The Cordova daily times., 1922-08-08


 desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them" The Revised Version puts it, "What things soever ye desire, when ye pray believe that ve have received them, and ye shall have them" The atti tudc Of the rcvisars has been to make changes only when the previous trans lation was manifestly wrong, so we should be able to accept this latter translation as correct, especially wke2 we consider the fact that it is meth cd of prayer which was probably not fam liar to those who made the trans latior, and no doubt many people who are numbered among the followers of Christ would scarcely understand how they could consistently offer such a prayer. To the Christian Scientist it is the definite confirmation of his method of prayer We have previous ly brought out the fact that God is Mind and that man is the perfect idea of Mind. manifesting all the qualities of Life and Truth and of Love. When, therefore, there comes! to human con- sciousness a thought of sickness and we desire to be conscious of health, we declare in the words of the Master that we "have received" health be- cause it is the spiritual fact that Gods child is always well, and we find that the Masters promise, "and ye shall have it." is fulfilled to the degree we have understood.
 The reasoning of Christian Science brings divine Love close to human ex- perience The recognition that God is Mind and that man is His perfect idea is the basis for Christian Science healing. When we measure our thoughts by this divine standard and undertake as far as possible to enter tain only that thought which we know to be of God the thought which has made us sick or unhappy is eliminated. THE EFFECTIVENESS OF TRUTH
 The belief that one kind of disease or abnormal condition of the body is harder to heal than another is not the fact. and this erroneous thought should be denied. No wrong physical condi- tion can be manifested for an instant except as it is the expression of wrong thinking, and right thinking eliminates one wrong thought as readily as an other. Every claim of illness or sin or of discord which comes to Christian Science for healing is not task to be done but one more welcome opportun- ity to prove again that Christian Sci ence heals. Progress is the law of God" Mrs Eddy has said, and it is possible to study Gods law without making progress. Like the child with his daily lessons, we may not be con- scious that we know more today than we did yesterday, yet with added un- derstanding we should approach the problem with confidence today, which yesterday seemed not to yield.
 AS a result of much experience in Christian Science I do not hesitate to say that a physical diagnosis of dis ease is not only unnecessary but may be harmful. It is sometimes proposed on the ground that it will enable the Christian Scientist to know just what conditions to deny. What is needed is the recognition and declaration of mans perfection as the divine idea, and whatever is contrary thereto should be denied. We do not need to know more about disease but more about God A famous physician has said that in his diagnoses he has been wrong half the time. What is the use denying beliefs from which the patient has never suffered? The thought that an uncovered medical belief can frus- trate divine Truth is giving to ma teriality a power it does not have. We need to know that Truth declared heals not only that which is seen but that which is unseen. One to whom healing comes slowly and by de- grees is heard to say, "I wonder what is holding me?" If you have been made to believe that there is something holding you, that is all that is neces- sary to retard your progress. On the Western plains a saddle horse is trained to believe that when the reins are thrown on the ground that it is tied to that spot It is prevented from moving only because it believes that there is something holding it. We need to see that there is nothing hold ing us but divine Love, and nothing ] | Il.