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THE MATAGORDA COUNTY TRIBUNE. THURSDAY, DEC. 10, 1936
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FULL REPORT OF A LECTURE
ON CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
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ENTITLED CHRISTIAN SCI- sical disease and of sin are given
ENCE: THE RELIGION AND
MEDICINE OF CHRIST
By Dr. John M. Tutt, C. S. B. of
Kansas City, Mo., Member of
i by grateful beneficiaries; "and",
as Jesus counselled Thomas, “be
' not faithless, but believing,” (John
20:27) All the world is receiving
hence the unreality, of the oppo- ment. Yet there is no evidence system or its pathology. It begins, real Mind. The ideas of Mind are consciousness. Hence the basis ly had we left the surface and
, site action of matter and its es- that Jesus was discouraged when as did Jesus, with the truth of be- everywhere present. Wrong con- of treatment is not the scientific the confines of the harbor when
sence, the so-called mortal mind, only one out of ten he healed ing, namely, that God, divine cepts are then a false claim of impossibility called thought trans- we plunged into dense fog which
And Jesus, as also Christian Sci- "returned to give God thanks." Principle, is the sole source of thought presence. The attempt ference. It is not one person filled the entire distance between
■ ence, calls for an awakening of (Science and Health, page 94.) law; that the government of good to influen another thought doing something to another per- the mainland and the island. Un-
mortals from the false beliefs of Jesus knew, even as suppliants is uninterrupted, instant and com- thought tiransference seems suc- son, although of course, it may hesitatingly the pilot pointed the
mind in matter and matter in may know today, that no man plete. God, divine Mind, does not cessful only when the victim en- be one person doing something ship upward until suddenly we
mind, and the sinful, erroneous ever touched the hem of Christ’s govern His idea, man, by remote ter his own conscious or tacit for another. The error which broke into the dazzling sunlight
outgrowths of such beliefs. This garment without fundamental control. The power of enforce- consent to such a possibility. One seems to be in the body is actu- once more. Then, sighting the
i divine theology requires the re- changes in character, which soon- ment is not separate from the di- is never hypnotized against his ally in mortal mind, it is a wrong, tip of the peaks of Catalina, he
cognition of sin, or error; the de- er or later appear in bettered, vine law nor from the man it will, but always with it. Thought and incorrect state of human con- literally rode above the fog in
sire to correct it; the destruction more spiritualized lives. Christ- governs. Hence nerves are a very transference is never a fact, it is sciousness. If in the cooperative full assurance of right direction,
of error with the baptism of the ian Science teaches that false be- poor substitute for divine law, always a false belief. To recog- endeavor established by the turn- Nearing the peaks he caught a
Man is nize mental telepathy as a false ing of the patient to the prac- rift in th mist and cut through
belief is to annul its seeming titioner, the nothingness of the down to the quiet waters of Ava-
benefit's from Mrs. Eddy's unself-
The Board of Lectureship of ed labor and love, and individu-|Spirit, flooding consciousness with liefs about man do not change which they counterfeit.
The Mother Church The First als are accepting Christian Sci- the cleansing Christ; and refor- man, but that correct knowledge not governed by nerves. Divine
s , . , .10 ence as their experience makes mation, by replacement of error in of man does change the human .Principle has no material medium cause and effect.
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thought and life with truth—the concept for the better and so in-
through which its idea is control-
“THE HEALING POWER OF
error becomes plain, then the real- lon Bay. 1 was greatly impress-
Dr. John M. Tutt, C. S. B. of
Kansas City, Mo., a member of :
RELIGION AND MEDICINE overcoming of evil with good. Je- evitably leads to improved con-
UNDIVIDED I sus submitted to the shedding of ditions of body.
The natural oneness of religionhis blood for the remission of sins; Christian Science reveals that
and following his explanation of just as sin, an admittedly erron-
and medicine is indicated by the
the Board of Lectureship of The
Mother Church, The First Church early efforts of humanity to cx-
of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, de- press that essential unity in
livered a lecture in the city hall speech. . Th« root word for health
auditorium last eveing at eight and holiness in the Anglo-Saxon,
o'clock entitled “Christian Scien-and in more primitive tongues, is
ce: The Religion and Medicine of the same, and it means whole-
Christ." The lectures was intro- I iess, completeness. Again, the
duced by Mrs. Mary A. Long. Scriptures sustain the essential
,, unity of religion and medicine.
