The herald., 1896-01-06

| cloister but a harbor, which once reached
! by us is the rallying point whence we are
| to put out after those still stranded and
perishing. Charles Wesleys definition of
| a true church was ''early at work, all at
work, always at work." The Lord had
made no provision, either here or above,
| for drones. Work is the specific for dys-
peptc soul. If man is thoroughly occu-
pied he will have no time to parley with
doubts. Like the running stream he will
| be to active too freeze.
| The pastor gave interesting and encour-
aging illustrations of what was possible
| where each member heartily co-operated
with the minister and church officers, and
then crowded home the truth that these
prospering elements come by much of
prosperity 1.-The Pentecostal church
was baptized in prayer, and so has every
great advance been marked by a deep
sense of dependence upon God"
Unity Church
Yesterday morning the pastor, j. S.
Thomson, delivered sermon on The In
fluences of Thought Upon the Body, taking
the text, keep the heart with all dill
gence; for out of it are the issues of life."
Proverbs, :23. The gentleman said:
We are conscious of a small part of our
life. There are depths. wonders and agen-
]
during our earthly existence. 1t is the
opinion of some poets and philosophers
that our unconscious life makes our bodies
after its own form.
For of the soule the bodie forme doth take
For soule is forme, and doth the bodle make.
The millions of activities which are con-
| tinually going on in our mortal frames are
superintended by our unconscious life. 1t
moves our lungs and hearts, circulates the
blood, repairs waste tissues, makes bone,
muscle. skin, hair. horn. digests our food,
coors our faces and eyes. without our
knowledge or guidance. Christ, after his
baptism, became conscious of this uncon-
scious life. Three things happened to him.
as he came up out of the waters of
the Jordan: The heavens were
opened to him. he saw spiritual
agents, and he heard a voice. Before that
time he was not endowed with the Won
derful powers which enabled him to cure
sick peoplei new ways. He said II have
come that they might have life and that
they might have i more abundantly,' and
this more abundant life that he spoke of
is consciousness of our unconscious life.
He saw the workings of the human body
and he was able to detect the source of the
disease instantly. He always demanded
faith in himself from those who sought
cure from him. He could not cure many
people in his native place because there
was an atmosphere of unbelief The faith
which he demanded was a spiritual per-
ception of his mission and power, real
ization that through him the power of God
would come to heal them and willingness
to receive without prejudice His divine in
fluence. God gives great healing powers
only 10 pure hearts. 1.-THE pure in heart
see God" No matter what physician
has learned in books, in classes or
be impure he will fail to touch
his patients with the divine inf1u-
ence that heals and restores life. Many
of the patients who die under the care of
regular and irregular physicians, of edu-
Gated or uneducated doctors, lose their
lives, because the healers had not the pure
hearts through which the spirit of God
could work miracles. If God has not made
a man to be a healer. neither education
nor supe rstition, nor ignorance. nor new
fad, can make him such. Doctors are
born, and not made; but they do need edu-
cation. 1t is the healer'S business and duty
10 arouse the dormant powers of his
patients. He ought to start the thoughts
which will raise the patients into spiritual
! Consciousness. Our thoughts affect our
bodies. Ii we are angry, excited, or labor
| ing under any passion, when we eat. our
! digestive organs cannot do their duty.
! Every tit of passion. every disappointment,
| every surorlse. and all our ideals and
| hopes, affect our bodies one way or an
| o her. Our bodies respond to noble
! thoughts, and they are depressed by evil
| thoughts. When mans thoughts live
! among the stars. the beauties of nature,
| the spiritual glOries of life, the grand char
acters of history, he will in his body, in his
/ face, in his eye, and gestures, show the in
! ffuences of his thoughts. The man who lives
in dirty home and neighborhood. who
| breathes poisoned moral atmosphere,
| who associates wi debaucheG souls. who
sees only the ugly side of life, cannot be
/ other than low character. He thinks I'M
Gle IN thoughts, and these thoughts defile
/ HIM. If the directors, officers and teach
ers of the public schools be booders. inn
| pure, Incorporate, full of political schemes,
1 ready to sell their souls for favor, money
! or position, can we expect that the pupils
| will grow up to be truly patriotic, honest
and heroic? Under such circumstances
/ they will not be inspired to think the
1 thoughts which bless soul and body. The
! Greeks studied the elements, principles
and laws of beauty, in heaven and in
! earth; they built beautiful temples, made
statues and pictures that delighted the eye
and gave suggestions of noble thoughts:
and the mothers of the ancient Greeks
were trained to study beautiful things in
nature and art. so that their children
might have fine bodies. They knew that
| the body is affected by the though of men
and women. People that are always
thinking of ugly things, and that are al
| ways looking at bad things. never progress
in harmony. beauty and religion. We are
to mediate upon Gods laws day and
/ night; but we were never comm anCed to
think of the doings of the devil day and
| night. Even superintendents of insane
! asylums often show signs of mental dis
ease. 1t was a marked characteristic of
Christ that he saw something good and beau
| tiful in all things and persons. He came
to save the lost. the ugly. the dirty, the sim
| ful. When he came in contact with them
he thought of the beautiful angels thew
might become and not of the ugly lives
and circumstances of the poor and afflicted
people; and his thoughts of health, love,
beauty, harmony, lifted the sick into his
region of life. The highest life on
this planet that we can think of is Cbrist's
beau iful and blessed life. To think of
that life un il it becomes an image in our
spirits is our greatest safety from sin.
shame, bad heal h and misery. "Looking
unto Jesus" restores, strengthens and in
spires our souls. Christ stands for man
| hood, for man as man, and man as Gods
! child. He is not the head of profession.
or coterie, or party, or a human depart
ment of life. He represents to us the har.
mony and beauty of human character. To
rethink his thoughts, to refeel his passions
and joys, to repray his prayers, to resee his
glorious visions, to rehope his conuuering
| hopes, to reread his lessons of nature. and
to rekeep his Fathers commandments: to
do this is to be a follower of the king of
men and the prince of life. And to do this
is to fill Gods temple, the human body,
with true, good. and enduring beauties and
joys. Let us remember his advice, always