Montana labor news., 1939-12-07

which denounceS disease as a lying
imposition, and which exalts Life
and health as everpresent realities,
is scientific, is legitimate treatment.
It is even %reverent prayer, rev.
erent in this that it absolves God
from responsibility for sickness and
suffering. 1t is the sort of prayer
which works a change in the indi-
vidual. For the effect of prayer,
after all, is not on God but on the
man who prays. Such prayer unites
the individual with that Life to
which disease and age and dissolu-
ton are unknown. It unites him
with that Mind which imparts to
man all the intelligence he needs
for success and usefulness.
All down the centuries the belief
has been entertained that man is
material and mortal, whereas the
fact is, as both reason and revelation
inform us, man, truly, is spiritual
and immortal. The individual who
insists that man is mortal will be a
mortal to all intents and purposes.
He will come under intolerable lin
itations. He will be borne down
ultimately by infirmities.
But when an Individual stands up
and intelligently and thankfully adj
mits that man in the likeness of God
is an immortal, an exhibit of Life to
which restrictions and ~distresses are
unknown, he enters that reverent
mood which is prayer, he makes that
rational argument which undermines
the belief in disease, he administers
that Science treatment which dissi-
pates the mesmerism of mortality.
In a word he begins to find his true
status as, to use the words of Mary
Baker Eddy, "the expression of
Gods being" (Science and Health,
page 400.
Putting Aside Skepticism
Not a person should walk out of
this auditorium the same person he
was when he came in. Each one of
you should depart with more hope,
strength, courage, and endurance
than you had an hour ago. Many
of you could well spare ten years Of
age or ten pounds of weight. Why
not allow these undesirables to dis
sipate and depart along with your
aches and failures and loneliness?
They are not actualities. They are
receptions. You can lose them all if
you will suspend your unbelief long
enough to permit the truths you are
hearing to take Judgment in men
tality.
1t is not IN easy thing for a person
to revise his opinions, to subdue his
prejudices, to waive his skepticism.
1t is so much easier to say: 'These
announcements are wonderful.
They may be true of spiritual man
but what have they to do with me?"
They have everything to do with
you, for are you not in your genuine
makeup a spiritual man?
Accept these precious gifts Of the
Almighty which hitherto you may
have been putting aside. Yours is
the life that does not come or age or
fail or despair or sicken or fade out;
yours is the life which by the grace
of God is invincible.
AS you silently talk these truths
over with yourself, while at rest or
at work, you will become aware of
a better body, a better intellect, a
better career, a better world. You
will come more certainly into the
possession of that Life whose joys
eternal flow.
Rigidity of Thought
Every instant of his experience
does the individual make a choice, a
decision. Normally he chooses sue
cess, works for it, achieves it. But
if not on his guard he may choose
failure and work for it. He will
have to do this if he ever encounters
failure, because failure cannot find
him. Like disease failure has no in
telligence, no power to move around,
no ability to find anyone. 1t is quite
helpless, quite harmless, of itself.
No man is likely to get into a pit
without deciding to walk toward it
and fool around on the edge after
arriving. The pit car hardly come
to him. With the same effort he car
take at least a few steps in the oppo-
site direction of security.
Not all of ones difficulties can be
attributed to the folly of past gener-
atoms, of course. Ones own mental
attitude has a vital bearing on ones
well-being. For example he who
goes about tense with anxiety, re-
sentiment, remorse, or other abnor-
NAL emotions can hardly expect
permanently to enjoy good health
or reasonable success.
Tensity of temperament in the up
per realm of mind becomes tensity
of tissue in the lower realm of body.
Rightly of thought reacts at once in
rigidity of bodily functions. Whereas
flexibility of mentality, confidence,
friendliness, ease, and poise build a
sure foundation for soundness of
body and attractiveness of individ-
uality.
Acquisition of Attractiveness
Every individual who chooses to
act and live in accordance with
Principle possesses effectiveness.
This must be so in view of the I'M
deniable logic of perfect God and
perfect man. He who has the cour-