The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1910-03-17

operandi, by which We can proceed
10 free ourselves from evil ana At.
tain true manhood and womanbood
IN the liberty of the sons or God"
Salvation Through Mind.
In working out our salvation wa
must first see that salvation or dc.
llVerance from evil is a mental pro-
cess takes place in mind; that il is
transformation through mind ana
that it is both ethical and pbiloso-
phical.
The Bible declares that ito he
carnally minded is death. hut IN no
spiritually minded is life and peace"
All will admit that evil is primar
lily mental; that evil aims and DUR
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 phvsi
cal punishment be used. If 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 mental; repentance, 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
a mental cause obviously can be heal
ed mentally and Christian Science
teaches that all disease, what yer its
name or nature, has a mental origin
and is 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?
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 its statements are visionary and
Impractical; in fact, the endeavor
has been made to discredit Eible rec
ords of spiritual demonstration and
to explain them materially, or flatly
deny their reliability.
In "Retrospection and lntrospec-
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 | gained the scien-
tific certainty that all 2ausation
was Mind, and every effect a
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.
Eddys statement will be recognized.
The world hesitates to admit that
matter is only a mental phenomenon
because such admission refutes mat
ter's fundamental claim to be sub
stance and life. Especially is mortal
thought disinclined to consider that
the divine Mind and its ideas alone
are real and that human phenomena
are merely projected human con
cepts. because this means that a
large part of what the human mind
has believed to be true must be
classed as false.
Know we all with what determine
tion the people held to their belle1
that the earth was flat and station
arv and how enraged they were wher
Calico tried to show them the truth
The carnal mind clings very obstln-
ately to old notions. 1t loves dark
ness rather than light, evil rather
than good, matter rather than Mind
and the thought of spiritual reality
is foolishness unto it. Hence the
,oonlo resist the giving up of their
belief in the testimony of material
sense even though it can be easily
shown them that they are constant
" being deceived thereby