Article November 25, 1916 Issue

A speaker in his excellent address on "Pain and Its Significance,"...

Lloyd B. Coate

Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch

A speaker in his excellent address on "Pain and Its Significance," makes reference to Christian Scientists, intimating that under the spell of religious zeal they are able to efface the sensation of pain. He also refers to the ancient Stoic, who held that pain, though evil, would be triumphed over by a mind properly disciplined.

Christian Science healing is not the seeming control of matter by the human mind; it is the operation of divine law. Christian Science healing is directly opposed to so-called mental science, to mesmerism, or hypnotism. In Christian Science it is the power of God, or the divine Mind, that heals the sick and reforms the sinner. The more one thoroughly understands the divine Principle taught and practised by Jesus the Christ, the more one is led away from all thought of matter or the human mind as being a healer.

It was not the philosophy of the ancient Stoic, but the understanding of God's all-power that enabled the three Hebrew captives in the fiery furnace to escape unharmed. The understanding of this same divine Principle enables Christian Scientists to subdue pain and overcome sin and disease.

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