The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1895-06-20
The World Beautiful.

GAS man thinketh in his heart so is
he" This is not mere moral or re-
ligious platitude, but scientific state
ment. It has been said that "a man is
the architect of his own fortune" but
this is more true for mind and body
than of worthy place and possessions.
The creative power of thought is his
divine instrument, but he has not
learned it's use. and has till recently
been the case with electrical energy, its
force has been squandered, or, even
worse, turned in the wrong direction
Henry Wood.
There is the deepest philosophical as
we'll as ethical significance in that pas
sage in the Scriptures, "Let the words
of nv mouth and the meditations of
my heart be always acceptable in Thy
sight, O Lord my strength and my
Redeemer." For it is out of thought
spoken and unspoken that are the
issues of life. That which one habitu-
ally feels and says is that which de-
termines his entire life in the external
aspects and it's inner status. If one
wishes, then, to build up his fortunes,
or his character, or his achievements;
to strengthen and enlarge and exalt
all, the place to begin is in his own
mind. When the apostle Paul eXhorts
to new and higher life what method
does he recommend? "Be ye trans
formed" he says, "by the reneaDing OF
yo,.r mind" And again, "Let every
soul be subject unto the higher powers" ;"
Words could be multiplied to any ex-
tent repeating and emphasizing this
truth in it's two-fold aspect, that life
is determined, in both its quality and
it's achievement by the inner thought,
and that the inner thought is deter
mined by the extent to which it allies
itself with the higher powers.
In this closing decade of the nine
teenth century science as we'll as ethics
has laid hold of this truth. No longer
is it only an enthusiastic expression of
religion, but an exact expression of
. science. Scholarly research as well as
, spiritual activity lays hold of it, and
= the principle is formulated under the
name of psycho-physics. There has
=. been for some time past in Washington
= an eminent savant engaged in this
9 work of scholarly research into that
:, mysterious and most intimate connec
y ton of thought and form. Prof. Elmer
Gates has already attracted great at
tention-too great, indeed, for the quiet
his work demands, and he has beer
obliged to leave the Capitol, where ne
d was so continually subject to inter
% ruption, and seek the quiet of tht
Philadelphia suburb of Germantown.
That most admirable teacher an(
leader in spiritual thought, Mr.. Henr.
IL Wood of Boston, the well-known autho
! and speaker. recently visited Prof
y Gates at his laboratory, and has mucl
q of the profoundest interest to say re
T. garding his work. This work is s.
'0 comprehensive in its manifold aspect
. that any adequate resume OF 1t is I'M
10 possible, and it is, too, largely in ex
t. perimental stages, which Prof. Gate
g. does not care to have, at this time
publicly discussed. A press CORES
pondent says:
Every thought which enters tn
- mind is registered in the brain by
~ ~ change in the structure of the cell
~ ~, The change is physical change MOI
~ - or less permanent. Bad thoughts bull
~ UP structures of cells which engende
Nv Nv evil ideas, and good thoughts contrar
~ wise. Consider the case of the ma
~ ~ who is unhappy and depressed, wh
81 has lost ambition and walks the stree
q with a slouching gait. The psysch
physicist can take such a person an
- within SIX weeks transform him
% such an extent that every friend of h
will notice the difference"
~ And this change will be brougl
~ about without a word of specific cou
~ sci regarding gait or awkward bearin
It will be natural outward confirm
: ton resulting from an inner chang
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