Full text of the lecture follows: Prophets and psalmists and prea-
Christ Jesus, whom Christian chers, kings and commoners matter. That sacrifice must have erial medicine. Christian Science
Scientists regard as their throughout the Bible, when they been the meaning of Jesus’ as- and material medicine have in
Saviour and Exemplar, once said: turned to God as a very present surance: “He that findeth his life common only the humanitarian
"I am not come to destroy, but help in all sorts of trouble, were shall lose it; and he that loseth and benevolent intent to prevent
healed and saved from sin and di-hif life for my sake shall find it.” and cure disease, and to benefit
this point, the Christian Science eous mental state, produces bad
textbook declares: "The spiritual conditions of morals, mind and
essence of blood is sacrifice." life, so disease and discord also
(Science and Health, p. 25) Chris- are the fruits of wrong thinking,
tian Science thus requires, in Je-Christian Science therefore ad-
sus’ own words: “If any man will dresses itself to correction of the
come after me ,let him deny him- error of belief manifested as dis-
self” (Matt. 16:24)—let him sacri- ease on the body. It will thus be
fice the material sense of life and seen that neither Christ Jesus
self; let him repudiate life in nor Christian Science follows mat-
to fulfil.” (Matt. 5:17) Jesus in-
troduced a new and spiritual con-
sease. Christ Jesus earned the (Matt. 10:30) Christ Jesus’ theo- human life; beyond that point
.appellation, The Great Physician, logy consummately was the tri- material medicine cannot follow
came to save mortals from their not because he was a graduate of umph of Truth over error, of Spi- Christian Science. He who was
sins, and heal them of their ills, some medical college, or versed rit over matter and the carnal called The Great Physician be-
He came to reveal the spiritual in the material medicine of his mind. As the exponent of the cause of the healing power he dis-
facts of being and the practi, I day, but because he was literally | spiritual idea of Truth in its heal- played, was preeminently a spir-
minded man. Today is
ception of life and conduct. He
cability of spiritual life here and a healer of body and mind, a ■ ing and saving power over error, itually
now, the kingdom of God on healer that never failed. But can Jesus held the title of Christ. It spiritualmindedness necessary in
earth, the kingdom within. Chris- you imagine Jesus subscribing to was the Christ, or the idea of a physican? Is it taught in med-
tian Science makes no war on the crude theories and methods of Truth manifested by Jesus that ical college? There are, it is true,
other systems of religion and me- .........
dicine, nor upon the individuals |
subscribing to them. Christian '
the physicians of his times? In- made him “the way, the truth, spirtiually minded doctors of
deed, can you think of him wield- and the life.” (John 14:6) It is medicine, who may consider and
ing an ether cone or scalpel be- this "Christ in you,” (Col. 1:27)try to rectify moral and mental
led. The infinite Mind conceives
its idea, man, in terms of know-
NATURE”
Critics of Christian
Scienee
ing and controlling it, in terms sometimes try to discredit the
of creation and government. Man healing of disease under Chris-
does not control his mind, but tian Science treatment by saying
contrariwise, divine Mind controls "Oh! well such cases would get
man. Man’s self-government is well anyway.” The practice o
God’s control of man—it is divine Christian Science is not an exhi-
Mind governing its idea bition of the so-called healing
MENTAL ANATOMY power of nature. Nevertheless it
Mrs. Eddy, in reducing her vis- is natural for the body to be well
ion of divine Science to human and when the abnormalities am'
apprehension and needs, found distortions of wrong thinking and
she required a word to cover the wrong conduct, are corrected by
Scriptural statement that Jesus Christian Science, it is natural for
“knew what was in man.” (John the body to get well.
