Article July 8, 1911 Issue

The advocates of materialism may not be willing to...

Charles D. Reynolds

Cheshire (N. H.) Republican

The advocates of materialism may not be willing to acknowledge the Scriptural teaching concerning, spiritual power, and may not be willing to allow those who do so believe to rely upon and satisfactorily demonstrate the availability and reliability of this power in the overcoming of sin and disease; but it is proven, and rapidly becoming recognized, that there is not on earth today a teaching that is contributing more toward the solution of the sanitation and health problems that confront our state and local boards of health than is Christian Science. Real Christianity is the cleanest, purest, and most wholesome thing the world can possibly have. It begins upon the sanitary problems of our external environment by showing the necessity of first making clean the "inside of the cup and platter." "Cleanse first that which is within," was Jesus' first rule of sanitation and hygiene. It is not based on medical theory and practice, but it is thorough and complete, when applied.

There is nothing that repels and excites compassion in a true Christian like dirt and filth, lack of pure air and sunshine. They are suggestive of a mind gross and blinded with material darkness that indicates paganism, the absence of spiritual light and understanding. He sees in an unsanitary, disease-breeding environment a condition of mind and thought equally gross. The environment cannot be kept clean unless this state of the human mind is transformed. The sphere of so-called medical science is to mend, as far as possible, the discords so produced, until this mind is changed by the adoption of a more spiritual, ideal thought, which we call "the Mind of Christ."

Mrs. Eddy taught that one should always be sincere and honest with himself and others; that dishonesty and deception are plague spots and ruin men. She taught that man's first duty is to know and obey God, and she pointed out how this can be done by every one, and the blessings that will come to them if they are obedient.

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