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MAY 2,1922.
SAYS HEALING
WAS COMMAND
FROM TEACHER
(Continued From Page One.)
Science rudely to challenge cherished re
ligious beliefs, nor to criticise in an un
kind manner the efforts on the part of
many good meu and women who have
devoted their lives to the alleviation of
human suffering through systems of
material medication. Progress, however,
is the law of infinite divine Mind unfold
ing to mankind. Were this not true we
should be surrounded still by the crudi
ties of primitive existence.
We may all agree, therefore, that if
a more adequate way exists whereby
the sick are healed and the erring are
restored to useful lives, it is then the
duty of every person who has at heart
the best interests of mankind first to un
derstand, and. thereafter, to aid in the
establisment or the demonstration of this
better way. In our consideration of the
subject if some persons, misinformed
concerning Christian Science, view its
advent with the purpose to deride or
to combat, let us hope that any such will
find somewhere in the reasonable ap
peal of this Seinece that which will
transform derision into the spirit of gen
uine interest, and change combativeness
into useful cooperation.
DISCOVERED IS
NEW ENGLAND.
Mary Baker Eddy is the discoverer and
founder cf Christian Science and the
Author of its textbook, •'Science and
Health with Key to the Scriptures.'* The
discovery of Christian Science was made
during the year lstfti, in that part of the
United States known as New England.
It is of interest to note that the revela
tion and discovery of tuts Science was as
sociated directly with the recovery of
Mrs. Eddy from an illness, the result of
an accident, which physicians had pro
nounced incurable. Mrs. Eddy indicates
that this is the Incident which turned
her thought to the discovery of what the
world knows today to be Christian Sci
ence. It way properly be said that
Christian Scientists have a peculiar love
and regard for their revered leader. It
would bo wrong, however, in the ex
treme to assume that there is anything
in this attitude that savors of normmal
worship or personal adoration. On the
contrary, this attitude toward Mrs. Eddy
on the part of Christian Scientists Is in
recognition and in grateful acknowledg
ment of the broad, universal and un
selfish service to all mankind which
character ze all of Mrs. Eddy's life work.
Indeed, from the date of her healing on
that momentous Sunday morning in the
year ldtki, Mrs. Eddy's life was spent
consistently and exclusively in proving
the truth which had been revealed to her
and in establishing Christian Science in
accordance therewith. She also reduced
the facts connected with her healing to
such terms or language as would be best
understood by mankind. It was neces
sary that this be done. It was necessary
that these facts be rightly correlated, and
that the Science which governed the ap
pearance of these facts should be ac
curately stated, as has been scrupulously
done in the book Science and Health.
It was necessary that this should be
done in order that those who have eyes
.to see and ears to hear might acquire
at any anil all times, in any and all
places, the means to enable them to heal
and to help mank.nd whenever such
healing is desired and sought. Christian
ask of the world, in regard to
Mrs. Eddy, that the judgment of the
world concerning this remarkable woman
shall be based upon the character of her
life work. Words of praise cannot add
luster to a life actuated by love for God
and the human race. Os such a life
the scriptural proverb may well be ut
tered: “Give her of the’fruit of her
hands; and let her own works praise
her in the gates.”
DIFFICI.LT IX
EARLY DAYS.
In the early days of Christian Science
the workers, the men and women who,
as it were, blazed the way, found It was
difficult to convince the public that this
Science actually heals the sick und that
it regenerates human thought. Many
doors were closed upon those earnest
workers, whose only desire was to share
with others something of the good that
had come into their own lives through
the ministrations of Christian Science.
The discoverer and founder of Christian
Science herself was not excepted from
this unkind and ungenerous treatment.
The situation, however, is today widely
different. The demonstration <• Christian
Science in the healing of sickness and in
the regeneration of human thought is
now a recognized and accomplished fact.
Moreover, und because this science ex
presses the quality and conviction of
final revelation, it is accepted to be a
permanent dispensation, indeed, so well
settled is the recognition of the healing
and regenerative works of Christian
Science that thoughtful men and women
are asking with growing Interest the
question; How has it been possible for
Chritian Science to attain Its present
stage of progress and development In
scarcely mote than fifty years) This
progress has not been due to the attrac
tion of unique social features, nor to the
promise of position and rank, fame and
glory; nor yet to the fear of ecclesias
tical thundering® or canonical laws. None
of these things belong to Christian
Science. One reaches logically the con
clusion that the remarkable development
of Christian Science is due entirely to
the fact that this science meets the needs
of humanity in an adequate and satis
factory manner.
The question may be asked: Does
Christian Science never fail) No true
science can ever fail. One may fall to
understand the science of numbers, or
fail properly to apply this science in
working out a inathemical proolein. No
person will assume, however, for a
moment, that because there has been a
failure to understand or properly to
apply the science of numbers the
science of mathematics has failed. Like
wise there may be a failure properly to
understand Christian Science, or a failure
properly to apply this science in the
working out of a problem under con
sideration —but Christian Science never
falls.
