Montana labor news., 1939-12-07

Sunday afternoon, December 3,
229 N. Montana st. The lecture
A normal, satisfactory life is i'm
possible without good health. Nat
urally therefore we wonder how
disease ever got into the world. In
casting about for a reason people
have pretty generally reached the
conclusion that disease comes as a
punishment for wrongdoing. The
sick man has been disobedient. He
has been pursuing some evil prac-
tice. His suffering is the penalty.
The weakness in this logic is seen
when we observe that good people
as well as bad are subject to sick
ness, because human goodness may
exist along with the belief in disease
and the fear of it. Therefore we
shall have to look farther than mere
wrongdoing for a satisfactory answer
to our question. Here Jobs expert
ence is enlightening. He was a good
man. Yet he was seized by a painful
malady. Friends who gathered about
to sympathize argued that he must
have strayed from the straight and
narrow way else he would not have
encountered misfortune. Indeed one
of them asked, Who ever persisted,
being innocent? or where were the
righteous cut Off" But Job, uncon-
WINGED, insisted upon his integrity,
though he confessed, 1.-THE thing
which I greatly feared is come upon
me-"
Looking for Disease
All down the ages people have ac-
cepted the suggestion of disease
thrust upon them by mortal mind.
Generation after generation have
they feared disease, talked disease,
pictured it, built it up into a uni
versal belief or mesmerism. Today
this mesmerism settles down upon
mankind generally-good, bad, in
different-as the rain falls upon the
just and unjust.
Hence it is that the best of men
and women, as measured by human
standards, are occasionally victim
lied by the mesmerism. It cannot
be said that they are being punished.
They have not done anything to be
punished for. They have however
failed to challenge the general belief
in disease, and to recognize the i'm
munity from disease which their di-
vine sonsnip enjoys. Thereby have
they left their defenses down. That
is enough. That is all anyone need
do in order to become vulnerable to
the attacks of mortality.
Disease then is not genuine. Of
course it is not. This is why suffer
ers are constantly in revolt against
it. This is why every system of heal
ing looks for the time when sickness
will cease to appear. If disease were
a reality people would accept it
without protest. They would have
no alternative, because realities can
not be evaded or overcome.
When we say that disease in belief
or in appearance or in ignorance,
rather than in reality, we place it in
the same category with the belief in
the flatness of the earth. For GER
tainly the earth appears flat. Occa-
sionally to this day may be found a
person who believes it flat. Obvious
ly the flatness is in his thought, in
his ignorance. Some day the simple
fact will dawn upon him that the
earth is round. Then the flatness
will be cured.
Some day the undeniable fact will
dawn upon the supposedly sick man
that Life is God. Then his sickness
will be healed, because disease and
mortality cannot be ascribed to
Deity. If God is Life, then Life must
be diseaseless, ageless, endless.
Diseaselessness of Life
What basis is there for the state
ment that Life is God? Time after
time in Scripture Deity is referred
to as Life. When the Israelites were
struggling so desperately in the des-
ert on their journey to the Promised
Land, Moses, by way of encourage