Montana labor news., 1939-05-04


one has rendered a loving, unsettled
bit of service, What an expression
of Love was that" What is this but
man, the real man, appearing? The
Scientist therefore affirms that man,
the expression of Love, cannot be
afraid; the expression of Truth is
not diseased; the expression of har-
monious spiritual consciousness, or
Soul, is not in pain, nor the victim
Of appetite. Gods man is whole
now, the perfect expression of har-
monious, painless being, governed
and sustained by the law of his
divine Principle, Love. And the
Christian Scientist thus communing
with and declaring the truth about
God and His son, again and again
sees that which is termed healing
take place.
SPIRITUAL HEALING VERSUS
MENTAL SUGGESTION
Here may arise a question as to
the difference between a Christian
Science treatment and the methods
Of suggestion and hypnotism. Are
they not Similar" someone may ask,
Is not the well-known and oft-re-
peated Coue suggestion, Every day
and in every way I am getting bet
ter and better" really a Christian
Science treatment? Most emphati-
cally not! To illustrate: Could you
imagine a teacher in school "sug-
costing" to his pupils that a straight
line is the shortest distance between
two points? Would he hypnotic the
class into believing this truth, or
get them to repeat the formula, that
every day and in every way a
straight line is becoming the short
est distance between two points?
Simply and directly does the teacher
teach the demonstrable truth, that
a straight line is the shortest dis
lance between two points. There is
no suggestion or mental manipula-
ton about it. Now the scientifically
Christian man or woman does not
set out to heal a sick man. His
task is to reveal the real man, made
in Gods image, who is not sick,
discordant, or sinful. The material
would-be healer starts from the
premise that the picture before him
of a sick or sinful man is real and
true, but he will change this pic
ture by a suggestion of health. And
the last state of his patient may be
worse than the first, for thought has
just been tempered with by the r
nal mind, and not regenerated, re-
freshed, and purified by health-giv-
ing, spiritual truth. The Christian
Scientist, therefore, while a healer,
could also be described as a revealer.
His is the joyous task of revealing to
suffering humanity the truth about
God and his harmonious universe,
and thus annulling the multitudinous
suggestions of the carnal mind,
which ultimate in sin, pain, and
wretchedness.
THE OVERCOMING OF FEAR
One of the primary and outstand-
ing effects of a Christian Science
treatment is the multiplying of fear.
At the time of the widespread in
fluenza epidemic some years ago, a
prominent physician said, as quoted
in a newspaper, 81 only wish all our
people had the remedy for fear
which obviously our Christian Sci
ence friends have!' Had Mrs. Eddy
given the human family nothing
else but this wonderful paragraph
in the Christian Science textbook
dealing with the overcoming of fear,
she would immeasurably have
blessed the race. She writes (Sci-
ence and Health, p. AID: always
begin your treatment by allaying
the fear of patients. Silently re-
assure them as to their exemption
from disease and danger. Watch
the result of this simple rule of
Christian Science, and you will find
that it alleviates the symptoms of
every disease. If you succeed in
wholly removing the fear, your pa
tient is healed. The great fact that
God lovingly governs all, never pun
ishing aught but sin, is your stand
point, from which to advance and
destroy the human fear of sickness"
Would it not seem that the sugges-
ton of fear comes at mortals from
every angle? Human beings are
literally immersed in such sugges-
ton. They are afraid of birth, and
terrified at death. They are afraid
to eat, and not to eat. They fear
the loss of flesh, and the taking on
of flesh. If they have wealth, they
fear its loss; poverty, they fear its
continuance and dire effects. Fear,
fear, fear. And what does it mean?
Simply this: The man or woman
who opens the door Of his thinking