OTHER SYSTEMS
HELD BASIC ERRORS.
Systems of religion and of medicine
which have appeared and disappeared in
the history of the world have finally dis
appeared because they were founded
either upon the personal reputation, or
the personal sense of their originators,
or upon the unworthy and degrading be
lief that evil is a reality with power ex
ceeding that of good or God; and that
matter, non-intelligent and Inert, pos
sesses the qualities or properties of life
and mind. Any system of religion or
healing which Is adequate and satisfac
tory to meet the needs of mankind must
be erected upon a foundation broad and
deep, a foundation which Is at the same
time as simple and as universally avail
able to all mankind as divine Love itself
Is available. Such a system must express
the element of intelligence or divine Mind.
Matter cannot be the foundation for an
adequate system of religion or healing,
because matter is not intelligent. This
Is a simple statement of ultimate fact file
logic of which may not be legitimately
avoided. Christian Science has been
criticised frequently because of its state
ments regarding the unreality of matter,
the unreality of sin, sickness, death; and
yet, the established systems of religion
and medicine have been engaged through
out their respective histories, and that
too without criticism, in the attempt t<>
escape ttie Ills associated with evil, and
to overcome the limitations associated
with matter! Were these systems s o be
successful In their attempts to save man
kind from evil and sickness. Is It not ciear
tlva* such systems would come final'v to
the recognition with which Christian
Science begins, namely, that evil, slca
ness, death, mortal mind are unreal? God,
the divine Mind, who includes all Intelli
gence and reality, is “of purer eyes than
to behold evil”—to believe evil to he real.
Seeing this to be true, mankind ought
not to resist the influence of that educa
tional process which in Christian Science
is unfolding to thought the nature of
reality. The ordinary systems teach and
perpetuate the belief that evil, sickness,
death are real; more, that these belong
to the natural order of things, and that
they are more or less legitimate and to
be expected. Then these systems begin
immediately to attempt to overthrow and
to destroy these things which are held to
be real, legitimate and to be expected
If these afflictions are real, why try to
escape them either through religion or
medicine * Indeed, in such a circum
stance will not the very attempt to es
cape from these ills be an act contrary
t the divine will and contrary to the di
vine order? On the ffrher hand. If these
•vile are not real and so not created by
God. then let the statements made by
Christian Science in regard to the un
reality ot matter, aln. death, and de
snructbn, be approached and measured
honestlv and fairly, and above all with
the desire to be consistent, not only with
respect to the conclusions at which we
may Arrive, but what Is far more impor
tant, with respect to the premises from
which we make our beginning. Christian
Science declares primarily, secondarily,
and always that God, the divine Mind, is
the only creator; that real creation must,
reflect the character of the divine Mind
or God; and that true creation consists,
therefore, of spiritual or true ideas. Evil
is not a spiritual or a true idea; there
fore evil Is not a creation of the divine
Mind or God The Christian Scientist
proceeds to prove the truth of this posi
tion. This is done by healing the sick
3nd by restoring thought to lines of
right activity through the understanding
—not that there are two supreme powers,
a supreme good and a supreme evil war
ring forever one against the other, but
that there Is one only supreme power, the
eternal’God or good who Is the one and
only Mind. Because God. who 1s the
eternal Principle of man and the universe,
creates an that Is created, and because
this Principle or Mind cannot create any
thing unlike itself, it follows that evil
and matter are not creations of God,
hence they have no legitimate existence
and no legitimate power.
The only seeming power of evil and
matter is that which mortal consciousness
gives to them. Evil and matter seem to
have the effect of power because mortal
consciousness believes and accepts them
to be real.
Because of the lack of proper education
in true Christianity mankind, actuated
by mortal thought, has accepted as real
its own misconceptions of God, their own
misinterpretations of man, and Us own
misstatements of Spirit or substance: and
out of these abysmal depths there has
arisen a "mist from the earth"—a cloud
of false knowledge—that stands between
mankind and God influencing thought ad
versely to the highest good.
MISSION IS TO
DESTROY' FALSE THOUGHT.
It Is the mission and province of
Christian Science to clear away and to
d-stroy the basic error of mortal thought
—that evil is real and that matter is in
telligent. In accomplishing this work it
is the mission of Christian Science fur
thermore to restore to mankind the true
idea concerning God ; the idea which re
veals Him to be the eternal Principle of
all that exists; to restore to mankind the
understanding of what constitutes the
"Image and likeness” of God. or she un
derstanding of man's true selfhood.
Christian Science naturally lays strong
emphasis upon the necessity for gaining
a true understanding of God On page 1
of the preface to Science and Health Mrs.
Eddy writes these significant words:
"Ignorance of God is no longer the step
ping-stone to faith. The only guarantee
of obedience is a right apprehension of
Him whom to know aright Is life eternal.”
