The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-11-04
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
LECTURE GIVEN
Continued from Second Page

the acceptance by the sufferer Of
false menta, picture. When a mental
picture of disease gains Judgment in
thought, either consciously or uncon-
sciously, it may sooner or later APP
parentIy be manifested on the body as
so called disease How does Chris \
tian Scientist handle this situation
BY prayer, scientific 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 pur-
ity and perfection Of his Creator. lie
reduces the disease to false concept
Of the human mind, denies the power
of that concept to control the man,
and when the mesmerism of the false
belief has been broken through the
application of the Truth as revealed
through Christian Science and the men
tai picture eradicated from thought,
the patient il healed. This spiritual
healing ilumines 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 glori
fed God. When Peter healed the lame
man at the gate of the temple, we
were told that he entered with them
into the temple, walking, and leaping.
and praising God" JOY, gratitude,
and praise OF God, always follow spir-
iual healing. The healed one enters
into the temple, the consciousness OF
divine Truth, and beholds the glory
and perfection OF God and man, and
the nothingness Of the mortal dream.
Tn like manner, Christian Scien-
fists do not accept the teachings OF
physiology and medical works. Physi-
ology and medical works are deduc-
tons regarding man gained from the
phvsical 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 statemnt about man given in the
first chapter of Genesis: And God
said Let us make man in our image,
after our likeness" Since God is Spir-
it. man, Gods image and likeness, Is
spiritual. and this fact is eternally
true despite all the medical theories
and human conclusions to the, con
gtrary. What then, is wrong about ac-
cepting the conclusion that man lives
in the flesh. Much If a man accepts
that belief his consciousness OF things
divine is darkened. He is unable
through prayer To prove his divine
sonship with God He is shut out
from the kingdom of heaven until that
false conclusion 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
50. for the simple reason that they
have found in Christian Science
vastly superior system of healing
Furthermore. they have found that re-
lance on drugs obscures spiritual un-
derstanding and alienates men from
God We cannot rely on drugs and
God at the same time. Drugs do not
really heal sickness The only power
Of a drug is the false human faith in
its efficacy. When that faith fails,
as II surely will, the drug no longer
has any e0etT on lHe DouN. Ouf Eicns
master. Christ Jesus, knew that there
was no innate value in drugs, never
recommended them, never used them.
He knew they had no power over the
spiritually minded. He declared q
those who believed and understood tile
Christ Truth that IF they drink any
deadly thing, it shall not hurt them
Now let us examine briefly the re-
suits of the drugging system. Il Is
OF pagan originl Historians tell us
that the system has been in operation
som four thousand years. What re-
suits have accrued to the race from
this expenditure of talent and effort
over forty centuries2 Several things
stand out prominently. Diseases have
and to-day there IS not a
single drug upon the market that is
an infallible panacea for any human
ill., The drugging system Is purely
tentative, experimental. A drug Is
used to cure disease; it fails. An
other is substituted, and so an end
less round of drugs is psraded before
the public, each claiming virtue but