Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-04-09
LARGE CROWD
HEARSSPEAKER
Los Angeles Man Speaks To
400 At Dittmann On
Christian Science :

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An alternative audience estimated
at 400 heard Charles Z. Jarvis, G. S.,
deliver a lecture Monday night at
Dittman theater on Christian Sci
ence; The Realization of Humanity's
Hope"
Following is an extract Of his lee
ture:
The healing which takes place in
| Christian Science is a mental pro-
cess whereby 'our erroneous belief
that life, substance, and intelligence
exist in matter gives place to the
understanding that man is spiritual
and therefore subject alone to di-
vine control. We have been mis-
takenly led to regard man as pos
sessing a material body made up of
hands, feet, eyes, ears, internal or
gans, and SO on, including a mass
of cells located in the Uranium where
he is supposed to do his thinking,
in spite OF the Scriptural assurance
that God made nan in His image
and likeness. Now chemists tell us
that the hauman body is composed
Of chemical elements such as water,
lime, salt, iron, sulphur, and SO on.
When a sense of pain or lnflamma-
ton has appeared we have e
taught to pour something disagree
able into the material body, or to
rub something upon it, in order to
make it more comfortable, not real
izing that it actually has no more
sensation or intelligence than a log
or weed or a bag OF meal, excepting
for the So-called mind of which the
material body is the GENERALIZATION.
In other words, a mortal body is
only the manifestation or mortal
mind. Now as nearly all OF you
know, the word mortal" is derived
from the Latin morS, mortiS, death
from mort, to die; hence it is the
erroneous, mortal concept Of body
which gives us so much concern
and which is said to finally return
to the dust of which it was made.
1t is from this false concept that
proceeds all the pain, sickness, and
distress from which mankind cries
out for deliverance.
IF the expected relief from bodily
discord Is not forthcoming as the
result of the use of drugs or other
material remedies, it not lnfrequent-
" happens that a change Of eli
mate is recommended, as If geogra-
phical location could have any more
upon the elements contained in the
physical body than if they were
contained in q bottle. In every such
case, the cause and effect are pre-
dicated upon the same fallacy OF in
telligent matter, but, may l ask,
how would the drugs or medicinal
treatment affect the same matter
after the so-called mortal mind had
left it?
We have no evidence that Jesus
ever employed drugs in order to ef-
feet a cure; yet he healed countess
cases without the aid Of any ma
terial means. Paul said, BE We
transformed by the renewing OF
your mind" therefore it Is the hu-
man mind that must be educated
out of it's false beliefs, and that is
the basis upon which Christian Sci
ence operates.
Shakespeare uttered a truiSm
when he said that there is nothing
either good or bad, but thinking
makes it So" If III premise is
wrong, it naturally follows that u
conclusions and results will likewise
be wrong. If the patient who be-
lieves in the efficacy Of drugs and
the physician who depends upon
drugs fail to accomplish the antlcl-
pated results, the discouraged pa
tient wonders if there is any relief
possible in some other direction.
Here enters Christian Science with
it's message of hope, declaring that
there is a way out; that the way OF
salvation which Jesus made clear is
still open and u~nobStructed and that
the promises He made-with which
the Scriptures abound-were not
limited to his immediate hearers but
to all who have eyes to see and ears
to hear. Mrs. Eddy tells us in her
book "Retrospection and Introspec-
tom that "the mortal body being
but the objective state of the NOR
tai mind this mind must be renovat-
ed to improve the body" (p., 34).
When the afflicted n begins to
realize that the promises are true
and applicable specifically to him,
the shackles of fear and doubt be-
gin. to loosen, he ceases the mes
meric contemplation Of material
bodily conditions, and there daWns
in his consciousness a CLEAN of
hope which expands into spiritual
understanding which sets him free.
Neither human will power, sugges-
ton, nor the hypnotic control OF one
human mind by another has brought
about this demonstration.
How can we doubt that the same
God who led the children Of Israel
through the Red sea and guided
them through all the years of their
pilgrimage to the promised land,
who delivered Daniel from the lions
den, whose protective power enabled
the Hebrew children to walk un-
scatched through the burning, fiery
furnace; how can we doubt that
this same God is able to deliver His
children today from the mental,
moral, and physical discords with
which they seemingly have to con-
tend?
Christian Science is proving
hourly that all things are nOSSibla