The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-21

papers that present vivid word pictures of vice
and sensationalism In the interest OF health.
good morals and social purity, Christian Science
utters solemn protest against the widespread
publishing of descriptions and pictures of dis
ease, crime and patent medicines, accompanied
with detailed accounts and illustrations of So
called incurable diseases. 1t is proverbial that
the reading of vivid descriptions of disease tends
to the development of like symptoms In the
readers mind or body. In Germany the press Is
no longer allowed to print accounts of suicide
because these accounts help to make this error
epidemic. Our consecrated social reformers
should learn lesson from Christian Science and
recognize that the constant publication of Grim
inal action murders, and suicides keeps
series of thought waves in motion that sway all
minds that are open to erring or criminal sug-
gestions. These waves of mental suggestion set
In motion by sensational books and papers, and
strengthened by the minds of millions of readers,
who transfer by thought and speech the germs
of crime and disease, the chief dangers that
confront our modern civilization. I'VE are
liable to be corrupted by books as by COM
panions," writes Yielding Christian Science
separates the chaff from the wheat in literature
and prepares the mind to appreciated true liter
airy merit. making purity the corner stone of all
genuine book making. The modern press is
progress, freedom and Truth. But, as with all
human institutions. error tries to retard its
upward steps and worthy motives and to array
evils demoralizing sensationalism and depravity
with the garments of decency and Truth. Such
journalism is not only enemy to health and
morals but to civilization to the entire race,
and to the century in which we live. Public
opinion will soon demand the reformation of this
abnormal type of journalism, and impersonal
Righteousness will cleanse the atmosphere Of its
foul impurities.
System Is Practical.
Sociology, or the science Of society and
human association, be called the highway
to the realm of brotherhood. In practical way
Christian Science can be termed Christian
Socialism. for that Magma Charta Of divine
democracy. the Sermon on the Mount, is the
foundation of this Science, and the Lords
which natitinnS hat od'
rule shall come on earth in heaven is its one
great Article of Faith. The questions of capital
and labor government: business, education, prac-
tical philanthropy, all confront Christian Sci
entists as they do every social and religious re-
former. 1t should be remembered that the very
transcendentalism Of the philosophy of Chris
tian Science makes 1t of practical value to all
aspects OF human affairs. Because the system
deals wholly and directly with mind and mental
forces, and because it aims at the publication
and capitalization Of thought, it at enters
the realm Of mental causation. and there puri-
fes elevates, and corrects. This system aims
ut the establishment of the Brotherhood of Man,
with one governing Mind the basis of divine
Love. 1t shows that erring thought, false mo-
tives and standards. selfshness. and human fear
evolve and create the perpleXities that surround
the questions of class strife, and the inequali-
ties of life so prominent in the varied aspects Of
the great problem of capital and labor. Chris
tian Science lays the at the root of the tree
of human error. It demands that love shall take
the place Of fear, trust and confidence the place
| of suspicion and the consciousness of Christian
individuality can never be lost) shall overthrow
the power of human greed and jealousy. Genu-
inc reform will be vain Dream and brother
hood a phantom, until the elements Of human
| nature changed by the acquisition of the
Mind of the Master Individual reform must
and will end in the general reformation of the
race.
Christian Science, by bringing the mind into
harmony with divine Mind through gradual
process of mental elimination makes the indi.
vidual law unto himself. Man thus brought
under the impersonal rule of Right Justice and
Mercy. involuntarily becomes obedient to the
law. He is then by natural and true instinct
supporter of all moral and righteous government.
Glass legislation is fundamentally wrong. Pop
ular government, true Republtcanism, and Chris.
tian democracy, In the larger significance Of
these terms, will be sustained and enlarged only
as the divine rights of the individual are recog-
| nized and sacredly guarded. Popular govern
m me need not be paternal in order to protect
individual to carry the idea of liberty so far
that it amounts to lawlessness. Unity In indt-
viduality" should be the motto of our common
wealth and the basis of government in all lands
and among all nations.
Christian Science is of vital Importance and
value to the business It intensifes the
normal mental power of concentration, applica-
| ton, foresight, and wise conservatism. 1t en-
| genders that optimism which enables the we'll
poised and experienced business to watt
and in cautious movement attain legitimate
and desired, end. 1t enables the business man
| to read human nature more keenly, hence more
accurately. Thus he is better fitted to protect
himself against human subtlety and craftiness
so common among those mortals who attach no
value to integrity, recognize no obligations in
| friendship and see no grandeur In being honest,
with word and bond one. 1t helps him in
| times of panic and in hours of fear, because it
reveals the fact that the Principle of honesty
Christian Science, through its processes of men
| tai training, lifts business men above the petty
annoyances Of daily life and renders re-
| ward, under the natural laws of cause and
effect, to all effort and action that tend to
uphold integrity, honesty. and right motive:
Financial panics, so-called ''hard times" and
business depression come in most cases from
mental and abnormal reasons. 1t is but infre-
quently that actual and reasonable causes exist
| for these distressing disturbances.
| Merciless waves of concrete defined fear
| aggravated and increased by suggestion. press,
and telegraph, sweep over the minds which con-
and manipulate conditions and values tor
nado sweeps over a forest. Constant talk about
ones bodily ailments or mental woes always
perpetuates and increases these troubles. The
rehearsal Of crime and vice tends to evolve like
conditions in the life or environment Of the per
son who dwells in such error. Business mer
unwittnEly talk poverty. limitation, and "hart
times,'' brood the detailed symptoms of
diseased or sick business, and work agains
their own interests and evolve either distress Of
actual failure The Christian Science business
man is wiser than the generation about him
He applies rational mental methods to all con
dtions that confront him. and by so doing avoids
chance catastrophe. .. 49,.
The varied manifestations of fear darken tn
mind, perpetuate tmidity, and hinder individual
advancement Therefore. the practical appli
cation of the rules OF Christian Science end
In the gradual destruction of this element in tn
human mind. .-[S..
In all that relates to educational question
Christian Science eXalts the idea that tru
education consists Of training thought in chan
nels of right knowledge, such as will help tn
human mind to outgrow its ignorances and wron
tendencies. All that encourages keen insight
correct reasoning, scientific and exact menta
methods is of value. TO the Christian scien
! HIGHER n0uoatiOp wh an
spiritual, but eminently practical, though in ad
vance of general educational theories 1t pro
claims the capitalization of secular thought i
| contradistincton to the secularizing of spirtua
thought and rational idealism. The philanthrop
of Christian Science consists of healing tn
sick. reforming the depraved. teaching mankin
and showing all men how to rise from the val
leys of poverty and misery into the light Q
, true living. To lawyers this Science become
invaluable inasmuch as it is the great inter
prefer of the Moral Code and through its er
iargement of the faculties of the mind it mai
uraly increases the intuitive of mora
right, necessary to this profession. It ais
gives thought enlarged grasp of the scop
and application Of the law whole.
Mary Baker Eddy.
To it's Discoverer and Founder the race owe
everlasting gratitude. Hundreds of thousand.
long bound by chains of suffering and error. no.
call her career blessed and her mission
humanity dvinely ordered. She discourages PEI
sonal homage. Her strongest characteristic
lofty scorn for mere personal regard or any al
sesh e n6e s Is ber
f slant; a religious teacher faithful and Ill
firing; as a philanthropist liberal and wis,
. giving to private and public charities large il
stalments of her time and money; as reforme
courageous, with prophetic vision of a eEal
order; an American woman. patriotic an
democratic, vet it be said of her that 9Th
world is her country-to do good her religion
She stands. she always has done, the frien
! of the oppressed and down-trodden. Works, ne