Because God is primal cause, the under
standing of the nature and character of
the divine Mind or God is fundamental
to all true knowledge; therefore nil that
is worthy and to be desired in social, re
ligious. domestic, political, industrial life
must be founded upon and express the
basic and true understanding conm-rning
God who is the divine Principle of all.
Christian Science reveals In this connec
tion certain simple truths which are prof
itable for consideratoin. It Is clear that
the creations of God must be Godlike;
and that because God is infinite Mind,
the creations of God must be Minilike or
like the Mind from which they proceed
Creation, then, must he the true or
spiritual idea which reflects, with in
finite fidelity, the nature and character of
the divine Mind.
Because there Is no place conceivable
where God is not, it follows naturally
and inevitably that God. who is infinite
Mind, is everywhere present and is every
where intelligently active for Good. How
can one conceive of the omnipresence of
God otherwise than as infinite M'.id) One
cannot conceive of the omnipresence of a
material or human personality. One can
not conceive of the omnipresence of a
materially outlined figure. The Scrip
tures declare that God is Lore, Spirit,
Truth, Life, Mind. How is it possible
for a materially outlined figure, or a
graven Image, or a mental image, to con
vey an adequate idea of the nature ami
character of Infinite Mind and of divim
Love—of the omnipresence of God?
It is the understanding of this fact
of God's omnipresence that makes possi
ble the remarkable effectiveness of what
is called absent treatment in Christian
Science. The divine Mind, God. is every
where present. Hence no necessity ex
ists for the attempt to project thought to
some distant place to heal the sick : the
divine Principle, Love is already there
and everywhere. The effectiveness of a
spiritual Idea cannot be said to be limited
by or to a personal presence or a material
environment. A divine idea should he
recognized to be always present and ac
tive because it reflects ail pervasive di
vine Mind. To understand this is to un
derstand, in a degree, the harmony of
being.
BASIC ERROR
ERADICATED.
The so-called human or mortal mind
claims evil to he greater in power than
good. This is not surprising, however,
when we recognize that mortal mind
holds the unworthy and degrading be
lief that evil is real and that matter Is
Intelligent. One may not grasp the
significance of the statement Immedi
ately. nevertheless it is true, that
all of the sin, sickness and destruction
that has come Into the world of hu
man experience has come as the result
of the operation In thought of this de
grading belief. Unfortunately for the
human race, tininstructed by Christian
Science, human consciousness has lost
sight of what is wrong. Owing to this
erroneous mental procedure which ac
cepts evil as real and matter as Intel
ligent, human beings have found them
selves confronted with a seemingly in
explicable and mysterious state of ex
istence, which expresses Itself in sin,
sickness, and death,—a state or exist
ence wholly without foundation or sup
port in Truth and Love, and wholly at
variance with the nature of divine Prin
ciple Christian Science comes to the
consciousness which believes evil to be
real and matter to be intelligent and
begins immediately to remove from ex
ferienee the baneful effects which spring
rom the error to which we have re
ferred. This Is done by restoring to
the individual the understanding of what
constitutes the nature and character of
God, and by unfolding the understand
ing of what coDstitu es true selfhooo
or the divine “image and likeness.” Up
on the basis of the understanding of
what constitutes man's true selfhood
as revealed In Christian Science the In
dividual begins straightway, consciously
and intelligently, to deny, to cast out,
to repudiate and to refuse too he gov
erned by the suggestions which grow
out of the wholly illegitimate belief in
volving the reality of evil and the in
telligence of matter. Principle is always
Principle, and embraces within itself the
eternal qualities of God. the qualities
of Life, of Love and of Mind, which
constitute all being and reality. Hence,
that which makes evil seem to be real
and matter seem to be intelligent is the
waywardness of mortal thought which
sees as real whatever it believes.
NATIONAL THEORIES
INCONSISTENT.
The statement is sometimes made that
Christian Scientists ignore disease. The
fact is, however, that Christian Scient
ists do not ignore either the disease or
the germ. The Christian Scientist knows
that the only germ of disease is a men
tal germ. Some persons may not ac
cept this statement. They will insist
'upon having a germ that they can hunt
and capture, and punish. One cannot,
however, get entirely away from the sus
picion that the reason such persons re
ject the statement regarding the mental
germ is because it demands a personal
and a permanent mental housecleaning;
and because, also, it seems to lie alto
gether too simple, and to be devoid of
heroics. The statement, notwithstand
ing, is true; and evidence is not larking
even in material lines for its support.
Dr. G. A. Jordan, secretary of the St.
Louis. Mo., board of health, a few years
ago supplied the newspapers of that city
with a statement giving his opinion
regarding an epidemic which then threat
ened that city. Said Dr. Jordan: "The
epidemic is more psychological than
actual.” What does that mean? It
means that "the epidemic Is more mental
than actual.” This is what Christian
Science has been reiterating and reiterat
ing for the past fifty years and more.
