The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-10-28

IlQ ulmSSn Ol NOlAS nAN VI i anger He need not have turned from the New Testament to have made the distinction between l "fear-thought" and "fore-thought." The apostle would have told him as he l told Timothy God gave us not spirit i of fearfulness; but of power and love | and discipline" Brooding regret, tor turing doubt, forebodng, fretfulness, | jealousy, ill-temper; dejection. a gen. uine religious experience drives these sins forever from the heart. If we are bearing the name of Christian and are yet in disgraceful bondage to these power of darkness f~on1 which the pow CT of God can 95.-g,! us now and for ever, let us fall upon our knees in shame and not rise until ''by the mer- cies of God" we have presented our bodies a living sacrifice, holy accept able to God which is our reasonable service; that we be not fashioned ac- cording to this world but be transform ed by the renewing of our mind, that we may prove what is the will of God, even the thing which is good and ac- ceptable and perfect" No Christian has a right to be other than glad and confident and victorious; he must not tolerate himself on any lower terms. He must reckon himself abso- lutely dead unto sin. He must hold himself absolutely irresponsive to the lcalls of the lower nature. The Chris
 tan Scientist" Is simply following Paul as every one of us should do when he resists the suggestions of evil as false claims; temptation is a worthless
 draft that must not be tonored. What ever is unworthy must instantly and constantly be repudiated by the
 thought and replaced with the true and pure and lovely.
 The bearing of ali this upon the phy- sical well being is direct and evident The genuine Christian, so far from denying that he has body, knows that his body is temple of the Holy Ghost which he has from God; that he 1 Is not hts own for he is bought with 1 a price and must glorfy God therefore in his body" Coria 6; 1920. He ac-
 cordingly treats the body sacredly, obs
 serves it's laws religousty and uses every means which God has made known to him through the revelations
 of science, for its care, its preservation and when needful it's restoration. He
 knows moreover, that his spiritual and
 physical natures are mysterfously
 welded and act and react each upon
 the other; but as his essential and
 dominant self is spiritual not physical.
 ne knows that sound mind is the
 chief requisite for sound body. He
 scorns a sensual and materialistic phy-
 sician as a sacrilegious impostor; a
 soulless treatment of the body as a
 the physical, or dosing of it with
 drugs to deaden the penalties of
 broken law is to him a proclamation. He
 understands perfectly that the su-
 preme condition of physical health is a well-ordered spirit that proves hour by
 hour the perfect will of God in peace
 and joy and love; "that the fear of the
 Lord tendcth to lifen-that "a merry
 heart Is a good medicine, but brok- on spirit drieth up the bones" The
 best prophylactic Is unselfshness and courage and good cheer A happy faitf resists disease, wards off insanity fav. ors good digestion and peaceful sleer and when inevitable sickness comes
 does more than medicine to in
 sure recovery. No dark despair of sui
 eide can well deepen about him wh, sings with Tenny:on.
 Love is and was my. King and Lord And will be, though as yet keep
 Within his court on earth and sleep Encompassed by his faithful guard, And hear at times a sentinel
 Who moves about from place t,
 to place
 And whispers to the worlds of suac, In the deep night, that all is welln
 Beloved if any of us in the mas though in the visible Church of Jestl
 Christ have had but "a name to live, Tor Christ's sake for the sake of oth
 CTS to whom our lives have been weight ii.rtead of an inspiration, fo the sake of our own souls and destinie
 dear to God, let us throw open our na lures tonight and foreverrnore to tn,
 life more abundant" St. Paul de @ clares and he is speaking now not O
 heaven but of present salvation 9 through the Gospel of Christ, "Ey
 hath not seen, nor ear heard neithe t have entered into the heart of man
 the things which God hath prepare, I for them that love him" This prepar
 ation we should put to the test; thes
 things we should appropriate; " e should be Christian Scientists all i re the sense of making personal e, t. pertinent in spiritual things until W " gain each one a first hand religiol f. experience; until we know for oul i'd selves whom we have believed. Eat st of us rising from his particular nee h and weakness and sin should persis h. ently lay hold upon and morilentarl is trust and use the power of God uni ar salvation until like the reclaimed Lal of cashire drunkard we shall have a te in timony to give which no cross que C. tioning can shake. Religion" said l f "has changed my home, my heart, ar +o you can all see it has changed n o face. hear some of those Londc er men call themselves Positivists Rle y God, am Positivst. I'm positi ,s God, for Christs sake has pardon M my sins, changed my heart and ma s+ me a new creature" The supren - thing is to gain a scientific experien ,,e of this peace and freedom and DOW oS of the inner life promised to every 0 o+ who will accept Jesus Christ as sa w four and King, And then among t od I things that will be added to this Kin oo :, dom of God sought first within t S. soul, will be, other things being eau g+n an improved body quickened a