Arizona republican., 1917-08-01
The Christian Science Monitor

The human mind has a way of run hing to extremes This is hardly to be wondered at, since it may be said to consist of belief in extremes, Tn lire and death, in. sickness and health, in iov and sorrow, in poverty and wealth, in fact. to put the matter shortly, Of A belief in good and evil It is always apt to swing from one form of belief to another that liberty is so often liable to turn to license. Having been kept under for a certain time, the human mind, released from it's former letters, loses it's bearings and abuses its new found liberty. Hence tEe value of the anchor of the soul" spoken Of by Paul in addressing the Hebrews
 One thing is perfectly certain and that is that until he gets his spiritual bearings the ordinary mortal can never really be relied on. Subject to the null titudinous suggestions of the .carnal mind and without a knowledge of the absolute truth to guide hlm, he IS liable to be deflected at any moment rom the path he is pursuing. The less the sense of Principle the stronger will be this tendency but when to such one there opens out the understanding of Christ ian Science, at once he is provided with a guiding ru.e of life, for at last he has Principle. not, as in the case of SC many, a rule that is mixture of gooc and evil, but Principle, whose very claim to the title lies in the fact that Principle is infinite good.
 Having discovered divine Principle the student of Christian Science alsC discovers his relation to it. He sees that as Principle is Mind, then he mus be Minds idea, and as such he has nc mind of his own but reflects the MinC that is divine Principle. Let it not be thought that in this way he becomes a. mere automaton. Mortals, if they only knew it, are but expressions of the mortal or carnal mind. possessing, rela- lively speaking, on y the personality with which that mind endows them Similarly the real man reflects the in finite individuality of the one Mind and finds his greatest happiness in complete subordination to the divine will. This scientific sense of being" writes Mrs Eddy on page 265 of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" |"
 forsaking matter for Spirit, by nc means suggests mans absorption into Deity and the loss of his identity. but confers upon man enlarged individu- ality, a wider sphere of thought and action, a more expansive love, higher and more permanent peace
 There is a distinct claim on the part of the human will that it can gain happiness by having its own way, but if the human mind stopped to think a moment and to consider it's past ex- periences, it would discover that the assumption is invariably a false one. for even if it seems to succeed for the mo- ment, before long the house of cards it has erected tumbles about it's ears. The power of the human will should be ex- crcised only in subordination to Truth " writes Mrs Eddy on page 206 of Science and Health, ''else it will misguide the judgment and free the lower propen- sities. It is the province of spiritual sense to govern man. Material, erring, human thought acts injuriously both upon the body and through it.
 The trouble about the human will is that, when given freedom of action, it is very liable to develop license and, So