2:25) She needed a word to de-I The parctice of Christian Sei-
scribe what is called in medical
terminology, diagnosis. And as al-
ways she found the needed word,
anatomy, which she defines as fol-
lows: "Anatomy, when conceived
ence brings God’s kingdom of
ity of things as they actually
ed by the incident, for not only
appears. The coming of Christ, did the pilot display the domi-
the healing and saving power of nion of conscious knowledge, pow-
divine Truth, is the entrar ce into er and fearlessness, but those
human consciousness of the idea qualities conveyed their assurance
of things as they really are. If and confidence to me as well, and
good appears within the consci- I rode in serenity to a happy
ous thought of the practitioner or landing. The pilot knew all he
the patient, then the sin, the er- needed to know, he saw all he
of spiritually, is mental self-
knowledge, and consists in the dis-
section of thoughts to discover
their quality, quanity, and origin.
harmony on earth. The action of
Christian Science on mortals is
to free them from the trammels
of mortality, the hampering be-
liefs of limitation, disease, pain,
sorrow, worry, all discord. Chris-
tian Science demonstrates that
man is under the government of
divine laws, not the socalled laws
Are thoughts divine or human?
That is the important question.” of matter. Since there is only one
(S. and II. p. 462)
ror of belief, is remitted, forgiven,
made nothing, and healing re-
ults. Time has no part in this.
It may be instantaneous. If the
error is not rejected, thrown out
of human consciousness, but re-
mains in thought, consciously or
tacitly, as real, then the sin is re-
tained, and healing is not effect-
ed.
How does a right treatment —
a Christian Science treatment —
reach the patient? The connec-
tion established by the turning of
the patient to the parctitioner il-
lustrates the fact that all men are
wihin consciousness. What blesses
needed to see. And I saw how in-
vincible is the man who, encoun-
tering the mists, cuts through the
fog and rides them with consci-
ous power, that is, with recogni-
tion of their ompotency, their no-
thingness. As that brave little
ship shook itself free from the
seeming impediments and soared
triumphantly above limitations I
felt myself responding to the in-
spiration, unity with the great
verities of existence, presence ,
knowledge, power, substance. I
felt my present understanding, the
seed within itself, expanding and
one blesses all.
multiplying into newness of life.
Health and sal-escape from the old letters
vation are communicated to the
patient, not by thought transfer-
ence but by divine thought pre-
sence. All good is communicable
and it permeates all true being.
I of finiteness into the realm where-
in celing is limitless. And in that
heavenly vision of spiritual all-
ness I saw as never before what
Christ Jesus surely intended to
convey when he epitomized List
healing and saving mission to a
fog-bound race; “That they all
maye be one; as thou, Father, art
in me, and L in thee, that they,
also may be one in us: that the
world may believe that thou hast
sent me. And the glory which
thou gavest me I have given them;
that they may be one, even as
we are on." (John 17:21, 22) In
closing his vision of the heavenly
Jerusalem, the Revelator declares:
“For without are dogs and sor-
ceres, and whoremongers, and
murderres, and idolaters, and
whosoever loveth and maketh a
lie." (Rev. 22:15) Health within,
wealth within, heaven within, all
good within the unity of being,
the wholeness, the completeness
of God and man.
source of law and order, namely
divine Principle, even mortal man
and body, if governed wisely,
must be divinely governed. Mor-
tal mind is a false statement of
Mind and can only mosgovern.
Christian Science is mortal man’s
friend. Under Christian Science,
the natural functions and proper
preventive and corrective pro-
cesses of the body have protec-
tion and free scope. "Science and
Health declares: "The recupera-
tive action of the system, when
mentally sustained by Truth, goes
on naturally.” (p. 447)
THE PRACTITIONERS OFFICE
Christ Jesus bestowed upon his
faithful disciples, for all time, the
power to destroy sins. In Chris-
tian Science sin has the broad
signification of error, or wrong
thought and conduct. It thus in-
cludes both moral faults and the
delusions of discord and disease
—all evil. Christ Jesus provided
Christian Science presents, in
the term mental anatomy, the
Christianly scientific interpretat-
ion of both diagnosis and surgery.
