The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-21

the only germ which produces 1t but that
 there are several othera And these germs are found in as great numbers in
 the mouth of a healthy person as in that
 of a sick one, so that 1t would seem to
 the unprofessional observer that it might just as well be argued that the healthy
 persons health is due to germs as to
 maintain that the sick one's sickness IS
 caused by it, since the same germs are
 present both in sickness and health.
 Moreover, the germ theory could only
 be established by maintaining that there
 is just one particular germ for each
 disease, causing its peculiar train of
 symptoms, for in no other way could the
 individual characteristics of the disease
 be accounted for. But once having es-
 abolished the belief that germs produce
 disease and finding repeatedly that the
 right one was not present, it was neces-
 sary to maintain that some other germ
 was the offender, in spite of the fact
 that this offers the basis for disproving
 the whole germ theory. because it is an
 admission of the exact opposite of the
 foundation on which 1t rests.
 Now, many physicians are beginning to recognize the difficulty in which they
 find themselves; the confusion and con tradiction of it all. They are beginning to state that it is probable that germs
 do not cause disease after all. because one after another of the most fundA-
 mental conclusions about them are be- ing shaken.
 The things that seemed amply proved
 few years ago are now proving to be false. Thousands of cattle, comprising choice herds of milch cows, have beer
 destroyed because bacteriologists knew that they had tuberculosis and were giv- ing it to humanity, yet now they know that cows never caused single case o'
 human tuberculosis. And anyone who re- sponded to tuberculin as a test for tu
 berculosis was branded as having it. al though now it is found that 95 per cent of well people respond to this test ano
 the healthier they are the more vigor'
 ousiy they respond
 The more recent history of disease the apparent control of some contagious condition on the one hand and the un- controllable epidemic on the other-is baffling to the materialist but an open book to anyone who has some degree of spiritual understanding.
 RESULTS OF WRONG THINKING | All the varied beliefs in disease may be likened to river of material thought. At one time it was wide and shallow | stream spread out over a great breadth of materiality, for there were many sup posed causes and conditions regarding it. An intellectual effort was made to stor | it's flow by dam composed Of all the material curative measures in use. A I constant effort was made to stop the I leaks and repair the breaks which the
 beliefs in sickness made in the dam, with
 whatever was believed would best serve, whether it was medicine, or climate. or | diet, or some other so-called curative measure. The total amount Of sick ce- | liefs that were going over the dam was not lessened at all, but they did not often break through very violently at one 1 place. As time went on the peiiels changed; the river became narrow ana deep It's source-the beliefs in disease 1 had not grown less but the channel of thought through which it flowed was narrowed down so that it covered less ground, because the many and varied De- 1 liefs regarding the cause Of disease nao | in most instances given way to the peiei 1 in germs The dam still obstructs the ! flow of the stream and the beliefs in dis l ease break through as before. The pc I lief in germs breaks through perhaps III l the form of diphtheria. but there IS comparatively strong belief that tneie
 is material on hand which will stop this 1 difficulty Then ferhaps the germs break through In typhoid, but here too there IS material which at this time is believed | in with sufficient confidence to stop the l flow But finally the belief in germs l br eaks thpough .as influenza or pneumo- mia. whaso there is no material pellei which Is sufficiently strong to stop II I and it flowu until it is down to its nor nal level
 | t0 ease that disease will be manifested If may delude itself into thinking it is making progress by apparently check ing some one disease but the total man. l lifesation is not lessened in the least. The only way to be rid of sdisease lie to stop it at it's source. The beliefs 1 from which it proceeded must be re- | lplaced by spiritual understanding. Then shall we see in place of this stream oi ! sickness and death the river of Life a nure river of water of life. clear as crystal, proceeding out or the throne ol which John saw. And he showed me !, God and of the Lamb. In the midst of ! inc street of it. and on either side oi l the river was there the tree of life which bare twelve manner Of (ruits l and yielded her fruit every month; and ! the leaves of the tree were for the heal l ing of the nations" Not material med l icine. but the leaves of tneltree of Life
 which is watered by the river of Life which proceeds from the throne of God l has God provided for our healing.
 E THE BIBLE REVEALED
 l Because Christian Science Is tho statement of the divine laws of Life | Truth, and Love. which Jesus taught and demonstrated so many centuries ago, the spiritual understanding gained l through it's study unfoids the Scrip lures in most marvellous way. Lan- guage has developed down through the l ages so that we now have terms which
 were not in use in Bible times and which are particularly helpful in teach | ing spiritual facts. One of these is the word mind. When the Old Testament was written there seems to have been no sues word in use and where this word is found in our King James Yer.