Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-03-29

saying little to him about the hui
man mind, an entirely different
thing. -.
Minds Control Of Body.
All intelligent persons agree, that
a mans mind influences his body to
a greater or less degree, they only
differ about how far this mental in.
fiuence extends. All agree that excess
sivei worry, fear, anger. and other
mental extremes. are familiar causes
of physical disorders All will admit
for example, thatia man may worry
himself sick, that excessive fear may
produce weakness. and that a violent
outburst, of anger may cause physical
collapse. f]ut how far other forms Of
bodily derahgements are to be at
! tributed to mental causes. authorities
do not agree. Just where the vague
line should he drawn which the doe
tors say exists between mental and
material causation is a matter Of dis
pute among the doctors themselves.
one school % medicine maintains
that only so.called functional diseases
are mentally produced. while another
more progressive admits that certain
forms Of elementary organic disorders
may have o mental origin
Here Christian Science enters the
arena and boldly declares that the
human mind lis to be held accountable
for every discQrdant condition of the
body not only in cases where It's ae-
Ia. L. 4 a in
those Just named. but where lis OPP
erations. are remote and obscure aud
are only diseerniblc by those trained
In the study OF mental causation.
Then arises a thronG of questions
by tlle beginner. typical ones being
"How' about the sickness OF an in
faht, whose mind ia undeveloped;'
or How can mahs mind be the
cause Of his pain when he has swal'
lowed something in his food that he
| ala not know VAS harmful" II Is not
the mind Of any one Individual that
causes the mischief. but the minds
of all mortals-inortal mind In other
words. 1t is this mortal MIND which
has decreed that certain physical ei-
fleets will follow certain causes 1t is
Ithis mortal mind that has laid down
lnany of these trouble making laws
about the physical body and the ma.
lteriaI world where It claims to have
Icomplete control. 1t holds its subjects
I'm a grip Of iron, and sickness, pain
distress sorrow, and misery are the
results. II is dictator a tyrant, a
despot and the human body Is us
obcdient servant
o., Yet. Il maybe stripped of all its
assumed power and aggressiveness'
Iand be reduced TO nothingness.
Christian Science is revealing that
the human mind. this canal nina
as Paul calls n, IS rendered absolute
lly powcrless 20 do evil when II IS
confronted by the divine Mind--Goo
Himself; thai its so-called laws ol
!, heath, and sickness are annulieq ano
b Iobnterated when confronted by the
laws of God and that this mortal
81 mind maya be eoptrolled, direeleu
influenced, and ultimately destroyed
BY the immortal Mind which, in the
language Of the text book OF Chrls.
ltian Science must be acknowledge
,as supfeme in the physical realm
Iso.cailed as well as in the spiritual
Is. g. II. 427)
If al this stage OF his enlighlen'
ment It is explained to the beginner
THAT a right knowledge of God, divine
Mind. Is essential to his progress, he
naturally asks How am to learn
to know God, divine Mind, that Ills
benign influence may harmonic my
troubled life and heal this ailing body
ltRat gives ME SO mitch distress? How
am II TO, understand the laws under
which He operates Who is to teach
he7"
Jesus of Nazareth was not only'the
greatest physician but also the
gteatest teacher the world has ever
known. He taught men 70 know God
land nbW, aud then. mans great need
is d right understanding Of God and
His law.
Most men know so little about God
las I5ife. Truth, and Love. supreme
Oh earth as in'heaven, that they think
they can get along just as we'll with
Tout such knowledge as With IT, Yet
There is nothing within the range of
Human consciousness that Is more esr
Isential to mans happiness, health'and
ttrue success.
The world today is profoundly wise
land learned ai in all that pertains to
materially, but 1t Is centuries behind
lin spiritual understanding.
1t knows 50 much about matter
THAT il can move mountains; i
knows so little Of God that II Is afraid
OF a germ.
The, average man Of today rarely
regards acknowledge OF Godrasfat all
Essential to his health, usefulness, or
as affecting his daily affairs II he
thinks Of God at all, he generally
thinks Of Him as q far away mys-
lterious being. hard to approach and
harder to understand, whose acquaint-
lance he can put off until some more
convenient time when he is not so
busy. Few people have any accurate
or tangible concept Of God. OUTSIDE
lof Christian Science, there are as
Imany erroneous conceptions about
God as there are people to conceive
Them vet there is only one true idea
iuf God. and it is to be learned
Through the study of the life ana
lessons of Jesus the Christ as eluci-
dated in the text book of Christian
iScience.
TOO many of us have never grown
beyond our childhood beliefs about
God planted by old theology, fertilized
lby fear. cultivated by ignorance,
which depict God as fearful dnd