"Science and Health” declares:
“The anatomy of Christian Sci-
ence teaches when and how to
probe the self-inflicted wounds
of selfinshness, malice, envy, and
hate.” (p.462) This is an order
of surgery admittedly beyond the
scope or grasp of material med-
icine, and yet Mrs. Eddy goes on
to say: “The Christian Scientist,
through understanding mental
anatomy, discerns and deals with
the real cause of disease." (ibid)
Successful mental surgery is so
familiar to the active Christian
Scientist as to excite little com-
ment. I myself have seen many
cases of the healing of fractured
and dislocated bones, of benign
and malignant tumors, of con-
genital and other deformities, and
many other pathological condit-
ions included in the scope of sur-
1 gery, through the ministrations
of Christian Science alone. It
need hardly be added that where
absolution from sin, discord, di- to be as Christianly scientific two systems differ so radically,
to heal the sick through prayer are so contrary in theory and
material selfhood is the price each and spiritual power alone as to practice, it is impossible to com-
must pay for the true sense of save sinners through Christ, bine them. Divine Mind does not
atonment, at-one-ment with God, Christian Science holds it to be share its dominion with matter
I or delegate its power to material
systems. Obviously, it makes no
difference what the disease may
be, or what portion of the human
(body affected. The important
question is: Has God power to
Science steadfastly holds to the , fore ;i modern clinic? Whatever it' which, Paul assured, would be for bad conditions, but is that qual-
essential Christian and Scientific I 414 : 1 € airs
unity of religion and medicine as 1
taught and practiced by Christ
Jesus.
LIFE UNTRAMMELED
Perhaps no one ever plumbed
deeper into human contraries, in-
was that divorced the healing and each of us "the hope of glory.” | ity, so conspicuous in Jesus, and
saving arts, and whenever that | Such, briefly, are the main so indispensable in a Christian
calamity befell the human race; point's in the theology of Christ Science practitioner, at all re-
and the hospital and the doctor Jesus, and of Christian Science, quired of an efficient medical
| took up their abode on the oppo-It exalts the power of divine man? Material medicine, surgery,
site side of the street from the Truth to hold man forever per- and the allied arts concern them-
church and its ministers, certain fect as the likeness and image of selves not at all with spirituality,
consistencies and woes than did : it is that Jesus, by his purely God, and to cast out and destroy Indeed, even morality is left en-
Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer, spiritual precepts and practice, re- from human consciousness all tirely out of the theory of mater-
Founder, and Leader of Christian united these great ministries as wrong or false beliefs about the ial medicine.
Science. And. doubtless, no one one in his theology and medicine, man God made, beliefs leading in Are Christian Scientists just-
since Christ Jesus ever reached But the essential unity of religion mortals to sin, disease, discord, ified in relying wholly upon the
higher into the realm of the and medicine, as in Jesus’ teach- death. It reconciles the human teaching an(i practice of the Mast-
It reconciles the human teaching and practice of the Mast-
Truly religious ing and practice, is not the amal-consciousness to give up error and er-metephysician? Christian Sci-
and spiritually-minded, this great gamation of matter and Spirit accept only truth. It shows that ence maintains that it is not the
thinker early detected th .short- Christ Jesus elevated medicine to "with his stripes we are healed," way of Christ Jesus to divide
comings of creeds and dogmas, and a spiritual, a divinely mental ba- (Isa. 53:5) that even though, at Christly healing and saving, and
the long ; goings of medical theo-sis. Also, he restored theology to the time, the rejection of error to settle the healing portion upon
ries and practice. Although she the same purely spiritual plane, may seem punishment, loss of material medicine and the saving
was devoted to the church, and a From that true spiritual 1 platform pleasure, of profit or possessions, part on ecclesiasticism. Christian
stud ■ nt of medic il th oric s, her theology had been deba ed by the the re liziation su ly follows that Scientists proclaim, and under-
spiritual perception caused her to unspiritual doctrine that Spirit, there is no profit nor pleasure nortake to live under the undivided
spiritually real.
