The Wahpeton times., 1917-09-20


OF the human mind all evil quail
ties by planting good qualities in
their stead. 1t wages relentless
warfare against all wrong mental
qualities. 1t seeks to substitute
love in place of hate, unselfishness
in place of selfshness, honesty in
place of dishonesty, and truth in
place of error. 1t lays tremendous
emphasis upon the necessity for
bringing into captivity every
though to the obedience of Christ, =
Gil Cor. X, 81 as the Bible COM
mands. 1t shows that the cause of
all disease and sin is mental, and
not physical, and that both sickness
and sin are destroyed by the evany.
ellzation of the human mentality
with truth and love. 1t Teaches
without any reservation whatever
that the truth taught and practic-
ed by Jesus, when understood and
applied, is sufficient without drugs
or any materials means to heal the
sick and regenerate the sinner, and
Christian Scientists everywhere are
engaged daily in demonstrating
and proving this to be true.
Every student of religion should
begin to give heed to what the
Bible teaches concerning the i'm
portance of looking to the mental
rather than to the physical for de-
liverence from human discord. We
read in Romans viii, 6, Z, ITO be
carnally minded is death; but to be
spiritually minded is life and
peace. Because the carnal mind is
enmity against God; for it is not
subject to the law of God, neither,
indeed, can be. Again in Philip
plans ii, 5 is is said, ''Let this mind
be you, which was also in Christ
Jesus;' and in Romans xii 2, "Be
ye transformed by the renewing
of your mind"
These significant statements from
the Scriptures leave no room for
doubt as to the cause of sin, dis
ease, and death, or their cure. The
carnal mind is nothing more nor
less than the unregenerated human
mind. 1t is the human mind in it's
natural state, when filled with hat
red, selfishness, deceit, dishonesty,
and other evil qualities, and with
superstition and false beliefs. These
evil and erroneous mental qualiti-
es result in sin, disease, and death,
and in all human discord.
The command is to get rid of
erroneous mental qualities, and to
have in us "the mind which was
also in Christ Jesus" for in this
Mind there was not a single sin.
iul quality, nor ANY superstition or
false religious belief. Thus the
human mind is renewed by the de-
strnction of erroneous and sinful
mental qualities, and the substitu-
ton i'll their place of qualities that
lnhere in the Mind of the Master.
AS this renewing process goes
on, sickness. suffering. and discorrl-
ant conditions begin to disappear,
and when it is finished, and every
mortal thought has been brought
into subsection to Christ, then man
will be transformed from a SHINING
suffering mortal into state Of
peace and harmony. The carnal
mind with its sin and superstition
produces the conditions that lead
to death, while to be spiritually
minded, that is to have the Mind
that was in Christ Jesus, els life
and peace" Christian Science
teaches that this is the precise by
which human beings are saved from
sickness and sin.
1t will thus be seen that Christ.
ian Science healing in every case
is spiritual. and results from the
operation Of Truth or divine Prime.
iple in human consciousness, and
not from the action of one human
mind upon another. nor from hu-
man will. nor from hypnotism, nor
from mental suggestion.
To summarize the matter in a
single sentence, it can be said that
Christian Science healing is ac-
complished through the activity of
right thinking and right living,
and in no other way can one dem
cnstrate the Principle that heals.
Although the healing of physical
and mental diseases by spiritual
means was widely practiced. both
in Old Testament and New Testa-
ment times, and was expressly COM
manded by Jesus, and although
Christian Science during the last
80 years has actually healed in this
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