The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-01-22

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which are justice, tenderness, good
ness, mercy. and which make for peace
and life.
carnaI Mind piscredited.
It may be profitable to analyze some
what the characteristics of the carnal
mind. Jealousy, for example, as a
characteristic OF the carnal mind, is
always the result of ignorance OF some
sort, and eve should be INDUCED. 1t
never can know the truth about any
thing. Again, dishonesty always bears
the mark of ignorance. A dishonest
mar cannot know whether another
mar Is really honest. Like the sinful
man, he always suspects another Of
his W ~baseness, often unjustly. 1t is
only the honest mar who can know
whether another man is honest. TO
illustrate: Suppose you are in need
of an employee. You advertise In the
morning paper, and a half dozen men
respond. In looking them over. you
may recognize one man in the group to
be thoroughly honest. But how do you
know? You may say that you can see
1t in his ~countenance. But what is it
that enables you to discern the homes
~ expressed in a mans face Is it
not the intelligence manifested through
honesty in yourself that enables you to
recognize it In him? The Scripture
says, In thy light shall we see light"
Thus we recognize that honesty is pos
tive, spiritual discernment and power.
Dishonesty is purely negative-non-
intelligence. Thus we might continue
in the analysis of all the c~haracteris-
tics of the carnal mind. Nevertheless,
1t claims to, be honest in the same way
that Satan assumed definite intelligence
about Jobs goodness; but the assump-
ton was proved to be false. 1t claims,
moreover, to be intelligent, but it is
destitute of intelligence. 1t ever claims
to be the Mind which Jesus employed
to heal sickness and sin: but Jesus
said Of this same carnal mind, it "is a
liar, and the father of it." He repudi-
ated it in every sense Of the word; he
knew that ii is unintelligent, is outside
Of Mind, and therefore mindless. So it
is seen that the carnal so-called mind
is no mind at all, for it is destitute of
truth or reality,-a mere suppositional,
false belief.
Suggestion.
1t has beer observed that the evil
promptings of dishonesty, jealousy, and
so forth, which go to make UP the car
nal mind, operate through suggestions.
Beginning mildly, these suggestions or
impulses become more insistent only
to the degree that they are believed in
or INDUCED. Psychology has seized
upon this popularity OF the carnaI
mind, n has developed it's sugges-
tions into various systems. Some of
these systems have been called hyp-
motto suggestion, auto-suggestion, vi
bratory suggestion, therapeutic sugges-
ton, acknowledgements, and even
so-called Christian psychology which
has expanded into the Emmanuel
movement in Boston. They are all
conceded to be the operation of the
human will, or vibratory suggestion,
and may be employed by a wicked man,
an infdel, or pagan. AncientIy these
same systems were employed by the
necromancers, magicians and astrol-
ogers. 1t is a matter of record that
their opponents always sought to OPP
pose the works of Moses, Daniel, and
the early Christians, even as the rep
resentatives Of the modern systems
are continually at war with Christian
Science. These systems are the pro-
ducts Of the carnal mind, which is
"enmity against God" or the divine
Mind, and the Bible specifically de-
clares that they are FAN abomination
unto the Lord" This blind belief in
stubborn will would lie, commit muir
der, and do all n OF evil merely |
to satisfy it's own will. impulse, wish, |
or whim. It's chief characteristics are
lust and ~seIfishness. AS an education-
al system it's higher attenuation Of evil
is exploited as spiritualism, theosophy,
hypnotism and mesmerism, and these
are specifically defined by our English
dictionaries as animal magnetism or
v%ibratory suggestion. They have no
origin in God, and no scientific expla-
nation or reason, for who can under
stand his errors?'' But there is more
reason in a single act of honesty than
in a wilderness of passion or appetite,
because honesty is a virtue and law of
God; animal magnetism a vice. Think
you, then, that these products of the
human will are the panacea for the
worlds ills? Christ Jesus absolutely
this use of the human will
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said, II can Of mine own self do Moth
ing: because / seek not mine
own will, but the will of the Father.
One Mind.
The Christian Scientist employs only
that same Mind which was also in
Christ Jesus'-that Mind which is
God. The divine Mind does not oper-
through suggestion nor human will.
There is no need for 1t to be trans
ferred through suggestion, from one
person to another, because it Is al
ready everywhere present. And what
is more we do not gain the UNDER
standing of that Mind through sugges-
ton. The divine Mind reveals itself
to the human consciousness through
the Christ law of LoN and not through
the cold conventionalities Of sugges.
ton. No one would teach a child
through yibratory sugges-
ton. The very definition Of education
is from the Latin e, meaning from. plus
ducere to lead-to lead from or draw
out. 1t is recognized that the child is
naturally able to comprehend mathe-
and the purpose of the teacher
is merely to draw out or develop what
is already / the consciousness Of the
child. This is accomplished not by
vibratory suggestion but by scientific.
right reasoning, logically develop
through mathematical law. So 1T is
mar is recognized to be snherent-
" spiritual, and he acquaints himself
the divine nature through thar
scientific. right reasoning. logic
ally developed through obedience to
The divine law. He recognizes fhal