The voice Is that of one crying in the
wilderness: "The epidemic is more
psychological than actual.” There is
the mental germ! Dr. S. Weir Mitchell
is reported to have stated: "that back of
every disease Is a cause, and that cause
no medicine can reach.” Why cannot
medicine roach the cause? Christian
Science shows Che reason for this to he
that disease Is mental, and it is per
fectly obvious, even to a layman, that
a material medicine can not reaeh a
mental cause. Dr. Wilfred H. Kellogg,
secretary of the California State board
of health, - Compiled a pamphlet con
cerning the epidemic of the year 1918.
summing up the entire •ituation, after
an exhaustive study of the subject. Dr.
Kellogg uses these frank words: “We
are just as much in the dark as ever re
garding the microbial cause of in
fluenza. Why, on* D forced to aak.
after 5.000 years and more of material
medication, "just as much in the dark as
ever?” ' r he interests of humanity and
progress compel the question. Must not
the answer be, because the search for
the cause of disease has been always in
matter? Can any one believe for a
moment that if the cause of disease is in
matter, the patient efforts of scientific
thought for 5.000 years could result only
in darkness?
DISEASE IS
ENTIRELY MENTAL.
It should be apparent, that only as
disease is seen to be mental, a belief
of the mortal mind, is it possible to
heal disease through the operation of
divine Truth and Love which reverses
and removes the belief of the mortal
mind and neutralizes its discordant ef
fects? Christian Science declares dis-'
ease to be mental, a belief of the mortal
mind which is dissipated and healed
by the unfolding idea of Truth and
Love. A gentleman who was graduated
from a medical school in this country
twenty-four years ago was healed in
Christian Science of a painful ailment
which his former methods had failed to
relieve. Since that time this man has
devoted his activities to the field of
Christian Science. This gentleman hbd
occasion recently to revisit the medical
school from which he was graduated.
Upon entering the hall of biology, ho
found a roomful of students, each en
gaged with his own microscope carry
ing out bacteriological tests and exam
inations. After being introduced to the
professor in charge, the visitor said.
“Professor, how far have you gotten
with this sort of work?” Said the pro
fessor, “What do you mean?” “Well,”
said my friend, "I will tell you. Twenty
four years ago I was here, in this very
room doing exactly the same things that
you are doing here now. 1 wondered
as I came in how far you have gone
with the work in the last twenty-four
years; and if you are able to say, yet,
what is the exact nature or form of the
germ.” "Oh.” answered the professor,
looking at him curiously for a moment,
“you came around again in twenty-four
years!" All there is to a germ is a
diseased thought, and all there is to a
disease thought-germ is in and of that
carnal mind which Jesus said is a “mur
derer from tle beginning, and concern
ing which he further said, "There is
no truth in him." Now, If there is no
truth in this mortal mind, this "murderer
from the beginning,” this belief that
evil is r*-al and that matter is intelligent
—according to the words of the wise
Nazarene Prophet—then there certainly
is no reality in it to be either feared
or honored. The Christian Scientist
knows this. lie is not fooling himself
He is not permitting his imagination to
run riot. He is proving, in his every
day experience, that this mortal mind
cannot produce in Its own beliefs, su
perstitions. genns, or whatever else they
may he called tomorrow, anything to in
terfere with or to overthrow one of the
least of these little ones —one of the
least of these ideas of the divine Mind
or God which unfolds the nature and
character of man's true selfhood F.aeh
successive conclusion reached by physical
science regarding the nature of the germ
is a step nearer to the ultimate re-cogni
tion that the inception of disease is in
mortal belief and not in what appears
to be matter. This being true, why fol
low devious and painful steps through
matter? Why not accept the scientific,
fit-finite, clear and simple statements of
fact demonstrated by Christian Science?
MEDICATION TREATS
ONLY MATTER-BODY.
The present vogue in systems of ma
terial unification seems to be what Is
called the serum treatment. It Is not
necessary to go Into an exhaustive de
scription of tills form of treatment, be
cause after all has been said upon the
subject that can be said, after the sub
ject has been stripped of all of It tech
nical verbiage, It amounts simple to this;
the injection of one form or matter
called "serum" into another form of
matter called "body." The theory Is
that the inatter-serum nil! make the
matter-body well. In systems of material
medication it Is the matter-body that is
to be treated. Under this seemingly
plans)be theory of the application of
matter to matter for the purpose of cor
recting discord and of establishing har
mony one might, consistently with this
theory, gather up a lot of chalk which
had been used in carrying out erroneous
niathemutbnl calculations in the public
schools. From the chalk thus collected
a serum might be evolved. This serum
might be Injected into other clean, fresh
pieces of chalk under the theory that
the use of the chalk, thus inoculated, will
do awav with errors of mathematics In
our puliii’ schools. Some oue may argue
that the two situations are not similar —
the piece of chalk and the human body.
