The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-07-11

years ago that as a man ssthinketh in his
heart, so is he.'' In other words, the quail
ity of the man is determined by the quality
of his thought. 1t is therefore of supreme
importance that man should know the truth,
to the end that he may know how to- think
correctly.
Parable of The Prodigal Son.
In the parable of the prodigal son Jesus
illustrated the power of thought. You
will remember that the young man took
the property with which his father had en-
where he made bad use of it. After a
while he began to be in want and finally
secured employment in very mental posi-
ton. The position, however, lid not
yield enough to keep him from starving,
and he was obliged to eat husks. About
that time voice said to him, ''Why to you
not go home? In your fathers house is
enough and to spare, and why do you stay
here?' Immediately self-love became ac-
tive, and said, ''Do not go home. The
neighbors will ridicule you, and the servants
will laugh at you, and, anyway, there is
no certainty that your father will let you
return. Thus the argument of self-love
was sufficient to keep him on the husk
plane OF consciousness for some time lon
ger. After while, however, he said that
even though the neighbors should ridicule
him and the servants laugh at him, he
would 60 home and tell his father the whole
miserable story, and would say that he was
no more worthy to be called his son, but
if the father would only let him come home
he would be as one of his hired servants.
We can there see that meekness and
humility had taken the place of sef-ove
and had silenced pride, and instantly the
line of communication was opened between
himself and the father. The father saw
him great way off, and ran to meet him,
and put robe on him, and ring on his
finger, and the son found that he had been
son all the time. Nothing but his own
false sense had made him suffer, and when
he got rid of the false mortal beliefs of
prodigal and revealed the qualities of
son the scales fell from his eyes and he
found himself in his right mind
Beatitudes.
At the very beginning of the Sermon
on the Mount in what has come to be cal
led the Beatitudes, Jesus enumerated the
qualities in man which connect him with
God. BLESSED are the pure in heart: for
they shall see Cod ''Blessed are the
meek: for they shall inherit the earth
"Blessed are the mercifu: for they shall
obtain mercy "Blessed are the peace
makers: for they shall be called the child
rem of God. When these qualities of
purity, meekness, mercy, and love take pos
session of the human mind they connect
the human with the divine, and when the
connection is thus established there flows
into the human consciousness the divine
love that heals and regenerates.
Christian Science Is Not Hypnotism.
From. this it is plain that Christian
SciopCo mind hoo1inr bunpofic,,, t.
is in fact the very opposite. Hypnotism is
the domination of one human mind by the
will power of another on the basis of the
stronger controlling the weaker, while in
Christian Science it is the operation of
truth in the human mind that nutralizes
and destroys the error, and produces the
healing.
There is not a case of physical healing
in Christian Science where the person heal
ed is not benefited morally and given a
spiritual uplift, whereas the effect of hypno-
tism is harmful. A professor of psychology
in one of our leading universities has stated
that hypnotism is capable of causing every
crime except MURDER and he was not sure
but that it would cause murder A short
time ago one of the leading physicians of
Philadelphia published an article in one of
the medical journals in which he warned
the medical profession and the public
against hypnotism, saying that it is an evil
and dangerous thing.
While most people now admit that hyp-
notism is a bad thing there are some who
claim that mental suggestion is a good
thing. l know of some clergymen who
claim that Jesus healed by mental sugges-
ton. The fact is that mental suggestion
and hypnotism are on the same plane of
same college professor says it is impossible
mental suggestion. Hence mental suggest
ion is merely hypnotism that stops before
complete hypnosis is produced.
All who claim that Jesus healed by men
tai suggestion are virtually accusing him of
having been a hypnotist, and Christian
Scientists deny that he healed through any
such method Any one has the right to
believe in hypnotism and mental suggestion
if he wishes to do SO, but it should be made
plain that those things have no connection
with Christian Science.
God Not The Creator Of Evil
Another subject about which the teach
ing of Christian Science is much misunder-
stood is the unreality of evil. AS matter
of fact the Christian Science position on
this subject is very plain. The Bible says
that God made everything that was made,
and that everything He made was good.
God therefore did not create evil. Wher-
ever it came from it must be accounted for
in some other way than as being a part of
Gods creation.
Since God did not create evil, Christian
Science says it is not real because it is not
eternal. Everything that God made is
eternal and indestructable, and if He had
made evil it would possess those qualities.
1t is fact that evil, whether in the form of
sickness or SIN, can be destroyed. Jesus
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