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

its own beliefs, superstitions, germs,
or whatever else they may be called
tomorrow, anything to- interfere
with or to overthrow one of the
least of these little ones-one of the
least of these ideas of the divine
Mind or God which unfolds the ma
ture and character of mans true
selfhood. Each successive conclu-
sion reached by physical science re-
garding the nature of the germ Is
a step nearer to the ultimate recog-
milton that the inception Of disease
ts in mortal belief and not in what
appears to be matter. This being
true, why follow devious and pain
full steps through matter? Why
not accept the scientific, definite,
clear and simple statements Of fact
demonstrated by Christian Science?
The present vogue in systems of
material medication seems to be
what is called the serum treatment.
It is not necessary to go into an ex-
haustive description of this form of
treatment, because after all has
been said upon the subject that can
be said, after the subject has been
stripped of all Of it's technical ber-
biage, it amounts simply to this:
the injection of one form of matter
called serum" into another form Of
matter called body" The theory
is that the matter-serum will make
the matter-body we'll. In systems
Of material medication it is the mat
ter-body that Is to be treated. I'm
der this seemingly plausible theory
Of the application Of matter to mat
ter for the purpose of correcting dis
cord and of establishing harmony
one might, consistently with this
theory, gather up a lot of chalk
which had been used in carrying out
erroneous mathematical calculations
in the public schools. From the
chalk thus collected might be evol-
we'd. This serum might be injected
into other clean, fresh pieces of
chalk under the theory that the use
of the chalk, thus inoculated, will
do away with errors of mathematics
in our public schools. Some one may
argue that the two situations are
not similar-one piece of chalk and
the human body He will tell you
that the piece of chalk is simply a
piece of inorganic, inanimate mat
ter, which has neither human sense
nor human intelligence as has the
body. Now we are making rapid
strides. 1t is the human mind, then
associated with the body, which
must be taken into consideration
and treated. Let us assume black
board to be filled with erroneous
discordant, sick mathematical cal
culations. What is wrong. here
The blackboard cannot be said to be
sick, nor the chalk, nor the hand
which made the figures, nor the
muscles which guided the hands
The so-called human mind which
produced the erroneous results is
sick and at fault. This human mind
it should be clearly understood, is
not the divine Mind, nor Is 1t re
lated to the divine, immortal Mind
The human mind is comprised in the
belief that evil is real and that mat
ter is intelligent; this so-callet
mind is the producer of sickness
and cannot be the healer of disease
Only the truth embraced in the in
finite, divine Mind can correct tn
errors of mortal belief.
In order to correct errOneou
mathematical results no one will ar
que for moment that it is neces
sary to improve the structure of tn
blackboard, or of the chalk; nor tina
it il necessary to strengthen tn
hand or the muscles which hav
been used in putting down the er
roneous figures. What is it tina
differentiates the human body frOr
the piece of chalk? Obviously tn
human mind Take away entirel
the human mind from the huma
just as inanimate as the piece c
rtalk 1t is, then. the human min
that must be taken into considers
ton and treated
Apart from the evidence whic
has been reviewed in this conne<
tin, who is willing to admit ths
material medicine has the intell
genoe, when taken into the system
to go to the exact part of the HI
man system, and there to the exat
thing necessary to be done to estal
lish harmony and to relieve suffe
ing? Does any one believe tn;
inert matter possesses within itse
- intelligence necessary to
this? The answer can only be n
why continue longer subje
to the idolatrous practice involve
in matter medicine? Any seemir
good which follows the use of M
ter Il medicine is the result of hy
motto suggestion and human fat
in matter. 1t Is worthy to be no
ed that Christian Science healir
follows a strictly legitimate lire
thinking: Christian Science, reco
nzed sickness to be mental, di
cordant sense of the mortal min
1op,onot,rot that only the frnth