Milford chronicle., 1961-04-21


large degree even by those who
look entirely to matter as a
means of healing. We are fire.
quently told that worry, insecu-
rity, and fear have produced this
or that disease. Drugs, serums,
tranquiliZers, and intoxicants
may seem momentarily to give
one a sense of peace, courage,
and security, but this effect is not
permanent, and their use multi
plies ones susceptibility to the
very materiality from which he
believes he is suffering. Each
drug ingested enlarges ones be-
lief that ungodly matter is the
arbiter of his existence. Chris
tian Science recognizes Christ,
Truth, as the only healer of man
kinds woes, whether physical or
mental.
Permanent healing can only be
achieved through entertaining IN
consciousness true ideas or Spir-
itual facts. 1t is vain to attempt
to harmonic existence with
drugs, which manifestly have no
intelligence. If two men differed
in their thought concerning a
business deal, and one was desir-
Gus that the other should view
/ the transaction in the same light
that he did, would he give him
an unintelligent drug to change
his mind? Let us have in our
thought that which is Godlike
and true, and we shall have
health, harmony, and abundance
as a result.
It is not Christian Science to
unite spiritual healing and the
use of drugs. God, Truth, de-
mands answering allegiance to
His Christ. Mrs. Eddy tells us en-
phatically (Science and Health,
o. 464), "Adulterating Christian
Science, makes it void" Void
means Intellectual, empty, or con-
tanning nothing; it does not mean
not quite as much or as effectual.
| Adulteration makes spiritual
power of none effect in the ex-
perience of anyone who attempts
to unite it with the use of drugs
for healing. Christian Science
practitioners do not physically
diagnose disease; neither do they
prescribe drugs or material meth
DDS for healing. They utilize the
spiritual truths which Jesus DEM
onstrated and which Christian
Science explains in a completely
practical way. They strive to so
manifest Christ, Truth, that
whatever denies the truth, such
as sin, disease, or lack, is uncov-
cred as completely erroneous, as
nothing, no thing, person, or con-
dition.
Sometimes. people mistakenly
believe that it will help them to
be healed If they can just make
the practitioner realize how Ill
they are. A man so convinced
asked me to give him Christian
Science treatment for problem
that seemed very real to him. He
kept telling me in detail of the
unhappy situation and insisted
vehemently: Nov | want you
to get this picture. ! want you to
| get this picture" Finally, after
his repetition of this a number of
times, / said, "If you succeed in
what you are trying to do, then
you had better leave me and go
to someone else, because if / have
the picture, how can help you
get rid of it? Anyway" ! added,
81 thought you wanted release
from this false picture rather
than have two of us have it. IT
YOU convince me of the reality of
your illness, it can do neither of
us any good. but if you let the
truth convince you that you are
now actually the spiritual son of
God, healthy, happy, and har-
monious, this tUill do you good"
He agreed that this was logical,
and an improved condition re-
suited.
A young lad came home from
school with all the evidence of a
contagious disease. Since he and
his mother were students OF
Christian Science, they did not
desire a medical diagnosis. But,
in order to obey the law of
the state, it was necessary for the
matter to be reported to the
Health Department. The physi-
clan in charge examined the boy
and said that he had scarlet
fever. The boy had no medical
treatment and took no medicine.
The Christian Science practl-
toner who was asked to help
with the case did not accept this
evidence of disease to be true or
to be the effect of God. He did
not judge according to the ap-
pearance - the appearance of
scarlet fever - but he judged
righteous judgment. He consid-
cred the situation from the view
point that God is good and all
power, and that man, Gods
image or expression, can have
nothing unlike God. Audibly and
mentally he insisted that right
where this disease seemed to be
was the perfect son of God, and
that the by was not really ma
terial and as such subject to ma
terial conditions such as germs
or contagion. The practitioner
recognized the spiritual fact that
here was really an individual in
stance of Gods qualities, beauty,
harmony. fearlessneSs, and
health. He continued with this
spiritual knowing of the truth
until in a few days every trace
of the malady had disappeared.
To fulfill the quarantine regula-
tions, the boy was taken to the
Health Department, where the
physician admitted that, much to
his surprise, there was no evil
dence of the disease. Naturally
enough there were never any i'll
effects from the experience.
Truth Tmparts Abundance
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