The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-02-08

or devils. and overcame the bedief In death.
 Mir Booth evidenced the kindly thought of Christian Scientists towards physicians when he said, have many dear friends among the members of the medical pro- fession, and I am happy to testify to their honor and devotion. But in spite of the fact that the aver age medical practitioner labors earnestly to relieve the suffering of human kind, too frequently his decisions, based upon nothing more dependable than physical diag- nosis, operate like 6 disheartening verdict of defeat, despair. and death on sufferers. But they can now appeal to Gods law, Christian Science, with the comforting assur- ance of the unalterable verity of the Bible promise, "behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation" (II Cor. 6:2.) The Twentieth Century New Testa- ment rendering of this verse, now is the time for acceptance" clearly indicates that present salvation from the distressing, discordant conditions of human experiences can be realized by trustingly &C., cepting the spiritual truths taught by Christ Jesus. Naturally such ac- ceptance involves the consistent rejection of every. suggestion that sin, sickness and discord are real.
 One of the tantalizing. limiting. false beliefs of mankind, whence spring many of the worlds trou- bles. is the notion of chance the belief that things merely happen, the educated superstition of luck. This notion of chance furnishes 8 convenient excuse for many errors of omission. and commission, but 1t is also responsible for much misery expressed as fear, worry, sickness, accidents, and business failures. In dealing with this phase of error Mrs Eddy states in Science and Health that i've must leave the mortal basis of belief and unite with the one Mind, in order to change the notion of chance to the proper sense of Gods unerring direction and thus bring out har- mony.' (424:5.)
 As we study the words and works of Christ Jesus, our Way-shower. 1t becomes clear that he knew that nothing merely happens. he under stood the falsity and baselessness of the human belief in and fear of chance; he was not 8 believer in luck, because he understood that everything in human experience is the expression of thinking. And since the basis of his thinking was the truth that God, good, is the one infinite Mind, the source of all twtV AtA txf ideas, Christ Jesus logically classi- suggestion of evil, discord, sick ness, sin, and death. He proved tht he was not subject to the belief in chance in connection with wealth CT conditions when he rebuked the winds and the waves; "and there was a great calm" (Matt. 8;24-26.) When his true sense of conlpassion caused Jesus to reach forth his hand assuringly and touch the man who regarded himself as menace to others because of lep- rosy. our Way-shower was in no danger of contracting leprosy. His immunity was not due to vacciEa- ton, but to his conscious obedience to Gods law of harmony, which naturally protected him from be- lieving discord.
 The difference between Christ Jesus and other men was not phy- sical, but mental. He thought cor rectly, that is from the standpoint of God. Spirit, not from the stand point of material evidence. Since Christ Jesus thought correctly 1t is inevitable that everyone here or hereafter must sometime learn to think as he thought, for belief in error is mortal. Because the &C., ceptance and expression of true ideas protected Jesus from the dis cordant conditions associated with the beliefs in chance and luck, we too are protected from such dis cords as we follow his example by accepting as true only those thoughts which speak of good and perfection, and reject as false every suggestion of accident, evil. disease, fear. and loss.
 A man who has suffered a con- tinuing series of business reversals and losses was empowered to think and speak with spiritual authority and to prove his God-given domin- ion as he learned that nothing merely happens. but that every condition of business or of body is but an effort or expression Of thinking. The recognition of this fact led him to classify as untrue and powerless every suggestion of discord, dishonesty. fear, injustice. selmishness, disability. or Inability. This change of mental attitude on the part of thi sman replaced the vitiating and discouraging beliefs