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

II IdliS. An0tner Is substituted, and so
an endless round OF drugs is paraded
before the public, each claiming virtue
but each destined to the same failure.
With this record Of failure after four
thousand years of effort, is it not
proved that there is something funda-
mentally wrong with the drugging sys-
tenn? The Psalmist tells us that it is
God who hea1eth all thy diseases" and
since God is the healer. there cannot
possibly be any other healer. Suppose
you should pick UP your morning paper
and read that drug had been discov-
cred which was claimed to be an infal-
Ible panacea for disease. What would
that mean? It would mean that a pow
er was claimed which was based on
matter and which assumed the prerog-
atives Of the divine power. Since God
has all power. then evil, drugs, and
tence includes all and there is no power
left for any other agency to use. and
this fact is eternaaly true.
MATERIAL KNOWLEDGE LEADS
TO DISEASE AND DEATH
Christian Scientists have learned
from the study of the Bible and the
writings of Mrs. Eddy, and from their
own experiences, that there is a vast
amount of knowledge floating around
in human thought which is ephemeral,
Elusive, unnecessary. It is knowledge
based entirely on the evidences of the
physical senses, and the more we know
of this knowledge, the more deeply our
thought is impregnated with it, the
more darkness, pain, and disease we
manifest Why is it that specialists
frequently become the victims of the
diseases they study so assiduously?
and why is it that the study of medi-
cal works tends to bring on i'll health?
He who imbibes material sense tes-
timony and relies on it is like man
working his way into the depths Of a
bog He is in danger at any moment
of being swallowed up in its dark
depths Mrs. Eddy states in Science and
Health, page 299, knowledge gained
from material sense is figuratively
represented in Scripture as a tree,
bearing the fruits of sin, sickness, and
death. Ought we not then to judge the
knowledge thus obtained to be untrue
and dangerous, since the tree is known
by It's fruit?"
Christian Scientists rejoice that they
have accepted the great discovery of
the difference between false human
testimony and that genuine knowledge
of God which heals and saves. The APP
pies of the tree of knowledge of good
and evil no longer allure them. They
know that they must worship the
"a
Master declared, and in their demons
tration Of Christian Science they clear
" hold to these fundamentals; that
God is not man, and man is not God.
but man is the creation, the reflection
of God They know that God is not
in matter nor is matter part of God.
Matter is part of mortal mind, the
fictitious opposite of God. Only as
we recognize the allness of Spirit and
the nothingness of mortal man and
material world can we prove the SUI
premacy of Spirit.
MANS ONENESS WITH GOD THE
ULTIMATE OF CHRISTIAN
SCIENCE.
Christian Science heals the sick;
there is no doubt about that. He would
be a reckless critic indeed, who, at the
present time, would deny that Christ
ian Science does heal the sick. But the
healing of physical Ills is not the ulti-
mate of Christian Science. Christian
Science goes to the bottom of the hui
man mentality, uncovers the latent err
rors Of the human mind and destroys
them, and arouses men to claim their
divine heritage as sons of God. Christ
ian science arouses men to see that
man lives because God lives for mans
life is derived from God. A Christian
Scientist sees that his real business is.
to know and to glorify God. The heal
ing Of sickness and sin is only the pre-
liminry step by which a man sees that
his real duty, his ideal, is to understand
God and to live according to His eter-
nal laws. The writer of Ecclesiastes
summed up the matter when he said,
Fear God and keep His command
ments: for this is the whole duty of
man a mans regeneration has mere
~ commenced when he Is healed Of
ills by Christian Science. Per-
haps dimly at first, but nevertheless
surely, he begins to see perfect model
Ia vision of God who is Spirit, Life
Love, and man and the universe spiri-
tual and eternal. He begins to see a
perfect ideal of manhood based upon
mans eternal sonship with God. He
notes how 1amentably inadequate were
his former habits and Ideals and he
finds that transformation of thought
must take place if he is ever TO attain
this perfect model This perfection of
God il the model all great spiritual
thinkers have seen. Moses saw 1t on
Sinai, Christ Jesus on the mountain Of
the Apostle John on
- 80 T7afrnas And so the man be-
gins to undergo that change OF thought
4uu = ..4s Biple oy various
Terms. conversion. Regeneration"
renewing OF the mind" ''born Of the
Spirit. reconciliation with God" He
begins to measure himself by the model
Of perfect God and perfect man and
eror to thai peri ction Of thouTht
hich the Ps9ltnist say when he said.
le1 wen I wake with