challenge popular systems of re-the infinite, made matter the fi-satisfaction in but always garment of Christ. Christian
ligion and medicine, systems that nite. This doctrine taught that al- there is salvation in destroying a Scientists reasonably hold that
regarded evil as a con-comitant of though God, who is Spirit, begot false sense. Christian Scientists Jesus never divided that raiment
good, equal in power, and sharing matter, which is not spiritual, we believe the price Jesus paid, each but it was torn apart by impious
God's prerogatives and His man's must rid ourselves of this God- follower of Christ must pay for hands. Christian Science holds it
estate. Such systems, in actual bestowed matter by dying out of
test, failed to quench her spiritual it -all of which would appear to
thirst, to satisfy her reasons, or
e an unprofitable procedure on
sease, all error. The denial of
to meet the needs of her frail the part of God and man. In both
physicality. Eventually she came theology and medicine Jesus utter-
to see that the theory of the ex-ly discarded material theories and with good, that forever oneness
istence of both good and evil, medicines. Christ Jesus' medicine
Spirit and matter, health and dis- and theology were one with Spirit,
ease, is based wholly on the out-not matter. This he illustrated
ward appearances, and is support* I when he said to his orthodox cri-
ed altogether by the witness of ties: "Whether is easier, to say,
the five notoriously unreliable Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to
physical senses. She saw reason-say. Arise, and walk?” (Matt,
ably, that the completely opposite 9:5) indicating the common origin
elements of good and evil, Spirit of sin and sickness, and showing
and matter, determine that if one that he healed both by the same
exists the other is non-existent, spiritual power and process.
Thus she arrived at the great
truth in divine Science, that the
THE THEOLOGY OF JESUS
The theology of Jesus brought
real man is not material but spi- .
ritual, not sick, sinful, fearful, in a new dispensation. He dis-
or in bondage, but well, loving, carded outworn parts of theologi-
cal tradition and flooded the re-
fearless, and free. What a dis-
covery was that! What an un-
shackling of the enslaved follow-
ed! What a debt of gratitude hu-
manity owes to this intrepid re-
mainder with divine light. The
age-old doctrine of substitutional
sacrifice he clarified with the
statement: “He that eateth my
flesh, and
drinketh my blood,
ligious and medical free-thinker, , .
this brave and loving follower of dwelleth ln me, and I in him;
(John 6:56) and he explained to
the preplexed disciples: “It is the
Christ! Mortals enmeshed in the
old cramping systems, striving to. . .. „ .
be well, holy, and successful spirit that quickeneth; the flesh
profiteth nothing: the words that
while accepting the false theories
of an inescapable evil opposite to
every god, and with each period
of temporary relief from some
form of enslavement crying, as
did St. Paul's gaoler: "With a
great sum obtained I this free-
dom,” (Acts 22:28) now, through
the blessed release of Christian
Science, can say with Paul, “But
I was free born!" (Ibid.) As
though in a flash of true insight
into that dramatic scene between
Paul and his gaoler a certain emi-
nent physcian has said: “If a man
should follow his doctor’s every
advice, take all his prescriptions,
adhere to his prescribed dietary,
physical education, exercise, hy-
giene, and disobey in
I speak unto you, they are spirit,
and they are life.” (John 6:33) It
was the Spirit and the spiritual
meaning of the Scriptures that
founded his theology, and the way
of salvation through self-sacri-
fice, or the denial of material
self. Jesus taught the unity of
God and man. He said, “ I am not
alone, but I and the Father that
sent me.” (John 8:16) In Christ
Jesus' theology, and in Christian
Science, there is no line of sepa-
ration, however fine, between
God and man, but instead there
is co-existence in which God is
cause and man is effect. Jesus'
theology named God as Spirit, not
nothing to be worshiped in nor as the
opposite of Spirit, not to be wor-
throughout his life, such a man
possibly might live six months shiped in or as matter,
longer, but he probably would
Again,
Jesus referred to God as knowing
spend all that extra time in the
hospital and be thoroughly miser-
able." My friend, if you would
learn of life untrammeled, and
joyously cry with Paul, “I was
free born," study Mrs. Eddy's
great book, “Science and Health
with Key to the Scriptures"; study
the Bible in the light thus thrown
upon it; put into your own life
the meanings as you grasp them:
attend the services of the Church
of Christ, Scientist, particularly
the Wednesday meetings where
testimonies of the healing of phy-
all things. So, Christian Science
teaches that God is the infinte,
