The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-06-12


ical.
The Bible declares that Ito he
carnally minded Is death: but to be
spiritually minded is life and peace. .
All will admit that evil is primar-
lily mental: that evil aims. and par
poses, mis1udgment, hatred, envy,
jealousy, are mentai, and that the
correction OF these mental conditions
must be mental, through education
and experience, the awakening and
establishment OF right Thought.
III law is mental the supposed law
of disease must be mental There
fore such wrong law can be altered,
corrected and repealed by the law OF
Truth and right, the law OF God.
We are familiar with the physi
cal effects of fear anger and other
strong emotions. Such effects hav-
ing mental cause obviously can
be healed mentally and Christian
Science teaches that all disease,
whatever its name or nature, has a
mental origin and Is mental phe-
nomenon, an experience of the NOR
tai material human mind, which is
healed by the divine Mind.
OBJECTION TO GIVING UP MAT
TER.
This leads to the troublesome ques-
ton, What shall we do with matter?
The world has always resisted
strongly the idealstlc teaching of the
supremacy of Spirit over matter.
which is taught everywhere in the
Bible: and one of the leading objec-
tions to the Bible today is this. that
many of its statements are visionary
and impractical; in fact, the endeav-
or has been made to discredit Bible
records of spiritual demonstration
and to explain them materially, or
fatty deny their reliability.
In "Retrospection and Introspec-
tion," Mrs. Edy says:
During twenty years prior to
my discovery ! mad been trying
to trace all physical effects to
mental cause; and in the latter
part of 1866 | gained the scien-
tlnc certainty that all causation
was Mind, and every effect
mental phenomenon.
The Importance OF the mental fac
tor, the power of mind in human af-
fairs, is being more and more gen.
orally conceded and the day is has
tening on when the truth of Mrs.
Eddy's statement will be recognized. :.
The world hesitates to admit that
matter is only mental phenomenon
because such admission refdtes mat
ter's fundamental claim to be sub
stance and life. Especially is
mortal thought disinclned to consid-
er that the divine Mind and its
ideas alone are real and that human
phenomena are merely projected hu-
man concepts, because his means
that large part OF what the human
mind has believed to be true must
be classed as ialse
REGARDING MATERIAL CAUS-
ALTON.
Christian Science teaches that mat
ter and material existence are phe-
nomena Of mortal mind, a concept OF
existence obtained through the physl-
cal senses, a misapprehension OF real
ity held by human consciousness
when uninstructed by Science, an APP
pearance instead of an actuality. 1t
Is simply an imitation or counterfeit
Now it is not the appearance but
only the original that has power, in
telligence and substance. The mani
festation OF growth, action or being
in matter is but a material concept
of spiritual facts
The objects, action and power ex-
pressed in a moving picture are not
in the picture and we do not associ-
ate them with the picture but with
the original which the p;c;ure repro
duces. Similarly, life, growth, action,
power, substance, law, ct cetera, are
not in matter physical existence or
the material consciousness: but in
divine Mind. the only cause and
Principle of being, and should be so
thought of.
When we recognize God as the only
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ed in consciousness and existence is
harmonious. When we believe causa-
| ton to be material or in mortal
mind, we put our trust aud depend
ence in a shadow, false belief, and
existence so-called, Is discordant, Ii
able to disease, disaster, death. In
order to work out our salvation we
therefore need to understand causa-
tion.
CONSCIOUSNESS C is EXISTENCE.
Our conscious existence is obvious
ly what we are conscious of. OF oul
real existence, we may rot be con
scous. Everything that we know
or see or believe, all our thoughts
acts, or experiences go to make vi