A Better Way

The editor of a prominent daily voices a very general protest when he says that if things continue at their present pace, every man who hopes to retain a vestige of his strength and comfort will have to keep a scientific valet about him all the time to sterilize his toothpicks before he uses them, and perform a thousand other kindred services, in keeping with the petty requirements of modern medical dictation.

New theories respecting the material sources of disease are constantly being exploited, and they have not only brought into discredit the ideas which were so recently honored as scientific and authoritative, but they have imposed such an ever-increasing number and variety of exactions that a much-burdened and oft-befooled humanity is getting rather tired of the dance, though the pipers be ever so scientific and distinguished.

Even the devotees of materia medica are beginning to realize that, at their present rate of increase, the task of forestalling and defeating all the swarming enemies of health and happiness is not only a hopeless undertaking, but that the anxious and persistent care it demands speedily becomes in itself one of the most serious and menacing things in the way of our comfort and well-being. Experience is proving that incessant watchfulness for the body, the tireless endeavor to forefend hygienically all its possible ills, does not secure immunity from them; but, on the contrary, that it supplies the most favorable conditions for the encroachment of dreaded maladies.

Our editor declares that this "fussy foolishness" of medical requirement is making a great many people "disgusted with the whole business of scientific preservation of health," and he longs for the return of the reign of good-old-grandmother common-sense. He is in close sympathy with the prophet slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace. Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved."

As one considers the facts which have thus moved our brother, and remembers that all this inglorious and annoying subjection to materiality is discountenanced and condemned by the life and teaching of the great Wayshower, he cannot help wondering that thinking, Christian people should have allowed these colossal presumptions and impositions of error to remain so long unchallenged. The spiritual philosophy of the prevention and cure of sickness which Jesus Jesus taught does not authorize the conclusion that the seeds of disease are located in matter. He declared that here, as everywhere, causation is mental; that sin, — wrong thought and determination, — is the explanation of all disharmony, and that spiritual apprehension, the knowing of truth, is its one "divinely appointed" specific. "The divine Principle of Science, reversing the testimony of the physical senses, reveals man as harmoniously existent in Truth, which is the only basis of health; and thus Science denies error, heals the sick, overthrows false evidence, and refutes materialistic logic" (Science and Health, p. 120). This truth reasserted and demonstrated in Christian Science healing lifts thought from the vain material endeavor to prevent and overcome disease, to a restful realization of the immediate and eternal supremacy of Truth; it brings the comforting assurance of the constant protection and safety of him whose mind is stayed on God. The discouraging struggle to discover the occasion and remedy the effects of disease in and through matter, thus gives place to spiritual aspiration, an intelligent effort to acquire and maintain the Mind that was in Christ Jesus, that the law which made him superior to every temptation and assault of evil may be manifest in us. And in view of the abundant proofs of the present efficiency of this true faith, which Christian Science has given, it would seem that no one could doubt that it is the better way. W.

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