and hence the only, Mind. The
conclusion from the theology of
Christ Jesus, and of Christian
Science, is that man is the idea
of divine Mind, or Spirit, the
image of God. This means man is
divinely mental or spiritual, and
hence not material. How truly,
as Jesus said, “the flesh profiteth
nothing.” (John 6:63(
Jesus theology revealed the cor-
rectness of all right mental action,
and the wrongness, the error, and
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A SUMMATION
I trust we have now establish-
ed the fact that the religion and
medicine of Christ Jesus and of
Christian Science are one, and this
one is based, in theory and prac-
tice, on the unity of being, the
scientific oneness of God and
man, including all reality, all
good; that this unity and continu-
ity of good excludes evil as a
reality; that the oneness of being
includes the wholeness, complete-
ness and holinss of man; that evil,
disease, sin discord, are a mis-
understanding of that oneness of
godd, and that therefore, there is
but one disease, a misstatement of
health. Thus in the pathology of
Christ Jesus, and of Christian
Science, the legion of disaeses of
1 material medicine, and the sins of
orthodox theology are reduced to
one a counterfeit of health and
for the Christly ministry
Christian Science, both its private holiness. The cure and prevention
and public practice. He made of sin and disease are in the one
the office of public practitioner remedy, the idea of Truth, the
proper and necessary for the legi-Christ, which entering human
timate care of humanity when consciousness, excludes or dc-
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with the Father, recognition of
which caused Jesus to refer to
himself as “the Son of man which
is in heaven." (John 3:13)
Finally, the theology of Christ
Jesus included the method of ap-
proach to God and of commu-
nion with Him. This provision is
prayer. It includes any activity
of the human consciousness to
throw off the old man, the false
sense of things and self, and to
replace it with the new man, the
right idea of self, of man as he
is always with the aFther, divine
Mind. Prayer, in its highest
statement, is that very realiza-
tion of true being, shorn of all
false sense, that realization of the
unity of God and man of which
Mrs. Eddy has said: “The Chris-
tian Scientist is alone with his
own being and with the reality of
things.” (Message for 1901, p. 20)
We pray rightly for divine guid-
ance; we lift up our hearts and
sincerely aver: “Where He leads
me I will follow." Mrs. Eddy's
prayer: “Shepherd, show me how
to go" (Poems p. 14) is meta-
phesically the appeal to intellig-
ence, the calling upon real Mind,
God, for wisdom, not upon the
human so-called mind, or mater-
ial sense, for mere intellectual
judgement. Divine guidance is the
leading, the directing, the deter-
mining of the one Mind, of God.
The will of God is always the
wise thing to do, and equally
whatever is the wise thing to do
is the will of God.
THE MEDICINE OF JESUS
Now the medicine of Christ Jes-
us which is the healing art of
Christian Science, differs in no
respect from his theology as out-
lined. Indeed they are one, since
Jesus’ theology, his knowledge of
God, was his medicine. First is
the necessary recognition of the
malady as a false state of con-
sciousness, as a departure from
the right condition or conduct,
evidenced by wrong physical or
moral effects, called discord, dis-
ease, sin. Second is necessary re-
pentance, or change of mind,
turning away from the evidence
as false, willingness to give up
the error, to reverse it, to turn
it, or turn from it. Third is bap-
tism with the spiritual sense of
reality, the sense of health, wash-
ing away the mesmeric false sense
thus cleansing both human con-
sciousness and body. Fourth is
roformation and probation, a ces-
sation of the offence, a correct-
ion of conduct, a walk with God,
a spiritualization of thought and
life; all of which makes the in-
dividual better, physically, ment-
ally, morally, spiritually. These
steps may not be clearly defined
in every case. Some individuals
come to Christian Science as some
true of the healing art' also: "It
is the Spirit that quickeneth, the
flesh profitr/.h nothing.” (John
6: 63)
CURE AND PREVENTION
Christ Jesus employed both the
therapeutic and prophylactic arts,
healing disease and sin, and pro-
tecting against the errors of be-
lief producing those evils. He said
to the man he healed of impoten-
cy: “Behold, thou art made whole:
sin no more, lest a worse thing
come unto thee." (John 5:14) He
said substantially the same to the
woman he healed of sin. He re-
stored Lazarus and others, rais-
ing them from the dead; and he
practiced in his own case the
preventative art, in his exper-
ience on the cross. In the tomb
he employed divinely mental med-
icine and surgery, and prevented
the operation of pathological laws.
