flesh? Much If man accepts that
belief. his consciousness Of things di-
vine Is darkened. He is unable through
prayer to prove his divine sonslaip
with God. He IS shut out from the
kingdom of heaven until that false
is destroyed.
THE FALLAcY OF DRUGS.
On the same basis that they refuse
to accept physiology and medical works
Christian Scientists do not use drugs.
They have no occasion to do so, for the
simple reason that they have found in
Christian Science a vastly superior
system Of healing. Furthermore, they
have found that reliance on drugs OBJ
scures spiritual understanding and
alienates men from Cod We cannot
rely on drugs and God at the same
time. Drugs do not really heal sick
ne-s The oily power Of drug is the
false human faith in its efficacy. When
that faith fails, as it surely viii the
d ug no longer has any effect on the