The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-01-22

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But to return to the instance of
healing that was to illustrate the
mental nature of matter. A
woman of advanced years was suf-
fering from pneumonia. Her
physician said she had no more
than a few hours in which to live.
At this point the physician was
dismissed and Christian Science
treatment was given. The healing
was immediate.
Now, a Christian Science treat
ment is a realization of infinite
Truth. Therefore. it denies error.
The process is altogether a mental
one. From a consciousness of
pneumonia, the woman became
conscious that she did not have
pneumonia. Through the power of
right thinking. this disease was
eliminated from her thought. All
that had been done was to change
her thinking; yet, she no longer
had pneumonia. For pneumonia to
thus yield to the power of right
thinking means that pneumonia
was in her thought and that it is
altogether mental. But pneu-
monia, according to medical belief,
Is a condition in which profound
pathological changes have &C.
CURED in the tissues of the lungs.
1t is not disease separate from
the lungs. The lungs are there
fore as mental as the disease.
Since the lungs are mental the
entire body must be mental, and
part of human consciousness. AS
stated by Mrs. Eddy (Science and
Health, p. 293): Matter and NOR
tai mind are but different strata
Of human belief. The grosser sub
stratum is named matter or body,
the more ethereal is called mind.
This so-called mind and body is
the illusion called a mortal, a mind
in matter"
Ineffective Remedies
The world OF human thinking,
believing the human body to be
material, has searched diligently
and is still searching in matter
for remedies with which to cure
the illnesses of the body. The fact
that this search goes on, and new
remedies are constantly brought
forth. is evidence that no remedy
is permanently effective. Each
one has its day. Some investiga-
tor searching for remedy for
some diseased condition believes he
has found il. With faith and ex-
pectation he tries it. and the re-
suits seem to justify his faith. But
when the remedy becomes more
generally used and is administered
by others with less expectation of
results. the results become less and
less satisfactory. Though unrecog-
nized by the physician. it is the
thought which accompanies the
use OF the drug which brings about
the result, whether good result
through faith in its efficacy, or
lack of result through doubt Of its
ability to cure. Thus the search
for remedies began with vegetables
and minerals and has now arrived
at animal extracts and serums.
Not only Is there a diligent
search in matter for remedies with
which TO cure what ii believes to
be material Ills. but likewise there
is a continual search in matter to
determine the cause of disease.
Through the failure to recognize
that there is no matter and that il
is the human mind which is enter
tanning the belief OF disease. the
search goes on in the direct line
Of matter.
One Of the beliefs that has
grown in acceptance is that germs
cause disease. This theory was
brought forth about the time of
the publication of the first edition
OF the Christian Science text
book. Microbes and germs were
not topics Of daily discussion in
that day. yet IT is evident from
the one sentence in which these
words appear in the present edi-
ton OF the textbook. how Mrs.
Eddy classified them. On page
i64. in speaking OF doctors. she
says: 1t is just to say that gem
orally enc cultured class Of medi-
cal practitioners are grand men
and women. therefore they are
more scientific than are false