The Express acknowledges with profound appreciation the receipt of resolutions adopted by the Los Angeles County Eclectic Medical society, endorsing its attitude on the subject of sex hygiene instruction in the public schools.
That there are many well-authenticated cases of cures through faith, apart from Christian Science, we think no one who has looked into the matter will deny, and that such cures point to the mental nature of illness would be conceded by most men.
An article in a late issue entitled "Mental Healing as a Science" gives a somewhat interesting, and we think authentic, description of the ancient use of magnetism as a curative agent, but it is altogether too sweeping when it includes Christian Science as one of the many systems of treating disease by "mental suggestion.
For
many ages the purity, simplicity, and confidence of the child thought has been held before humanity as a pattern, the kingdom of heaven being likened unto it; yet very seldom do we find ourselves giving the matter serious attention.
Discord,
trial, and mishap drive investigation back through the course of error to its cause, and for the reason that true premise and correct process, as we well know, always beget both the assurance and the realization of harmony.
In
the gospels we read that Christ Jesus said, "Cast out first the beam out of thine own eye, and then shalt thou see clearly to pull out the mote that is in thy brother's eye.
