The Cordova daily times., 1922-08-08
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e'"iiio'ioH UT tie exdCL OpOSlLe Ol tue foundation on which it rests
 Now many physicians are beginning to recognize the difficulty in whicf b they find themselves; the confusions and contradiction 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 fundamental conclusions about them are being shaken.
 The things that seemed amply proved a few years ago are now prov ing to be false. Thousands of cattle. comprising choice herds of milch cows. have been destroyed because bacteri- oligists "knew" that they had tuber- culosis and were giving it to humanity, yet now they know" that cows never caused single case of human tuber- culosis. And anyone who responded to tuberculin as a test for tuberculosis was branded as having it, although now it is found that 95 per cent of ' we'll people respond to this test and the healthier they are the more vigor- ously do they respond
 The more recent history of disease the apparent control of some contag- ious condition on the one hand and the uncomfortable epidemic on the other IS baffling to the materialist but an open book to anyone who has some de- gree of spiritual understanding.
 RESULTS OF WRONG THINKING
 All the varied beliefs in disease may be likened to a river of material thought At one time it was a wide and shallow stream spread out over al great breadth of materiality, for there were many supposed causes and condi- tions regarding it. An intellectual ef- fort was made to stop it's flow entirely by dam composed of all the material curative measures in use. constant effort was made to stop the leaks and repair the breaks which the beliefs in
 
 ever was believed would serve, wheth. CT it was medicine, or climate, or diet. or some other so-called curative meas ure. The total amount of sick beliefs that were going over the dam was not lessened at all, but they did not often break through very violently in any one place. As time went on the beliefs changed; the river became narrow and deep. Its source-the be- liefs in disease-had not grown less. but the channel of thought through which it flowed was narrowed dcwn so that it covered less ground, because the many and varied beliefs regarding the cause of disease had in most in stances given way to the belief in germs. The dam still obstructs the flow Of the stream and the beliefs in disease break through as before. The belief in germs breaks through Der haps in the form of diphtheria, but there is comparatively strong belief that there is material on hand which will stop this difficulty. Then perhaps the germs break through in typhoid, but here too there is ma terlal which at this time is believed in with sufficient confidence to stOp the flow. But finally the belief in germs breaks through as influenza or pneumonia, where there is no mates, rial belief which is suffientIy strong to stop it and it flows until it is down to it's normal level
 It is inevitable that just so long as the world builds up it's belief in dis ease that disease will be manifested1 It may delude itself into thinking it is making progress by apparently checking some one disease, but the total manifestation is not lessened in the least
 The only way to be rid of disease is to stop it at it's source. The beliefs from which it proceeded must be re- placed by spiritual understanding. Then shall we see in place of this stream of sickness and death the river of Life which John saw And he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. Tn the midst of the street of it. and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her the tree were for the healing of the nations" Not material medicine but the leaves of the tree of Life, which is watered by the river of Life, which