The Cordova daily times., 1922-08-08

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 1t is not maintained that we have been able fully to demonstrate that matter is unreal, but thousands have been able to annul what are thought to be unchanging material laws through the recognition of the law of Spirit. Now to break and annul any of the laws of matter through the ap- plication of spiritual law, proves that they can all be overcome when we un. derstand Gods law more fully. For the present we apply our understand. ing of the law of Love to those ma terial conditions of sickness and sin which trouble us most and which we most clearly see are no part of Gods creation.
 OUT OF MATTER INTO SPIRIT
 In beginning the study of Christian Science one need not trouble about the doctrine of the unreality of mat. ter. The vital thing is to learn more about God. As our spiritual under standing increases, one after another of our material beliefs is seen to be false, and healthful material condi- tions and harmonious mental condi- tfons are brought about through our righteous thinking, and we are encour. aged to press on till we shall have completely demonstrated the unreality of matter.
 We get rid of the belief in the real ity of matter only by degrees; but the destruction of any single diseased condition by mentally unseeing it is proof that disease is mental, and falsely mental If it were not it could not be changed by correct thinking. Every physical healing resulting from Christian Science treatment is ev-- dence not only that disease is mental but that matter itself is but an ex- pression of material thought. Entirely apart from the conclusions deduced from Christian Science there is ample evidence that disease is mental. There are many authenticated instances of persons who have been instantaneous ly freed from long established infirmi- ties through some sudden mental shock such as fire or lightning. A mental shock could not destroy disease unless the disease were in human con- sciousness to be destroyed. Many pc culiarities about disease which are readily explainabale from a mental standpoint are accounted for material ly through the most fantastic flights of speculation.
 MATERIAL BELIEFS DECEIVE
 Since the advent of the germ theory of disease there has been constant effort to include as many diseases as possible in this category. The very fact that the previous conviction of the cause of a disease could be so ESdully uISCdIu6u lOI tIS DSilSl th1t germs were the offenders shows how hesitant the world should be in ac- ceptfng any conclusion along this line.
 Some investigators became con- vinced that certain microscopic forms of vegetable life which they found present in disease were the cause of it. They conducted experiments which to them seemed to prove conclusively that this was true. The foundation of their theory was that each disease was produced by a different germ; that is that the pneumococcus produced pneu- monia, the tubercIe bacillus tubercu- losis and so on. A few of these germs were such common everyday sort of vegetables that they were present no matter what the disease and so they did not count very much, but there were a dozen or so that were suffi- ciently select to be accounted the cause of as many diseases. Unfortu- nately there are many diseases that seem contagious or infectious, but there are not enough varieties of germs to go around. No suitable germ has been found for many of the dis eases which are presumed to be caused by them, and this failure is often accounted for by maintaining that these microscopic growths are so small that the most powerful micros- cope fails to reveal them-a most ac- modating theory. To add to the con- fusion it is now asserted that the pneu- mococcus which was presumed to cause pneumonia is not the only germ which produces it but that there are several others. And these germs are found in as. great numbers in the mouth of healthy person as in that