The St. Joseph observer., 1919-05-03

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that God IL the only Mind. and since
nothing but Mind can think. that
everything must be due to Gods
thinking, and that everything that is
due to Gods thinking must be good,
beautiful. true. eternal. II what has
just been presented il plain, we are
now prepared to scrutinize more close
/ ly this pretense to mentality which
Paul called "carnal mind" and Mrs.
/ Eddy calls mortal mind" and its
o-callcd thinking thinking that
projects its phantasm or all the ills
that flesh is heir to-" calling it ex-
istence; devises It's theoloEiCs which
blame God for the whole project
formulates its sciences which an1lyZe
this project and find It real. and
everything contrary to it unreal.
ILLS AND THEIR CAUSES
! Looking out upon this material
sense Of existence can anyone deny
that in its greatest s1tisfactions. gains,
losses; I'm It's rcjOiCings, Carousings,
Ericfs mournings its whole cHtity
trcmbleS uuakps with fOrCbOding aud
with fear? And is this stranEe' Does
not every one know that but a little
while. and all that it holds doar It's
'all-in-all will be gone; that 10 is all
a shadow, the solution of which Is
dissolution? nu Christian SCiCui lists
deny this? 30. Christian Scientists
recognize IL all as docs no one else.
They recognize that 70 is 1N Ir' tp
the carnal minds miscoucepuon Of
everything, a misru1ccpt.on IN which
nothing is or can be due to God.
Spirit; I'm which everything u''iwatos
in se'fism, ~elilshnoSa and all its f. lrs.
fears that come of the pavlakuI %:
this miscon eeptioN of rriuE,--thH he
lief in powers, prcsoucns, thoughts,
that are only not omans tioDs from
God, good, but are contradictions Of
Him. Natorialify---lhiS kind Of mind
means not only Co fear. II Is fr'r,
torment. misery: for behind II stalks
its doom, mortality destruction.
Let us look upon the worlds -rst
lessness. hurry. bustlc: its driving and
it's driven. its cXtortiun, iuiUm lnity.
and misery Of every kind; is pride,
arrogance, oppression. its indnr.ud-
ence Of Principle. God, lud itS do
rerdence upon everything else; it's
dcbauChinCs aud debaurpcd, its priv
ate Strifos ana puhli" wars. its car
mage. suffering, insanity. sickness
death, ana tEtu let MS ron, nbcT that,
there Is nothing either good nr bad.
but thinking makes il So" Are the
things that We have ruUnorat'l. .Nn
products of right thinking. the thlnk-
ing of that spirit" or Mind. which
i"bearcth witness with our spirit thc
good I'm human CousrlplI~no-sl, that
not all the product uf that prc'ause
to mentality which says. | am some
thing, an independent thinker. alto
Ecther separate from God and His
creation Is It not all the product of
this selfisn and it's lisuholienno 20
God, good, covering in abjcrt fear. a
sollism that should be ashamed and
hide its nakedness as OF Old" AnI Is
not the Who'll" world groaning under
this pail Of matcrT'it" and its f'IlBP
Fear Is the one great enemy of uar-
kind. and fear is due to darkness. the
opacity OF matoriaIty Hb.-i.
Science, "thp light that shinoth In
darkness. and the darkness epmDre-
hendcd It not" the Truth that all
shall ultimately know, has come 10
Ilibornte mankind from this monster.
by liberatiug them from an that
causes fear.-sc'fism Of every kind.
Fear. The cause of all our ills. say
you?
Let us see Let us take the very
first trouble which was enumeratnd. -
IrcStlessness a very common trouble
Il one ever restless because Of conf
IdonCe2 Confidence means assurance
not fear. Hurry, cXtortiOn, these do
not look at all related yet thcy are
cut from the same piece of cloth Is
not the one due to a fear Of loss and
the other To the fear OF not having "a
7ufficieuCy? Pride Is not that the
fear OF failure 10 be csteemed" And
how does anyone who Is afraid ferl.-
good or bad, dis-elsed or at ease
The hurrying, bustling, worrying in
Idividual-is II not common saying
that he will worry himself sick, worry
himself into the grave? Did any of
YOU ever know a frightened man 10
succeed I'm a game Of any kind. in
business. or in life? And the de-
bauchce. the one that makes his life
a gala day at others ana his own ex-
ponse, does not he always fear that
his enjoyment will be his ultimate
lmdOing?
Yes, hut, here some one may say.
how about the innocent. tn. good
people, the religious people. how about
them?
Are not they afraid? Has not their
education from early infancy been to
fear, to fear everything in the world
above II and beneath il? Have not
an been taught 10 fear all kinds Of
weather hot cold, wet. dry; to fear
the results Of missing a meal or two,
ana 10 fear everything they eat as
possibly harmful; To fear inoculation
by germs, and To fear not To be in0cu-
lated with them: to be afraid because
Of what they have inherited, and be-
cause Of what they have not Inherit
ed? And with all the love and re-
speCt that we have for all people
have not practically all been taught
10 fear not only for everything in this
life. but for the hereafter, not only
for their bodies but for their "im-
mortal souls" a. we'll? Take a good
saintod mother who has been taught
that God will damn those who do not
believe as she has learned 20 believe;
. let the son or daughter OF this mother
turn from that particular bclief.-not
to WayWarlness. but TO Christian
Science, let us say, and be healed by
II. ls not that good, sanity mother.
In many, many instances. tOrmented
, with misgiving forebOding, fear, about
that sons or daughters soul? Let me
say that in my practice | have known
many just such cases. Are there not
others afraid OF what the world may
thiuk2 The sO-Called human mind OF
consciousness, at best, il but a mass
Of mlsgiving. Of miserable fears, and
Of their torments; fears and torments
which the right. the Christ conscious
ness heals. How. say you? BY think
ing, Christianly scientific thinking,
, Christian Science thinking.
I MIND AND ITS PRODUCT
70 Mind alone can think. BY a per-
h fectly logical process Christian Sci