Ho will tell you that the piece of chalk
is simply a piece of Inorganic Inanimate
mat'er, which has neither human sense nor
human Intelligence us has the body. Now
we are making rapid strides. It is the
human mind, then, associated with the
bodv, which must be taken Into con
sideration and treated. Let us assume
a blackboard to be tilled with erroneous,
discordant, sick mathematical calcula
tions. What Is wrong here? The black
board cannot be said to be sick, nor the
chalk, nor the hand which made the
figures, nor the muscles which guided the
hands. The so-called human mind which
produced the erroneous results Is sick
ami at fault. This human mind. It
should be clearly understood. Is not the
divine Mind, nor is it related to the
divine, immortal Mind. The human mind
is comprised in the belief that evil Is
re; i and that matter is intelligent; this
so-called mind is the producer of sick
ness and cannot he the healer of disease.
Only the truth embraced in the infinite,
divine Mind can correct the errors of
mortal belief.
In order to correct erroneous math
ematical results no one will argue for
a moment that it is necessary to im
prove the structure of tile blackboard,
or of the chalk; nor that It Is necessary
to strengthen the hand or the muscles
which have been used in putting down
the erroneous figures. What Is It that
differentiates the human body from the
piece of chalk? Obviously the human
mind. Take away entirely the human
mind from the human body and there re
mains— matter, just as Inanimate as the
piece of chalk. It is then, the human
mind that must be taken Into considera
tion and treated.
Apart from the evidence which has been
reviewed in this connection, who is will
ing to admit, that a material medicine
has the intelligence, when taken into the
system, to go to the exact part of the
human system, and there do the
exact thing necessary to bo done to es
tnhish harmony and to relieve suffering?
Does any one believe that Inert matter
possesses within itself the Intelligence
necessary to do this? The answer can
only be no. Then why continue longer
subject to the idolatrous practice in
volved in matter medicine? Any seem
ing good which follows the use of ma
terial medicine is the result of hypnotic
suggestion and human faith in matter.
It is worthy to be noted that Christian
Science healing follows a strictly legiti
mate line of thinking: Christian Sci
ence, recognizing sickness to be mental, a
discordant sense of the mortal mind, dem
onstrates that only the truth or harmony
of the divine Mind or God can destroy
this discordant sense of the mortal mind.
HUMANITY SEEKS
ESCAPE FROM MORASS.
Human beings are struggling in every
conceivable manner to find a way out of
the wilderness of belief and discord Into
which mortal thinking has plunged them.
It is a sad commentary, however, upon
these efforts, that many of the methods
which are followed produced conditions
more painful than those from which
humanity would escape. Never before
has the need been so great as now for
a definite and a final statement of being
—a statement of tieing as once Christian
and scientific —which will lead the in
dividual into the true understanding of
being aud selfhood. Evidence of this
need accumulates upon every side.
Announcements recently made in the
newspapers indicate that the Britsh Medi
cal Association has approved and adopted
a system of mental therapeutics to be
used in medical practice. The system
adopted is said to be that of suggestion.
Mental suggestion represents the action of
one human mind upon another. Is it not
clear then, that human thought can make
use of suggestion Just as readily for eyll
purposes as for good? A movement re
cently Inaugurated to establish Christian
healing in the churches adopted the meth
od of hypnotic or mental suggestion, and
this method was said by the author
of the movement to be the same as tßsi
used by all other systems of mental
healing. Including Christian Science, as
well. One will not criticise the pur
pose to establish Christian healing in
the churches. Indeed, if the church
is to fulfill Its true functioning,
it must inevitably demonstrate the
ability to hear and to obey the com
mand of Jesus not only to ‘preach the
gospel,” but also to "heal the sick.” Be
cause, however, the statement has been
made in this connection that Christian
Science hypxotlc or mental sug
INDIANA DAILY TIMES
gestion, it Is proper to correct this er
roneous assumption. It would be difficult
to make a more erroneous statement than
to say that Christian Science makes use
of mental suggestion or hypnotism in
any manner. The use of hypnotism
or suggestion contemplate! the ac
tion of one human mind upon another
Sufficient has been said upon this sub
ject to show that it is the human or mor
tal mind that is sick. How, then, is
it possible for the mind that is sick and
that produces sickness to be at the same
time the healer of sickness? The same
fountain does not send forth both sweet
waters and bitter. The theory that the
human or mortal mind heals sickness In
volves hypnotism or suggestion. More
over, when an operator who uses hypnot
ic suggestion endeavors to suggest to
the patient that the latter is not sick,
that he is all right, and that there is
nothing wrong with him, this operator
is stating something which, from his own
viewpoint, is a plain lie. This sort of
an operator believes the patient to be
sick; he has no means by which he can
know and Justify the statement that the
patient is not sick. It is perfectly clear,
therefore, that when this operator en
deavors to suggest to a patient that the
patient Is not sick, a process Is thus In
troduced which Involves a lie at the very
outset. No words are necessary to show
that this process is not Christian and
that It is not scientific. It is needless
to say that it is not Christian Science.
