Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-04-15
BY PHILANDER ID. POSITION.

believe I saved. Often we hope that
surgery have had a good effect. per-
haps a decisive effect. But when we
read medical history and see how
often our grandfathers' medicines
patient must ESQ far as we can see)
have recovered in spite of treatment
rather than because OF treatment, we
cannot but wonder how much Of our
present, up-to-date (medicaD thera-
peutics will appear useless or worse
than useless in the wise hindsight Of
our own grandchildren"
For a thousand years orthodox sci
ence has thought and acted in terms
of sickness disease. and all their re-
lated negative and destructive states.
The steady disintegration and decay
Of humanity which saturates in vary
ing degree nearly every family. from
banker to beggar. is the inevitable
and tragic result. Since a thousand
years of such negation. false philos-
brought us only increasing disease
| and misery, both physical and men
tai, why not completely reverse the
old and misguided principles? Why
not think and act In terms of health
and all its related positive and con-
| structive states?
The Master Key.
| The crying need Of this sick and
sorrowing world is that we substi-
| tute light for darkness, truth for err
ror, faith for fear, good for evil, right
for wrong, Joy for sorrow, and, most of
all, work for shirk Then, and then only.
can we lay just claim to health, peace
! to effect these changes in our own lives.
So have We within us the power to
overcome disease by establishing
health. But as long as we think
| fear, feel gloom and live and combat
| disease there can be no hope of better
things.
The master. key to life was given
each of US by the great Master and
Teacher in eight simple words. when
He said: Resist not evil. but over
come evil with good" Surely we
have lost the key. Since the memory
of man runneth not to the contrary.
! We have been, and still are, resisting
evil and combating. lighting, think
ease: yet all the while human bodies in
countless millions have been reekng
with disease, and the human race Is be-
Ing steadily devoured by its ravages.
Light or darkness heat or cold,
right or wrong, health or disease
one or the other must prevail Dark
ness, cold or wrong surely cannot
be removed by resisting them. Nor
can disease be overcome by COM
batting it. as has been attempted
fore, of human progress and the
final overcoming of disease lies. in
Christ's injunction quoted above,
which may be translated into RESIST
not disease, but overcome it with
health
Fundamental Causes OF Disease.
While science has catalogued
many thousands of symptoms of dis
ease, there are in reality but a few
basic causes. These causes may be
given three divisions: I) physical
CD mental and (S) spiritual. Phys
ically, the great bulk of causes may
properly be grouped under two heads
la) Faulty nutrition. through wrong
combination Of food. and OBJ faulty
elimination. DR.. McCollum and other
leading authorities rightly hold an i'm
and principal tphysicaD cause of al
disease. 1t is also an established fact
that faulty elimination, or drainage
from the body of wastes and paisons is
the other basic clause, The principa
, mental causes are doubt, anxiety
worry, fear. anger. envy, jealousy
self-pity and a multitude of Kindred
states of mind with which we cloth,
| ourselves Wnen we WalloW in the
dismal swamp of self and all that re
lates to our puny little ego Among
the spiritual causes are wrong emo
lions, the exaltation Of self and TIL,
denial, in whole or in part, OF God
together with all that this entails
The larger part OF the existing
treatment of disease lies in diagnos
ing, combating and suppressing null.
titudes of symptoms. each as 1t arises
This requires an intricate and almos
endless system and organization
which treats effects but which seldom
reaches or removes cause In reality
1t further aggravates cause. 1t i,
this attitude toward and Treatment
of disease that has brought the PEG.
pies in all civilized countries to theil
present degenerate and diseased con
dition.
Is it not time we ceased buryint
ourselves in the mire of disease anl
its endless chain of dfstracting symp