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

The so-called human or mortal mind
claims evil to be greater in power than
good. This is not surprising, however.
when we recognize that mortal mind
holds the unworthy and degrading be
lief that evil is real and that matter is
! intelligent. One may not grasp the
significance of the statement immedi-
ately. nevertheless II is true, that
all OF the sin, sickness and destruction
that has come into the world Of hui
man experience has come as the result
OF the operation in thought of this de-
grading belief. Unfortunately for the
human race. uninstructed by Christian
Science. human consciousness has lost
sight of what is wrong. Owing TO this
erroneous mental procedure which ac-
cepts evil as real and matter as intel
ligent, human beings have found them
selves confronted with a seemingly in
applicable and mysterious state OF eI-
istence, which expresses itself in sin.
sickness. and death,-a state or exist
ence wholly without foundation or sup
port in Truth and Love. and wholly at
variance with the nature of divine Prin
ciple Christian Science comes TO the
consciousness which believes evil to be
real and matter to be intelligent and
begins Immediately to remove from ex-
perience the laneful effects which spring
from the error to which we have re-
ferred. This is done by restoring to
the individual the understanding of what
constitutes the nature nd character of
God, and by unfolding the understand
| ing OF what cODstitu -es true selfhooo
or the divine Image and likeness" Up
on the basis OF the understanding Of
what constitutes mans true selfhood
as revealed in Christian Science the in
dividual begins straightway, consciously
and intelligently, to deny, to cast out,
to repudiate and to refuse too be gov
erned by the suggestions which grow
out of the wholly illegitimate belief in
volving the reality of evil and the in
telligence OF matter. Principle IL always
Principle, and embraces within itself the
eternal qualities Of God. the qualities
Of Life. of Love and of Mind, which
constitute all being and reality. Hence.
that which makes evil seem to be real
and matter seem to be intelligent is the
waywardness of mortal thought which
sees as real whatever it believes.
NATIONAL THEORIES
INCONSISTENT.
The statement is sometimes made that
Christian Scientists ignore disease. The
fact is, however, that Christian Scient-
lists do not ignore either the disease or
the germ. The Christian Scientist knows
that the only germ Of disease is a men
cept this statement. They Will insist
upon having a germ that they can hunt
and capture, and punish. One cannot
however, get entirely away from the sus-
Z
ject the statement regarding the mental
germ is because 1t demands n personal
and a permanent mental housecea ming 4:
and because, also, ii seems to be ALTO
gether too simple, and to be devoid OF
heroics. The statement. notwlthstand-
ing, is true; and evidence is not lacking
even In material lines for its support
Dr. G. A. Jordan, secretary of the St
Louis, Mo, board OF health. a few years
ago supplied the newspapers Of that city
with a statement giving his opinion
regarding an epidemic which then threat
ened that city. Said DR.: Jordan: THE
epidemic is more psychological than
actual" What does that mean? 1t
means that the epidemic Is more mental
than actual" This is what Christian
Science has been reiterating aud reiterat-
ing for the past fifty years and more
The voice Is that Of one crying in the
Wilderness: The epidemic IS more
psychological than actual" There is
the mental germl DR.. S. Weir Mitchell
is reported to have stated: that back of
every disease is a cause, and that cause
no medicine can reach" Why cannot
medicine reach the cause? Christian
Science shows the reason for this to be
that disease Is mental. and IL is per-
fectly obvious, even to a layman. that
a material medicine can not reach a
mental cause. DR.. Wilfred II. Kellogg
secretary of the California State board
of health compiled a pamphlet con-
corning the epidemic Of the year 1918
summing up the entire situation, after
an exhaustive study Of the subject, Or.
Kellogg uses these frank words: 1--WE
are just as much in the dark as ever re-
gardinE the microbial cause of in
fuenza." Why. one 10 forced to ask.