Editorial November 20, 1902 Issue

A Pertinent Question

"Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased?"

As the world wakes up to the fact that there is neither cause nor effect in matter, and learns that the false claim of disease is both born and nourished in the domain of mortal mind, the trite old Shakespearean question is rejuvenated with a present interest and becomes the vital question propounded to all methods of healing. "Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased?" dis-eased by sorrow, wrung by the anguish of discouragement, despondency, gloom? Here is the root of malady. What hast thou to administer? A mind dis-eased by sin,—jealously, dishonesty, debauchery, here is the source of our ailment. Wilt thou minister to darkened consciousness with nostrums? A mind dis-eased by poverty that opens the door to the recesses of crime. Canst thou minister to it? A mind dis-eased by discordant family relations, dishonored friendships, disloyalty; these reveal the cause of the pallid face and faltering footstep. Canst thou minister to it? A mind dis-eased by greed, by ambition, by pride, by selfishness,—sins that find expression in physical discord. Who can minister to this? They, only, who by patient following of the Master and by a clear understanding of the revelation of Christian Science have learned that false mortal mentality, the source of all evil, is not Mind; they who can demonstrate that there is one Mind, and that neither Mind nor its reflection can be diseased, and who thus destroy both the illusion of a "mind diseased" and its consequent physical inharmony. They can thus minister who have found that the "sweet oblivious antidote" for all discord is Love. 'Tis no mere doctor, but the Christ disciple who knows and can prove that only Love will

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