The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-11-30

nlOgv TO be splrttudhty' u'St ~,
recognized 20 constitute puDnD
health. As for socalled communl.
cable Diseases Mrs. Eddy required
strict obedience 10 quarantine regu-
lations. respecting not only the law
OF the land. but public senument
also. Nevertheless. she knew that
the only real germ IL the germ ot
spiritual Truth. which when cut
turcd In human consciousness neN'I
ceases its growth till the whole luinp
of mortal thought Is spiritualiHed l
and mans true selfhood appears /
This germ is highly infectious ana
contagious, yet IL produces, not dls
ease. but health, not discord, bu'
harmony, not death, but HE.
But you say how can one question /
the germ theory OF disease "heh
one may readily see the actual germ
under the microscope Tne germ
theory IA not provable by the mlsro-
scope any more surely than
mirage OF the desert would be estap-
/ lished as A reality because seen
/ through n telescope. Neither mag
nifying nor minimizing error can
make u true, ,,--.
As to the germ theory Of disease,
/ there has arisen the usual tallurc on
I tho doctors to agree. iaIuou'
military surgeon recently Is reported
to have said that the more bacIerla
one brcathcd. the less liable one
would become TO disease, because It
/ tho Immunity established through
the system becoming accustomed 10
/ fo,u conditions. In other WORDS. 10
become immune from disease, get
on familiar terms with ulsehSc
germs Familiarity with bacteria, 1.
seems breeds not only contempt put
immunity Neverthc iess shch i,m m,
munity IL not material, after all nut
mental. That would seem TO De
hnrno ont by tho fact that physicians
rarely take the diseases with whlch
thcy are thrown. CThey @mos'
never take their own medicineAl
Again. "A class of invesuguIoIs'
numbering representatives or the
public health service ana mNhy
scientists from our great uniVersitle
enter "A complete denial OF the gelyn
theory substituting therefor tn
worm theory These scientists aver
} that so-called germ diseases are IN
reality worm diseases and already
J the lengthy list OF vegetable bacteria
! is parallel by a replacer set or am
! mai worms There would seem Il
! he small choice between being cou'
70 mmed b. germs or eaten by worms
but this innovation in medlcal tie
2 uries presents another realignmeh
g The facts are that Just as th'
atomic theory gave place 10 chang
70 Ing thought embodied in the theor!
J. that matter is electricity or hole
= in tho other. and tins prefignret
8 further and more nearly final the
orics. so has the germ theory o
!. disease begun 20 disintegate, unde
II the restiveness of the material SCI
u entist's thirst for ultimate know
n sidered folly 20 challenge the gerr
v theory. Todrv, we have actuall
n arrived at it's breaking up. There ar
y large and growing numbers OF IN
) medical faculty who boldly disciaiT
N that bacteria has anything mos
B. than possibly a helpful role 10 pla
J. in disease. BY these authorities uls
i ease germs are regarded as merel
= sCayengers, which are usually pres
y Writing recently in Tho Medlc'
NJ Record, one of the most prominei
y surgeons in America announced
4. with regard to the germ ana IN
: theory of It's action In disease an
the transmission of disease teXcept
secondary invaders) all the facts
ic my experience are in opposition
be the present teaching. The anciei
1c belief that the sick man was po
=
driven out has it's modern parallel
to the bellet that the starting point
of disease IS in the Introduction OF
he foreign agent into the BODY
n germ is the modern demon. 1C
or have but to substitute the lde2 OF u
~ germ for the idea of the demon az
sc the medical practice of today IS %
ry a Kind Of cNOrCism.' lie C,9nt,.i,i,,u, .,,,,,
en- AS Lloyd George has said.
tu N...
ais the reconstruction, medic al
% surgical practice must bo r
10 formed" Ills conclusions. from g
he haustive experiments, are thht a.
he eases are caused by poisons pr
tio duced bv necrosis and decay.
he cellular tissues. II have found
lat says, that mans greatest enemy
ne, his own decaying tissue
W Note that In the newest theory
In disease, not a man Is mace H. y
ly- from without. but from within. A
re- other rearrangement OF the kaleid
es. scope! For here, as always, III
no terial medicine constantly JOCKS
lat matter as the cause OF its own d
or eases, and to remove the oiehdl
ny tissues. lays hands rudely upon |
sic helpless body.
eir Jesus said: i mans tUc shah
vi they of his own household Il
-AN MES. EuuN mas olApNh eii'N
OF household Is his mentality. Me-
ext physically viewed, this new medl'
ely theory reveals that mortal man
made ill by his own false belle
Geo Mrs. Eddy said that so years a.
ith The proper, the scientific way,
irit got rid of disease is not to excise
wv effect, but rather to correct
not cause Christian Science heals a
In prevents disease, just as II aoolisl
and all other in harmonies, through
uai destruction of false beliefs by
ON application to them Of spirit
tu- truth.
18th The abandonment of the &c
~er theory will mark the end OF the 4
not OF contagion and preventive m
Ihe icine and public health viii be
ana tablished 10 DO cleanliness
you thought and action. the only way
an health and holiness. The hour
rlai come for .all, oven as 1t IL now co
rlaI with mary, when the divine M
NOT will suppkant matter In the tire
'th- ment OF the sick. Even now,
a healing ard is impregnated with
ma. leaven Of Spirit. Christian Scie
nol is ilustratlng the inevitable reun
ody OF religion and medicine which m
kgF a n No n