The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-01-24

BY has seized upon this popularity of
the carnal mind. and has developed its
suggestions into various systems.
Some Of these systems have been call
ed hypnotic suggestion. ~auto-sugges-
ton. vibratory suggestion. therapeutic
even so-called Christian psychology
which has expanded into the Emman-
uel movement in Boston. They are all
conceded to be the operation Of the
human will. or Migratory suggestion,
and may be employed by l.. wicked
man, an infdel, or pagan. Anciently
these same systems were employed
astrologers. 1t is a matter Of record
that their opponents always sought to
oppose the works Of Moses, Daniel,
and the early Christians. even as the
representatives Of the modern sys-
tens are continually at war with
fChrfstian Science. These systems are
the products Of the. carnal mind.
divine Mind, and the Bible specihcal-
~ declares that. they are IAN abomi-
nation unto the Lord" This blind be-
lief in stubborn will would he, commit
murder, and do all manner Of evil,
merely to satisfy its W will, i'm
pulse. wish, or whim. Its chief char
acteristics are lust and selishness. AS
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tenuation of evil is exploited as spirit
ualism, theosophy, hypnotism, and
mesmerisnl, and these are specifically
defined by u English dictionaries as
animal magnetism or Migratory sug-
gestion. They have. no origin in God,
and no scientific explanation or rea-
son for who can understand his er-
rors?" But there is more reason in
a singl act Of honesty than in a will
derness of passion or appetite. be-
cause honesty is a virtue and law of
God; animal magnetism a vice.
Think you. then, that these products
OF The human will are the anacea for
the worlds ills? Christ Jesus abso-
lutely r~epudiated this use of the hui
ness, and said. II can of mine own
SOIL DO nothing: because l seek
not mine W will. but the will of the
Father"
The Christian Scientist employs on
~ that same Mind which was also in
Christ Jesus'-that Mind which is
1oo. ine divine Mind does not op-
Will. There is no need for 1t to be
transferred through suggestion, from
one person to another, because it is
already everywhere present. And
wnat Is more, we do not gain the UNI
derstanding Of that Mind through
suggestion; The divine Mind re-
ness through the Christ law Of Love
Inc not through the cold convention
alities of suggestion. No one would
teacn a child mathematics through
vinratory' suggestion. The very deini-
tion OF education is from the Latin e,
meaning rom. lus ducere to lead
recognized that the child is naturally
able to comprehend mathematics, and
the purpose Of the teacher il mereiy
to draw out or develop what is already
IN the consciousnessof the child. This.
u accomplished not by %vibratory sug-
gestion but by scientific. right reason
mathematical law. So It is that man
Is recognized to be inherently spirit
ual: n he acquaints himself with the
dlvine nature through that same
scientific, right reasoning, logically
9eveioped through obedience to the
alvine law. He recognizes the great
iaet mat tnasmuch as there is. but
q GOD, there is but one Mind-the
Mind which is God. There are not two
kinds OF goodness; there are not. two
kinds Of honesty; there is one good.
ness. one honesty. one Mind, and that
y u Mind which is God--absolutely
positive, spiritual intellieence-anG
Inc christian Scientist employs only
infinite good. supreme
When We observe the scr,ptural en-
comment that says. ''be not overcome !
o. evil, but overcome evil with good"
mere are those who say. well, il
Zoo VIII overcome evil. 30 will evil
not true. for the reason that good and
evh are not alike. They bear precisely
the 0ame relation to one anothAr,as IA