Christian Science agrees with the
tenor of Jesus’ teaching, namely,
that preventive medicine, that is,
prophylaxis as Jesus practiced it,
is the highest art. Christian Sci-
entists properly are known not
only for the trouble they get out
of, but even more for the trouble
they keep out of. Abiding in the
morale of Christ’s Science, real-
izing your unity with God and
your inseparability from,good, and
accepting the responsibility of
your own thoughts and acts, lit-
erally: “There shall no evil be-
fall thee, neither shall any plague
come nigh thy dwelling." (Psalm
91:10)
Followers of Christ should
cognize with Jesus that
and the human material
re-
matter
mind
cannot cure the bodily ills they
produce. Christian Science reach-
es out beyond matter, beyond
even that other name for matter,
the carnal mind, to the divine
Mind, the only Mind, God, for the
correcting Christ, the idea of
Truth, for the sole healing and
preventive and redemptive pow-
er.
LAW AND NERVES
While Christiani Science does
not classify diseases, and give
them degrees and names, it re-
cognizes that mortal mind does
that. But Christian Science does
not acknowledge such classificat-
ion as binding or even obtaining,
except as it may be so in the con-
scious or tacit mental consent of
the individual. Contrariwise,
Christian Science refutes such
certification of error. Christian
Science takes away from disease
its falsely claimed identity and
power. To illustrate, mortal be-
lief declares the physical body is
governed by mortal mind, its ma-
ker, through nerves; that nerves
are the medium of mortal mind's
control of body, and that lack of
control and even many diseases
are attributable to failure of the
nervous system to function prop-
erly. Now Christian Science does
did to Jesus, seeking only the
loaves and fishes, seemingly un-
prepared for spiritual advance- not begin by studying the nervous
heal sickness, to restore the
maimed, to correct the abnormal,
and is His Christ, His healing and
saving power available? We
should abandon anatomy as phy-
sical and take up anatomy as de-
fined in Christian Science. This
study of scientific anatomy does
not consist in playing on words,
but in dealing with and disprov-
ing false beliefs, or erroneous
mental concept’s, for they alone
are responsible for abnormal con-
ditions of body or thought.
DISCOVERY OF THOUGHTS
Archaeologists discover ancient
cities and works of art by remov-
ing the accretion of debris upon
them. Christian Science discovers
man by annulling false beliefs
about him, and finds him well
and perfect; immortal, sinless,
strong, capable, spiritual, the
master-work of God's master
hand; not a material body, not a
jungle temple fashioned by man's
hands, but the vere temple of di-
vine Mind.
Employing the anatomy of
Christian Science one discerns
between thoughts and accurately
fixes them as true or false, as of
divine Mind or as misstatement's
thereof. One learns that wrong
thoughts are not actual thoughts
but are false statements or false
beliefs, which belong not to divine
Mind but to that false state of
consciousness Paul called the car-
nal mind. One learns also that all
abnormalities are objects of these
false untrue beliefs.
ADOPTED BELIEFS
Do you raise the question, how
can my bodily condition be the
expression of my thought when
I knew nothing of the disease or
its causes before it made its ap-
pearance'.’ How, then, can my
wounds be self-inflicted? Friend,
have you never considered how
well loved (and indulged) adopt-
ed children can be? Evil is never
native to anyone. It is always the
self-assertion of a lie. Therefore,
no matter how it got there, the
presence of evil in thought or
body must be rejected as spur-
ious. To say you did not know of
the false belief, yet to consider
yourself a victim of it, is to give
error all the power and reality
it asks of you. Error seeks to be--
and is content to be—and can
never eb other than an adopted
belief. But the error is in false
belief always and not' in man,
nor is it transferred from one man
to another. Actually, there is no
such thing as mental telepathy.
What seems to be transference
or projection of though is not
actual, but it is the individual's
acceptance, or adoption, of the
false claims of mortal mind. But
mortal mind is a counterfeit of
mesmerized into sin, disease, or
discord. The power to forgive —
destroy—sins, that is, to make
nothing of them, is delegated by
God to every individual. The
Bible declares all are made
"priests unto God." (Rev. 1:6) We
should see to it that we recognize
and exercise this power divinely
bestowed. It is a moral respon-
sibility to heal ourselves, and
when called upon, to heal others.