PROCEDURE OF
HEALING EXPLAINED.
A brief statement at this point indi
cating the procedure of Christian Science
will be of interest. It has i>een seen that
because the mortal mind produces sick
ness It can not at the same time be the
healer of sickness. We come, at this
point to oue of the most important
points in the entire theology of Christian
Science. It is this: Because the hu
man or mortal mind can nut be its own
healer, it follows naturally and inev
itably that the divine Mind, or God, ia
the only healer and the only- medicine
which can te used in the line of strict
scientific legitimacy to heal the sick.
The action of the divine Mind upon the
human mind diabuses aud deprives the
human mind of the error that evil is
real and that matter Is intelligent. The
action of the divine Mind, in this way,
disabuses and deprives the human mind
of Its false consciousness' and the human
mind, being deprived or Its false con
sciousness, —or its consciousness of
falsity, is healed. In this way,
briefly stated, the sick are healed
and the erring are restored to useful
lives through the ministrations of Chris
tian Science. Avery different way, all
will agree, from that Involved in ttie un
holy practice of hypnotic suggestion. The
use of hypnotism or suggestion, in any
form, is to be condemned; it is an evil
which can not be too strongly guarded
against
One hears occasionally of some per
son who makes use of tho erroneous
method of hypnotism In the conduct of
business. Oue such person endeavored
to justify the use of this method by the
method of the illustration of a four
horse stage-coach saying that "with a
four-horse stage coach It is necessary for
someone person to hold the reins." This
person overlooked the true point of this
Illustration, which Is that sometimes dur
ing a dark and stormy night on a dan
gerous mountain trial when the driver
is unable to see the road he is compelled
to let the reins lie loosely upon the backs
of the horses, while they pick their way
to safety. The great danger In the use
of hypnotic suggestion is that it de
prives the person who uses it, as well as
the one who Is acted upon, of tho inalien
able right to think and to act under the
Influence of the divine Mind, or God.
Erroneous anil harmful methods are
sometimes set before the public, ana
said to be the same as Christian Science.
A man representing himself to be a Chris
tian Scientist announced tba' he would
teach metaphysics or Chris'lan Science;
he was not. however, authorized in nuv
way to teach Christian Science, ana.
therefore the teaching Involved was hot
Christian Science. A lady who knew
Just a little concerning Christian Science
went to this man to te taught. During
the first lesson she was taught to say :
"I am God." She replied: "But I am
not God." She >as then toid to say.
"1 am Spirit.” To this the lady re
plied; "No, I am not God! I uia not
Spirit! I am spiritual, and you do not
know what you are talking about.'. The
iudy was right, because the declarations
referred to do not coincide In any way
with the teaching of Christian Science.
The evidences of confusion and the in
dications of wrong procedure multiply.
Sufficient, however, has been said in tills
connection to Indicate that there is basic
need of a divine Principle, of au In
fluenoe in human thought which will
move mankind in the direction of their
highest good.
SAFEGUARDS ARE
PROVIDED IN MANTAL.
Someone will doubtless say that safe
guards should be established to protect
the public against mlsreprcsen'atlons
which are made In the name of Christian
Science. The answer to this is, that such
safeguards already have been provided
Mrs. Eddy long ago foresaw this need
and provided In the Manual of The Mother
Church the necessary measure to protect
and to preserve Christian Science, Its
teaching, and Us extension; as well as
to protect the public from misrepresenta
tions and adulterations Without this
wisely conceived protection, for which
Christian Scientists are profoundly grate
ful the teaching and extension of Chris
tian Science might soon be filled with mis
representations, adulterutlons and hu
man philosophy; and thus the effective
ness of Christian Science he lost. The
teachings of Jesus were lost for a time
because these teachings were adulterated
with philosophies aud religious dogma.
Had spiritual and right unity with re
spect to Jesus’ teachings been maintained,
those teachings never would have been
contaminated by erroneous dogma and by
n multiplicity of personal opinions. In
the Manual of tho Mother Church the
means are divinely provided which will
maintain the Integrity of Christian
Science, the purity of its teachings, aud
the permanence of its extension.
During a long and arrive career (1e
voted to the demonstrations of Christian
Science, Mrs. Eddy learned that certain
rules or methods of procedure were neres
sary, desirable, and might well be used
in the successful carrying forward of any
Christian Science demonstration. Mrs.
Eddy says in speaking of the Manual that
these rules “were written at different
dates, and as the occasion required”
They were finally brought together by
Mrs. Eddy herself; and they are recog
nized today to be the Manual of the
Mother Church.
Speaking of these Manual rules, Mrs.
Eddy says further thnt they "will do for
ibe race what absolute doctrines destined
for future’generations might not accom
plish.” (Manual) One who has even
named upon himself the name or nature
of Christian Science knows that, in the
degree his thought is held in obedience
lo these simple rules, his demonstration
is correspondingly successful and happy.
