Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-10-16

nerves; the power of God is express
ed through the divine attributes and
appeals to the intelligence or reason.
And Know We not, that to whom
ye yield yourselves servants to obey,
his servants We are to whom We obey
whether of sin unto death, or of ODE
dience unto righteousness?
Jesus repudiated the use of hui
man will, for he said, 4 can of mine
own self do nothing. 8. because l
seek not mine own will bat the viii
of the Father" We might repeat
those words and substitute honesty
for an added meaning. Il can of
mine own self do nothing: be-
cause / seek not mine own sense of
honesty, but the honesty of the
Father, from Principle" 1t is only
that honesty from Principle that has
the spiritual power to overcome dis
honesty 1t is only that goodness
from Principle that has the spiritual
power to overcome evil. 1t is only
that Mind or will of God,-the di-
vine Principle, that has the spiritual
power to overcome sickness and dis
or lu do
clared that he used or employed only
that will or Mind which is God
the polar opposite of suggestion.
Christians, are moreover, enjoined by
the Scriptures to Let this mind be
in you, which was also in Christ
Jesus
ONE MIND
Job declared concerning God,
'fThou art in one Mind" and Jesus
recognized but one Mind,-the Mind
which is God He referred to Him
as my God and your God" He is
therefore my Mind and your Mind;
He is my life and your life; my hon
esty and your honesty; my intelli-
gence and your intelligene; for, as
Paul says, In Him we live, and
move, and have our being" Endowed
| with that mind which was also in
Christ Jesus" we may fulfill the
scriptural ENJOYMENT "be not over
coome with evil, but overcome evil
with g6od'' Some might say, how
ever, eff good will overcome evil, so
| will evil overcome good" But that
| is not true, for the reason that good
and evil are not alike. They bear
precisely the same relation to one
| another as do intelligence and non
intelligence, as do the positive and
negative, as do light and darkness.
Intelligence will destroy non-intelli
gence, but non-inteliigence can new
er destroy intelligence. So it is
| tina tight destroys darknessk but
darkness cannot destroy Hght,-can
not so much as put out lighted
candle,-and it matters not whether
a room has been maintained in dark,
ness for five minutes or fifty years
the light will dispel the darkness
with the esame ease. In like man
ner it matters not whether an in
dividual has been maintained in the
darkness of despair and disease five
minutes or fifty years, the light OF
spiritual intelligence will dispel it
with the same ease. It will illumi-
nate thought to conscious strength
in the good to rule out evil.
SIN NOT OF GOD
| Jesus employed the term sin in
over one hundred places in the foul
Gospels, and in each case the cores
ponding word in the Greek manu-
scripts is hamartia. The first mean
| ing imputed to this word hamartia
is ''to miss the mark" as in the
throwing of spear. The Greeks
were much given to the enjoyment o
| athletic games, and if one were tC
hurl a spear and miss the mark, he
committed hamartia,-the same wore
which Jesus employed for sin. Sc
it is with archery. When man pull
his bow mad shoots his arrow, it he
| fails to hit the mark, he has trans
| crossed the laws of archery or com
mitted hamartia. Even so sin is
the trangression of the divine law
and it is so defined by our lexicons
| What is it that would make a man
| transgress the laws of archery? Is
| it not his ignorance or lack of prac-
tise? And what is sin but the re
suit of ignorance or disobedience OF
the divine law? No educated per
son could transgress the simple law
that two and two are four, for he
not only understands it but practises
| it, and he will tell the child that his
errors are not in the mathematical
law nor of that law; that mathemat-
ical law knows nothing of mistakes
| but heals them, even as intelli gence
| dispels ignorance. So it is that sin
| is not in the divine law nor of the
| divine law God never visited man
with sin. God not only is not the
author of sin, but He never afflicted
man with it, for as the prophet
| Habakkuk has said, "Thou art of
purer eyes than to behold evil, and
canst not look on iniquity." Sin is
| the transgression of Gods law, the
| result of ignorance, fear or wilful-
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