True responsibility does not pro-
duce doubt, incapacity, fear or
worry. Such bad qualities are
the effects of a false sense of re-
sponsibility. True responsibility
is God-bestowed and calls forth
the good qualities of self-reli-
ance, adequacy, confidence and
self-sufficiency.
Christ Jesus, in teaching both
his immediate disciples, and of
course, those countless Christians
to follow, on more than one oc-
casion addressed himself to Peter.
Thus Jesus’ repeated admonitions
to "feed my lambs;” “feed my
sheep,” (John 21:15) made Peter
not the mentor for Christendom,
but rather the illustration of the
Christian office of healer and
helper. Christ Jesus even said
pointedly: “Upon this rock”
(Matt. 16:18)—the solid founda-
tion of the practice of the Sci-
ence of Christ, as illustrated by
Peter—“I will build my church;
and the gates of hell shall not
prevail against it.” It is signi-
ficant that Jesus did actually
found an organization when he
taught disciples and sent them
forth to preach the gospel and to
heal the sick. Through these be-
ginnings Christ’s Christianity
spread throughout the then known
world. The church he built in
individual human consciousness
Mrs. Eddy has defined as “the
structure of Truth and Love.”
(S. and H. p. 583) The organi-
zation Jesus began in Jerusalem
flourished as a healing and sav-
ing evangelical body for over two
hundred years, but gradually ma-
terialism and ecclesiasticism chok-
ed its spiritual light and power.
Then after an eclipse of centuries,
the church of the healing and
saving Christ was revived in Bos-
ton, by Mary Baker Eddy, the
Discoverer, Founder and Leader
of Christian Science, under the
name. The First Church of Christ,
Scientist. Today the Christian
Science Church is caring for the
healing and redemptive work of
Christian Science all over the
world.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
PRACTICE
Just what does the practitioner
do when he works for himself, or
for others. He thinks, he rea-
sons from the basis of the one-
ness of being, the unity of God
and man. There is no place where
good is not, and so the unity and
immortality of good and health
are the foundation of treatment.
Health, wealth, heaven, harmony
are within the unity of being.
All individuals arc in reality,
within that oneness. All men
are distinct, but not separate in
the unity of being, of Mind ana
■troys the errors of belief, and so
preserves and restores the body,
mind and morals.
WITHOUT AND WITHIN
And how do you bring this into
your own experience, you ask?
We need, only preatice, that is,
live scientifically the religion and
medicine of Christ Jesus, of Chris-
tian Science, actively putting evil
outside the equation of true health
and holiness, refusing to give dis-
ease, sin and discord the reality,
power and presense they argue.
Let us see within ourselves and
others only the things and ex-
periences rightly belonging to the
unity of good. Thus we may see
ourselves separate from the errors
of confusion, and from the van-
tage of removal, may look down
upon the legion of errors counter-
feit presentments and literally
ride above them as things of
darkness, things outside reality,
things properly apart from the
sunlight realm of harmony, in
which all men actually live and
move and have being. The prac-
ticability of all this came to me
vividly one particularly fine
morning when, at the harbor of
Los Angeles, I entered a flying
boat, bound for Catalina Island.
The day was perfect, but scarce-
JACKSON, N. C.—Among other
things that Iris Flythe, North-
hampton county welfare superin-
tendent, had available to distri-
bute relief clients were 46 barrels
of grapefruit.
Although considered a delicacy
by some, the grapefruit provided
a baffling problem in the culinary
arts to others. One woman re-
ported: .
“After biling ’em for hours they
still tasted more like tough string
than something to eat.
"If you is planning to give us
any more wouldn’t it be all right
to give me snuff instead?”
IT HELPS
The energetic traveler for a cof-
fee firm believed in seizing every
opportunity. Coming to a little
village one day he chatted with a
lazy-loking individual sitting in
the sun on the village green.
“Ever drink coffee?” asked the
salesman.
“Ay,” asid the lazy individual
“ ’Bout 50 cups a day.”
“Fifty cups a day!” echoed the
amazed traveler. “Dosen't that
keep you awake?"
"Well,” drawled the other, “it
helps.”
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