St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1908-10-28

ness OF evil and dissoves it like dew be-
fore the sun
1t is well to know that the supposed
cause of disease obtains in the mortal
mind and that the understanding of the
divine Mind will cure it; but human
nature always finds somebody who
wants to climb up by some other way.
Such people hold that the spiritual Mind
is ut only for weak women and children,
but for the man with belief in personal
magnetism the exercise of human will
SEEMS more manly This unchristan
belief in human will has been seized upon
as a ready method for competing with
Christian Science in casting out disease
by mental process. Various names
have been used to designate these efforts
such as therapeutic suggestion, psyco-
therapeutics or Christian psychology.
They are admitted to be the operation
Of the human will or carnal mind and
may be operated by wicked man, an
nhde or a pagan and therefore must
be the polar opposites of the Mind Of
Christ. for the carnal mind is enmity
against God
Human will is an animal propensity
which tries to dominate every thing and
seeks to exploit itself as some great
thing, but il the light that is in thee be
darkness, how great is that darkness.
This blind belief in animal will would
commit murder and do all manner of
evil to satisfy its own desires Its chief
-, 1,,st gpI salHs bnasS
As an educated system, its more hidden
use is exploited in hypnotsm and mes
merism, which are specifically defined as
animal magnetism. Think you that this
fable monger of mythics is the panacea
for the world ills
Christ Jesus completely eschewed any
use of the carnal will, well knowing that
it possesses none Of the JOY and strength
of divine Love which regenerates both
mind and body. Indeed he understood
the powerlessness of human will, for he
said, 81 can of mine own self do nothing:
= because | seek not mine own will
but the will of the Father which hath
sent me. If | bear witness OF myself.
my witness is not true.
Paul declared that the unrighteous
mammon changed the truth of God in
to lie, and worshipped and served the
creature more than the Creator There
fore the basis of all evil, animallty and
disease is a lie; without mind intelligence
or power. Therefore any use OF this
animal will or therapeutic suggestion is
a lie about God or Truth. This carnal
mind being lie no one can ever explain
I a lie as something; for who can under
stand his errors" asks the psalmlstf
Truth on the other hand can always be
understood. and the understanding OF
Truth casts out error as dew before the
sun We are learning in Christian
Science to recover our divine inheritance
OF dominion over all sickness and sin and
in consequence we are learning to eXper-
fence more Of the JOY of that blessed tree
dom from error by the understanding OF
Truth.
Before Mrs. Eddy discovered Christian
Science. she had been searching for years
along this line Of mental causation. she
had been studying homeopathy ana
learned the mental nature OF disease, ana
that the higher attenuations OF medicine
which contained the least OF the drug
and the most mind were the most pow
erful. She continued her Investigations
beyond homeopathy to a mental stand
point. with the question ever before her,
whether matter or Mind heals the SICK.
In her subsequent Investigations OF
mental influences she learned that the
carnal will or magnetic healing was abc
solutelv opposed to her own ideals Oh
mental healing, and she turned from II
Surely God was even then guiding her up
70 the right understanding OF primitive
Christian healing Indeed she submitted
to all manner of stress and trial, put
withal proving a special fitness to receive
the revelation of Truth, by chnging so
naturally to her ideal of right and ior-
saking the counterfeit.
1t was at this period OF her experience
that the great spiritual light daWned
upon her consciousness, and found her
waiting and prepared to receive the mes
sage. The circumstance when brought
this spiritual awakening and thereby
established her conclusions was her re-
markable recovery, in the year 1866,
from an injury caused by an accident
She was seeking to console her suffering
sense by reading passages rom the
Scriptures, when she caught the depth OF
its spiritual import and was instantly
healed. This was the vindication OF her
long search, for it was the Spirit that
ouickened and she knew it.
Now that Mrs. Eddy had found the
Comforter which is the Spirit OF
truth and which heals the sick, she
resumed her search of the Scriptures
for a scientific explanation OF it, that
she might impart it to Others She