The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1922-03-03

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sad commentary, however, upon
these efforts, that many of the meth
DDS which are followed produce con-
ditions more painful than those
from which humanity would escape.
Never before has the need been so
great as now for a definite and a
final statement of being "a state
ment of being at GnIce Christian and
scientific-which will lead the indi-
vidual into the true understanding
of being and selfhood Evidence of
this need accumulates upon every
side
Announcements recently made in
the newspapers indicate that the
British Medical Association has ap-
proved and adopted a system of
mental therapeutics to be used in
medical practice. The syst EN- adop-
L ted is said to be that of suggestion.
Mental suggestion represents the
action of one human mind upon an
other. Is it not clear, then, that
human thought lcan make use of
suggestion just as readily for evil
purposes as for good? A movement
recently inaugurated to establish
Christian healing in the churches
adopted the method Of hypnotic or
mental suggestion, and this method
was said by the author of the move
ment to be the same as that used
by all other systems of mental heal
ing, including Christian Science, as
well. One will not criticize the
purpose to establish Christian heal
ing in the churches. Indeed, If the
church is to fulfill its true func-
lions, it must inevitably demon
strate the ability to hear and to
obey the command of Jesus not only
to preach the gospel" but also to
"heal the sick" Because, however,
the statement has been made in this
lconnection the Christian Science
uses hypnotic or mental suggestion,
lit is proper to correct this erroneous
assumption. 1t would be difficult
to make a more erroneous state
ment than to say that Christian
|Science makes use of mental sug-
gestion or hypnotism in any man
ner. The use of Ihypnotism or sug-
|gestion contemplates the action Of
lone human mind upon another.
ISufficient has been said upon this
|subject to show that it Is the hui
man or mortal mind that is sick.
How, then, is it possible for the
mind that is sick and that produces
|sickness to be at the same time the
healer of sickness? The same foun-
tain does not send forth both sweet
waters and bitter. The theory that
the human or mortal mind heals
sickness involves hypnotism or sug-
gestion. Moreover, when an oper-
ator who uses hypnotic suggestion
endeavors to suggest to the patient
that the latter is not sick, that 'ht
lis all right, and that there is moth
ing wrong with him, this operator
Is stating something which, from
his own viewpoint, is plain lie
This sort of an operator believes the
patient to be sick; he has no means
by which he cam know and justify
the statement that the patient il
not sick 1t is perfectly clear, there
fore, that when this operator en-
deavors to suggest to patient thai
the patient is not sick, process il
thus introduced which involves liz
at the very outset. No words arr
necessary to show that this process
, is not Christian and that it is no
scientific. 1t is needless to say tina
, it is not Christian Science.
brief statement at this point in
. dicating the procedure of Christian
Science will be Of interest. 1t ha
p, been seen that because the morta
mind produces sickness it cannot a
the same time be the healer of sick
ness. We come, at this point, to on
of the most important points in TIL
q entire theology of Christian Science
+. 1t is this: Because the human o
- mortal mind cannot be its own neal
= err, it follows naturally and newt
ably that the divine Mind, or Goo
. is the only healer and the only med
;, icine which can be used in the lin
- of strict scientific legitimacy to hea
y the sick The action of the divin
:, Mind upon the human mind dhsf
:, buses and deprives the human min
% of the error that evil is real an
= that matter is intelligent. The az
ton of the divine Mind, in this wa.
disabuses and deprives the huma
:, mind of it's false consciousness; an
=, the human mind, being deprived {
- its false cOnscionsness,-or its col
!; sciousness of falsity,-is healed.
this way, briefly stated, the sick al
- healed and the erring are restore
~ to useful lives through the mini
\ trations of Christian Science.
- very different way, all will agre
- from that involved in the unho
II practice of hypnotic suggestion. IN
N use of hypnotism or suggestion,
= anw form, is to be condemned; it
~ an evil which cannot be too stron
"A ly guarded against.
,g One hears occasionally of son
a. person who makes Use of the erro