The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-31


 from somewhere, and so 1t is claimed that germs can and do gain ready admission to the body. Mortal mind believes that where there is infiain- nation there is a definite effort on the part of the body to get rid of the germs. But 1t also believes that there are certain microbes that gain en- trance to the body against which the body makes no complaint< It ac- cepts them and entertains them and makes no effort to be rid of them.
 On every hand we are reminded that the germs will get us if we don't watch out. The articles we buy are said to be germ proof or sterilized. The possibilities or probabilities are pictures of injurious results. from getting germs on our feet, or germs on our hands, or germs in our noses. This insidious propaganda is pre- sented to us through many human avenues. What shall we do about it? Let us declare our true status in divine Mind, and let us remember that the body is mental, that it is part of human consciousness. The realization that we are in reality al- together spiritual enables us to rec ognize with clearness that we can effectually prevent the entrance into human consciousness, or the growth in or upon human consciousness, of anything that is harmful and de- structive. It is probable that germs have some good and useful place in this material sense of things, and that 1t is man who has sought out these elementary types of life called germs and microbes and through his material convictions has endowed them with power to harm. There is ample proof that the realization of the real mans freedom from germs and his inability to harbor them is a law which annuls germs within the body and excludes them from with out. The realization that divine Mind governs the body closes every avenue through which germs may enter, and leaves nothing within the body upon which they can subsist Man Is Spiritually Sustained
 Great attention in recent years has been given to the question of food, its necessary constituents, its vitamins, and its poisonous quali- ties. It is contended that we need and must have 8 large number of alphabetically named beliefs called vitamins. Purveyors of foods tell the world that their products contain this or that essential vitamin. We are told that we must eat this food in order to get sufficient of one vitamin, and that food in order to get enough of another, yet 8 COW eating only grass gets enough of them all. The attitude of many peo- pie would seem to be that this mor- tai man is the only animal with out enough sense to choose his food without the help of 8 dietitian. Yet in reality divine Love supplies us with an abundance of every good thing, and there is never a lack of those ideas which are vital to mans welfare.
 From the search for food believed to be needful to man, the search has been carried over to 8 search for foods which might be harmful or ir- ritating to him. So we are said to be allergic to this or that food Foods that are suitable for one per- son are thought to be harmful to another, and the bondage to foods becomes greater and greater. Some vegetables are thought to be irritat- ing when taken into the stomach, while others are believed to harm man if he so much as comes into their presence. One of the latter is poison oak. So strong a belief has been built up of its poisonous nature that human beings often suffer ir- ritation by simply coming into its presence, yet goats eat 1t without harm. We should realze that the spiritual ideas which divine Mind provides for our sustenance are per- feet and complete, and these man. made beliefs of harmfulness will then disappear. On page 442 of Science and Health, Mrs. Eddy de- clareS Christ, Truth, gives mortals temporary food and clothing until the material, transformed with the ideal disappears, and man is clothed and fed spiritually" This temporary material food to which Mrs. Eddy refers, is neither deficient in vita- mins or any other essential quality, nor is it irritating or poisonous to us.