Far from limiting thought and demon
stration, proof is always present that
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obedience to these methods of procedure
enlarges and perfects thought, and In
sures the attainment of harmonious ex
perience, a stite -which reflects divine
principle—government by God. Because
Mrs. Edily's life reflects in so remarkable
a degree the nature of pure and unselfish
thought, Christian Scientists acknowledge
and accept the Manual of The Mother
Church to be the expression of divine
Principle, uninfluenced by mortal or per
sonal sense. This conviction is sustained
by continual proof in individual expe
rience ; hence the willing and devoted
acquiescence on the part of Christian Sci
entists to the government of the Manual.
Christian Science has uplifted the
thought of mankind immeasurably with
respect to the Science of pure religion.
This Science hts also uplifted the
thought of mankind beyond their hap
piest expectations with respect to tho
science of healing.
MANY ACCEPT
STATEMENTS.
These statements of fact are not only
unquestioned, they are concurred in to
day by a large part of the thinking
world. As the thought of mankind has
been lifted up with respect to pure re
ligion and to the science of healing, so
the thought of mankind must be lifted
up with respect to all things, including
church, and church government.
The Christian Science Church is dem
onstrating the "proof of its utility”
(Science and Health), Christian Scientists
are demonstrating, in their obedience to
tlie requirements of the Manual, that
willing consent of the governed which is
the foundation of true government. This
willing consent to be governed by God's
perfect government to the Christian
Scientist is not a fanciful theory; it is
the great fact in the process of demon
stration which insures individual and
collective agreement. It is the mission
and province of Christian Science to do
with respect to church and to church
government what this Science has al
ready done with respect tfe religion and
healing—to lift up thought and to prove
that church aud church government to
he right must stand in constant rela
tion to the divine Mind or God. Back of
this process of lifting up the true idea of
church and government, the Manual of
The Mother Church stands a shining
light which reveals the way of obedience
and cooperation. To remove these way
marks of the Manual would be like re
moving the markings from the way-side
which guide the traveler on his Journey.
Moreover, and forgetting gratitude,
should one feel that he is familiar with
the way and believe In his egotism that
he does not require these Manual way
marks for himself, let him remember that,
as Mrs. Eddy says In Science and
Health, there are yet "Millions of un
prejudiced nitnds—simple seekers for
truth, weary wanderers athirst in the
desert waiting aud watching for rest and
drink," to whom these waymarks of the
Manual will give proper direction in the
demonstration of health und Joy, hope
and happiness.
Christian K-lence has proved its effee
fineness to lead mankind into health and
lutp better lives. It should be evident
therefore that the Manual of The Mother
Church which preserves the integrity of
Christian Science must stand In human
experience to be the type of government
which is necessary to guide mankind
through the mist and out of the wilder
ness of belief where materia! conscious
ness has placed them. All thought, all
religious and healing activity, all devel
opment, must, sooner or later, express
this type of government.
CHILDREN
PROTECTED.
The remark is sometimes heard that
Christian Science treatment is all very
well for the adult, but when it comes
to the question of treating the children,
some "tangible" and "substantial" form
of treatment Is necessary. Christian
Scientists agree decidedly with this lat
ter statement that children should have
tangible and substantial treatment; they
desire it nisi) for the adult. Opinions,
however, differ with respect to what con
(dilutes substantial treatment, With tho
object of clarifying thought upon this
subject the following interesting facts arc
related: During the latter half of the
year 1918, and in the north"ru half of
the State of California, 12.500 cases of
"Spanish" influenza were treated bv
Christian Science. The rate of mortality
under Christian Science treatment was
three out of every 1.000 persons treated:
while the rate of mortality under sys
tems of material medication was sixty
eight out of every 1.000 persons treated.
In the city of New York the rate of
mortality under Christian Science treat
ment was four out of every 1,000 per
sons treated, while the rata of mortality
under systems of material medication
was something over 100 out of every
1,000 persons treated.
These facts arc gathered from reports
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tian Science practitioners located in the
districts named. Were one interested
to follow up this statement he would
find that what has been here stated with
reference to the two localities mentioned,
is true in every part of the civilized
globe where Christian Science Is known
and practiced. Convincing evidence is
by no means lacking to prove that Chris
tian Science treatment is tangible, sub
stantial and real. Children yield readily
to the loving, compassionate influence of
Christian Science treatment. In Chris
tian Science the thought of the child is
turned away from the contemplation
ot evil and sickness. The pertinent ques
tion may be asked here; has the volume
of evil and sickness in the world been
reduced at ill where the children have
been taught to regard evil and sickness
to be real? If evil and sickness have
not been reduced by reason of such
teaching, then can it be said that evil
and sickness have not been augmented
and built up in human experience by
reason of these teachings? Freedom from
sin and sickness constitutes harmony.
How can the child be conscious of har
mony while he Is being taught that evil
and sickness are real? One cannot be
conscious of harmony and peace while
the educational systems Impress upon
his thought the reality of evil and
sickness. The children naturally pro
tect themselves from the Infliction of
these teachings concerning evil and sick
ness.
