Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1910-03-17

spiritually minded is life and peace"
All will admit that evil is primar-
lily mental; that evil aims and pur-
poses, all misjudgment, hatred, envy,
jealousy, are mental, and that the
correction of these mental condi-
lions must be mental, through edu-
cation and experience, the awakening
and establishment of right thought.
Bad habit is mental, hence its cor
rection is mental even though physi
cal punishment be used. II we are
suffering from a mistake, we must
first detect the mistake and then
correct it. This Is a mental process.
All will concede, too, that Truth is
mental. SO also is good. intelligence,
law, and its operation; that the cor
rection or destruction Of evil with
good is neutrality-suspicious. refor-
nation and regeneration are mental,
therefore the healing of sin is men,
tai.
We are all familiar with the physi-
cal effects of fear, anger and other
strong emotions. Such effects having
mental cause obviously can be heal
ed mentally and Christian Science
teaches that all disease, whatever it's
name or nature, has a mental origin
and is a mental phenomenon, an ex-
perience of the mortal material hui
man mind, which is healed by the
divine mind.
Objection to Giving Up Matter.
This leads to the troublesome ques-
ton, What shall we do with matter?
I The world has always resisted srong-
ly the idealistic teaching of the SUI
premacy of Spirit over matter, which
is taught everywhere in the Bible;
and one of the leading objections to
the Bible today is this, that many
of it's statements are visionary and
impractical; in fact, the endeavor
has been made to discredit Bible rec
ords of spiritual demonstration and
to explain them materially, or fatty
deny their reliability.
/,
ton Mrs. Eddy says:
During twenty years prior to
my discovery l had been trying
to trace all physical effects to a
mental cause; and in the latter
part of 1866 l gained the scien.
tific certainty that all causatioT
was Mind, and every effect q
l mental phenomenon"
The Importance of the mental fac
tor, the power of mind in human af
r 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 tina
I matter Is only a mental phenomenon
s because such admission refutes mat
n ter's fundamental claim to be sub
l. stance and life. Especially is morta
}, thought disinclined to consider tina
the divine Mind and its ideas alon
u are real and that human phenomen
q are merely projected human cor
l. cepts, because this means that
; large part of what the human min
has believed to be true must b
;" classed as false.
e Know we all with what determine
a ton the people held to their belle
Is that the earth was flat and station
airy and how enraged they were whe
N Calico tried to show them the trutl
Or The carnal mind clings very obstil
" ately to old notions. 1t loves darl
re ness rather than light, evil rattle
is than good, matter rather than Min
a. and the thought of spiritual realit
&c is foolishness unto it. Hence tt
Ut people resist the giving up of the
s. belief in the testimony of matters
II. sense even though it can be east
ON shown them that they are constan
"a ly being deceived thereby.
IN Regarding Material causation.
ID Christian Science teaches that ma
Tn ter and material existence are phi
IN nomena of mortal mind, a conce
ne of existence obtained through Il
physical senses, a misapprehensi'
~ of reality held by human consciou
ne ness when uninstructed by Sciene
We an appearance instead of an actu'
ity. It is simply an imitation
is' counterfeit.
"a Now it is not the appearance b
1t only the original that has power,
no telligence and substance. The ma
ng festation of growth, action or bel
ur in matter is but material conce
&C. of spiritual facts.
Use The objects, action and power I
ms pressed in a moving picture"
he not in the picture and we do +