The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-02

uty United States Marshals w. B. Ford and T. R. Cashion and Deputy Collector of Internal Revenue N, w Benefeld. The still was located about II miles from the city on the other side of Irondale, and In a sparsely settled and mountainous section of the county.
 While the deputies had been tipped off" that there was an illicit "still" in that community, they were not informed as to it's location. They left Sunday morn- ing for lrondale, and from that point secured the woods on foot. In a secluded spot they saw evidences of the moon sinners '' trade and in small clearing 
 God must be and are life and health. as truly as they are goodness and hem esty. Consequently. ones health can no more be destroyed or impaired than can God himself If we seem to lose our health. it is not lost but merely hid; or, as explained in II Cor, AS, 4, Tit is hid to them that are lost: In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not"
 Who then Is "the god of this world" if not the same Satan that tempted Job? And what of his mental blindness Had Satan succeeded in beguiling Job into the nation of goodness was form of selfishness, he would have implanted lie, that would have blinded Job to the fact of his goodness as an attribute of God. In that mental blindness he would have lost the healing power that was ever ready and waiting to be en- | tertained through that divine acquaint- ance. The same Satan would tempt one to believe one's health Is merc n uf lon chtre | than the gift or attribute of God; and l we save our health as Job saved his goodness. The method is so naturally simple that the children and common people as readily grasp its meaning and consequent healing today as when | taught by the gentle Nazarine.
 Mrs. Eddy's Discovery
 The first case of healing that led to the discovery of Christian Science was that of Mrs. Eddy. She had met with an accident which those about her con- | sidered must result fatally. undaunted I by the weight of so great a fear. the effort of self-preservation turned her naturally from the contemplation of her extremity to seek comfort in her Bible. Always deyout student of the Bible. | it was but natural that she should turn to its inspired pages for comfort, con- | solation or hope of relief. But there, stripped of all material aid she became imbued with a dawning ray of spiritual | reality. She began to recognize that | health is not a fleshy condition to be lost or impaired, but rather the gift of God. as imperishable as God himself. In that she recognized the immortality of man-that which every Christian admits and believes But she saw in 1t as present possibility as are good ness and honesty. That was in tho year 1866. She could then say with Paul. "the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death"
 Opposing Mentalities
 Although it is generally admitted that Christian Science heals both that Christian Science heads both | sickness and sin by a mental process, l fully 90 per cent of the popular miscon- ception concerning 1t relates to the mental quality that heals. Some mis- | take 1t for the human will, others sug- | gestion, and they are the polar oppo- sites of Christian Science. We need, therefore. to recognize with Paul two l types of mind, flor to be carnally minded" says Paul, lis death: but to be | spiritually minded is life and peace" How then, shall one differentiate be- | tween the carnal and the spiritual ? l From the viewpoint of such divine laws | as honesty and goodness; for the psalm ist has said: "Thy law Is the truth" | Moreover, By their fruits ye shall know them" Some of the fruits of the carnal mind are the human will sug- l gestion, anger, malice, persecution. evil I criticism and so on. These are con- tinually at war with the fruits of the spirit which are goodness, honesty, health, joy, pure affection and so Ton. The laws or attributes of God eternally link man to God; they com- municate the power of God to the hu- man consciousness, and make for life and peace.
 Suggestion
 An extraordinary claim of the carna | mind is to project itself through sugges ton. Beginning mildly. these suggestion. become more insistent only to the degree they are believed or indulged by the in dividual Consequently he alone endow. them with all the seeming power they ever had. Psychology has seized upor this mode of operation, so peculiar to tn, carnal mind and developed it's sugges tons into various systems. Some of these | systems have been called hypnotic sugges ton, vibratory suggestion, auto-sugges ton, therapeutic-suggestion psycho-ther epeutics, and even so-called Christian | psychology They are all conceded to b, the operation of the human will or vibra tory suggestion-the product of the car nal mind whose basis is lie. Anciently these systems of suggestion were em
 ployed by the magicians, astrologers ant necromancers It is a matter of recort
 that those magicians and sorcerers wer, continually at war with Moses, Danie and the early Christians, even as the rep resentatives of these modern systems O suggestion are continually at war witt
 Christian Science And why? Becaus
 trey are the product of the carnal mind
 and the Scriptures declare that the carna mind is "enmity against God" By reason | ct its peculiar operation, one may deter
 mine with accuracy the nature of hi
 thoughts, whethef they are good or evil for evil operateo through suggestion an,
 appeals to the oSssves: the power of Go, is expre ssed tn sh the divine attribute and app g to e intelligence or reason
 And "K. W ye not, that to whom v
 yield you selves servants to obey, hi
 servants ye are to whom ye obey; wheth CT of sin unto death or of obedience unt,
 righteousness?
 : Jesus repudated the use of human will : for he said, q can of mine own self d. nothing : because I seek not min , own will, but the will of the Father
 We might repeat those words and sub } stitute honesty for an added meaning \ Il can of mine own self do nothing
 because I seek not mine own sens
 honesty, but the honesty of the Father
 m principle" It is only that honest
 m principle that has the spiritual pow
 to overcome dishonesty. It Is onl
 at goodness from principle that has tn
 ,iritllal mower to overcome evil. It