The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1918-04-10

"i4N "N"'Af ~ just lHt SENSE OF tUi
D poSte.- the sense Of the absence 0
..u wh.ch tod made.
MORTAL UNREALTY
iLLUS1 RATEU
Suppose a man had never ha0 n,
sight and sight came to fim Will,
ne wa in a dark room He woulC
Iot know that he had his sight. noi
would he know that he was in IN,
dark, for it is impossible for one tC
gain Il sense OF darkness without frs
being conscious OF light But le
him be taken into the light and he
would see. Then when ne was r.
turned TO the darkness he would
sense it as darkne 3s,-the absenc,
of light So il is impossible fol
there to be sense Of darkness
eXcelt as there is first conscious
ness OF light. This is equally true O.
tlength and weakne 1t Is Just as
.mposs bic for there to come a sense
0fweakness except as there is first a
Consciousness of strength. II there
had never been a consciousness OF
strength as part of what God created,
there would never have been a sense
Ol weakness.
So the moment when God sale.
Let there be light which is equiya
lent to saying. %.et there be strength
and let there be health. and let there
be holiness was the first moment
wherein there could have come -
sense OF darkness, and weakness. and
sichoea and sin For every good
and perfect thing which God has
made there has in like manner come
sense of its absence, -un opposite
a lie, without reality or substance.
When God said, Let us make man
In our image, after our likeness so
that man was made in His likeness
spiritual and perfect ana immortal
there came a sense of the absence of
That spiritual and perfect and immor-
tai man, and the sense Of the absence
Of spiritual and perfect and immor-
tai man would be a material and i'm
perfect and mortal man; that is.
mortal mind and a mortal. material
BODY called man
The New Testament calls this mate
rial or mortal mind the "carnal
mind. or mind of the flesh We are
distinctly told that this carnal mind
and It's manifestations carnal body
lis cnmity against Cod" that flesh
and blood cannot inherit the king
dom that they that are in the
lloah cannot please God" SO ii is
plain that God did not make the
mortal body, for His own thoughts.
His own ideas cannot be at enmity
with Him
THOUGHT EXPRESSED ON BODY
Now this material body cannot do
anything Of itself but is simply the
expression of the conscious or un-
thought of the mortal !
human mind Investigation proves
hat all sickness is mental, that is. |
i Is sick thought made manifest on
he body; and when We are well 1t IS |
we'll thought which is made manifest !
]n the body. Every function, every |
action. every condition Of the body, |
s the expression OF what We are con-
iciously or unconse.oujly thinking |
rom one moment to the next.
II man We're hungry and rood |
which was plaCed before him had I
about it that was exceed
ngly unappetizing, it would appar- /
intly be his stomach which protested, |
because the thought which he enter I
aimed about the food would be made [
manifest on his body; but what would |
zig stomach know about the food? I
absolutely nothing, II he believed |
hat the food was all right this
hought would be made manifest in
roper activity of the stomach and
/ he had eaten food believing it to
'e all right and had then discovered
hat it was all wrong, his changed
hought would be made manifest in
hanged function-in nausea. indiges-
ion and so forth.
In like manner, to believe that cold
r wet could harm us would be just
s disastrous to the lungs or the
hroat as to believe that unappetizing
BOD could make this stomach sick
II is not neces s3ary to know each
mortal belief or so called
IW in order that we may appropriate
he sickness and troubles thev
tand for, because we have accepted
he false belief that man is subject
} all manner Of diseases, the nature
{ which he is unaware, and this be-
el insists that We may have any
ort of trouble to which flesh has
aimed to be heir.
RIGHT THOUGHT BRINGS
HEALTH
AS we see that both sin and sick
ess are simply manifestations of
ortal thought thoughts of imperfec- {
on, We also see that by putting the ;
fought of the perfection of God and
Il that God has made in place Of
lis wrong thought, we shall rule out y
le wrong thought; and with no wrong {
fought there can be no wrong mani ,
station, The Bible makes this iden-
cal statement when 1t says, Put off {
)ncerning the former conversation t
le old man. which is corrupt accord