New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-04-29
ALL IN YOUR MIND.
Dr. Sliocr Thinks Messages Are
from, There, Not the otter World.

we 1--we IN a time in which the soul. long neg
5ectea IS asserting its rights said the Rev. Thomas
STcer before the Woman's West End Republican
Club yesterday afternoon. The result IS that We
have all sorts OF queer psychic phenomena People
thought for while that they could live without
thinking or feeling: they run to Oriental
philosophy with Occidental temperanents The soul
has rebelled. and say with the philosopher when
asked IL he had soul. NO. d---n a soul; have
D body
we are doing now in the spiritual world Just
what we used 10 do IN the natural. We are gem
eraIizng from insufficient data You remember
when men found place 20 nut the throne or God
outside the universe. because there wasn't any
outside they concluded that there couldn't be a
place Cor II anywhere. and they passed resolutions
over the empty space where God used 20 be- IN
she same way they now hastily conclude that they
have messages from the other world What other
sroridY Emerson asked. The other world Is here
III tell you why that cannot be Because rom
eheresoever the message might start by the time
you had received II IN terms Of your own con-
yciousness YOU would have to take the other world
label of and put on this world stamp. 1t is more
likely that what people take for message from the
ether world comes simply from an unexplored
region OF their minds: for the human mind
has been less surveyed and less written about than
Ehe renlotest region OF Africa
Dr. Steers talk was given under the somewhat
tnigmstical title THE Climate OF the Mind" lie
eesended this as the atmosphere IN which the per-
eonsllty habitualiy resides. and explained as fol-
lows:
Flowing close to the shores OF North America is
D. cold current from Bafin's Bay. Outside or this is
she warm Gulf Stream, and above the Gulf Stream
the cir is filed with moisture Now. when breeze
from the open ocean blows the moisture laden air
above the Gulf Stream over the cold Arctic cur
rent Il Is condensed into a fog. The same conoi-
lions prevail and the thing often happens IN
our minds The mind is not synonymous with the
intellect. The mind combines the reasoning ano
the emotional faculties, and when the VINO OF
desire from emotional currents blows
over the colder currents OF the reason i Is very
likely TO produce a fog. II IS the edulpoise which
we maintain between the speculative and the emo
tonal faculties which constitutes the climate OF the
mind and IL is this climate OF the mind that deter
mines what are"
IN conclusion, Or. slicer urged his hearers 20 be
satisfied with the climates which their MINDS
naturally produced.
own secret Of life" he said. instead OF letting
your minds alone until they solve their own per
pezities"
Mrs. Charlotte Nilbour also said few words,
and there short musical programme arranged
by Mrs Leon Hess. Miss Evelyn Mellen being the
Violinist, Miss Blanche WestfaIl the pianist, and
Miss Mary Case the vocalist.
The meeting the last OF the season. and IN
closing II the president. Mrs. Augustine Wilson
urged the members not 10 consider themselves
OF duty during the summer. but TO work for the
Te-election Of Theodore Roosevelt and IN be ready
20 respond a call for n meeting should the ne
CesSity arise Mrs George J. Bird then recited a
SOem OF her own. entitled Long Live Teddy"