Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-05-02

after 5000 years and more of material
'just as much in the dark as
everf" The interests of humanity and
progress compel the question. Must not
the answer be, because the search for
the cause of disease has been always in
matter? Can any one believe for a
moment that if the cause of disease is In
matter, the patient efforts of scientific
thought for 5000 years could result only
in darkness?
DISEASE is
MENTAL
1t should be apparent, that only as
disease is seen to be mental, belief
heal disease through the operation Of
divine Truth and Love which reverses
and removes the belief of the mortal
mind and neutralizes It's discordant eff
fects? Christian Science declares dis
ease to be mental, belief Of the mortal
mind which is dissipated and healed
by the unfolding idea Of Truth and
Love. A gentleman who was graduated
from a medical school in this country
twenty four years ago was healed In
Christian Science of painful ailment
which his former methods had failed to
relieve. Since that time this man has
devoted his activities to the field of
Christian Science. This gentleman had
occasion recently to revisit the medical
school from which he was graduated.
Upon entering the hall of biology, he
found a roomful of students. each en-
gagged with his own microscope carry
ing out meteorological tests and exam
nations. After being introduced to the
professor in charge, the visitor said .
Professor, how far have you gotten
with this sort Of work." Said the pro.
fessor, what do you mean?" We'll, y
said my friend, II will tell you. Twenty
four years ago / was here, in this very
room doing exactly the same things that
you are doing here now. / wondered
as l came in how far you have gone
with the work in the last twenty four
years; and if you are able to say, yet,
what is the exact nature or form OF the
germ" oh" answered the professor,
looking at him curiously for a moment,
"you came around again in twenty four
yearst" All there is to a germ is a
diseased thought, and all there is 10 a
disease thought germ Is in and of that
carnal mind which Jesus said is a muir
derer from the beginning, and concern
ing which he further said, There Is
no truth in him" Now, II there is no
truth In this mortal mind, this murderer
from the beginning" this belief that
evil is real and that matter is intelligent
according to the words Of the wise
Nazarene Prophet--then there certainly
is no reality in it to be either feared
or honoreG. The Christian Scientist
knows this He is not foOling himself.
He Is not permitting his imagination TO
run riot. He is proving, II his every
day experience, that this mortal mind
cannot produce in its own beliefs, su
perstitions. germs, or whatever else they
may be called tomorrow, anything TO in
terfere with or to overthrow one of the
least of these little ones-one or the
least of these ideas of the divine Mind
or God which unfolds the nature and
character Of mans true selfhOod Each
reached nv nh V6iCal
science regarding the nature of the germ
is a step nearer to the ultimate recogni-
ton that the inception OF disease Is In
mortal belief and not In what appears
TO be matter This being true, why fol-
low devious and painful steps through
matter? Why not accept the scientific.
definite, clear and simple statements OF
fact demonstrated by Christian Science
MEDICATION TREATS
ONLY MATTER-BODf.
The present vogue in systems OF ma
teriaI medication seems to be what Is
called the serum treatment. 1t is not
necessary to go into an exhaustive Qe-
scription of this form Of treatment, be
cause after all has been said upon the
subject that can be said. after the sub
iect has been stripped OF all OF II tech
meal verbiage, IL amounts simply TO this
the injection Of one form or matter
called serum into another form OF
matter calitu DDul. nc LHEOAJ ~
that the matter serum will make the
matter body we'll In systems OF material
medication 1t is the matter-body that is
to be treated. Under this seemingly
plausible theory OF the Application or
matter to matter for the purpose or cor
recting discord and OF establishing har-
mony one might, consistently with this
theory, gather up lot of chalk which
had been used in carrying out erroneous
mathematical calculations in the pubic
schools. From the chalk thus collected
a serum might be evolved This serum
might be injected into other clean, fresh
pieces OF chalk under the theory that
he 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 ire not similar
the piece IF chalk and the human body.
He will tell you that the piece Of chalk
is simply piece OF inorganic inanimate
matter, 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 con
sideration and treated. Let us assume
a blackboard to be allied with erroneous,
Giscordant, sick mathematical calcula-
lions. What Is wrong here? The black
board cannot be eaid 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 related to the
divine. immortal Mind. The human mind
is comprised in the belief that evil is
resI and that matter is intelligent; this
o-called mind Is the producer OF sick
ness and cannot be the healer of disease.
Only the truth embraced In the INFINITE.
divine Mind can correct the errors OF
mortal belief
In order to correct erroneous math-
ematical results no one will argue for
a moment that It is necessary to I'm
prove the structure of the blackboard,
or OF the chalk; nor that 1t Is necessary
to strengthen the hand or the muscles
which have been used In putting down
the erroneous figures. What is 1t that
differentiates the human body from the
piece Of chalk? obviously the human
mind. Take away entirely the human
mind from the human body and there re-
mains matter, Just az inanimate as the
piece of chalk. 1t is, then, the human
mind that must be taken into considera-
ton and treated.
Apart from the evidence which has been
reviewed in this connection who Is will
ing TO admit that material medicine
has the intelligence, when taken into the
system, to go to the exact part OF the
human system, and there do the
exact thing necessary to be done to es-
tabish harmony and to relieve SUFFERING
Does any one believe that inert matter
possesses within itself the intelligence
necessary to do this? The answer can
only be no. Then why continue longer
subject to the idolatrous practice in
volved in matter medicine? Any SEEM
ing good which follows the use of ma
terial medicine IS the result of hypnotic
and human faith in matter.
1t is worthy to be noted that Christian
Science healing follows a strictly legiti-
mate line of thinking; Christian Sci
ence. recognizing sickness to be mental a
discordant sense of the mortal mind, dem
onstrates that only the truth or harmony
of the divine Mind or God can destroy