An illustration of this is found In
the experience of a young girl who
had been educated In the understanding
of Christian Science. Owing to seme
disturbance In thq. neighborhood where
she lived, her grandparents, who were
not Christian Scientists at the time, felt
that It was necessary to call in a phy
sician to examine the child. This was
done, and she was kept in the house for
a few days. The attitude of this girl
toward sickness wns indicated by some
lines she wrote In her diary at the time.
She bad written: “The doctor came to
day, and they put It up to me—to be
sick.” There you have the entire situ
ation: It was something that was being
put upon her; and it may be added that
she refused to accept it. Contrast the
attitude of this child with that of the
official who explained in public print the
reason for his absence from his office
in these words: “I did not realize how
tired I was, until my doctor told sue
Now, I know that I am a very tired
man!” Which of these two attitudes
will do most to advance the good of
the human race?
Thousands upon thousands of Chris
tian Science parents are glad to have
their children under Christian Science
treatment when the necessity for such
treatment exists. It is not to be as
sumed that there Christian .Science par
ents. who are quite like other parents,
would bo happy to have their children
under Christian Science treatment un
less they were perfectly confident ot
the results to be expected from such
treatment. It must be recognized also
that these Christian Science parents love
their children just as devotedly as do
these parents who elect to give drugs
and operations to their children. The
situation would at least be an unusual
one were the degree of parental affection
to be measured by the quantity of
drugs administered!
MORTAL EXISTENCE
IS MYSTERIOUS.
Mortal existence from stir point of
view involves mystery. Its beginning,
its transit, its passing is a mystery; its
heaven anil its hell an inexplicable mys
tery Mortal Consciousness Includes with
in itself no solution of this mystery.
('bristle n Science demonstrates that
the divine Mind alone contains the rem
edy for mortal consciousness and its
mystification. The understanding of the
nature and character of the divine Mind
or God unfolds in individual human con)
scioußness the Chrlstlike thought, the un
derstanding of what contatitutes man's
true selfhood. In this true consciousness
: he remedy for mortal mind and its mys
tifications is found. It is safe to say
thnt there is not a person in the entire
world who is not confronted with some
phase of mortal existence which amounts
to a problem; and every person would be
happy if he could know that a way is
avallabl whereby the problem may be
solved. Without doubt there are those
who listen to or who read these words,
In whose thought there is the desire
strengthened by hope that a way may he
found somewhere and somehow, which
will lead them out of the mystery aud
wilderness Into which mortal sense has
plunged them. To any such It may be
said that It Is not. necessary to make a
far cry to be heard by that divine Love,
which has been so beautifully descritied
by Mrs. Eldy to be the "Love which
guards tlm nestling's faltering flight!”
It is not necessary for one to make a
far journey to find this way, because the
"kingdom of Heaven it. at hand.” "the
kingdom of God is within you.” The
kingdom of heaven Is not a place or a
location far removed from present ex
perience into Which one may enter only
after he has passed the portals of hu
man existence through the transition
called death. The kingdom of heaven is
a state of consciousness. Is it not true,
then, that heaven, a state of conscious
ness, may be entered here and now? We
shall know heaven only as we become
conscious of heaven. We are con
scious now; then why not be con
scious of heaven? This kingdom of heav
en may be entered at any time; nothing
but one’s own consent to think wrongly,
to think evil to be real and matter to be
Intelligent, will shut him out of the king
dom. It is not difficult to attain this
kingdom. One may may begin straight
way to know that God is the only Mind.
Because there is but one God. there is but
one Mind. Learning therefore through
the teachings of Christian Science to have
only that Mind which is God, one can
think and know the thoughts which be
long to the divine Mind or God and can
have those things which the divine Mind
knows and which the divine Mind be
stows. One may say that the process
seems too simple to bo effective. Let us
remember that truth’s way is always sim
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mystery. Let us remember that salva
tion, freedom from Bin and sickness,
must be a simple process. All mankind
is crying out against, the inhumanity of
sin, sickness, death and destruction; and
they are seeking freedom therefrom. This
freedom is demonstrated through the un
derstanding of man's true selfhood, or
man’s truo being as revealed in Chris
tian Science. Hold yourself, your
thought. In true relation to the divine
Mind of God. One will find, as a result
of thus relating thought constantly to
man's divine Principle, Love, that he will
come Into a realization of peace, of health,
hope and Joy such as he never before had
dreamed could enter his experience.
Looking and striving toward this un
derstanding one may hold these beauti
ful and appropriate words to be a pat
tern and an incentive —to thought:
‘Be true and list the voice within.
Be true unto thy high ideals,
Thy perfect self, that knows no sin.
That self is the only reaL
God is the only perfect one,
My perfect self, one must it be
With God, then, —and that thought be
gun,
It solveth all the mystery.”
•Christian Science Hymnal. *
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