The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-26

never. And when did this happen frstg
Why, when I was treating you, bring.
Love, not suggesting things either to
him or you, but just leaving you
there. - r.,
'.Ah. but I don It understand, - said
Thurso. eff you've done that, is 1t
all over? Am I cured?"
mo, because you, make
habit of error, and you. have to
MAKE ma Sefose habit nab arc Of gyng v s5rSF
have to put yourself in the hands of
j Love often and often before you get
rid Of this. At least I expect that.
but one can't know how he will choose
to heal you. Why, man, we have to
be continually doing that whether
we we made habit, like you, Of some
particular form of-error, or whether we
are. but just normal beings. And
Divine Love is longing to help us, but
we must ask"
finite Love, Why does he allow N error to
bind us at all?" asked Thurso.
"There is no doubt that it is so,"
answered Cochran. "Why, he has
said so: Whatsoever we shall ask in
my name, believing -
SBut dc you profess, to heal people
who don't believe" said he. -
''I know. Why not? But a man
who didn It believe couldn't heal'
Again Thurso had got unconsciously
interested.
1.You spoke Of laudanum as poison
stuff just now,' he said. HBut> if
God made everything, including pop
pies, how can it be poisonous?'
Cochran laughed
"Well, we had better have Lady
Maud back, - he said CIT was about
that very thing I was going to talk to
her today. Now, if you care to listen
to that, since you've asked the ques-
ton, why, pray do. But if you are not
interested in it, why, if you'll read the
for half an hour, we can then all start
out skating or whatever else you like
''Rut aren't you going to treat
me9' asked Thurso.
"Oh, was at it this morning for
some time,' he said. "I've paid you
the morning visit, so to speak,
Then again some spirit of antagon-
Maud came back he crossed over to the
fire with the paper. But the news was
of no Importance, and by degrees he
. found himself attending less to the
printed page, and more to the voice
that sounded so pleasant and cheerful.
: Sometimes he found himself mentally
ridiculing what was said, but yet he
listened. It was arresting somehow.
and whether it was only the persona
lily of the speaker that arrested him.
or what he said, he found himself.
whether approving or disappearing,
more and more absorbed in it. -.
Cochran spoke first, as he said he
was going to do, about the apparently
poisonous or sanative effects of drugs.
These he maintained were not inherent
In the drugs themselves, but in the be-
lief of those who uSe6 Thorn R11t fn
use drugs for curative reasons was
merely to encourage the false belief
that they could in themselves cure;
while, on the other hand, anyone who
knew and fully believed that they
could neither be healthgiving nor de-
eat deadly poison and be none the
worse for it. But no one who held this
belief would do SO merely as demon
stration, to satisfy the idle curiosity
of those who did not believe.
Then he passed on to bigger things.
and as he spoke his voice grew deeper
and more full Of conviction vibrating
with earnestness. ~
"But all this,'' he said, "tho, of
. detail that follows from the real and
vital proposition. How error originally
came in, don't pretend to say; what
we have got to deal with today is that
error is here and that this error that
ascribes to material things any real ex-
istence is a very common form of it.
But this is, as I said, only a secondary
matter; what really concerns us is not
to know what does not exist, but to
know what does. And one thing only
exists, and that is God in all his mani
festations. The Infinite Mind, the
Divine Love, is all that has any real
being. But as light can be split up and
some Of it can appear in any Of the
hues of the rainbow, so that when you
say, This is blue, this is red, you are
only speaking of a part of light, so
when you say, This is unselfsh, this
is courageous, this is pure, this is
lovely you are only speaking Of one
of the hues Of God. It is good for us
to contemplate any one of these, for
each Of them is lively, but we must con-
tinually be pressing them all together.
SO that they all mingle with each